I owe many of you an apology. Over the last year or so, I have used my Facebook page and this website to attack the Christian faith under the guise of “seeking the truth.” I chose not to be persuaded by reason or facts and instead followed my own sinful desires for freedom and self-governance. I am sorry to those of you for whom my misguided ideas have been a stumbling block.
Things have been going badly with my family for the last couple of years. The children are not minding as they once did, and have been in poor health. My relationship to my wife has become strained almost to the point of breaking. I finally came to the realization last night that the source of all of these problems is me: I rejected my savior, Jesus Christ, and chose to follow my own selfish ways. In so doing, I brought great harm on my family.
I want to let each of you know that as of last night, I have rededicated my life to Jesus and I am ready to follow him. I am thankful for each of you that did not cease to pray for us during this time. God heard your prayers, and has worked a miracle in my heart and in my family.
I recognize now that all of the research and study that I have done have been in vain. There is no understanding apart from Jesus, and all the facts in the world cannot change the truth that the Bible is his Word and that he is Lord of all.
For those of you who have not yet given your hearts to Jesus, I ask you to turn to him today. He is waiting with open arms to receive you and to forgive your sins. Don’t be rebellious as I once was; it will only cause you pain. God will pursue you until you give in, or until you die and go to hell. He loves you. Trust him today!
2 comments on this topic
4. April - 11:59 am
Happy 4/1, everybody. ‘Nuff said.
11. July - 7:59 pm
I just wanted everyone to be clear that this is an APRIL FOOL’S prank!!!
1. October - 7:57 pm
What I find appalling about the posts that you’ve put up regarding the so-called conflicts within the Bible is that you’ve failed to study the issues at hand and instead chose to intentionally seek out misguided uninformed opinions that you could easily dismantle.
Every one of the issues you’ve brought up have very valid explanations and have been known for hundreds of years.
There ate easy explanatios andmuf you were truly interested in reason and truth you’d have sought out sincere answer from sjnctr critics instead of intentionally finding the most irrational explanations available in
The net.
1. October - 7:59 pm
Forgive the previous post, this is a new phone and I prematurely posted unintentionally before being able to correct the “fat fingered” items…
1. October - 8:02 pm
The last paragraph should’ve read…
“There are easy explanations and if you were truly interested in reason and truth you’d have sought out sincere answers from sincere critics and theologians instead of intentionally finding the most irrational explanations available on the net.”
1. October - 8:38 pm
Btw of the two ‘irreconcilable’ discrepancies that I saw posted ..
Matthew’s genealogy was Mary’s history not Joseph’s and it did have 14 generations in the third list, Joseph wasn’t Jesus’ father, that was Mary’s father (the name Joseph was just as popular then as it is now, if not moreso) and Mary was the link you were missing- that also explains the discrepancies in the two lists and it’s easily noticed when one realizes that Mary was mentioned in Matthew but not Luke and Matthew mentions various women in the lineage but Luke mentions various Josephs. Any first year Bible student should know that and anyone who is sincerely seeking answers could have easily found that out.
The reason Matthew intentionally skipped generations was to show that Jesus was Messiah by utilizing numerology which someone already attempted to elude to- ancient Jews highly appreciated numerology and symbolism and Matthew was making his intent 100% clear that Jesus was the long awaited Jewish Messiah, easily ascertained by realizing that this was the theme of the book of Matthew.
As far as the ages of the kings it was an obvious scribal error, which is why other ancient texts and various modern texts do not contain the discrepancies you found in the KJV. The scribes did a phenomenal job translating, but weren’t divinely inspired or inerrant and seeing as to the nature of the errors (8/18 and 22/42) it’s simple to discern that fact. We know based in the texts and context that the ages in Kings were the accurate ones.
If you’re really seeking truth and desire to be enlightened try spending five minutes googling at the very least before coming to the errant conclusion that you’ve somehow (after thousands of years of debate) resolved something millions of intellectuals before you couldn’t prove to be contradictory.
28. October - 8:24 pm
Nunya,
I appreciate your willingness to step in and share your understanding of the text. Thank you for taking the time to get involved. In the interest of truth, I would like to highlight a few minor problems with your explanations.
In your first answer, you stated that the genealogy in Matthew chapter one outlines Mary’s ancestry rather than Joseph’s. May I call your attention to verse 16?
“And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.” (KJV)
How do you reconcile your statement that “Joseph wasn’t Jesus’ father, that was Mary’s father,” with the verse that says Joseph is Mary’s husband?
28. October - 8:24 pm
As to your second point, I agree with you that “Matthew intentionally skipped generations was to show that Jesus was Messiah by utilizing numerology.” Matthew was clearly attempting to make the point that Jesus’ birth was miraculous. However, if the numbers do not represent the truth (the actual number of generations) what good are they? If God chose to place three sets of fourteen generations in Jesus’ lineage, could he not have done so? Did he need the help of Matthew to “edit” the genealogy? It is my contention that Matthew’s altered version of Jesus’ ancestry points to human, rather than divine, authorship of the text.
Your second answer points to discrepancies among the various texts underlying the modern versions. Since all of the extant manuscripts have been carefully identified and cataloged, perhaps you could provide the names of the “accurate ones” along with an analysis regarding their superiority over the manuscripts that underly the King James version.