Paul believed in the Demiurge

 

In this paper I discuss the personal beliefs of Paul and how he accepted this Demiurge character. This discussion got started after a person slammed me personally on a textual criticism forum.... so the first few original lines is dealing with that, but I chose to delete them here

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The "Jewish" messiah is merely a man, conceived naturally and born naturally. A direct descendant of David, Solomon, Hezekiah and Josiah. He literally conquers the enemies of Israel and all people regardless of them being enemies. So he conquers the world and he is king of the entire globe. His government shall be a theocratic monarchy. The Torah shall be the law code of his kingdom. That is the REAL Jewish messiah myth and legend.

Everything that the New Testament promotes is fake....

1) let's start with the premise... false = for God has no son, thus they are wrong from the get go.
2) he "must" be born in Bethlehem, false... rather his ancestry is from there
3) God contradicts Himself and makes Himself into a hypocrite by suddenly approving of a human sacrifice for sin, False
4) the messiah never dies
5) the messiah never dies in order to make an atonement for sin
6) the messiah ushers in a new covenant so that the Torah is no longer required (this is one of the most egregious ones and so opposite of the messiah myth)
7) the messiah ascends to heaven and will be gone for over 2,000 years before returning, false)

Most non-Jews don't know this. However, because you openly and blindly accept the New Testament as TRUTH or regard it as holding a great swath of truth, it is understandable why you believe the way you do and then apply that thinking on our book.

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Moving on

The  Gospels of Matthew and Luke say he was adopted by a dude named Joseph and that Joseph was of the line of David.

Ahhh, who cares about Joseph, it has nooooo bearing on the lineage of Jesus.

If you watched the video at all.... I point out that ONLY Paul claims something of worthiness,  2 things actually [for historical value]:

1) he was conceived naturally
2) he came from the sperma of David

Read Romans 1:3 clearly and in Greek.

Problem with Paul, he believed in the Demiurge philosophy which was circling around Israel at the time.  Between 50 BCE to 150 CE actually.

Paul then took the extra leap by assuming Jesus WAS this demiurge or logos character.

Thus, making this demigod type of being into flesh; this "craftsman" into flesh. Logos also meant craftsman at the time, not just "word" as you see in English texts in John 1.

So you can write, "In the beginning was the craftsman, and the craftsman was with God..."

This is sooooo foul of a doctrine it is pathetic... later the Gentile church leaders ... changed Jesus from this demiurge to fully God and a part of some Trinity goyish theology. 

You really need to do your homework on the Nicene council and understand Arius.... BECAUSE Arius represented Paul and John 1:1-18 correctly. 

Paul said in Col 1:15-17, that Jesus was a "created" being, created before the heavens and earth were created.

Learn something will you!!!

Col 1:15.... " He is.... the firstborn of every creature"

Lets see...

Firstborn is "prōtotokos / πρωτότοκος" which means....

The first to be born or to come into existence, whether of man, animal or spirits

"Creature" means beast, mankind or anything below God Himself

"Creature" is used in this following verse by Paul no less...

Romans 1:25
"Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen."

Paul is talking about the golden calf here. So, with Paul's theology, it is very clear Jesus is NOT the God of Israel in any way, shape or form. Rather, he is like a contractor working  for the God of Israel. Jesus being the heavenly craftsman in Paul's thinking

To summarize Paul's thinking in a nutshell:

HaShem told this Demiurge what to do and he did it for Him. In time, this pre-existing "creature" got incarnated in the man Jesus.

Now Paul DOESN'T say "how" this demiurge became flesh: 

Not whether this creature was inserted in the seed of Joseph and so no normal new soul was created. For many believe that the soul is created upon conception. Whereas others claim that all souls were created at the beginning and that they are inserted at conception.

...or whether this creature's spirit merely  rested upon Jesus (like some Ebionites believed, though that doesnt work, just making a point).

Yep, in truth, Paul doesn't get that deep, he just taught Jesus was conceived naturally as we see in Romans 1:3 and at the same time he was this logos.

Do yourself a favor, stop insulting everyone.

Shalom and Good Day,
Maregaal

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Some extra things

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If you want to know what the Jewish messiah is about, then try learning from a Jew that practices Judaism. I dont say this lightly either, but from one that can back up the messiah myth through the Tanach.

Any Judaic Jew knows these teachings

*) Daniel 2, he conquers the world.
*) Micah 5 ancestry is from Bethlehem
*) The Torah is his penal code Deut 17
*) The torah is forever Deut 4:40;
    12:28

Thank you,

Maregaal

Epic of Gilgamesh

 

THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH

Translated by Maureen Gallery Kovacs
Electronic Edition by Wolf Carnahan, I998

TABLET XI THE STORY OF THE FLOOD

Gilgamesh spoke to Utanapishtim, the Faraway:
"I have been looking at you,
but your appearance is not strange--you are like me!
You yourself are not different--you are like me!
My mind was resolved to fight with you,
(but instead?) my arm lies useless over you.
Tell me, how is it that you stand in the Assembly of the Gods,
and have found life!"
Utanapishtim spoke to Gilgamesh, saying:
"I will reveal to you, Gilgamesh, a thing that is hidden,
a secret of the gods I will tell you!
Shuruppak, a city that you surely know,
situated on the banks of the Euphrates,
that city was very old, and there were gods inside it.
The hearts of the Great Gods moved them to inflict the Flood.
Their Father Anu uttered the oath (of secrecy),
Valiant Enlil was their Adviser,
Ninurta was their Chamberlain,
Ennugi was their Minister of Canals.
Ea, the Clever Prince(?), was under oath with them
so he repeated their talk to the reed house:
'Reed house, reed house! Wall, wall!
O man of Shuruppak, son of Ubartutu:
Tear down the house and build a boat!
Abandon wealth and seek living beings!
Spurn possessions and keep alive living beings!
Make all living beings go up into the boat.
The boat which you are to build,
its dimensions must measure equal to each other:
its length must correspond to its width.
Roof it over like the Apsu.
I understood and spoke to my lord, Ea:
'My lord, thus is the command which you have uttered
I will heed and will do it.
But what shall I answer the city, the populace, and the
Elders!'
Ea spoke, commanding me, his servant:
'You, well then, this is what you must say to them:
"It appears that Enlil is rejecting me
so I cannot reside in your city (?),
nor set foot on Enlil's earth.
I will go down to the Apsu to live with my lord, Ea,
and upon you he will rain down abundance,
a profusion of fowl, myriad(!) fishes.
He will bring to you a harvest of wealth,
in the morning he will let loaves of bread shower down,
and in the evening a rain of wheat!"'
Just as dawn began to glow
the land assembled around me-
the carpenter carried his hatchet,
the reed worker carried his (flattening) stone,
... the men ...
The child carried the pitch,
the weak brought whatever else was needed.
On the fifth day I laid out her exterior.
It was a field in area,
its walls were each 10 times 12 cubits in height,
the sides of its top were of equal length, 10 times It cubits each.
I laid out its (interior) structure and drew a picture of it (?).
I provided it with six decks,
thus dividing it into seven (levels).
The inside of it I divided into nine (compartments).
I drove plugs (to keep out) water in its middle part.
I saw to the punting poles and laid in what was necessary.
Three times 3,600 (units) of raw bitumen I poured into the
bitumen kiln,
three times 3,600 (units of) pitch ...into it,
there were three times 3,600 porters of casks who carried (vege-
table) oil,
apart from the 3,600 (units of) oil which they consumed (!)
and two times 3,600 (units of) oil which the boatman stored
away.
I butchered oxen for the meat(!),
and day upon day I slaughtered sheep.
I gave the workmen(?) ale, beer, oil, and wine, as if it were
river water,
so they could make a party like the New Year's Festival.
... and I set my hand to the oiling(!).
The boat was finished by sunset.
The launching was very difficult.
They had to keep carrying a runway of poles front to back,
until two-thirds of it had gone into the water(?).
Whatever I had I loaded on it:
whatever silver I had I loaded on it,
whatever gold I had I loaded on it.
All the living beings that I had I loaded on it,
I had all my kith and kin go up into the boat,
all the beasts and animals of the field and the craftsmen I
had go up.
Shamash had set a stated time:
'In the morning I will let loaves of bread shower down,
and in the evening a rain of wheat!
Go inside the boat, seal the entry!'
That stated time had arrived.
In the morning he let loaves of bread shower down,
and in the evening a rain of wheat.
I watched the appearance of the weather--
the weather was frightful to behold!
I went into the boat and sealed the entry.
For the caulking of the boat, to Puzuramurri, the boatman,
I gave the palace together with its contents.
Just as dawn began to glow
there arose from the horizon a black cloud.
Adad rumbled inside of it,
before him went Shullat and Hanish,
heralds going over mountain and land.
Erragal pulled out the mooring poles,
forth went Ninurta and made the dikes overflow.
The Anunnaki lifted up the torches,
setting the land ablaze with their flare.
Stunned shock over Adad's deeds overtook the heavens,
and turned to blackness all that had been light.
The... land shattered like a... pot.
All day long the South Wind blew ...,
blowing fast, submerging the mountain in water,
overwhelming the people like an attack.
No one could see his fellow,
they could not recognize each other in the torrent.
The gods were frightened by the Flood,
and retreated, ascending to the heaven of Anu.
The gods were cowering like dogs, crouching by the outer wall.
Ishtar shrieked like a woman in childbirth,
the sweet-voiced Mistress of the Gods wailed:
'The olden days have alas turned to clay,
because I said evil things in the Assembly of the Gods!
How could I say evil things in the Assembly of the Gods,
ordering a catastrophe to destroy my people!!
No sooner have I given birth to my dear people
than they fill the sea like so many fish!'
The gods--those of the Anunnaki--were weeping with her,
the gods humbly sat weeping, sobbing with grief(?),
their lips burning, parched with thirst.
Six days and seven nights
came the wind and flood, the storm flattening the land.
When the seventh day arrived, the storm was pounding,
the flood was a war--struggling with itself like a woman
writhing (in labor).
The sea calmed, fell still, the whirlwind (and) flood stopped up.
I looked around all day long--quiet had set in
and all the human beings had turned to clay!
The terrain was as flat as a roof.
I opened a vent and fresh air (daylight!) fell upon the side of
my nose.
I fell to my knees and sat weeping,
tears streaming down the side of my nose.
I looked around for coastlines in the expanse of the sea,
and at twelve leagues there emerged a region (of land).
On Mt. Nimush the boat lodged firm,
Mt. Nimush held the boat, allowing no sway.
One day and a second Mt. Nimush held the boat, allowing
no sway.
A third day, a fourth, Mt. Nimush held the boat, allowing
no sway.
A fifth day, a sixth, Mt. Nimush held the boat, allowing
no sway.
When a seventh day arrived
I sent forth a dove and released it.
The dove went off, but came back to me;
no perch was visible so it circled back to me.
I sent forth a swallow and released it.
The swallow went off, but came back to me;
no perch was visible so it circled back to me.
I sent forth a raven and released it.
The raven went off, and saw the waters slither back.
It eats, it scratches, it bobs, but does not circle back to me.
Then I sent out everything in all directions and sacrificed
(a sheep).
I offered incense in front of the mountain-ziggurat.
Seven and seven cult vessels I put in place,
and (into the fire) underneath (or: into their bowls) I poured
reeds, cedar, and myrtle.
The gods smelled the savor,
the gods smelled the sweet savor,
and collected like flies over a (sheep) sacrifice.
Just then Beletili arrived.
She lifted up the large flies (beads) which Anu had made for
his enjoyment(!):
'You gods, as surely as I shall not forget this lapis lazuli
around my neck,
may I be mindful of these days, and never forget them!
The gods may come to the incense offering,
but Enlil may not come to the incense offering,
because without considering he brought about the Flood
and consigned my people to annihilation.'
Just then Enlil arrived.
He saw the boat and became furious,
he was filled with rage at the Igigi gods:
'Where did a living being escape?
No man was to survive the annihilation!'
Ninurta spoke to Valiant Enlil, saying:
'Who else but Ea could devise such a thing?
It is Ea who knows every machination!'
La spoke to Valiant Enlil, saying:
'It is yours, O Valiant One, who is the Sage of the Gods.
How, how could you bring about a Flood without consideration
Charge the violation to the violator,
charge the offense to the offender,
but be compassionate lest (mankind) be cut off,
be patient lest they be killed.
Instead of your bringing on the Flood,
would that a lion had appeared to diminish the people!
Instead of your bringing on the Flood,
would that a wolf had appeared to diminish the people!
Instead of your bringing on the Flood,
would that famine had occurred to slay the land!
Instead of your bringing on the Flood,
would that (Pestilent) Erra had appeared to ravage the land!
It was not I who revealed the secret of the Great Gods,
I (only) made a dream appear to Atrahasis, and (thus) he
heard the secret of the gods.
Now then! The deliberation should be about him!'
Enlil went up inside the boat
and, grasping my hand, made me go up.
He had my wife go up and kneel by my side.
He touched our forehead and, standing between us, he
blessed us:
'Previously Utanapishtim was a human being.
But now let Utanapishtim and his wife become like us,
the gods!
Let Utanapishtim reside far away, at the Mouth of the Rivers.'
They took us far away and settled us at the Mouth of the Rivers."
"Now then, who will convene the gods on your behalf,
that you may find the life that you are seeking!
Wait! You must not lie down for six days and seven nights."
soon as he sat down (with his head) between his legs
sleep, like a fog, blew upon him.
Utanapishtim said to his wife:
"Look there! The man, the youth who wanted (eternal) life!
Sleep, like a fog, blew over him."
his wife said to Utanapishtim the Faraway:
"Touch him, let the man awaken.
Let him return safely by the way he came.
Let him return to his land by the gate through which he left."
Utanapishtim said to his wife:
"Mankind is deceptive, and will deceive you.
Come, bake loaves for him and keep setting them by his head
and draw on the wall each day that he lay down."
She baked his loaves and placed them by his head
and marked on the wall the day that he lay down.
The first loaf was dessicated,
the second stale, the third moist(?), the fourth turned white,
its ...,
the fifth sprouted gray (mold), the sixth is still fresh.
the seventh--suddenly he touched him and the man awoke.
Gilgamesh said to Utanapishtim:
"The very moment sleep was pouring over me
you touched me and alerted me!"
Utanapishtim spoke to Gilgamesh, saying:
"Look over here, Gilgamesh, count your loaves!
You should be aware of what is marked on the wall!
Your first loaf is dessicated,
the second stale, the third moist, your fourth turned white,
its ...
the fifth sprouted gray (mold), the sixth is still fresh.
The seventh--suddenly he touched him and the man awoke.
Gilgamesh said to Utanapishtim:
"The very moment sleep was pouring over me
you touched me and alerted me!"
Utanapishtim spoke to Gilgamesh, saying:
"Look over here, Gilgamesh, count your loaves!
You should be aware of what is marked on the wall!
Your first loaf is dessicated,
the second stale, the third moist, your fourth turned white,
its ...
the fifth sprouted gray (mold), the sixth is still fresh.
The seventh--at that instant you awoke!"
Gilgamesh said to Utanapishtim the Faraway:
"O woe! What shall I do, Utanapishtim, where shall I go!
The Snatcher has taken hold of my flesh,
in my bedroom Death dwells,
and wherever I set foot there too is Death!"
Home Empty-Handed
Utanapishtim said to Urshanabi, the ferryman:
"May the harbor reject you, may the ferry landing reject you!
May you who used to walk its shores be denied its shores!
The man in front of whom you walk, matted hair chains
his body,
animal skins have ruined his beautiful skin.
Take him away, Urshanabi, bring him to the washing place.
Let him wash his matted hair in water like ellu.
Let him cast away his animal skin and have the sea carry it off,
let his body be moistened with fine oil,
let the wrap around his head be made new,
let him wear royal robes worthy of him!
Until he goes off to his city,
until he sets off on his way,
let his royal robe not become spotted, let it be perfectly new!"
Urshanabi took him away and brought him to the washing place.
He washed his matted hair with water like ellu.
He cast off his animal skin and the sea carried it oh.
He moistened his body with fine oil,
and made a new wrap for his head.
He put on a royal robe worthy of him.
Until he went away to his city,
until he set off on his way,
his royal robe remained unspotted, it was perfectly clean.
Gilgamesh and Urshanabi bearded the boat,
they cast off the magillu-boat, and sailed away.
The wife of Utanapishtim the Faraway said to him:
"Gilgamesh came here exhausted and worn out.
What can you give him so that he can return to his land (with
honor) !"
Then Gilgamesh raised a punting pole
and drew the boat to shore.
Utanapishtim spoke to Gilgamesh, saying:
"Gilgamesh, you came here exhausted and worn out.
What can I give you so you can return to your land?
I will disclose to you a thing that is hidden, Gilgamesh,
a... I will tell you.
There is a plant... like a boxthorn,
whose thorns will prick your hand like a rose.
If your hands reach that plant you will become a young
man again."
Hearing this, Gilgamesh opened a conduit(!) (to the Apsu)
and attached heavy stones to his feet.
They dragged him down, to the Apsu they pulled him.
He took the plant, though it pricked his hand,
and cut the heavy stones from his feet,
letting the waves(?) throw him onto its shores.
Gilgamesh spoke to Urshanabi, the ferryman, saying:
"Urshanabi, this plant is a plant against decay(!)
by which a man can attain his survival(!).
I will bring it to Uruk-Haven,
and have an old man eat the plant to test it.
The plant's name is 'The Old Man Becomes a Young Man.'"
Then I will eat it and return to the condition of my youth."
At twenty leagues they broke for some food,
at thirty leagues they stopped for the night.
Seeing a spring and how cool its waters were,
Gilgamesh went down and was bathing in the water.
A snake smelled the fragrance of the plant,
silently came up and carried off the plant.
While going back it sloughed off its casing.'
At that point Gilgamesh sat down, weeping,
his tears streaming over the side of his nose.
"Counsel me, O ferryman Urshanabi!
For whom have my arms labored, Urshanabi!
For whom has my heart's blood roiled!
I have not secured any good deed for myself,
but done a good deed for the 'lion of the ground'!"
Now the high waters are coursing twenty leagues distant,'
as I was opening the conduit(?) I turned my equipment over
into it (!).
What can I find (to serve) as a marker(?) for me!
I will turn back (from the journey by sea) and leave the boat by
the shore!"
At twenty leagues they broke for some food,
at thirty leagues they stopped for the night.
They arrived in Uruk-Haven.
Gilgamesh said to Urshanabi, the ferryman:
"Go up, Urshanabi, onto the wall of Uruk and walk around.
Examine its foundation, inspect its brickwork thoroughly--
is not (even the core of) the brick structure of kiln-fired brick,
and did not the Seven Sages themselves lay out its plan!
One league city, one league palm gardens, one league lowlands, the open area(?) of the Ishtar Temple,
three leagues and the open area(?) of Uruk it encloses.

TABLETS : EPIC OF GILGAMESH

• Tablet I
• Tablet II
• Tablet III
• Tablet IV
• Tablet V

 

• Tablet VI
• Tablet VII
• Tablet VIII
• Tablet IX
• Tablet X
• Tablet XI

 

 

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Did the Flood Happen; Questions About Noah

 

First, we cannot neglect physics and facts.

The water and moisture in our atmosphere comes through evaporation, regardless where the water comes from when it evaporates to get in the atmosphere.  Whether that is from oceans, creeks, streams, lakes and the like.

Thus, you cannot add to the oceans beyond what it basically now has through rain. The rain might flood some dry land somewhere and overflow the banks of the normal river or stream flow... but it eventually flows back to its normal ways or condition.

If the ice of both ice caps should melt, only then would the oceans rise, but it would only rise to about 206 ft from what it is today.

Thus, when it comes to the myth of the flood of Noah... it doesn't matter if it rained for 40 days to a 1,000 days. The ocean would not rise. If it is just rain. Yet, this bogus story claims that water covered the whole earth, and covered the mountains where the ark supposedly and eventually landed. On one of the mountains of the ancient Kingdom of Urartu, which is in modern Turkey and Antonia. Some of those mountains reach over 10,000 ft and some over 16,000 ft.

Thus, that didn't happen.

So how can a fundamentalist or a believer believe this story when these facts are before him?

2) To those of you that believe in this story, did you know that the bible has a time-line when the earth was created and by that timeline, the bible also claims the flood occurred in a certain year? According to this time-line, the flood happened in 2,507 BCE, give or take a bit, because no birthdays are given in this time-line.

Well, according to this story, the whole entire population of humanity was wiped out and killed by the flood. Likewise,  that all of mankind stems from Noah and his 3 sons and his 3 daughter-in-laws after the flood, which happened in 2,507 BCE.

Here is our problem... the ancient Egyptians have an unbroken chain of the kings and rulers over Egypt since 3,100 BCE, if not slightly older than that. So, if the flood was all over the globe and killed everyone, then why didn't it harm the Egyptians and other cultures? Maybe because it never happened on a global scale, rather it is more of a myth that got started after a terrible local flood that happened off the banks of the Euphrates River.

You can't ignore the Egyptian facts. Because the apologist would have to do some serious mental acrobatics to prove that the sons of Noah went down to Egypt and learned their language and culture and started it all back over again from scratch and also populating all of Egypt within mere months and days after the flood.

Nope, that probability is not happening.

Thus, based on these 2 things that I brought up shows and proves that the bible has hogwash in it. And those things should not be believed.

Maregaal
Jan 18, 2022
3:26 am

Part 2, NT Contradictions

 

24. What did Jesus say about the rooster?
(a) “The cock will not crow till you have denied me three times” (John 13:38).
(b) “Before the cock crows twice you will deny me three times” (Mark 14:30).
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25. Did Jesus bear his own cross?
(a) Yes (John 19:17)
(b) No (Matthew 27:31-32)
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26. Did Jesus die before the curtain of the temple was torn?
(a) Yes (Matthew 27:50-51; Mark l5:37-38)
(b) No. After the curtain was torn, then Jesus crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit!” And having said this he breathed his last (Luke 23:45-46)
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27. Did Jesus say anything secretly?
(a) No. “I have said nothing secretly” (John 18:20)
(b) Yes. “He did not speak to them without a parable, but privately to his own disciples he explained
everything” (Mark 4:34). The disciples asked him “Why do you speak to them in parables?”
He said, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given” (Matthew 13:10-11)
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28. Where was Jesus at the sixth hour on the day of the crucifixion?
(a) On the cross (Mark 15:23)
(b) In Pilate’s court (John 19:14)
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29. The gospels say that two thieves were crucified along with Jesus. Did both thieves mock Jesus?
(a) Yes (Mark 15:32)
(b) No. One of them mocked Jesus, the other defended Jesus (Luke 23:43)
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30. Did Jesus ascend to Paradise the same day of the crucifixion?
(a) Yes. He said to the thief who defended him, “Today you will be with me in Paradise” (Luke 23:43)
(b) No. He said to Mary Magdelene two days later, “I have not yet ascended to the Father” (John 20:17)
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31. When Paul was on the road to Damascus he saw a light and heard a voice. Did those who were with him hear the voice?
(a) Yes (Acts 9: 7)
(b) No (Acts 22: 9)
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32. When Paul saw the light he fell to the ground. Did his traveling companions also fall to the ground?
(a) Yes (Acts 26:14)
(b) No (Acts 9:7)
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33. Did the voice spell out on the spot what Paul’s duties were to be?
(a) Yes (Acts 26:16-18)
(b) No. The voice commanded Paul to go into the city of Damascus and there he will be told what he must do. (Acts 9:7 & 22:10)
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34. When the Israelites dwelt in Shittin they committed adultery with the daughters of Moab. God struck
them with a plague. How many people died in that plague?
(a) Twenty-four thousand (Numbers 25:1 and 9)
(b) Twenty-three thousand (I Corinthians 10:8)
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35. How many members of the house of Jacob came to Egypt?
(a) Seventy souls (Genesis 46:27 & Ex 1:5)
(b) Seventy-five souls (Acts 7:14)
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36. What did Judas do with the blood money he received for betraying Jesus?
(a) He bought a field with it (Acts 1:18)
(b) He threw all of it into the temple and went away. The priests could not put the blood money into the temple treasury, so the priests used it to buy a field to bury strangers (Matthew 27:5)
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37. How did Judas die?
(a) After he threw the money into the temple he went away and hanged himself (Matthew 27:5)
(b) After he bought the field with the price of his evil deed he fell headlong and burst open in the middle and all his bowels gushed out (Acts 1:18)
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38. Why is the field called “Field of Blood”?
a) Because the priests bought it with the blood money (Matthew 27:8)
(b) Because of the bloody death of Judas therein (Acts 1:19)
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39. Jesus' death was supposedly a ransom for who?
(a) “The Son of Man came...to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45).
 (b) “Christ Jesus who gave himself as a ransom for all... “(I Timothy 2:5-6)
(c) if this can be applied here, Jesus said in Matthew, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel," (Matthew 15:24). To go along with this, Jesus even commands his disciples this, "These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: “Do not go among the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans. Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel," (Matt 10:5).

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40. Is the Law of Moses useful?
(a) Yes. “All scripture is... profitable...” (2 Timothy 3:16)
(b) No. “ . . . A former commandment is set aside because of its weakness and uselessness... “(Hebrews 7:18)
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41. What was the exact wording on the cross?
(a) “This is Jesus the King of the Jews” (Matthew 27:37)
(b) “The King of the Jews” (Mark 15:26)
(c) “This is the King of the Jews” (Luke 23:38)
(d) “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews” (John 19:19)
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42. Did Herod want to kill John the Baptist?
(a) Yes (Matthew 14:5)
(b) No. It was Herodias, the wife of Herod who wanted to kill him. But Herod knew that he was a righteous man and kept him safe (Mark 6:20)
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43. Who was the tenth disciple of Jesus in the list of twelve?
(a) Thaddaeus (Matthew 10: 1-4; Mark 3:13 -19)
(b) Judas son of James is the corresponding name in Luke’s gospel (Luke 6:12-16)
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44. Jesus saw a man sit at the tax collector’s office and called him to be his disciple. What was his name?
(a) Matthew (Matthew 9:9)
(b) Levi (Mark 2:14; Luke 5:27)
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45. Was Jesus crucified during the day before the Passover meal or the day after?
(a) After (Mark 14:12-17) also Matthew and Luke
(b) Before. Before the feast of the Passover (John 13) Judas went out at night (John 13:30). The other
disciples thought he was going out to buy supplies to prepare for the Passover meal (John 13:29).
When Jesus was arrested, the Jews did not enter Pilate’s judgment hail because they wanted to stay clean to eat the Passover (John 18:28). When the judgment was pronounced against Jesus, it was about the sixth hour on the day of Preparation for the Passover (John 19:14)
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46. Did Jesus pray to The Father to prevent the crucifixion?
(a) Yes. (Matthew 26:39; Mark 14:36; Luke 22:42)
(b) No. (John 12:27)
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47. In the gospels which say that Jesus prayed to avoid the cross, how many times did ‘he move away from his disciples to pray?
(a) Three (Matthew 26:36-46 and Mark 14:32-42)
(b) One. No opening is left for another two times. (Luke 22:39-46)
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48. Matthew and Mark agree that Jesus went away and prayed three times. What were the words of the second prayer?
(a) Mark does not give the words but he says that the words were the same as the first prayer (Mark 14:3 9)
(b) Matthew gives us the words, and we can see that they are not the same as in the first (Matthew 26:42), thus contradicting Mark.
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49. What did the centurion say when Jesus dies?
(a) “Certainly this man was innocent” (Luke 23:47)
(b) “Truly this man was the Son of God” (Mark 15:39)
 (c) "Truly this was the Son of God," Matt 27:54
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50. When Jesus said, “My God, my God,” on the cross.... what language did he speak?

(a) Hebrew: the words are “Eli, Eli…“(Matthew 27:46)
(b) Aramaic: the words are “Eloi, Eloi..." (Mark 15:34)
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51. According to the gospels, what were the last words of Jesus before he died?
(a) “Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit!” (Luke 23:46)
(b) "It is finished" (John 19:30).
(c) Matthew and Mark have him saying nothing beyond "my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" He just cries out with a load voice, like a hollering scream possibly.

This it would appear that Luke and John display a mission, whereas Mark and Matthew display disappointment because his enemies were victorious.
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52. When Jesus entered Capernaum he healed the slave of a centurion. Did the centurion come personally to request Jesus for this?
(a) Yes (Matthew 8:5)
(b) No. He sent some elders of the  Jews and his friends (Luke 7:3 & 7:6)
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53. If God is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow... and in his law it says,

"Do not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere."

Then why did He have Cain and Seth marry their sisters?

1 Samuel 15:29
"And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent."

James 1:17
"...the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, neither shadow that is cast by turning.
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54. Apart from Jesus did anyone else ascend to heaven? 
(a) No (John 3:13)
(b) Yes. “And Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven” (2 Kings 2:11)
(c) Yes, Enoch (Gen 5:24)
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55. Who was high priest when David went into the house of God and ate the consecrated bread?
(a) Abiathar (Mark 2:26)
(b) Ahimelech, the father of Abiathar (I Samuel 1:1; 22:20)

Hard to be "God in the flesh," if you can't get your own scriptures correct!
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56. Was Jesus’ body wrapped in spices before burial in accordance with Jewish burial customs?
(a) Yes (John 19:39-40)
(b) No. Jesus was simply wrapped in a linen shroud. After the sabbath the women bought and came with "sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him,"  (Mark 16: 1)
 (c) no, In Matthew, Joseph doesn't use spices and the women don't have spices at all in the story and no one intends to use any on the body of Jesus.
(d) no, In Luke the women prepared the spices on Friday, but brought them on Sunday
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57. At what time of day did the women visit the tomb?
(a) “At the beginning of dawn” (Matt 28: 1)
(b) “Just after sunrise” (Mark 16:2)
(c) early dawn (Luke 24:1)
(d) when it was still dark (John 20:1)
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58. What was the purpose of the women going to the tomb?
(a) To anoint Jesus’ body with spices (Mark 16: 1; Luke 23:55 to 24: 1)
(b) To see the tomb. Nothing about spices here (Matthew 28: 1)
(c) For no specified reason. In this gospel the wrapping with spices had been done before the Sabbath (John 20: 1)
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59. A large stone was placed at the entrance of the tomb. Where was the stone when the women arrived?
(a) They saw that the stone was “Rolled back” (Mark 16:4) They found the stone “rolled away from the
tomb” (Luke 24:2) They saw that “the stone had been taken away from the tomb” (John 20:1)
(b) As the women approached, an angel descended from heaven, rolled away the stone, and conversed
with the women. Matthew made the women witness the spectacular rolling away of the stone
(Matthew 28:1-6)
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60. Did anyone tell the women what occurred to Jesus’ body?
(a) Yes. “A young man in a white robe” (Mark 16:5). “Two men ... in dazzling apparel” later described
as angels (Luke 24:4 and 24:23). An angel - the one who rolled back the stone (Matthew 16:2).
In each case the women were told that Jesus had risen from the dead (Matthew 28:7; Mark 16:6; Luke 24:5)
(b) No. Mary met no one and returned saying, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him” (John 20:2)
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61. When did Mary Magdelene first meet the resurrected Jesus? And how did she react?
(a) Mary and the other women met Jesus on their way back from their first and only visit to the tomb.
They took hold of his feet and worshipped him (Matthew 28:1-10)
(b) On her second visit to the tomb Mary met Jesus just outside the tomb. When she saw Jesus she did not recognize him. She mistook him for the gardener. She still thinks that Jesus’ body is laid to rest somewhere and she demands to know where. But when Jesus said her name she at once recognized him and called him “Teacher.” Jesus said to her, “Do not touch me...” (John 20:1-17)
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62. What was Jesus’ instruction to Mary?
(a) “...go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me” (Matthew 28: 10)
(b) “...go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father; and your Father, to my God
and your God” (John 20:17)
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63. Did Jesus prevent Mary from touching him on the day of the resurrection.
 (a) No (Matt 28:9-10)
 (b) yes (John 20:17)
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64. When did the disciples return to Galilee after the resurrection?
(a) Immediately  (Matthew 28:16-17).
(b) maybe never, but at least after 48 days if Luke wrote Acts. For Jesus told them to remain in Jerusalem (Luke 24:49).
 (c) maybe never, for Jesus told them remain in Jerusalem till they get the Spirit baptism, which came 48 days after his resurrection on Pentecost or during the Feast of weeks or Shavuot  (Acts 1:4-5)
 (Footnote) the counting of the 50 days to Shavuot starts on the 16th of Aviv/Nisan
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65. Was Jesus baptized?

 (a) Yes (Matt 3:16; Mark 1:9; Luke 3:21)

 (b) Doesn't say, rather John just points out who he supposedly was, because he saw the Spirit come upon him like a dove (John 1:29-34)

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66. After the Spirit came upon Jesus supposedly like a dove, where did Jesus go?

 (a) he was led up into the wilderness and was there 40 days (Matt 4:1; Mark 1:12; Luke 4:1) 

 (b) the next day he came by John again and gained 3 disciples that day: John, Andrew and Peter. The very next day he went up to Galilee and gained Philip and Nathanael. The third day he attended a wedding. Thus, no wilderness scene!

New Testament Contradictions (part 1)

Here is a quick list of 23 contradictions in the NT.... which teaches that the authors were "NOT" inspired.....

1. Who was the father of Joseph, husband of Mary?
(a) Jacob (Matthew 1:16)
(b) Hell (Luke 3:23)

2. Jesus descended from which son of David?
(a) Solomon (Matthew 1:6)
(b) Nathan (Luke 3: 31)

* keep in mind that the messiah must be from Solomon. Likewise, Luke's genealogy is not of Mary as lying apologetic people claim... read the passage, it is of Joseph

3. Who was the father of Shealtiel?
(a) Jechoniah (Matthew 1:12)
(b) Neri’ (Luke 3:27)

4. Which son of Zerubbabel was an ancestor of Jesus?
(a) Abiud (Matthew 1: 13)
(b) Rhesa (Luke 3:27)
Footnote: Yet, how could this be when according to the Tanach, in I Chronicles 3:19-20, the seven sons
of Zerubbabel are as follows:

a. Meshullam
b. Hananiah
c. Hashubah
d. Ohel
f. Berechiah
g. Hasadiah
h. Jushabhesed
Thus, the names of either Abiud or Rhesa do not fit in anyway.

5. Who was the father of Uzziah?
(a) Joram (Matthew 1:8)
(b) Amaziah (2 Chronicles 26:1)

6. Who as the father of Jechoniah?
(a) Josiah (Matthew 1:11)
(b) Jeholakim (I Chronicles 3:16)

7. How many generations were there from the Babylonian exile until Christ?
(a) Matthew says fourteen (Matthew 1:17)
(b) But a careful count of the generations reveals only thirteen (see Matthew 1: 12-16)

8. Who was the father of Shelah?
(a) Cainan (Luke 3:35-36)
(b) Arphaxad (Genesis 11:12)

9. Was John the Baptist Elijah who was to come?
(a) Yes (Matthew II: 14, 17:10-13)
(b) No (John 1:19-21)

10. Would Jesus inherit David’s throne?
(a) Yes. So said the angel (Luke 1:32)
(b) No, since he is a descendant of Jehoiakim (see Matthew 1: I 1, I Chronicles 3:16).
And Jehoiakim was cursed by God so that none of his descendants can sit upon David’s throne
(Jeremiah 36:30)

11. Jesus rode into Jerusalem on how many animals?
(a) One - a colt (Mark 11:7; cf Luke 19:3 5). “And they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their
garments on it; and he sat upon it.”
(b) Two - a colt and an ass (Matthew 21:7). “They brought the ass and the colt and put their garments
on them and he sat thereon.”
This proves, among other fine examples, that author was not Jewish... because he didn't know what the Hebrew even says.

12. How did Simon Peter find out that Jesus was the Christ?
(a) By a revelation from heaven (Matthew 16:17)
(b) His brother Andrew told him (John 1:41)

13. Where did Jesus first meet Simon Peter and Andrew?
(a) By the Sea of Galilee (Matthew 4:18-22)
(b) On the banks of river Jordan (John 1:42). After that, Jesus decided to go to Galilee (John 1:43)

14. When Jesus met Jairus was Jairus’ daughter already dead?
(a) Yes. Matthew 9:18 quotes him as saying, “My daughter has just died.”
(b) No. Mark 5:23 quotes him as saying, “My little daughter is at the point of death.”

15. Did Jesus allow his disciples to keep a staff on their journey?
(a) Yes (Mark 6: 8)
(b) No (Matthew 10:9; Luke 9:3)

16. Did Herod think that Jesus was John the Baptist?
(a) Yes (Matthew 14:2; Mark 6:16)
(b) No (Luke 9:9)

17. Did John the Baptist recognize Jesus before his baptism?
(a) Yes (Matthew 3:13-14)
(b) No (John 1:32,33)

18. Did John the Baptist recognize Jesus after his baptism?
(a) Yes (John 1:32, 33)
(b) No (Matthew 11:2)

19. When Jesus entered Jerusalem did he cleanse the temple that same day?
(a) Yes (Matthew 21:12)
(b) No. He went into the temple and looked around, but since it was very late he did nothing.
Instead, he went to Bethany to spend the night and returned the next morning to cleanse the
temple (Mark I 1:117).

20. The Gospels say that Jesus cursed a fig tree. Did the tree wither at once?
(a) Yes. (Matthew 21:19)
(b) No. It withered overnight (Mark II: 20)

21. Did Judas kiss Jesus?
(a) Yes (Matthew 26:48-50)
(b) No. Judas could not get close enough to Jesus to kiss him (John 18:3-12)

22. Was Jesus born from a virgin woman.
 (a) Yes, according to Matt and Luke
 (b) No, according to Paul in Romans 1:3, for the word, seed, is "sperma" in Greek, where the word, "sperm" comes from.

23. What day of the month did Jesus die on?

 (a) the 15th of Aviv/Nisan according to Matthew, Mark and Luke, for in all three gospels Jesus' last supper was the passover and he was crucified the next day.

 (b) The 14th of Aviv/Nisan, for he dies on the day of Passover, this is why the Jewish rulers wouldn't go into the "Judgment hall" so they wouldn't get defiled so they could observe Passover later on (John 18:28). 

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