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Have
you ever found any errors in the Bible?
No,
in all my studying of Scriptures, whether by survey or detail, I have
never found any errors whatsoever. Often people will try to pinpoint errors,
but these people either do not know the historical context, or they apply
20th century standards of the English language to the biblical text, forgetting
that the text was not originally written in English. For example, people
have pointed out that there must be an error in the Book of Johah, because
the whale that swallowed Jonah is referred to as a "fish." These
Bible error detectives continue, noting that the whale is a mammal and
certainly not a "fish." Thus, they contend, the Word contains
a mistake. This, however, is an example in which the skeptics have applied
the meaning of a specific English word to a traslation, rather than checking
the word's meaning in its original language. The Hebrew word for "fish"
is dag, and in fact, it refers to any creature that lives in the
sea. Therefore, though the whale does not technically fit the meaning
of the English word, "fish," it certainly fits the Hebrew meaning
of the term. And, of course, it is the Hebrew criteria that must be used,
as the Book of Jonah was written in Hebrew. Most "mistakes"
to which people point tend to be of a similar nature. But if we restrict
ourselves to dealing with the original text, as well as the historical
frame of reference, I believe we will find no errors in the Bible.
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The
synoptic gospels speak of the healing of the two blind men when Jesus
entered Jericho, as well as when He was leaving Jericho. How can both accounts
be true?
Concerning
the seeming discrepancy of exactly where the two blind men were healed,
as any visit to Israel will show, there were two Jerichos in the first
century. There was the Old Testament Jericho, located where it always
was and remains; and there was a New Testament Jericho, built by Herod
the Great about five miles from the original. At the time of this particular
miracle, Yeshua was moving from north to south, heading for Jerusalem.
What this means is that the blind men met Him as He was coming out of
Old Jericho and going toward New Jericho. Both gospel statements, then,
are true, as it is all a matter of whether the writer was referring to
Old or New Jericho.
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