Brief Bible Blunders -- Episode #10

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

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

Thanks very much to FFreethinker for featuring the series:

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


Music at the end: "To Be Like Jesus"

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[ChipArgyle]

I can hear it now...Christian apologist says, "It was just an error in translation. What he really said was "you must be fooling me when you say the gold is more important than the temple that makes it sacred. Come on atheists, is that all you've got?"

[kokalti]

Russian Translation says the same

[carlsonap16]

@ProfMTH you claim it is a translation of the Greek, but are you really certified to make that claim? i have done the study, and the evidence supports that the Peshitta came before the Greek, as the Greek contains errors that Peshitta does not, and which are ultimately only explainable by Greek mistranslations of the Aramaic

[ProfMTH]

@carlsonap16 "the Peshitta"

A translation! You're wasting my time with this nonsense.

[carlsonap16]

@ProfMTH Sure.  Take a look at the Aramaic New Testament, the Peshitta. Also the Old Syriac Gospels. And take a look at the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew

[ProfMTH]

@carlsonap16 "just as me saying it wasn't doesnt prove it to you, so also you saying it was Greek proves it not to me."

Feel free to point me to the manuscripts of Matthew that are not written in Greek. Short of that, please don't waste my time or yours with baseless babbling on.

[carlsonap16]

@ProfMTH just as me saying it wasn't doesnt prove it to you, so also you saying it was Greek proves it not to me. i would suggest in regards to your beliefs on this subject, you investigate it rather than follow whatever the socalled experts tell you. you might well look into the evidence for Aramaic primacy of the Greek manuscripts. not only does the linguistics support it, but so also the church fathers who talked about this in the first four centuries agreed that the NT was in Hebrew.

[ProfMTH]

@carlsonap16 "Actually it was written in a Semitic language...."

It was written in Greek.

[carlsonap16]

@ProfMTH Actually it was written in a Semitic language that much is easily demonstrated by linguistic study and not traditional harping as the christians do. Mostly just follow suit of their predecessors opinions. and also, where is your evidence that Aramaic was the spoken language of hte people back then? The DSS show that Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic were used. Josephus the famed historian of the 1st century declared that most jews despised any language other than Hebrew.

[ProfMTH]

@carlsonap16 "good job for using the english translation and not the hebrew"

This text was originally written in Greek, not Hebrew. And Jesus would have spoken Aramaic. So, good job not knowing what you're talking about.