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Old 09-20-2006, 06:46 PM   #166 (permalink)
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Re: The Trinity of Christianity

Hello Dor and everybody here reading this thread,
I suppose this should be put in another thread and I will also start a new thread titled "Biblical contridictions."

This is simply to show support that the bible has been mistranslated. Either it has been mistranslated and minuplated or it was not inspired by God (I hold to the former that it has been manipulated).
Here is merely a sample of the contridictions contained with in the pages the bible.

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1 Corinthians 2:15: The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, ...

1 Corinthians 4:5 Therefore judge nothing...
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Luke 24:39 - Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: HANDLE ME, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.
John 20:17 - Jesus saith unto her, TOUCH ME NOT; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God (all quotes from the KJV).
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Matthew 27:5: So Judas threw the money into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.
Acts 1:18: With the reward he got for his wickedness, Judas bought a field; there he fell headlong, his body burst open and all his intestines spilled out on the ground.
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2Samuel 24:1: Again the anger of the Lord burned against Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, "Go and take a census of Israel and Judah.
1Chronicles 21:1: Satan rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census of Israel.
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Exodus 21:12: Anyone who strikes a man and kills him shall surely be put to death.
Matthew 5:39: & Romans 12:17: Do not repay any one evil for evil.
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Luke 23:46 Jesus called out with a loud voice, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit." When he said this, he breathed his last.

John 19:30 When he received the drink, Jesus said, "It is finished." With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
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1 Kings 9:23 They were also the chief officials in charge of Solomon's projects -- 550 officials supervising the men who did the work.

2 Chronicles 8:10 They were also King Solomon's chief officials -- 250 officials supervising the men.
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A bat is not a bird. Note that this isn't just an arbitrary classification that the Western and European world has created. A bat is a bird as much as a Cocker Spaniel is a cat.
These are the birds you are to detest and not eat because they are detestable: the eagle, ... any kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat (Leviticus 11:13-19)
You may eat any clean bird. But these you may not eat: the eagle, ... any kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat. (Deuteronomy 14:11-17)
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Insects, as part of their definition, have six legs. (Spiders are arachnids, not insects.)
All flying insects that walk on all fours are to be detestable to you. There are, however, some winged creatures that walk on all fours that you may eat: ... Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket, or grasshopper. (Leviticus 11:20-22)
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Snakes don't eat dirt.
So the Lord God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, ... You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust..." (Genesis 3:14)
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Camels have split hooves.
There are some that only chew the cud or only have a split hoof, but you must not eat them. The camel, though it chews the cud, does not have a split hoof; it is ceremonially unclean for you. (Leviticus 11:4)
However, of those that chew the cud or that have a split hoof completely divided you may not eat the camel, the rabbit or the coney. [1] Although they chew the cud, they do not have a split hoof; they are ceremonially unclean for you. (Deuteronomy 14:7)
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The earth is not flat, as once thought. It has no corners at all, and "ends of the earth" is not typically interpreted as from outer space. (Besides, what would be the ends? Why should the magnetic poles be "ends" as opposed to the axis of rotation?)
... he will assemble the scattered people of Judah from the four quarters of the earth. (Isaiah 11:12)
After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, ... (Revelation 7:1)
Oh Lord, ... to you the nations will come from the ends of the earth... (Jeremiah 16:19)
... and there before me stood a tree in the middle of the land. Its height was enormous. The tree grew large and strong and its top touched the sky; it was visible to the ends of the earth. (Daniel 4:10-11)
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I have lots more. But this will do for now to show my point.
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Old 09-20-2006, 07:15 PM   #167 (permalink)
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Re: The Trinity of Christianity

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Please believe me when I say that I never set out to tear the bible apart or change it.
Thank you for showing my point.
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Old 09-20-2006, 07:27 PM   #168 (permalink)
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tis the nice thing about the bible...no matter what your viewpoint you can find some such evidence...

Gen1:27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.

two versions of creation/Genesis two versions of Noah, was it pairs or 7 pairs...
Was not 2 versions of creation Wil. For Noah it was 7 and pairs.
2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.

Lets see clean animals-sacrifice after flood waters reced which we see in 8:20 if there would have been 2 then they would have died out. Not mentioning the difference between clean and unclean is a twist.
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Old 09-20-2006, 07:50 PM   #169 (permalink)
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Are you aware that the original text was not broken down into words or paragraphs? The Original Hebrew/Aramaic was written in on long string of letters.Love and Light, Marietta
But yet you still try to pull out one single verse and say it contradicts another one.
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1 Corinthians 2:15: The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, ...

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1 Corinthians 4:5 Therefore judge nothing...

At least use whole verses not just the parts that show your "contradiction"

1Co 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
1Co 2:15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.

that specifically distinguishes between men enlightened by the Holy Spirit and men using senses only. That we are supposed to judge or discern all things reveled of Spiritual nature

1Co 4:5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.

This tells us specifically not to judge a man or his salvation cause we can not see his heart.

No contradiction.
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Old 09-20-2006, 08:11 PM   #170 (permalink)
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Luke 24:39 - Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: HANDLE ME, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.
John 20:17 - Jesus saith unto her, TOUCH ME NOT; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God (all quotes from the KJV).
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ἅπτομαι
haptomai
hap'-tom-ahee
Reflexive of G681; properly to attach oneself to, that is, to touch (in many implied relations): - touch.

no contradiction here. We see in Mat 28:9 that the women held him by his feet and worshiped him. He was simply telling her not to attach herself to his feet but to go run and erand for him.
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Was not 2 versions of creation Wil. For Noah it was 7 and pairs.
2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.

Lets see clean animals-sacrifice after flood waters reced which we see in 8:20 if there would have been 2 then they would have died out. Not mentioning the difference between clean and unclean is a twist.
Namaste Dor, I don't have issues with the two versions of creation, believe they were derived from different authors and have different meaning separately and even more yet combined. But if you make yourself a chart and write down the order of what occurred day 1, day 2 etc...and then look at the differences in your charts between Gen1 and Gen2

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Gen6:9 You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. 20 Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive. 21 You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them." 22 Noah did everything just as God commanded him.
So Noah did that, everything G-d commanded of him....next chapter we jump authors again..
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Gen7:1 The LORD then said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. 2 Take with you seven of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, 3 and also seven of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth. 4 Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made." 5 And Noah did all that the LORD commanded him.
Again same as Gen1, Gen2 two different versions of the same story, two authors combined in different chapters of the book. Not an issue, just an observation. I was not the one that omitted any difference between the clean and the unclean, that was the omitted by the first author, but do observe that those unclean animals, did not die out.
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Gen 8:20 And Noah built an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

What we saw in 6 was a general telling Noah of what was gonna happen. After which he built the Ark.
Chpt 7 is direct instructions after he built the Ark and is loading them up. The clean animals he had to take 7 of because he had to have sacrifices. for 8:20. No contradiction, no seperate stories.
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... ah yes. THAT is likely to give rise to a bit of righteous indignation. Getting angry, and upset, and pitching a general fit - as a child's temper tantrum - is unbecoming of ANY human. The notion that a Master such as Christ Jesus might carry on in such fashion ... is preposterous.

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Hello Dor, Thank you for your input.
The reason I selected verses from the English translation was to show the inconsistencies within the English translations of the text. To show that the translation is flawed. I thought it was self explanatory.

You wrote:
""At least use whole verses not just the parts that show your "contradiction""""


You already stated that you have your own bible and access to others online so I left it up to you to read the entire text. This was done to shorten the text because some people don't like to read and will not read a long response.


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""""1Co 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
1Co 2:15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
1Co 4:5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.


The first part of this scripture 14: states that the natural man (a person not interested in spiritual things) does not receive or understand spiritual things because he thinks they are foolish, and therefore he can't understand them. The second part 15: states that the spiritual man is to JUDGE all things, without being judged himself.
The next verse says that the person who seeks spiritual things judges everything and doesn't take it at face value. This person doesn't believe something just because they are told it is so, they dig deep and find the truth.
The next verse says NOT TO JUDGE ANYTHING until Jesus comes again and give enlightenment to those seeking divine truth.

The first verse says to judge everything and the next says not to judge anything. This is a contradiction in terms.

Where in this text does it mention a mans salvation?

You can add all the wording you wish to the statement but it doesn't change what it is saying and what it is stating is a contradiction.

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It is very easy to see when you read the chapters they are talking about different things. the first one you had was talking about spiritual things. The second one was talking about man's heart.
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Greetings Dor, Thank you. You have proven my point here. You have to go back to the Greek and find the true meaning to make since of what is being said. However I say take it all the way and go back to the Greek and translate every work in the text and see what you come up with. You will be very surprised.
However even though you have taken a third verse and applied it to verses taken from two books written by other authors to make your point you still had to go to the Greek to clarify what you wanted to bring forward and there is still a contradiction hanging on. Weather he said not to attach or touch or to attach or touch.
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But for a hint, and for starters, to see the teachings of one of Humanity's Greatest ... distorted, misquoted, bent out of shape and essentially tailor-twisted to fit & justify our own actions, thinking & personally-comfortable sense of morality, including what is and isn't decent interpersonal behavior between people seeking to express LOVE ....

... ah yes. THAT is likely to give rise to a bit of righteous indignation. Getting angry, and upset, and pitching a general fit - as a child's temper tantrum - is unbecoming of ANY human. The notion that a Master such as Christ Jesus might carry on in such fashion ... is preposterous.
An emotion and an action are very different. It is just as erroneous to say that anger leads to destruction as to say desire leads to promiscuity.

Paul said "Be angry and sin not" which suggests that anger can lead to wrong actions but does not necessarily do so.

Jesus condemns "whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause" (Matthew 5:22) which again suggests that anger may not be sinful in itself.

And all the translations I have studied say Jesus looked around at the Pharisees with anger (Mark 3:5). I do not know Greek (nor Aramaic, in which Mark's Gospel was probably first written) so I compare the work of a number of scholars, and there is a consensus on this version of the original text.

btw, I don't think anyone is of the opinion that Jesus had "a general fit - as a child's temper tantrum".
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Simple logic tells you that anger is a destructive force. Jesus was a being of love and light and did not get angry.

In the Greek Mark 3:5 literally reads: 5. and glancing around at their anger, grieving over their blindness (a medical term meaning a thick skin over the eyes, probably cataracts). the heart of them remembering that they were human beings holding out their hands and holding the hands they were restored.

Jesus came among a group of angry people who were grieving over their blindness. They held out their hands to Jesus and Jesus took hold of their hands and healed them.
I'm not sure what Greek text you are referring to, but it must be different to that which the scholars used who translated all the versions of the Bible I have consulted. And I'm sure you are aware that the Greek text may very well be a translation from the original Aramaic text.

You say: "Simple logic tells you that anger is a destructive force." My logic tells me that anger is just an emotion, and it can be directed in either a positive or a negative way. Same with hate.
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You say: "Simple logic tells you that anger is a destructive force."
controlled anger can be useful.
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controlled anger can be useful.
Indeed, it can build bridges and move mountains...
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