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We’ll fix it as soon as we can.Please accept our sincere thanks for informing us about the situation.Prepare to begin your examination of What Did Jesus Really Say?07th of February, 2012 It received a fantastic rating from you.

What a fantastic book this is!Every Christian, in my opinion, should read it.Also, Muslims who are interested in learning more about Christianity and all of the inconsistencies in the Bible should have a look at this document..It’s extremely simple to understand.

  • Quran: ″Glory to Him, and He is much superior to the partners that they attribute (to Him)″ Quran: ″Glory to Him, and He is far superior to the partners that they attribute (to Him)″ Quran: ″Glory to Him, and He is far superior to the partners that they attribute (to Him)″ What a fantastic book this is!
  • Every Christian, in my opinion, should read it.
  • Also, Muslims who are interested in learning more about Christianity and all of the inconsistencies in the Bible should have a look at this document..
  • It’s extremely simple to understand.
  • Glory to Him, and far beyond the companions that they assign (to Him) is He who reigns supreme.
  • the Quran .more 22nd of March, 2009 Shannen gave it a good rating It was just fantastic.

This is an excellent book that demonstrates how the Bible leads us to believe that Jesus did not preach the same things that the churches preach today.The 18th of January, 2009 Wow, said Nahlah, who thought it was incredible.This is excellent Da’wah stuff.a fantastic read MashaAllah!

This is excellent Da’wah stuff.MashaAllah, this was a fantastic read!This book gets off to a strong start with a thought-provoking question.The author appears to have an open mind and a desire to engage in genuine discourse.When he investigates what Jesus truly said, he draws on much of the greatest Christian literature available in order to contrast it with what others afterwards said about him.For the first third of the book, I found it engrossing and thought it was a great read.

I really enjoy playing grand detective games to figure out what the initial face of a great religion was like.Unfortunately, ibn Abdullah begins to stray away from his original point of departure.He enters a state of tremendo.This book gets off to a strong start with a thought-provoking question.

  1. The author appears to have an open mind and a desire to engage in genuine discourse.
  2. When he investigates what Jesus truly said, he draws on much of the greatest Christian literature available in order to contrast it with what others afterwards said about him.
  3. For the first third of the book, I found it engrossing and thought it was a great read.
  4. I really enjoy playing grand detective games to figure out what the initial face of a great religion was like.
  • Unfortunately, ibn Abdullah begins to stray away from his original point of departure.
  • Throughout the book, he goes into great depth on the numerous inconsistencies that exist between different chapters or copies of the Bible.
  • He draws parallels between his works and non-canonical literature, such as the Dead Sea Scrolls.
  • The inference, it would appear, is that the Bible is replete with contradictions and inconsistencies.
  1. Then, rather than continuing his investigation into the Bible, ibn Abdullah proposes the Islamic texts as a faultless substitute for it.
  2. It is during the latter third of the book that ibn Abdullah provides Islamic responses to biblical questions.
  3. So far as he is concerned, he is informative.
  4. However, there is no critical examination of the growth of Islamic teaching in this work.
  5. We don’t hear anything about the historical debates over which sayings ascribed to the Prophet are the most authentic or which readings of the Quran are the most accurate.
  6. The same attitude of open inquiry that ibn Abdullah brings to other people’s traditions could just be the thing to get a true detective narrative started in his own tradition.

To put it mildly, I found the material offered in the book was well researched and intriguing to say the least about it, however I did find the author to be a little confrontational at points.In his defense, the evidence was compelling enough that he could not be dismissed as unconvincing (though that may just be enthusiasm on his part, but it is hard to tell from just reading.).He was speaking to the choir with reference to me, and it was a pleasure to read a book that was jam-packed with extensive study on the subject.

I strongly advise you to do so.To put it mildly, I found the material offered in the book was well researched and intriguing to say the least about it, however I did find the author to be a little confrontational at points.In his defense, the evidence was compelling enough that he could not be dismissed as unconvincing (though that may just be enthusiasm on his part, but it is hard to tell from just reading.).He was speaking to the choir with reference to me, and it was a pleasure to read a book that was jam-packed with extensive study on the subject.

  • People who want to know what Jesus truly said based on scripture from both the Old and New Testaments should read this book, which I strongly recommend.
  • And Paul, what a fascinating individual.
  • Ehab Shawky gave it an extremely good rating on Sep 02, 2020.

″The actual teachings of Jesus P.B.U.H.″ is one of the most daring books I’ve ever read on the topic, and it’s one of the best.It was both enlightening and exhilarating at the same time.To have a thorough and balanced view, I recommend reading it in conjunction with Bart Ehrman’s ″Misquoting Jesus.″ ″The actual teachings of Jesus P.B.U.H.″ is one of the most daring books I’ve ever read on the topic, and it’s one of the best.

It was both enlightening and exhilarating at the same time.I recommend reading it in conjunction with Bart Ehrman’s ″Misquoting Jesus″ to have a comprehensive and fair grasp of the subject.Ietrio gave it a rating of ″Dislike″ on May 26, 2021.Amazing!This individual was present.

  1. And he’s aware of it.
  2. Is Abdullah aware of who his biological father is?
  3. Abe rated it very loved it on February 27, 2021.

Thanks to my buddy Irfan for loan me this book!Very thorough study was done.Tuesday, March 2nd, 2013 The author, Rawyah Sami, gave it a pretty good rating.

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What Did Jesus Really Say?

The book offers extensive information and descriptions that demonstrate how the Bible has been altered and tampered with over the course of two millennia.The story and discussions offered here are based on and culled from the works of Christian authors, the Church, and the Bible, as well as other secondary sources.The book: – Provides a chronological account of who tampered with and altered the Bible, why they did so, and how they did so.

″Worship me,″ or ″I am god,″ was never said or implied by the Prophet Jesus, alayhes sallam, to anybody in the Bible, as evidenced by the following: – The Bible does not include a single scripture that asserts that God is a ″Trinity,″ or three-in-one, and this is demonstrated in the video.- In this chapter, we will see how both the Old and New Testaments regularly remind humans that there is only one God and order them to worship just that one God.- In this video, you’ll see how Jesus, salam, constantly instructed humans to worship ″the Father,″ as well as ″the Father and the Son.″ – Demonstrates how Jesus’ followers refer to him in the Bible as ″A Prophet″ on several occasions.- Demonstrates how both Jesus and Moses, alayhemas sallam, made several prophecies about the final messenger.

Several studies have demonstrated that these prophecies cannot be fulfilled by anybody other than him.There are more than 10 of these in-depth prophecies.- Demonstrates how the Dead Sea Scrolls, which were found in 1947 in Palestine and written by Jews who were anticipating the arrival of Jesus, alayhes sallam, plainly say that they were not anticipating the arrival of one, but two prophets.The first would be announced by a prophetic figure from the end times (John the Baptist).

  • Throughout the scrolls, this message is made over and over.

What Language Did Jesus Speak?

While most historians accept that Jesus was a real historical man, there has long been controversy over the events and conditions of his life as represented in the Bible, according to the Bible.In particular, there has been considerable debate in the past over what language Jesus used while he was a man living during the first century A.D.in the kingdom of Judea, which is now located in what is now the southern portion of the Palestinian territory.

WATCH: JESUS: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE Vault The topic of Jesus’ favourite language was brought up at a public meeting in Jerusalem in 2014 between Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, and Pope Francis, who was visiting the Holy Land at the time.It was a memorable moment in the history of the world.Netanyahu, speaking to the Pope through an interpreter, declared: ″Jesus was here, in this country.″He was fluent in Hebrew.″ Francis interrupted him and corrected him.

‘Aramaic,’ he replied, referring to the ancient Semitic language that emerged among a group of people known as the Aramaeans about the late 11th century B.C.and is now almost completely extinct.Several groups of Chaldean Christians in Iraq and Syria continue to speak a dialect of it, according to a study published by the Washington Post.″He spoke Aramaic, but he was fluent in Hebrew,″ Netanyahu said immediately in response.

  • Despite the fact that both the prime minister and the Pope were likely correct in their interpretation of the language, the news of the linguistic debate made national headlines.
  • READ MORE: What Did Jesus Look Like When He Was Alive?

Jesus Was Likely Multilingual

The vast majority of religious academics and historians agree with Pope Francis that the real Jesus spoke primarily a Galilean dialect of Aramaic during his lifetime.By the 7th century B.C., the Aramaic language had spread far and wide, and it would eventually become the lingua franca throughout most of the Middle East as a result of trading, invasions, and conquering.According to scholars, it would have been the most widely used language among ordinary Jewish people in the first century A.D.

as opposed to the religious elite, and it would have been the most probable language to have been spoken by Jesus and his disciples in their daily lives.Netanyahu, on the other hand, was technically accurate.Hebrew, which is derived from the same language family as Aramaic, was also widely spoken during the time of Jesus.Hebrew was the language of religious experts and sacred books, notably the Bible, in the ancient world, similar to how Latin is used now (although some of the Old Testament was written in Aramaic).

Although Jesus’ ordinary existence would have been conducted in Aramaic, it is likely that he was conversant in Hebrew.Aramaic terminology and phrases are recorded in the Gospels of Matthew and Mark, although in Luke 4:16 we see Jesus reciting Hebrew from the Bible at a synagogue, making Aramaic the most commonly used language in the New Testament.

Alexander the Great Brought Greek to Mesopotamia

  • Other languages spoken at the time of Jesus were Aramaic and Hebrew, as well as Greek and Latin.
  • Following Alexander the Great’s conquest of Mesopotamia and the remainder of the Persian Empire in the fourth century B.C., Greek became the official language in most of the region, displacing other languages.
  • Judea was a province of the eastern Roman Empire during the first century A.D., which adopted Greek as its language franca and retained Latin for judicial and military purposes.
  • According to Jonathan Katz, a Classics lecturer at Oxford University, Jesus was unlikely to have known more than a few phrases in Latin when he was on the earth.
  • He undoubtedly understood more Greek than he let on, but it was not a common language among the people he interacted with on a regular basis, and he was not likely to be very skilled in it.

I am certain that he did not speak Arabic, which was a different Semitic language that did not arrive in Palestine until well into the first century A.D.As a result, while Aramaic was Jesus’ most often spoken language, he was also familiar with, if not fluent in, or even skilled in, three or four other foreign languages.As is likely the case with many multilingual persons, the language in which he spoke varied on the context of his words as well as the audience to whom he was addressing at the time.

READ MORE: The Bible Claims That Jesus Was a Real Person.Is there any further evidence?

How Early Church Leaders Downplayed Mary Magdalene’s Influence by Calling Her a Whore

  • She was Mary of Magdala, one of Jesus of Nazareth’s early disciples, and she was one of the most famous women in the world.
  • It is said that she journeyed with him, witnessed his Crucifixion, and was one of those who were informed of his Resurrection, all according to the Scriptures.
  • Everybody, from early church officials and historians to authors and filmmakers, has contributed to the revision and expansion of the tale of Mary Magdalene throughout history.
  • On the one hand, they downplayed her significance by stating she was a prostitute, a wrecked woman who repented and was rescued by Christ’s teachings.
  • On the other hand, they emphasized her value by claiming she was a prostitute, a ruined woman who repented and was saved by Christ’s teachings.
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Mary Magdalene, on the other hand, is represented in several early Christian scriptures as more than just a mere follower; she is also depicted as Jesus’ close companion—which some have taken to suggest his wife.Which begs the question: is there any truth to either of these tales?What exactly do we know about Mary Magdalene, the lady who is considered to be the most intriguing woman in the Bible?

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What the Bible Says About Mary Magdalene

  • However, only the Gospel of Luke discussed Mary Magdalene’s role in Jesus’ life and ministry, listing her among ″some women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities″ (Luke 8:1–3).
  • All four canonical gospels of the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) noted Mary Magdalene’s presence at Jesus’ Crucifixion, but only the Gospel of Luke discussed her role in his life and ministry.
  • According to Luke, when Jesus drove out seven devils from her, Mary joined a group of women who went with him and his twelve disciples/apostles, ″proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God.″ They were ″proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God.″ However, although Magdalene is not a surname, it is associated with the city of Magdala, which is located in Galilee, in the northernmost area of ancient Palestine, and from whence Mary hailed (now northern Israel).
  • In the words of Robert Cargill, an associate professor of classical and religious studies at the University of Iowa who is also the editor of the Biblical Archaeology Review, ″Mary Magdalene was one of Jesus’ early supporters.″ ″She was mentioned in the Gospels, which indicates that she was significant.
  • There were hundreds, if not thousands, of followers of Jesus, but we don’t know the names of the majority of them, according to what we know.

As a result, the fact that she has been identified is significant.″ Mary Magdalene had an important role in the tale of the Resurrection, which took place after Jesus’ crucifixion, which she observed from the foot of the cross with many other women, and after all of Jesus’ male disciples had fled from the scene.In accordance with the gospels, Mary went to Jesus’ tomb on Easter Sunday, either alone herself (according to the Gospel of John) or in company with several women, and discovered that the tomb was vacant.The ladies are the ones who go to the disciples and inform them what has happened, as Cargill points out.

That’s crucial since they were the ones who found that Jesus had resurrected from the dead.According to the Gospel of John, Jesus personally comes to Mary Magdalene after his Resurrection and urges her to inform his followers of his appearance (John 20:1-13).READ MORE: What Did Jesus Look Like When He Was Alive?

Mary Magdalene as sinner

  • Because of Mary Magdalene’s obvious significance in the Bible—or maybe because of it—some early Western church leaders attempted to minimize her power by presenting her as a sinner, notably as a prostitute, according to the Bible.
  • In Cargill’s words, ″There are many academics who think that because Jesus empowered women to such a great extent early in his career, it made some of the males who would govern the early church uncomfortable later on.″ In response to this, there were two different reactions.
  • She was to be turned into a prostitute, for example.″ Early church leaders conflated Mary with other women mentioned in the Bible in order to portray her as the original repentant whore.
  • These women included an unnamed woman, identified in the Gospel of Luke as a sinner, who bathes Jesus’ feet with her tears, dries them, and applies ointment to them (Luke 7:37-38), as well as another Mary, Mary of Bethany, who also appears in Luke.
  • Pope Gregory the Great clarified this confusion in a sermon in 591 A.D., saying, ″We think that the Mary, whom Luke names the wicked woman and whom John calls Mary, is the Mary from whom seven demons were evicted according to Mark.″ ‘By becoming a prostitute, she has diminished in importance.’ It has a negative impact on her in some manner.

Look at what she did for a job, and you can see why she couldn’t have been a leader,″ Cargill adds.″Of course, the second option was to advance Mary to the next level.Some believe she was actually Jesus’ wife or friend, rather than his mother.

″She had a particular place in the world.″ READ MORE: The Bible Claims That Jesus Was a Real Person.Is there any further evidence?

Mary Magdalene as Jesus’s wife

  • While some early Christians wanted to downplay Mary’s influence, others sought to emphasize her as a source of inspiration.
  • Several centuries after Jesus’ death, the Gospel of Mary, a document dating from the second century A.D.
  • that was discovered in Egypt in 1896, ranked Mary Magdalene higher in wisdom and influence than Jesus’ male disciples.
  • She was also extensively featured in the so-called Gnostic Gospels, a collection of books thought to have been authored by early Christians as far back as the second century A.D.
  • but which were not discovered until 1945, near the Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi, and which were written in Greek.

According to one of these manuscripts, referred to Mary Magdalene as Jesus’ friend and said that Jesus loved her more than the other disciples.This document is known as the Gospel of Philip.Possibly the most contentious statement in the scripture was that Jesus used to kiss Mary ″frequently on her.″ Damage to the writing rendered the final word illegible, while some scholars have substituted the word ″mouth″ for the unreadable term.

In the years after its publication, Dan Brown’s enormously popular mystery The Da Vinci Code has been consumed by tens of millions of readers worldwide.The premise of the novel revolves around the long-held belief that Jesus and Mary Magdalene had children together.This concept was also at the heart of The Last Temptation of Christ, a novel written by Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis in 1955 that was subsequently made into a film directed by Martin Scorsese, as well as the cinematic adaptation of the novel.

  • And then there was the discovery of a previously unknown papyrus fragment in 2012 that was considered to be a copy of a second-century narrative in which Jesus refers to Mary Magdalene as ″my wife,″ according to Karen King, a professor at Harvard Divinity School.
  • She ultimately changed her mind after being bombarded with criticism and concluded that the so-called ″Gospel of Jesus’s Wife″ was most likely a fake after defending the document’s validity.

Mary Magdalene as trusted disciple

  • The Bible, on the other hand, provided no indication that Mary Magdalene was Jesus’ wife.
  • One can’t get a sense of that type of connection from any of the four canonical gospels, despite the fact that they include the women who travel with Jesus and, in some cases, their husbands’ names as well.
  • The depiction of Mary Magdalene as a prostitute endured for decades after Pope Gregory the Great declared it official in his sixth-century sermon, though neither Orthodoxy nor Protestantism embraced it once their respective religions separated from the Catholic Church later in the sixth century.
  • At long last, in 1969, the Church acknowledged that the text of the Bible did not support such interpretation..
  • Mary Magdalene is now venerated as a saint by the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, and Lutheran churches, and her feast day is observed on July 22nd in all four of these denominations.

According to Cargill’s conclusion, ″Mary appears to have been a disciple of Jesus.″ ″What’s noteworthy is that Jesus had both male and female disciples in his ministry, which was not often the case at the time,″ says the author.He notes that while the prostitute and wife hypotheses have been around for centuries, they are tales and customs that have developed long after the fact: ″Neither of them is anchored in the Bible itself.″ MORE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT: The Evolution of Christian Thought

Jesus

  • Christian religious leader Jesus (born c.
  • 6–4 bce in Bethlehem, died c.
  • 30 ce in Jerusalem), also known as Jesus Christ, Jesus of Galilee, or Jesus of Nazareth (born c.
  • 6–4 bce in Bethlehem, died c.
  • 30 ce in Jerusalem), was one of the world’s great faiths.

The majority of Christians believe that he is the God-man, or the Incarnation of God.The article Christology examines the development of Christian thinking on the teachings and nature of Jesus throughout history.

Name and title

  • Ancient Jews often had only one name, and when further detail was required, it was traditional to include the father’s surname or the location of origin in the name as well.
  • As a result, throughout his lifetime, Jesus was referred to as Jesus son of Joseph (Luke 4:22; John 1:45, 6:42), Jesus of Nazareth (Acts 10:38), or Jesus the Nazarene (Luke 4:22).
  • (Mark 1:24; Luke 24:19).
  • Following his death, he was given the title ″Jesus Christ.″ Christ was not originally a given name, but rather a title derived from the Greek word christos, which is a translation of the Hebrew phrase meshiah (Messiah), which means ″the anointed one,″ as in ″the anointed one.″ Jesus’ disciples considered him to be the anointed son of King David, and some Jews anticipated him to restore the fortunes of Israel as a result of this title attribution.
  • Early Christian writers were aware that the Christ was a proper title, as evidenced by passages such as Acts 2:36, but in many passages of the New Testament, including those found in the letters of Apostle Paul, Jesus’ name and title are combined and used together as Jesus’ name: Jesus Christ, also spelled Christ Jesus (Romans 1:1; 3:24).

Paul referred to Jesus by his given name, Christ, on occasion (e.g., Romans 5:6).

Summary of Jesus’ life

  • Even though he was born in Bethlehem, Jesus was a Galilean from Nazareth, a town near Sepphoris, one of the two major cities in Galilee, according to the gospels of Matthew and Luke (Tiberias was the other).
  • He was born to Joseph and Mary somewhere between 6 bce and just before the death of Herod the Great (Matthew 2; Luke 1:5) in 4 bce, according to the earliest available evidence.
  • However, according to Matthew and Luke, Joseph was solely his legal father in the eyes of the law.
  • They claim that Mary was a virgin when Jesus was conceived and that she was ″discovered to be pregnant by the Holy Spirit″ when Jesus was born (Matthew 1:18; cf.
  • Luke 1:35).

When Joseph was a carpenter (Matthew 13:55), it was considered to be an honorable profession because it required the use of one’s hands.And, according to Mark 6:3, Jesus himself became a carpenter.Despite the fact that Luke (2:41–52) claims that Jesus was precociously intelligent as a youngster, there is no additional proof of his childhood or early life.

He was baptized by the prophet John the Baptist when he was a young adult, and he went on to become an itinerant preacher and healer after that (Mark 1:2–28).While in his mid-30s, Jesus had a brief public career that lasted maybe less than a year, but it was at that time that he drew widespread notice.He traveled to Jerusalem to commemorate Passover at some point between 29 and 33 CE—possibly as early as 30 CE—where, according to the Gospels, his entry was triumphal and filled with eschatological significance, and he died shortly after.

  • He was apprehended, tried, and killed while he was there.
  • Following his resurrection from the grave, his disciples started to believe that he had appeared to them.
  • They persuaded others to believe in him, which resulted in the establishment of a new religion, Christianity.

Who Wrote the Bible?

  • The Bible has been read by billions of people over the course of millennia.
  • Researchers have dedicated their lives to it, while rabbis, pastors and priests have devoted their careers to interpreting, educating, and preaching from the text’s pages.
  • As the sacred text for two of the world’s leading religions, Judaism and Christianity, as well as other faiths, the Bible has had an unparalleled impact on literature, particularly in the Western world.
  • The Bible is the most widely read book in the world, and it is the most widely read book in the world.
  • It has been translated into about 700 different languages, and while exact sales numbers are difficult to come by, it is usually believed to be the best-selling book in the whole world.

Nonetheless, despite the Bible’s undoubted significance, questions about its origins continue to be raised today.Although the Bible has existed for than 2,000 years and has been the subject of generations of study by biblical academics, we still do not know with confidence who wrote its various sections, when they were written, or under what conditions they were written.MORE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT: The Bible asserts that Jesus was a real person.

Is there any further evidence?The Old Testament, also known as the Hebrew Bible, is a collection of stories, laws, and moral lessons that serve as the foundation of religious life for both Jews and Christians.It spans approximately a millennium and begins with God’s creation of the world and humankind and concludes with God’s judgment on the people of Israel.

  • According to Jewish and Christian tradition for at least 1,000 years, one author wrote the first five books of the Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
  • These five books are collectively referred to as the Torah (Hebrew for ″instruction″) and the Pentateuch (Greek for ″five scrolls,″ respectively).
  • Moses, the Hebrew prophet who led the Israelites out of captivity in Egypt and across the Red Sea to the Promised Land, was regarded as the only author of the book of Exodus.
  • Nonetheless, readers of the Bible have noted practically from the beginning that there are things in the so-called Five Books of Moses that Moses himself could not possible have witnessed: For example, his own death happens at the close of the book of Deuteronomy.
  • According to a volume of the Talmud, which is a compilation of Jewish rules written between the third and fifth centuries A.D., this discrepancy was resolved by stating that Joshua (Moses’ successor as leader of the Israelites) was most likely responsible for writing the lines describing Moses’ death.
  • MORE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT: Discovering the Early Christian Church’s Conversion Tactics from Within In the words of Joel Baden, a professor at Yale Divinity School and author of The Composition of the Pentateuch: A New Interpretation, ″that’s one opinion among many.″ The Documentary Hypothesis is being re-examined.

″However, they’ve already raised the question of whether it was conceivable or not forto have authored them.″ Almost all religious academics were seriously challenging the concept of Moses’ authorship by the time the Enlightenment began in the 17th century, and many were even skeptical that the Bible could possibly have been the product of a single author.Even within a single portion of text, those first five books were replete with conflicting and repeated content, and it appeared as though multiple versions of the Israelites’ tale were being told at different times.Specifically, as Baden notes, the account of Noah and the flood is a ″classic illustration″ of this misunderstanding (Genesis 6:9).″You read along and think to yourself, ‘I have no idea how many creatures Noah brought on the ark with him,’″ he explains.

  1. ″In this statement, it indicates that there are two of each animal.
  2. In this line, he picks two creatures from one category and fourteen species from another.″ In a similar vein, the length of the flood is recorded in the book as 40 days in one location and 150 days in another.
  3. READ MORE: New research demonstrates that early Christians did not always interpret the Bible literally.
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The Old Testament: Various Schools of Authors

  • Most academics generally agree that the tales and regulations included in the Bible were passed down orally, through prose and poetry, over hundreds of years, which helps to explain the Bible’s inconsistencies, repetitions, and overall quirks, among other things.
  • Starting about the 7th century B.C., distinct groups, or schools, of authors wrote them down at various points in time until they were eventually merged into the unified, multi-layered text we know today (possibly during the first century B.C.).
  • The first of the three major blocks of source material that scholars agree comprise the Bible’s first five books was believed to have been written by a group of priests, or priestly authors, whose work scholars designate as ″P.″ The other two major blocks of source material were believed to have been written by a group of priests, or priestly authors, whose work scholars designate as ″N.″ A second block of source material is referred to as ″D″—for Deuteronomist, which refers to the author(s) of the great majority of the book of Deuteronomy, who wrote the book of Deuteronomy.
  • ″Except for the fact that they’re both delivering rules and presenting a tale about Israel’s early history,″ Baden continues, ″the two of them aren’t actually tied to each other in any important manner.″ The third major block of source material in the Torah can be divided into two different, equally coherent schools, which are named after the words that each uses to refer to God: Yahweh and Elohim.
  • According to some scholars, including Baden, the Torah can be divided into two different, equally coherent schools.

″E″ is assigned to stories that use the term Elohim, whereas ″J″ is assigned to stories that do not use this name (for Jawhe, the German translation of Yahweh).Other researchers do not agree on two entire sources for the non-priestly content, and they have their own theories.The evidence instead points to a considerably more slow process, in which material from multiple smaller sources was stacked together over an extended period of time, according to Baden.

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New Testament: Who Wrote the Gospels?

  • A narrative that serves as a fundamental foundation for Christianity, just as the Old Testament chronicles the story of the Israelites over a millennium or so before Jesus’ birth, the New Testament chronicles the life of Jesus, beginning with his birth and teachings and concluding with his death and resurrection, a narrative that serves as a fundamental foundation for Christianity.
  • In the first century AD, around four decades after Jesus’ crucifixion (according to the Bible), four anonymously authored chronicles of his life began to appear.
  • These chronicles would go on to become foundational books in the Christian religion.
  • The four canonical Gospels, which were named after Jesus’ most committed earthly disciples, or apostles—Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John—were generally believed to be eyewitness descriptions of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection.
  • However, this was not always the case.

The Gospels, along with many other works of the New Testament, have been widely accepted by scholars for more than a century as having been authored by persons other than those to whom they are assigned in the first place.According to the evidence available, it appears as if the stories that constitute the foundation of Christianity were originally given orally and then passed down from generation to generation before being gathered and recorded in writing.READ MORE: What Did Jesus Look Like When He Was Alive?

Jesus, Interrupted by Bart Ehrman is a book written by a Bible scholar that explores the relationship between names and the titles of the Gospels (such as ″the Gospel according to Matthew″).Nevertheless, these titles were added to the Gospels later by editors and scribes in order to educate readers who the editors believed to be the authority behind the various versions of the Gospels.13 of the 27 books of the New Testament were traditionally credited to Paul the Apostle, who became a Christian after meeting Jesus on the road to Damascus and went on to write a series of letters that helped spread the religion throughout the Mediterranean world following his conversion.

  • However, just seven of Paul’s epistles are today accepted as authentic: Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Philippians, 1 Thessalonians, and Philemon, according to modern scholarship.
  • Because they are thought to have been written between 50 and 60 AD, they are the first known proof of Christian belief in the world.
  • Following Paul’s example, the authors of the subsequent epistles may have been disciples of the apostle, who may have exploited his name to add validity to their works.
  • As early as the fourth century AD, Christianity had established itself as the preeminent religion in the Western world, with the New and Old Testaments serving as the faith’s most hallowed writings, respectively.
  • Despite the mystery surrounding its beginnings and the ongoing, intricate controversy over its authorship, the Bible would only grow increasingly important in the lives and religions of millions of people throughout the world in the centuries to come.

Red letter edition – Wikipedia

  • A page from a special edition of the book The King James Version of the Bible Red letter edition bibles are ones in which the Dominical words—those said by Jesus Christ during his bodily life on Earth, and often only those spoken during that time period—are printed rubricated, in red ink, on the pages.
  • In manuscripts, rubricating headings, leading letters of sectional text, and words of text for emphasis is a modern practice derived from the art and Roman Catholic practice in mediaeval scriptoria of rubricating headings, leading letters of sectional text, and words of text for emphasis, similar to italicization.

History

  • The verse in Luke 22:20 that served as inspiration for the rubrication of the Dominican words is: ″This cup is the new testament in my blood, which I bled for you.″ While working on an editorial for The Christian Herald magazine on June 19, 1899, Louis Klopsch, the magazine’s editor at the time, had the inspiration.
  • A testament with the Dominican phrases rubricated was discussed by Klopsch with his master, Rev.
  • Thomas De Witt Talmage, who responded, ″It could do no harm and it most surely could do great good,″ Dr.
  • Talmage said.
  • Klopsch went on to print the first modern red letter version of the New Testament a year or two later, in 1899.

The first modern, completely rubricated Bible was produced in 1901, and it was the first of its kind.Almost immediately, the rubricated bible gained popularity, and it is occasionally preferred by Protestant Christians in the United States.Because quotation marks are not used in the King James Version, this approach is particularly handy in certain editions.

Qualifications

  • Because the original texts of the Sacred Scriptures do not have quotation marks, it has been determined which words are Dominical and which are not, as opposed to the explanation material that immediately follows them.
  • According to a footnote in the New International Version for John 3:21, ″Some interpretations conclude the citation after verse 15,″ as an example.
  • Additionally, some publishers have opted to rubricate the Dominical words said by Jesus after His ascension to Heaven, such as His words spoken to Saul on the road to Damascus in Acts of the Apostles, chapter 9, and His words spoken to St.
  • John in Revelation, chapters 1-3.
  • As a result, rubrications may not perfectly correlate to Dominical terms, and they may differ from edition to edition.

The Dominical words were also italicized in the first Klopsch edition, which was a unique characteristic of that version.This ran counter to the King James Version’s special usage of italics to denote terms that were given by the translators and were not included in the original texts, which was somewhat undermined by this.The following is taken from the title page: Edition with a Red Letter (Red Letter Edition) The words of our Lord and Saviour, written in RED ITALICS, serve as a reminder of who we are and what we believe.

See also

  • Red-Letter Christians
  • BRG Bible

Bibliography

  • Color printing of the New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ : (Authorized Version), which contains all of the words recorded therein as having been uttered by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Christian Herald, New York, Louis Klopsch, Proprietor: Bible House, 1903, 1899
  • New York, Christian Herald, Louis Klopsch, Proprietor: Bible House, 1903, 1899
  • Life-work of Louis Klopsch : story of a contemporary knight of kindness, Charles M Pepper, New York : Christian herald, 1910
  • Life-work of Louis Klopsch : romance of a modern knight of mercy, Charles M Pepper, New York : Christian herald, 1910

References

  1. In Steve Eng’s article ″The Story Behind: Red Letter Bible Editions″, he explains how the Red Letter Bible Editions came to be. It is the International Society of Bible Collectors (ISBC) that is responsible for this website. On January 2, 2013, Crossway published an article titled ″The Origin of Red-Letter Bibles″. Esv.org. 20th of June, 1994.
  2. retrieved on November 22nd, 2011
  3. NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION OF THE HOLY BIBLE. 1973, 1978, and 1984, the International Bible Society was granted copyright. This book contains the New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ : (Authorized Version) with all the words contained therein, as having been said by our Lord, written in color. (Book, 1903). OCLC 50324831.
  4. The life-work of Louis Klopsch : romance of a contemporary knight of compassion (Book, 1910). OCLC 2320151.
  5. The life-work of Louis Klopsch : romance of a modern knight of mercy

External links

The New Testament (Red Letter Edition) may be found in the Religion Section of The e.Library of Philadelphia (King James Version).

What did Jesus Really Say?: Abdullah, Misha’al ibn: 9781888782097: Amazon.com: Books

  • The book offers extensive information and descriptions that demonstrate how the Bible has been altered and tampered with over the course of two millennia.
  • The story and discussions offered here are based on and culled from the works of Christian authors, the Church, and the Bible, as well as other secondary sources.
  • The book: – Provides a chronological account of who tampered with and altered the Bible, why they did so, and how they did so.
  • ″Worship me,″ or ″I am god,″ was never said or implied by the Prophet Jesus, alayhes sallam, to anybody in the Bible, as evidenced by the following: – The Bible does not include a single scripture that asserts that God is a ″Trinity,″ or three-in-one, and this is demonstrated in the video.
  • – In this chapter, we will see how both the Old and New Testaments regularly remind humans that there is only one God and order them to worship just that one God.

– In this video, you’ll see how Jesus, salam, constantly instructed humans to worship ″the Father,″ as well as ″the Father and the Son.″ – Demonstrates how Jesus’ followers refer to him in the Bible as ″A Prophet″ on several occasions.- Demonstrates how both Jesus and Moses, alayhemas sallam, made several prophecies about the final messenger.Several studies have demonstrated that these prophecies cannot be fulfilled by anybody other than him.

There are more than 10 of these in-depth prophecies.- Demonstrates how the Dead Sea Scrolls, which were found in 1947 in Palestine and written by Jews who were anticipating the arrival of Jesus, alayhes sallam, plainly say that they were not anticipating the arrival of one, but two prophets.The first would be announced by a prophetic figure from the end times (John the Baptist).

  • Throughout the scrolls, this message is made over and over.
  • The truth of Christianity may only be discovered via reading this book.
  • This book is also a wonderful dawah gift for Christians who are in need of encouragement.
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What Did Jesus Really Say? (Mishaal Bin Abdullah Al-Kadhi)

  • ISBN:9789675699238 Mishaal Bin Abdullah Al-Kadhi is the author of this work.
  • Dakwah Corner Publications is the publisher (2011) Pages:426 Binding:Paperback Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5 x 1″ The following is the publisher’s description: The book offers extensive information and descriptions that demonstrate how the Bible has been altered and tampered with over the course of two millennia.
  • The story and discussions offered here are based on and culled from the works of Christian authors, the Church, and the Bible, as well as other secondary sources.
  • The book is titled: – Outlines the historical process of who tampered with and modified the Bible, why they did so, and how they did so.
  • ″Worship me,″ or ″I am god,″ was never said or implied by the Prophet Jesus, alayhes sallam, to anybody in the Bible, as evidenced by the following: – Demonstrates how, to this day, the Bible does not include a single verse that asserts that God is a ″Trinity,″ or three-in-one.

– Demonstrates how both the Old and New Testaments consistently reminded humans that God is ONE and that they were only to worship one God.• Demonstrates how Jesus, alayhes sallam, commanded people on several occasions to worship ″the Father,″ rather than ″the Father and the son.″ – Demonstrates how Jesus’ followers refer to him in the Bible as ″A Prophet″ on several occasions.- Demonstrates how both Jesus and Moses, alayhemas sallam, made several prophecies about the final messenger.

Several studies have demonstrated that these prophecies cannot be fulfilled by anybody other than him.There are more than 10 of these in-depth prophecies.- Demonstrates how the Dead Sea Scrolls, which were found in 1947 in Palestine and written by Jews who were anticipating the arrival of Jesus, alayhes sallam, plainly say that they were not anticipating the arrival of one, but two prophets.

  • The first would be announced by a prophetic figure from the end times (John the Baptist).
  • Throughout the scrolls, this message is made over and over.
  • The truth of Christianity may only be discovered via reading this book.
  • This book is also a wonderful dawah gift for Christians who are in need of encouragement.

9789675699238: What Did Jesus Really Say? – AbeBooks

  • Synopsis
  • The book offers extensive information and descriptions that demonstrate how the Bible has been altered and tampered with over the course of two millennia.
  • The story and discussions offered here are based on and culled from the works of Christian authors, the Church, and the Bible, as well as other secondary sources.
  • The book: – Provides a chronological account of who tampered with and altered the Bible, why they did so, and how they did so.
  • ″Worship me,″ or ″I am god,″ was never said or implied by the Prophet Jesus, alayhes sallam, to anybody in the Bible, as evidenced by the following: – The Bible does not include a single scripture that asserts that God is a ″Trinity,″ or three-in-one, and this is demonstrated in the video.
  • – In this chapter, we will see how both the Old and New Testaments regularly remind humans that there is only one God and order them to worship just that one God.

– In this video, you’ll see how Jesus, salam, constantly instructed humans to worship ″the Father,″ as well as ″the Father and the Son.″ – Demonstrates how Jesus’ followers refer to him in the Bible as ″A Prophet″ on several occasions.- Demonstrates how both Jesus and Moses, alayhemas sallam, made several prophecies about the final messenger.Several studies have demonstrated that these prophecies cannot be fulfilled by anybody other than him.

There are more than 10 of these in-depth prophecies.- Demonstrates how the Dead Sea Scrolls, which were found in 1947 in Palestine and written by Jews who were anticipating the arrival of Jesus, alayhes sallam, plainly say that they were not anticipating the arrival of one, but two prophets.The first would be announced by a prophetic figure from the end times (John the Baptist).

  • Throughout the scrolls, this message is made over and over.
  • The term ″synopsis″ may refer to a different version of this work.

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What Did Jesus Really Say-How Christianity Went Astray, Peter Cayce

  • Please, no religious doctrine.
  • Keep the mustard to a minimum.
  • Something that claims to be Christian must be based on the teachings of Jesus Christ in order to be labeled such.
  • In order for us to be ″saved,″ Jesus never stated that he had to die for our sins.
  • Paul and John are the only ones who make this assertion.

As a result, Christianity has evolved into a kind of Paulism and Johnism that places a strong emphasis on Jesus’ role as a Savior.And Paul had never met Jesus or heard him lecture while Jesus was still alive, and John presents a scenario that is so unlike from the other disciples that we must strongly doubt him as a reliable source of information.Did you also know that there are two alternative biblical accounts of Judas’ death to consider?

And it wasn’t until the sixth century that Mary Magdalene was forced to become a prostitute by the Pope.It was Pope Urban II who, in the eleventh century, even deemed the murdering of non-Christians permissible.Aside from it, ancient Buddhist records of Jesus’ journey to India and his study of Buddhism are also discussed.

  • It’s possible that Jesus was a student and practitioner of Kabbalah.
  • As a result, What Did Jesus Really Say is a simple to read introduction that also includes reflections on God, Karma, Buddhism, Kabbalah, Reincarnation, Politics, and even Astrophysics, among other topics.

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  • Please, no religious doctrine.
  • Keep the mustard to a minimum.
  • Something that claims to be Christian must be based on the teachings of Jesus Christ in order to be labeled such.
  • In no way did Jesus claim that he had to die for our sins in order for us to be ″saved.″ Paul and John are the only ones who make this assertion.
  • As a result, Christianity has evolved into a kind of Paulism and Johnism that places a strong emphasis on Jesus’ role as a Savior.

Paul, on the other hand, had never seen or heard Jesus preach, and John’s account is so unlike from the other disciples’ that we must severely doubt his credibility as a source.Did you also know that there are two alternative biblical accounts of Judas’ death to consider?And it wasn’t until the sixth century that Mary Magdalene was forced to become a prostitute by the Pope.

It was Pope Urban II who, in the eleventh century, even deemed the murdering of non-Christians permissible.Aside from it, ancient Buddhist records of Jesus’ journey to India and his study of Buddhism are also discussed.It’s possible that Jesus was a student and practitioner of Kabbalah.

  • As a result, What Did Jesus Really Say is a simple to read introduction that also includes reflections on God, Karma, Buddhism, Kabbalah, Reincarnation, Politics, and even Astrophysics, among other topics.

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  • Christians were officially established as a religion in the first century AD, with Jesus Christ serving as its leader.
  • The crucial formative years are only partially documented, with the majority of the data coming from second-hand sources and mostly from one individual, Paul of Tarsus, who never personally walked with Jesus.
  • The live story of Jesus’ life is being called into consideration.
  • The message he delivered is much more debatable.
  • Historians are split on what Jesus said and did, and many people now question the veracity of the New Testament canon, which Christians accept as authoritative source material.

With the advent of the modern era, there has been a significant increase in divergence.The views of historians and scholars are diametrically opposed, with some claiming that Jesus never lived and others believing that every word of the Bible is inerrant, as in the case of the Bible.″What Did Jesus Really Say?″ is a book that provides authorized solutions to these hitherto unanswerable topics.

Jesus spoke of an inner world, and it is possible to tap into this exact inner world today in order to find answers to questions that the written record cannot reveal.The trick is to rely on trusted inside sources, which is exactly what was done for this book.The ″Introduction″ outlines the mistakes that were made that altered the Jesus narrative and message of salvation.

  • If the canon states that Jesus and John the Baptist, who came before him were killed by the authorities, Jesus was crucified and John was beheaded, this is not true; the accounts are based on legends rather than historical fact.
  • And John, who was still living while historians believed he had died, was a key author of the New Testament canon, penning the five books and epistles that carry his name as well as the Gospel of John.
  • Paul is thought to have written anywhere from six to thirteen of the fourteen writings that are attributed to him according to historians.
  • Paul composed or dictated all fourteen of the writings in the New Testament, according to what has been shown here.
  • This book’s first chapter, ″Documentation and Myth,″ expands on the evidence presented in the introduction and reveals who penned the Bible.
  • All of the books of the New Testament Bible, with the exception of the one very small book of James, were written by Paul’s traveling companions, none of whom were acquainted with Jesus.

A solution is found to the riddle of the three ″synoptic″ gospels, which explains why they are so similar to one another, and the circumstances of the Gospel of John and the Revelation of John are understood.When it comes to the second chapter, ″What Jesus Said and Taught,″ canonical texts are used to highlight the Church’s misinterpretations of Jesus’ teachings, and undistorted facts are used to clarify the true Jesus Message.The findings in Chapter Three, ″Comparing the Canonical and Non-Canonical Gospels,″ demonstrate that when the inner knowledge is understood, canonical scriptural terms interpret in a new way.The fourth chapter examines ″The Five Gospels,″ an important work that ranks the opinions of experts on the credibility of Jesus’s sayings and is discussed in detail in Chapter 3.

  1. Chapter five delves into the substantial metaphysical truths and facts contained in the Jane Roberts Seth Material and compares them to the teachings of Jesus Christ.
  2. It is a quick read that is jam-packed with useful information that will permanently alter our current view of life, death, and the afterlife in all disciplines of modern thought, as well as provide a clear ending to the Jesus tale.

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