Brief Bible Blunders -- Episode #6

The sixth in a series of quick looks at biblical oddities.

Be sure to check out ReligionFreeDeist's video response about the textual variant pertaining to this. It's excellent and rounds out the point quite well. (Thanks, ReligionFreeDeist.) Link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdKxRlm7K_A

Link to playlist:

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=6F8036F680C1DBEB

Link to playlist in Spanish:

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=E8D251DB458C1191

Category:

Education

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• Jesus
• Ten
• Commandments
• God
• Yahweh
• Jehovah
• Exodus
• Law
• steal
• covet
• kill
• Moses
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• rich
• young
• ruler
• gospel
• Mark
• adultery
• false
• witness
• Christian
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• humanist
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• Testament
• yt:stretch=16:9

[JimLockey]

Defraud = false witness, this is a translation issue.

[ProfMTH]

@JimLockey "Defraud = false witness"

What is the basis for that claim?

[lastofmany1]

Prof, I am pissed you skipped the whole part about God punishing children for the sins of their fathers.

[ProfMTH]

@lastofmany1 "Prof, I am pissed you skipped the whole part about God punishing children for the sins of their fathers."

Note the first word in the title of the series. It's not "Comprehensive Bible Blunders." Moreover, I've dealt with that in other videos.

[drevildruid]

My translation reads "You must not testify falsely. You must not cheat anyone" Tyndale's New Living Translation. It's different than what you quoted.

A quick look up bible(dot)cc/mark/10-19(dot)ht­m gives several different translations. Not bearing false witness pertains to a court setting. Not cheating anyone is in a personal or business transaction. Deuteronomy 5:16 is given as a footnote for clarification in many translations, but you left it out. Why?

[ProfMTH]

@drevildruid "New Living Translation"

It's not a translation. It's a tendentious paraphrase.  Get a clue.

[DNGR411]

@CogInAVice Ahh just semantics. Like Yahweh would have minded if they had been married. In any case- apologies, just trying to make the fiction tale more of my liking.

[CogInAVice]

@ManicRaider Thats because they dont read all the words. If they read everything and paid attention they would know that one of things Jesus spoke of was getting away form the man made rules of the Rabbi and back to the YHWH rules given in the books of Moses. But that would suck for them as most of them can not even handle ten.

[ManicRaider]

@CogInAVice According to every Christian I've talked to online and offline, those Jewish laws mean absolutely nothing. Only the word of Christ matters.

[SorryStamin]

So that's where waldo went!

[ChipArgyle]

I can hear it now...Christian apologist says, "It's "Thou shalt not commit murder." Not "Thou shalt not kill." As long as you have a good reason for it, killin's just fine! That's pretty obvious by all the genocide in the Bible that God commands. Come on atheists, is that the best you've got?"

[Hkepfer]

WRONG, WRONG & further WRONG -one is not to speak G-D's first name with such lack for respect.

[ZenIsStupid]

@upsidedownkingdom82 - "But of course I'm just a stupid Christian who knows nothing and follows something you don't understand, right?" - Hey, those are your words, not mine. There's no reason to cop an attitude with me & get all bent out of shape when I never said anything toward you or about you to begin with. This isn't an "atheistic argument", this was a sincere problem I had back when I was a Christian... but oh, I probably was never saved to begin with, right? Touche.

[upsidedownkingdom82]

@ZenIsStupid Hmmmm what is the ark of the covenant? Why don't you explain the entire premise behind that? Pigeon-hole Bible knowledge is the lowest form of atheistic argument. But of course I'm just a stupid Christian who knows nothing and follows something you don't understand, right? 1 Corinthians 3:19-20 enjoy chewing on those verses and trying to argue it with a true believer.