Biblical Contradictions, Part II

REBUTTAL I'm sorry, but if Con wanted to limit the versions of the Bible that could be consulted, he should have done so in R1. I didn't attempt to limit the versions, I merely gave evidence that Pro's biblical source isn't reliable in establishing, Does the original biblical source have textual & contextual contradictions? He used an unreliable sources to establish his points. Voting Criteria #5 explicit states: Who used the most reliable sources? This link illustrates why the NIV isn't reliable: (http://www.debate.org...) Also, unlike what Pro claimed, you cannot find me implying I "accepted [the NIV] as a legitimate Bible"; again, I merely informed you Christendom calls it a Bible. Con misunderstands the word figurative. Figurative language is metaphorical Did I misunderstand the word "figurative"? The interesting essential about this rebuttal is that it proves me right. 1st, as I pointed out the NIV is an unreliable sources to prove figurative equality between the English & Hebrew. 2nd, Let’s use the KJV to prove nasa in 2 Jeremiah 52:31 is figurative. KJV: "king of Babylon…did lift up the head [nasa] of Jehoiachin…" (https://www.biblegateway.com...) Pro’s words: "Figurative language is metaphorical" Pro’s link: http://dictionary.reference.com...... Definition: "of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word 'head' has several figurative senses, as in 'She's the head of the company'." Now Con: Pro's own link states head "has several figurative senses". The English wording of the KJV uses "lift up the head". A commentary by A. R. Fausset recognizes this phrase to be a figure of speech, a metaphor for showing favor, like an official pardon. (https://www.blueletterbible.org...) Pro's action is itself a metaphor: he killed two birds with one stone. He proved two of my points with his one rebuttal point. Second, and more damning for Con's argument, is the fact that there is no evidence that the authors were referring to different stages of a process. Are the 2 authors referring to different stages of a process? The famous theological commentary dictated by Jamieson, Fausset, & Brown illustrates 2 different stages in the process (https://www.blueletterbible.org...). Gill's Exposition notes them as independent acts (http://biblehub.com...). Matthew does not state that Jesus "said something else" after "My God, my God." He states simply that Jesus "cried out." Mt. 27:41 Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying Mt 27:50: Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice What part of this isn’t clear that Jesus said something in a crying loud voice; then said something again in the same crying loud voice. The Greek word for voice is phóné & is defined by Greek linguistic scholars as a sound, noise, voice, language, dialect. The NASB translates it 102 times as voice. Thayer’s Lexicon says, phóné means, the sound of uttered words. ALL in link: (http://biblehub.com...) So in Matthew, Jesus second crying loud voice indicates he wept out some words. Luke tells us Jesus words & death occurred between the 6th to 9th Hours. Order: 6th Hour=11am-12pm=it was about the sixth hour (Lk. 23:44) 6th-9th Hour=11am-3pm= My God, my God…(Mt. 27:46) Same as above=gave him to drink (Mt v.48) cried with a loud voice (Lk.v.46)=cried again with a loud voice (Jn. v.30) 9th Hour=2p-3p-=received the vinegar (Mt. v.48), Father, into your hands I commend my spirit (Lk. v.46) he said, It is finished (Jn. v.30) Con would have us believe that Peter is somehow being poetic or figurative when he states that Judas bought the field… First, I never said or alluded to Peter “somehow being poetic or figurative”. I said, Acts (https://www.biblegateway.com...) illustrate Judas's figurative purchase & Peter alluded to the figurative purchase, this man purchased a field with the wages of iniquity. The Greek word translated purchase is ktaomai. It actually means acquire (http://biblehub.com...). Acquire also means, unlike purchase, to achieve as a result of one's behavior or activities. Judas couldn’t do both: throw the money in the temple to the priests & used it to purchase a field. This is why the Greek word ktaomai means acquire not purchase, because Judas wages of iniquity acquired him a field—purchased by his cohorts, the priests. The priests literally purchased the field but Judas wages of wickedness figuratively acquired it.