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"And the chief priests and all the council sought for witness against
Jesus to put him to death; and found none. For many bare false witness
against him, but their witness agreed not together. And there arose
certain, and bare false witness against him, saying, We heard him say, I
will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I
will build another made without hands. But neither so did their witness
agree together."
Mark 14:56-59
Others will adamantly refuse to believe that anyone has changed the
word of God or that the Bible contains any conflictions whatsoever no
matter how much evidence is presented. They are willing to either:
3) Claim that these matters are all insignificant and that the words
remain the inspiration of God even if we don't know who the "inspired"
authors were and their narrations contradict one another.
For instance, the contradiction between Matthew 17:13 and John 1:21
(point 16 below) is explained by Mr. J as: "John is answering the
question directly and literally, he is not Elijah, he is John the son of
Zechariah.... John was not interested in promoting all kind of
speculation about his identity, but to focus attention upon the one he
had been sent to prepare the way for." So, if Joe is a vice principal, and
someone asks the principal "Is Joe the vice principal?" and the
Principal says "yes," then it is OK for Joe to say "I am not the vice
principal" because he is "talking within the con**** that he is Joe" and
he wants to "focus attention" on the principal?
The Qur'an tells us that if the word of God were ever to be tampered
with by the hands of mankind then it will be easy to detect this
tampering by the contradictions which will inevitably result. We read
"Do they not consider the Qur'an (with care)? Had it been from other
than Allah, they would have surely found therein much discrepancy."
Even the Bible itself gives the same criteria for discovering such
modifications,
"For many bare false witness against him(Jesus), but their witness
agreed not together.