A Muslim writes about Jesus - Is This The Most Embarrassing Interview Fox News Has Ever Done?

[DaRev]

IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

DaRev said:

happydolphin said:

IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

http://www.answering-christianity.com/bassam_zawadi/contradictions_in_nt.htm

 

Failing on so many simple details alone tells us that nothing in the New Testament can be trusted.

 

Though I guess that you would hardly need to find contradictions within the NT to reach that conclusion. The thing is biased as hell and has a very clear message that the authors wish to send. (One that I'd love for more people, including Fox News, to follow: Love your enemy as you love yourself.)

Have you read them? They are very weak. Example:

2)Who approached Jesus?  (Matthew 8:5-7)  The Centurion approached Jesus, beseeching help for a sick servant.  (Luke 7:3 & 7:6-7)  The Centurion did not approach Jesus.  He sent friends and elders of the Jews.

It should be obvious that whether the centurion or his friends approached Jesus, the oral tradition accounts for variances such as those. Ultimately what mattered is that the centurion, or people in his name, approached Jesus.

This dude obviously didn't read the sourse he quoted. Just taking the first purported contradiction i.e. "1)How many generations were there between Abraham to David?  Matthew 1:17 lists fourteen generations.  Matthew 1:12-16 lists thirteen generations." If he had read the Bible he would see that while Mat 1:17 does say that there were 14 generations between Abraham and David, Mat 1:12-16 lists the generation after that time, i.e. after David, and clearly states in Mat 1:12 that "And after they were brought to Babylon,...", mean those (13? I didn't count) generations were after the Abraham to David generations.

I didn't read the rest of the "contradictions" because the author clearly stumbled out of the gate with his point. Try again...please

 

Happydolphin brought up a perfect example of a contradiction in the very post that you quoted and there are many more like it in the link that I provided. (Which I'm sure you actually read but wanted to avoid talking about by creating this minor distraction.)

What? Dude, I didn't ready what Happy wrote, he's fighting his own battle I read the link you posted and on the fisrt example it failed, so i didn't read the rest. Would you like me to help Happy out wit his arguments? lol

Edit:

OK, I just read the second point in the article. I think Happydolphin made a good point in that both accounts in Matthew and Luke CONFIRM the same event. That's what's important. Luke, however, simply states that Jesus heard about the sick servant BEFORE the centurion came up to him. And that's why the Gospels, i.e. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John MUST be read together to get a better or fuller understaning of the events that took place.

You must understand as well that the gospels were written with different types of readers in mind, and thus in somee instances would have told the same story  a bit differently. For example, Matthew was written for Jewish sensibilities, while Luke was written for Greeks (or maybe Romans I an't remember). This means that whether the story being told is true or not is not the point, but how it was told to the reader. Meaning that calling Jesus Messiah means a lot more to the Jewish reader then it would to the Roman. Ultimately, there is no contradiction, just a different emphasis on certain details.

Moreover, I shouldn't have to explain this to you, but please note that we don't know how much time elapsed during the time Jesus arrived at Capernaum and when he met the centurion. For example, don't assume that Jesus just jumped off a boat and then the centurion magically appeared in front of him that second. It is an event that elapsed of a period of time.