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Date Posted: 13:01:26 07/14/00 Fri
Author: Anonymous
Subject: Crafty arguments

Crafty arguments
Having had than two thousands years to try and hone their crafty arguments, apologist still must rely upon gullibility in accepting their arguments of "duel" prophecies; a ploy fabricated by the self-called to try and explain away embarrassing mutilations of Old Testaments prophesies in the Gospels. For in order to support many of their claims of Jesus, the gospel writers resorted to mutilating and manipulating Old Testament scriptures. Matthew is by far the worst offender. In Matthew's argument to the Jews that Jesus is the Messiah (a greater Moses) many Old Testament verses were taken willy-nilly out of context to support his claim; in much the same way that many preachers of today manipulate the scriptures for their own gain.

For example, the claim in Matthew 1:21-23 is a single verse that was taken out of context from the seventh chapter of Isaiah. If one reads the seventh chapter of Isaiah they will see Isaiah 7:14 has nothing whatsoever to do with Jesus, but is a sign given to Ahaz concerning two kings troubling Judah. A young woman, and not necessarily a virgin according to the Hebrew language, is to give birth to a son who will be called Immanuel. And before this child knows to refuse evil and to choose good the land of the two kings troubling Judah will be laid waste. Also see Isaiah 8:3-8.

Matthew 2:14 claims these words of Hosea, "Out of Egypt I called my son" is fulfilled in Joseph and Mary fleeing to Egypt. Yet this is a mutilation of the true meaning of Hosea's words.

HOSEA 11:1-2 "When Israel was a child I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son. The more I called "them," the more they went from me; they kept sacrificing to Baals, and burning incense to idols."

Matthew 2:16-18 claims the words of Jeremiah were fulfilled by the slaughter of the children in Bethlehem. But if one reads Jeremiah 31:15-17 it is self-evident that the voice heard in Ramah has nothing to do with the alleged events that Matthew claims took place in Bethlehem, for Rachel is weeping for her children who have been carried off by an enemy. And Rachel is told to cease from her weeping for there is hope, her children shall return again to their own land.

As for Matthew 2:23, there are no Old Testament prophecies saying the Messiah would be called a Nazarene. The author of Matthew was probably confusing Nazarite for Nazarene, see Numbers 6:2-21. If the author of Matthew was in fact a Jew, he was certainly lacking in knowledge of the traditional Hebrew Scriptures. For in Matthew 21:5-7 he has used an account of Zechariah known to be flawed, yet he faithfully follows that flawed account; and thus, we have the absurd scene of Jesus entering Jerusalem riding straddled across both a donkey and its colt at the same time!

Faith in God and faith in the Bible are not one and the same, for one faith is born of liberty and the other is an imposed faith born of bondage. The source of Biblical confusion is not God, but men claiming to speak for God! For God is perfect, without flaw or fault; thus, whatsoever is inspired of God is likewise. And whatsoever is inspired of God is not ambiguous, it need not be rationalized, nor explained by a gaggle of theologians to be understood, but is understood by all, from the simplest to the greatest. Yet there are ambiguities in the Bible, and words whose meaning can't be correctly translated from one language to another, or whose original meaning are no longer understood, and words that have multiple or contradictory meanings. It is illogical to think that God was incompetent in communicating His will to mankind by using words that could not be perfectly translated from one language to another. And that He spoke to his servants with words whose original meaning are no longer understood, or with words that have multiple and contradicting meanings.

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