WHO WROTE THE BIBLE by Washington Gladden, PT 1

by Quentin 44 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  GLTirebiter

  It is interesting and informative to go back to what was being printed and reported about the DEAD SEA SCROLLs when they were finally in the hands of scholars. THE IRON GRIP of the Catholic church sought to cut off any flow of information to allow them time to spin it--lest they be found caught in an historically indefensible position vis a vis the facts.

  That makes no sense, because the Catholic church did not control the scrolls. The Jordanian Department of Antiquities and Israeli Antiquities Authority were the ones controlling access to them, until the Huntington Library made their phtographic copies available to any qualified scholar in 1991. The controlling authorities were upset at this, but once the copies were in circulation further resistance was futile.

  “I maintain that what we’re doing is no more than other librarians are doing ever day – collecting, preserving, and providing access” -- Willaim A. Moffet, director of the Huntington Library
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  Quentin

  "...after you grow up and start learning, truly, about the origins of the Bible...you realize how much you've been suckered in all these years. As a child, you are definitely spoon fed someone else's interpretation of this book I think all...need some education on the origins of the Bible. Maybe this would be a good place for them to start"....( Heaven )...Agreed, jf we are going to base our lifes on Holy Writ we need to KNOW about its history..."Only the king james bible was made in heaven. All of the others are corruptions"....( Satanus ) Tounge in cheek?

  Mr. Gladden does that with objective and simple observations. Here he shows there were two versions of the Jewish Scriptures and how they were used.

  " When Jesus Christ was on the earth he often quoted from...the Jewish Scriptures...What were these Jewish Scriptures?...the sacred writings of the Jews were collected in two different forms. The Palestinian...written in the Hebrew language...the Alexandrain...called the Septuagint, in the Greek...This translation soon came into general use, because there were everywhere many Jews who knew Greek well enough but knew no Hebrew at all...Hebrew was a dead language...the common people did not understand it: the vernacular of...Palestinian Jews was the Aramaic...sometimes called the later Hebrew...having some such relation to it as...English...to...German...When "the Hebrew tongue" is mentioned in the New Testement it is the Aramaic that is meant...The Greek version...was, for this reason , more freely used by the Jews even in Palestine than the Hebrew original; it was from the Septuagint that Christ and his apostles made most of there quotations." ( Pg 6-7 )

  Gladden states the Hebrew collection was used by scholars only, the Greek by common people " there were some important differences" between the two in "phraseology", "arrangement" and "contents." ( Pg 7 ) It is from the original Hebrew we get our Old Testement translation. ( Pg 8 )

  That being the case should there be no reason to conted why we get confussion over doctrin and meaning of what was said? Gladden's book gives meaning and answer to that question.
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  GrandmaJones

  OOOOOhhhh, now THIS is interesting! Thank you for the links guys. I am downloading immediately.
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  JustHuman14

  The Bible is a copy of Sumerian myths, especially the Gilgamesh Epic, combined with the history of the Semetic Nation Israel, mixed with Egyptian, Babylonian, and Greek theology.

  Indeed the Catholic Church along with the Orthodox(since at that time we had One United Church the East and West Rome) they will have face the new Books that archaiology is finding lately, starting with the Gnostic Gospels that they rejected at Nicaia in 330 A.D.and then completely vanished at the Biblical Canon that was set in 375 A.D by Athanasius.

  Why they reject the Gospel of Mary Magdalene? The Gospel of Judas, the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Joseph? Why Early Christian Church had women as priests?
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  OBVES

  Becuase of the numbers and periods given in the Bible that are now being understood it is 1000% certain the Bible is from God Yahweh !

  Examine my posts on this discussion forum .

  http://www.focusonthebible .
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  streets76

  marked
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  Room 215

  "I was considering readin the bool until I learned it was written in the late 1800s!!! This book seems too outdated to gather any knowledge from" The mid-late nineteenth century was for many the Golden Age of Bible exegesis and commentary. So many of the critical works, concordances, etc. come from that era. Ray Franz, among others, certainly thought so.
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  Quentin

  "... The mid-late nineteenth century was for many the Golden Age of Bible exegesis and commentary. So many of the critical works, concordances, etc. come from that era."....(Room 215 )...Exactly, somethung everyone needs to cinsider
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  Snoozy

  I was going to print the book (thanks for the link) but it is 131 pages long...I will do it later..

  Snoozy
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  Quentin

  It is well worth the read Snoozy. Another snippet from Gladden. Which we shall see is a common theme within his commentary.

  "We are...told in 2 Chronicles xxvi. 22, that Isaiah wrote a history of the "Acts of Uzziah," which is wholly lost. Other casual references are made by prophets...thus apparently accredited...as authoritative utterances of divine truth. Why were they suffered to perish?" ( Pg 10 & 11 )

  "The very fact they are hopelessly lost raises some curious questions about the method of revelation...Providence which suffers whole books to be lost by men would [ or so it would be supposed ] infallibly guarantee againist errors in the copies...we know that He has not so protected any of them." ( Ps 11 )

  "We know he has not so protected any of them." Now that's a BOLD statment, Mr Gladden does not shy away from calling a duck a duck, it is the reverence, indeed the humbelness, in which he calls a duck a duck, being the saving grace of this book. It is not Gladdens intent to destroy one's faith, rather he seeks to educate the individual, that they may all the more defend their faith with vigor and honesty.