Category: The Bible

  • Was Ketu­rah the Wife or the Con­cu­bine of Abraham ?

    Accord­ing to Gen­e­sis 25:1, Ketu­rah is described as being Abra­ham’s wife : “Abra­ham mar­ried anoth­er wife named Keturah.” The word used for wife in the Hebrew is (​‘ishshah) (Strong’s No. 802)[1] and The Brown-Dri­ver-Brig­gs Hebrew and Eng­lish Lex­i­con (2001) defines the mean­ing of the word as ​“woman, wife, female”[2]. But accord­ing to I Chron­i­cles 1:32, we are…

  • Con­tra­dic­to­ry Accounts of the Cre­ation in Gen­e­sis 1 and Gen­e­sis 2

    Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi This is not a new obser­va­tion. It has been long accept­ed by schol­ars that the cre­ation accounts in Gen­e­sis 1 and Gen­e­sis 2 are redact­ed by dif­fer­ent authors. Con­sid­er the following : All you have to do to see that the Old Tes­ta­ment as we know it did not come straight from the pen of…

  • On The Method­ol­o­gy For Deter­min­ing The Var­i­ous Bible Difficulties

    On The Method­ol­o­gy For Deter­min­ing The Var­i­ous Bible Difficulties

    The Chris­t­ian mis­sion­ar­ies in their ini­tial response to our list of Inter­nal Con­tra­dic­tions of The Bible have made the claim that we are : …more both­ered with seek­ing excus­es not to take the Bible seri­ous­ly, than find­ing rea­sons for their [our] own faith. In light of this ​“excuse” by the mis­sion­ar­ies to avoid the gory details of the…

  • Excerpts From ​“New Tes­ta­ment Ori­gins” By George M. Lamsa

    The "Old Syriac" manuscripts of the Four Gospels known as the Sinaitic Palimpsest, discovered by Mrs. Agnes Lewis in the Covenant of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai in 1892, unfortunately was forged by the Monks, deliberately, before it was sold to Mrs. Lewis and her companions. They made a hole in the date of the…

  • Dif­fer­ences Between Mod­ern Bible Translations

    We will take the most popular Bibles such as the King James Version (KJV), the Revised Standard Version (RSV), the New International Version (NIV), the Good News Bible (GNB), the Living Bible Version (LBV) as well as the Christian Community Bible (CCB) and contrast the same verses within these Bibles.

  • Books Men­tioned in the Bible But Is Miss­ing From Today’s Text

    I have been reading with interest the last few exchanges regarding the reading of Jeremiah 8:8 -- "How can you say; 'We are wise, and the Law of the Lord is with us'? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has made it into a lie'" Note: Whenever you see that term 'Law of…

  • On The Integri­ty of the Bible

    Before 1881, all translations of the New Testament (including, most importantly, the 1611 King James Version (KJV), also known as the Authorised Version (AV)), were based on copies of Greek manuscripts known as the Textus Receptus, which is Latin for Received Text. (Abbreviated to TR). But in the 19th and 20th centuries, older Greek manuscripts…

  • The Spu­ri­ous­ness of So-Called Pauline Epis­tles Exem­pli­fied by the Epis­tle to the Galatians

    From the standpoint of the ordinary theology of the day it is a psychological riddle how the Paul of the Four Letters can have followed the historical Jesus at so short an interval. Pierson opened the eyes of Loman to this fact. It seemed to him that the developed Christianity of the community and the…

  • The Art of the Gospels : The­ol­o­gy as Fic­tion­al Narrative

    In the first century of the Common Era, there appeared at the eastern end of the Mediterranean a remarkable religious leader who taught the worship of one true God and declared that religion meant not the sacrifice of beasts but the practice of charity and piety an the shunning of hatred and enmity. He was…