If someone informs you that your shop caught fire, and firefighters are on the job, you will run to the spot. However, if you had already sold that property on the previous day (which this messenger is ignorant of), you are likely to respond, saying: “Shop is not mine.”
Situation is same with God. He would not have permitted anyone to interpolate Scriptures with contradicting concepts, if they did belong to Him. On the contrary, if scriptures originated with humans, it is possible to be tampered with.
1) What
type of food may be eaten by human beings—vegetarian or non-vegetarian?
Vegetarian (Genesis 1:29; Isaiah 66:3)
Non-vegetarian (Luke 15:23; 24: 42, 43)
2)
Was
John the Baptist Elijah who was to come?
Yes (Matthew 11:14, 17:10-13).
No (John 1:19-21)
Those who take liberty to do whatever they like with the Scriptures do not realize that they are not only neutralizing the effect of the scripture, but also paving the way for people to take from scriptures what they find convenient to them. For example:
Mahatma Gandhi made a national movement of “non-violence” quoting from his Scripture Bhagavat Gita (16:2) and got independence to his country from the enslavement by Britain.
His assassin too quoted the same Scripture during his trial as his basis for assassinating the person who became the very symbol of non-violence. Because Gandhi’s assassin did not know that the little portion that is now called Bhagavat Gita has been interpolated into Mahabharat Epic in a WRONG context where God is shown as urging the hero to take up arms, without any hesitation, against family members, relatives, and teachers if they are on the side of unrighteousness. Yet the essence of Bhagavat Gita is non-violence, non-attachment and renunciation of everything what is mundane (18:66)—subjects that are unlikely to be discussed just before a great war!
‘All scripture is inspired of man and non-beneficial for teaching, for reproving, for setting things straight, for disciplining in unrighteousness.’
No wonder we have a God in the Bible who asks us to ‘greet everyone’ (Mathew 5:44-48) and also asks us ‘not to greet those believing differently.’ (2 John 10)