Do not add or remove from the scripture of God but if you will do then you are a proven liar (Bible in Proverb 30:6)

 

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Do not add or remove from the scripture of God but if you will do then you are a proven liar (Bible in Proverb 30:6)

Lets apply this verse to Christianity and Bible

Biblical scholar and theologian Sir Anthony Buzzard and Charles F. Hunting write:

“Some manuscripts have inserted the word “God” for the words “he who.” The alteration is admitted by modern translators to be unwarranted. “God” is most unlikely to have been part of the older manuscripts. Such interpolations, like the famous spurious Trinitarian addition in 1 John 5:7, which is omitted by modern translations, suggests that someone was trying to force a new idea on the original text.”

Reference - Buzzard, A., & Hunting, C. F. (1998). The Doctrine of the Trinity: Christianity’s Self-Inflicted Wound. Lanham, Maryland: International Scholars Publications. p. 303

Was Jesus really hungry? Was it just a parable? What was it?

The following is Mark’s version of the incident which is the earliest among the Gospels:

“On the following day, when they came from Bethany, he was hungry. And seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came to it he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. And he said to it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard it.” (Mark 11:12-14) *In Mark’s version of the episode the tree withered overnight rather than immediately(verse 20).

The following is Matthew’s version of the incident:

“In the morning, as he was returning to the city, he became hungry. And seeing a fig tree by the wayside, he went to it and found nothing on it but leaves. And he said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again!” And the fig tree withered at once.”(Matthew 21:18-19)

The following is Luke’s version:

“And he told this parable: “A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none. And he said to the vinedresser, ‘Look, for three years now I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and I find none. Cut it down. Why should it use up the ground?” (Luke 13:6-7)

the New Jerome Biblical Commentary remarks, “Matthew omits Mark’s detail that it was not the season for figs, because this would make Jesus’ expectation unreasonable and capricious, and changes a wish into a curse.” In addition, while Mark’s Jesus made the tree wither overtime, Matthew’s Jesus on the other hand destroyed the tree with his command immediately and so the New Jerome Biblical Commentary admits that Matthew “…hightens the miraculous by having the withering tree occur immediately rather than overnight.”

Reference - Viviano, B. T. (1990). The Gospel According to Matthew. In Raymond E. Brown, Joseph A. Fitzmyer & Roland E. Murphy (Eds.), The New Jerome Biblical Commentary. New Jersey: Prentice Hall. pp. 664

What the author of Luke does is totally different. Rather than reporting Jesus’ experience with the fig tree he transforms it into a parable told by Jesus. Commenting on this the New Jerome Biblical Commentary says, “Luke omits this story in its historicized form because he has already reported a parabolic form of it in 13:6-9.”

Reference - Ibid

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