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The Fixed New Testament Text – a Huge Problem for Trinitarianism!

December 17, 2018 BibleAuthenticity Comments 2 comments

Revised August 18, 2023

“Command certain people not to teach false doctrines”—1 Timothy 1:3 NIV

Since the Trinity Doctrine is said to be the main, or primary, teaching, of Christianity, why is it so disputed down to this day?

Accurate history tells us that:

(1) Various Trinities were taught and believed in many pagan religions prior to Jesus, going all the way back to ancient Babylon, 3,000 years before Christ!

(2) The Bible’s Old Testament canon closed about 400 BCE, saying nothing about any Trinity, or Trinitarian ideas.. read more

ARE RESTORATION PROPHECIES ABOUT ISRAEL LITERAL— OR SYMBOLIC?

November 17, 2018 BibleAuthenticity Comments 0 Comment

Note: To see the entire article, click on “PDF Version”.

By far the majority of Biblical commentators and preachers take these prophecies about Israel’s restoration literally, so many Christians today think that the modern-day Republic of Israel is fulfilling Bible prophecies. However, a careful analysis of the Bible, especially the New Testament, shows that this is not the case at all. Please keep in mind, however, that a symbolic/spiritual fulfillment does not mean not real/true. All Bible prophecies are real/true! read more

ANONYMOUS FOLKLORE, OR EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS, OF JESUS ?

November 11, 2018 BibleAuthenticity Comments 0 Comment

A popular myth is spread that the gospels, and the New Testament historical accounts, are simply embellished oral traditions and legends about a man named Jesus, who was likely a real, historical figure. As other articles on this site have shown, the entire New Testament was written within the lifetime of the Apostle John, who apparently lived on about 60-70 years after Jesus’ death. This is certainly believable since there are alive today a number of people who were living back during WWII, which ended in 1945. read more

The Importance of Eyewitnesses of Jesus’ Death and Resurrection

November 9, 2018 BibleAuthenticity Comments 0 Comment

“Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word. With this in mind, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, I too decided to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus.” (Luke 1:1-3 NIV)

New Testament writers, especially in the Gospels and Acts, were very careful to record that they were relaying the testimony of eyewitnesses, many of whom were still alive when the most of the Testament was written. Their accounts were not fabrications or hallucinations or legends. They were real! read more

JESUS’ ROBE AT HEROD’S “TRIAL,” USING VARIOUS TRANSLATIONS

May 3, 2018 BibleAuthenticity Comments 0 Comment

“Then Herod and his soldiers began mocking and ridiculing Jesus. Finally, they put a royal robe on him and sent him back to Pilate”—Luke 23:11 NLT

Pilate could not find anything wrong with Jesus, and hoped to evade responsibility for Jesus by shifting him over to Herod, who happened to be in town for the major festival of Passover. But to Herod Jesus is only a curiosity (Luke 23:8,9), and a joke (Luke 23:11). His curiosity, however, goes unrewarded. Since Jesus refused to answer Herod’s many questions, Herod gets tired of it after awhile, and sends Jesus back to Pilate. But before he does, they put a robe on Jesus to crown their mockery of him. The robe and its color are difficult to describe, at least in English. This is only a minor detail, of course, but notice how many different ways and colors this robe is described in various Bible translations at Luke 23:11: read more

POOL OF SILOAM DISCOVERED IN 2004 CONFIRMS JOHN 9:7

March 5, 2018 BibleAuthenticity Comments 0 Comment

“The living and enduring word of God. For, ‘All people are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall off, but the word of the Lord endures forever'”—1 Peter 1:24,25 NIV

The more that time passes, the more proof emerges that the Bible is indeed, “the word of God”—1 Thessalonians 2:13

“‘Go,’ he told him, ‘wash in the Pool of Siloam’ (this word means ‘Sent’). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing'”—John 9:7 NIV read more

NEWLY RECEIVED RADIO WAVES EVIDENCE OF GENESIS 1:1

March 2, 2018 BibleAuthenticity Comments 1 comment

“. . . when the universe was created”—USA Today

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth”—Genesis 1:1

Some atheists deny not only the Bible, but also science, by claiming that the universe did not have a beginning. Their denial of proven science shows the depths to they will go to avoid any possibility of God’s existence, and creation.

An article in USA Today entitled “Signal received from far reaches of early universe” reports:

**An artist’s rendering shows how the first stars might have looked** N.R. FULLER/NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away… read more

Does the Gospel of Mark End at 16:20, or 16:8?

February 26, 2018 BibleAuthenticity Comments 4 comments

Modern day snake handlers derive their practice from Mark 16:17-18 (KJV)

“I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book”—Revelation 22:18 NKJV

Promoters and believers in faith healing often use Mark 16:17,18 as Biblical support for their healing practices:

“They will lay their hands on the sick and they will recover” (NKJV).

Snake handling “Christians” love these last few verses of Mark because they say:

“They will take up serpents” (NKJV) read more

WHY AVOID THE WOMAN CAUGHT IN ADULTERY STORY (John 7:53-8:11)?

February 22, 2018 BibleAuthenticity Comments 6 comments

Revised on May 25, 2020

“Yahweh’s promises are promises unalloyed; natural silver which comes from the earth seven times refined”—-Psalm 12:6 NJB

“Every word of God is flawless . . . Do not add to his words or he will rebuke you and prove you a liar”—Proverbs 30:5,6 NIV

“I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this scroll: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to that person the plagues described in this scroll”—Revelation 22:18 NIV read more

The Early Acceptance of Revelation

January 19, 2018 BibleAuthenticity Comments 0 Comment

The Book of Revelation is without doubt the most complicated, controversial, and esoteric of the entire Bible! Some even doubt that it should even be in the Bible at all, and assert that its place in the Bible Canon was controversial from the start. This is false. Why?

We have early, widespread and consistent reception of Revelation. Papias (c 125), Justin Martyr, Irenaus, the Muratorian Fragment, Hippolytus, Clement of Alexandria, Tertullian, and Origen all accepted Revelation as authentic. That’s impressive! Every one of these accepted Revelation as inspired, on the basis that John, the apostle was the recorder. B W Bacon was so impressed with the initial widespread acceptance of Revelation, that he wrote: “There is no other book in the entire NT whose external attestation can compare with that of Revelation, in nearness, clearness, defintiteness, and positiveness of statement” (The Making of the New Testament, 190).

Objections to Revelation were later and limited. Gaius in the early 3^rd century rejected Revelation, thinking it was a forgery of the apostate Cerinthus. This is the first real objection.

Objections to Revelation were not on any historical basis. Gaius rejected the literal millennnial reign of Christ, so he thought the reference in chapter 20 of such had to be a product of the apostate Cerinthus.

Any such objections were resolved early. It was accepted by the synods of Hippo (393) and Carthage (397), by Philastrius of Brescia (c 385), Rufinus of Aquuilia (c 404), Jerome ( c 414), and Augustine (c 426). They accepted Revelation as authentic because it was accepted by the early Christians as authentic.

There are many quotations from Revelation by early writers, who quoted it as being authentic.

The writings of the Apostles were viewed as authentic (Jude 17,18; 2 Peter 3:15,16).

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