On Saturday i bought a book called ' The Book Your Church Dosen't Want You To Read'.
On page 217 i came across these words and i quote, One day while i was reading my bible,I made a startling discovery. After reading 2 kings 19, I flipped a number of pages and read some more. To my astonishment, I found myself reading the same words. Now, class,open your bibles to 2 Kings 19 --- and also to Isaiah 37.
These books are word for word identical ! No bible Scholar has been able to give me a satisfactory explanation for this.
This book i am reading is an eye opener if ever there was one. It also has some quotes in it from the Watchtower about the time of the end.
C'mon, QCA, if you're gonna dig up dirt on the Bible, there's much better stuff than this. I can't believe that the author couldn't get an answer from Bible scholars. Anyone who's even read a book about the history of the bible knows that many of the books are redactions and compilations of separate writings.
Most scholars believe that Isaiah was written by at least two people, probably more. Even if one accepts the idea that the all the prophetic portions were written by one person, however, there would be nothing to prevent him--or more likely, the compiler of his writings--from including a historical narrative from another source in which he figured prominently.
Let's see: when the Bible contains different perspectives on the same events, it's "contradicting itself". Two passages agree with each other and it's another "Bible problem"? The poor old Bible just can't win, can it??
How about this perspective: Kings ends with Jerusalem falling to Babylon and therefore is presumably written about that time. The author often quotes other works and in this case quotes from Isaiah. To me this makes the case (contrary to those who who want to make Isaiah, or at least the second half, a late work) that (the book of) Isaiah existed before the exile.
C'mon folks, I know there are other things to find wrong with the bible but ya goota admit that's kinda creepy.
Tell ya what, the next time a jw comes to the door ask them why that happens in those scriptures, I can just see thier eye'srolling into the back of thier heads! lol
