2.2 A small
sampling of these contradictions p5
The list goes on and on, however, hopefully this sampling
shall prove sufficient so that the reader might see what has
driven countless Christian scholars to recognize the evidence of
tampering. God does not inspire contradictions. Some among
mankind have been tampering with the words of the Bible and then
passing them off to mankind as part of the "faultless words of
God." Centuries of "correction" to the Bible in order to promote
chosen doctrines has led to side-effects (Remember: some
Christian scholars acknowledge that the "errors" actually number
over 48,000-50,000 errors).
Any reputable scholar of the Bible will never attempt to
claim to be able to convince the majority of the scholars of the
Bible that all of these 50,000 errors are all only "apparent"
and that he is able to provide logical explanations for them
all, one by one, from the Biblical text itself. Reputable
Biblical scholars who have even the most rudimentary knowledge
of Church history and Biblical manuscript preservation know
better than that. The most they shall try to do is to claim that
all 48,000 errors are all "insignificant" and "undeserving of
attention" or that they "do not affect basic faith." We have
already seen examples of this in the last section. We are asked
to understand that the Bible is an ancient book and "obviously"
errors will eventually creep in sooner or later. This however
overlooks three crucial issues:
Firstly: We are not talking about a regular book here, rather
we are searching for the authentic original word of God, and the
Bible says:
"The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of
our God shall stand for ever."
Isaiah 40:8.
So if 48,000 errors have crept into the Bible then where is
the unerring word of God which we have been promised? The answer
is that God has sent it to us in His last Scripture, the Noble
Qur'an.
Secondly: We are told in Luke 16:10 that Jesus (pbuh) said:
"He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful
also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also
in much."
So, according to Jesus (pbuh) himself, there is no such thing
as an "insignificant" error or an "insignificant" "slip of the
pen." This is especially the case when remembered in light of
Isaiah 40:8, or
"How can you say we (the Jews) are wise and the law of the
Lord is with us, when in fact the false pen of the scribes has
made it into a lie?"
Jeremiah 8:8 (RSV).
Thirdly: If one of us were to be charged with the task of
preserving our chosen and cherished ancient scripture by
transcribing a fresh copy of it for future generations, could we
imagine, even in our wildest fantasies that we would be so lax
and totally careless in our duties that we would allow ourselves
to introduce not one or two, but many thousands upon thousands
of errors into the new copy? Is it possible that no one felt the
need to review these scribe's work? Did they have no superiors
to double and triple check their work? Did the scribes not
review it themselves? To believe such claims is to assign to
these scribes and their churches accusations of ineptitude and
indifference of monumental proportions. There is no two ways
about it. If we are not able to explain each and every one of
the over 50,000 errors, one at a time and within the context of
the Biblical text alone, then either the errors were introduced
intentionally, or else they were introduced through ineptitude
and indifference towards their most holy scripture that truly
defies imagination.
For more, you may read the following books:
The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture, by Bart D.
Ehrman.
And The Life of Jesus Critically Examined, by David
Friedrich Strauss, edited by Peter C. Hodgston, and translated
by George Eliot
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