by 5go 22 Replies latest watchtower bible
My favorite is the scripture Matthew 27:9 Jesus remembers the scripture correct but misatributes it to Jeremiah.
It's at Zechariah 11:12. All bibles have this mistake in it. It's funny the NWT crossnotes it to Zechariah and leaves the text alone so much for a better translation.
What yours favorite blooper ?
I'd never heard of that one.
Only thing I can come up with at this late hour was the summary notations at the top of each NWT page. One of them read, "John beheaded. 5000 fed."
5go
Many believe there was no name of a prophet in the original. Some might say this is not a "blooper" at all.
"Mat 27:9 - Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet,.... Through the purchasing of the potter's field with the thirty pieces of silver, the price that Christ was valued at, a prophecy in the writings of the Old Testament had its accomplishment: but about this there is some difficulty. The evangelist here says it was spoken by Jeremy the prophet; whereas in his prophecy there is no mention of any such thing. There is indeed an account of his buying his uncle Hanameel's son's field, in Jer_32:7 , but not a word of a potter, or a potter's field, or of the price of it, thirty pieces of silver; and that as a price at which he, or any other person was valued; but the passage which is manifestly referred to, stands in Zec_11:12 , where are these words, "and I said unto them, if ye think good, give me my price, and if not, forbear; so they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver: and the Lord said unto me, cast it unto the potter, a goodly price that I was prized at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the Lord": the removing of this difficulty, it might be observed, that the Syriac and Persic versions make no mention of any prophet's name, only read, "which was spoken by the prophet"; and so may as well be ascribed to Zechariah, as to Jeremy, and better: but it must be owned, that Jeremy is in all the Greek copies, in the Vulgate Latin, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions, and in Munster's Hebrew Gospel. "
John Gill
There is much written on this.
HOW ABOUT: In the King James Version
Numbers 23:22
Numbers 24:8
Deuteronomy 33:17
Job 39:9
Psalms 22:21
Psalms 29:6
Psalms 92:10
Isaiah 34:7
These scriptures refer to the UNICORN!!
The re'em is a one-horned beast. The translators who substitute "will bull" or "ox" are just making up their guess and passing it off as though it were the bible writer's intention.
Doesn't really matter what the old ones say I have read so many bible apologist reason why this mistake is in ther. If there is one mistake then why isn't the whole book a mistake which leads tro my second favorite mistake when Jesus was lead up to the high mountain to see all the kingdoms of the earth. One problem the earth is round you cann't see all of them even is the mountian was a parsec high.
5go,
There is one possible explanation for the "blooper". But before I talk about it, let me first say. I'm at work and don't have a Bible at hand and don't remember what the scripture says. But you said that Jesus remember the text correct but attributed it to Jeremiah. Well, I don't remember Jesus speaking of that prophecy. I think it was Matthew who wrote about it and attributed it to Jeremiah, not Jesus.
In any case, the explanation is that back then, the Prophets's writings were all put together and it seems that Jeremiah was listed as the first one because of the length of his writings. And it's possible that because of that, Matthew said it was Jeremiah and not Zechariah but obviously, it's not a mistake because back then, he could've just checked who wrote down the prophecy. Had it been a mistake or "blooper", I'm sure it would've been fixed long ago. There are other such "bloopers" where Jacob did something but it was attributed to Abraham, probably because Abraham was the head of the family.
As to the mention of a "unicorn", that has to do more with the translation than a Bible "blooper". Some Bibles don't translate it as "unicorn". There are animals mentioned in the Old Testament that we don't know what they looked like or what they were or that the Hebrew word for it is not easily translated. No one think unicorns exist or existed.
justahuman - but super nonetheless
No one think unicorns exist or existed.
Or dinosaurs, at least the kind that Adam wasn't able to ride around on a saddle. My favourite Bible Blooper was when Christ argued that it would be impossible for him to expel demons under Be'elzebub's power, for how could a divided kingdom stand? Yet upon his return many will perform powerful works and expel demons in his name, yet without his backing. I guess, like many statements in the bible, this predates the concept of logic.
FBF
Damn, I hadn't thought about that "kingdoms of the world" one. As a kid I thought about it. Then I just bought the WT explanation that it was some Satanic miracle. But then why take him up a mountain? Gosh, we were deceived.
tsof
We always used to giggle whenever someone read 2 Corinthians 11:25 where Paul says: "...once I was stoned..."
Really good one, FBF...
My favourite Bible Blooper was when Christ argued that it would be impossible for him to expel demons under Be'elzebub's power, for how could a divided kingdom stand? Yet upon his return many will perform powerful works and expel demons in his name, yet without his backing. I guess, like many statements in the bible, this predates the concept of logic.
This used to be difficult to get around when trying to "reason" with someone who'd pull it out. Now I accept it as a legitimate discrepancy. It takes a bit of artful dancing to get around it.
