Joseph, you're not doing your JOB! You're far too desperate.
You know very well there is more than one way to interpret the Bible or even to look at the same facts. Sorry, but you're not in a position to dismiss another person's solution or viewpoint of this situation just because it astounds you.
But on that note, there is a Bible verse that says specifically that people of the flesh cannot understand the things of the spirit and it completely confuses them.
So, of course, you are confused and think you're seeing errors becuase you are looking at the scriptures in a fleshly way. Those of us with spirit see it differently.
But beyond that, simply from an academic point of view, you cannot prove that the different accounts in this case was a reference to two separate healings of two separate lepers, even though I told you the gospels in particular do this often with parallel accounts so they can hide the details and background facts.
And it's working very well. You're trying to find the "logical" explanation or the most "reasonable" explanation and don't realize that the gospels have gone OUT OF THEIR WAY to fool you in a deliberate manner.
Here's another critically good example. When Jesus said: "Nobody knows the DAY nor HOUR" the master would arrive so keep on the watch. He even said you don't know if he will arrive in a certain watch.
But clearly, read in a normal context this would be taken that the precise timing of the second coming would be something that would be a surprise to many and that it is not a definite time. I'll grant that.
But the fact is, the disciples knew already precisely the year the Messiah would arrive since the Bible prescribes the year of the second coming just as it prescribed the year of the first coming (i.e. 483 years past the "word going forth to rebuild Jerusalem").
So what you have here is a SPECIFIC but misleading statement. That is, while Christ is saying "Nobody knows the DAY nor HOUR" he is not saying that the MONTH and YEAR are not clearly prescribed---make that--secretly prescribed in scripture!
But he doesn't contradict himself when he refers to the DAY nor HOUR.
So you see, this statement would sort of keep the general public and unbelievers rather relaxed about the chronology in the scriptures thinking nobody know when the Messiah would arrive, but most people extrapolating that it could be any generation or decade that's in doubt, when really, it is SPECIFICALLY just the DAY and HOUR since the MONTH and YEAR are derivable from scripture.
So that's what I'm trying to tell you. The spiritual minded who know scripture would know that the precise year and one out of 4 possible months would be the limits to when the Messiah would arrive and so his statement "Nobody knows the day nor hour" in that context becomes a SPECIFIC statement to specifically mean the DAY and HOUR since the month and year were known to them. But for someone not calculating the month and year ahead of time, this statement might seem to suggest a longer period of flexibility other than 1 to 24 hours.
The academic reality, though, is that you have a specifically true statement that could easily be misinterpreted and thus the premise that it was intentionally spoken that way to throw the doubters off track. But that Jesus would do something like that is clearly stated in scripture since his attitude was not to give information to the outsiders but to keep the sacred secrets to his followers. He was always excluding them.
So you're confounded because you think the gospel writers were simply somewhat unschooled and incompetent or haphazard about relating these events rather than believing the gospels are a complex revelation of secrets that can only be understood by the anointed ones, EVEN THOUGH JESUS SAYS SO!
So you have NO BASIS WHATSOEVER, to dismiss that premise, in this case, that this is simply relating to two separate events of healing a leper that were similar. You can't accept that answer.
But instead, you decide that I'm wrong, you're right, and then based upon your OPTIONAL presumption that the rest of the Bible must be wrong as well. But you're doing it without having proven your point. Your basis for dismissing the rest of the Bible is based upon your OPINION but not proven error.
So, therefore, you're just a JOKE to us since you've proven nothing. You didn't do your homework.
So it's fine you believe the Bible is erroneous and not the word of God or whatever, based upon your personal beliefs, but not dismissible by ERROR since you've proven none.
So dismiss the Bible because you don't like it, that's fine. But not because you've invented some error and you're using that as a basis to LOGICALLY and responsibly not believe.
Joseph, you'll just have to do better than finally simply dimissing me as being WRONG and stupid, while we're presuming you're correct and smart and based upon THAT, we can proceed to dismiss all the scriptures. It doesn't work that way. You started out pointing out an alleged ERROR and you didn't prove your point so you can't proceed past that, sorry.
So all I can say is you're entitled to your own disbeliefs and I'm entitled to mine, but so far I've found no ERRORS in the scriptures and nothing you have brought up so far has proven an error so we're back at square one: You on the outside, me on the inside.
Anyway, this is FUN to me, so keep em coming!!!
L.G.
