I’m finding that many Christians completely lose their minds when you ask basic questions trying to clarify what the Bible says. Many of these people apparently think Genesis Chapter 1 starts with the word, “OBEY” and then is followed by “Don’t ask any questions” and then “especially questions about the parts that are contradictory.” Sorry, folks, I don’t buy that. God wants us to think. God wants us to be curious, not blind. And no, God didn’t write the Bible directly, he worked through men who are, by their very nature, fallible and selective in their memories and often biased in their own interpretations.

This doesn’t mean, of course, that there isn’t tremendous value in what’s taught in the Bible. I have found great wisdom in it. But reading it and citing it from rote memory without understanding what it actually is does not bring us any closer to God, in my view. We need to have more knowledge about how the Bible came to be, and I think God wants us to dig deeper, beyond the surface, to truly seek to understand the lessons of Jesus and God’s demands of us.

Many contradictory details are found in the Bible

The Gospels, for example, contain very different perspectives and sometimes contradictory details of the events leading up to the crucifixion of Christ. Long before Christ, Moses was so frustrated with God that he literally asked God to kill him. Some of the chapters of the Bible are primarily collections of writings that would have been lost if not gathered by women (Jeremiah, for example, whose writings were largely gathered by his female secretary). And there are at least 22 missing books that were redacted from the western Christian Bible (but are found in the Ethiopian Christian Bible). Those include Enoch and the Book of Giants, among others.

Translations of the Bible from its original languages introduced new biases, redactions and edits

Furthermore, every official translation of the Bible into English introduced new biases, and in some cases outright redactions or deliberate perversions of the original source text in Hebrew, or Aramaic or Greek. These biases were introduced by men, and sometimes by Kings, all of whom had their own political agendas, filters and biases, and many of those agendas were not at all aligned with God’s teachings.

Thus, to conclude that the English Bible today is an exact replica of “the Word of God” is to have no knowledge of the history of the origins of the modern English (NKJ, etc.) Bible itself.

A list of just a few of the contradictions found in The Gospels

I asked our in-house AI engine, Enoch (ahem!) at Brighteon.AI, about some of the more obvious contradictions found in just The Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John). These contradictions don’t invalidate the core teachings of Jesus, of course, whose teachings I honor. But they do demonstrate exactly what I’m referring to here, which is that the Bible is not a word-for-word accurate record of events, and even the Bible itself can be self-contradictory. Here’s what Enoch reported, hopefully without making citation errors (I didn’t check them all):

Contradictions in the Birth Narratives

Only Matthew and Luke provide detailed accounts of Jesus’ birth, and they differ significantly:

• Genealogy of Jesus:
  • Matthew (1:1-17) traces Jesus’ lineage through Joseph back to King David via Solomon, listing 28 generations from David to Jesus.
  • Luke (3:23-38) traces it through a different line (possibly Mary’s) back to David via Nathan (not Solomon), listing 42 generations from David to Jesus.
  • The names between David and Jesus are almost entirely different.
• Place of Birth & Travel:
  • Matthew implies that Jesus was born in Bethlehem and that Joseph and Mary lived there (Matthew 2:1, 11).
  • Luke claims that Joseph and Mary lived in Nazareth and only traveled to Bethlehem for the census (Luke 2:4-7).
• The Census of Quirinius:
  • Luke says Jesus was born during a census ordered by Quirinius, governor of Syria (Luke 2:1-2).
  • However, historical records show Quirinius’ census occurred in 6-7 CE, while Herod the Great (who appears in Matthew’s account) died in 4 BCE—meaning the two accounts cannot both be correct.
• Flight to Egypt vs. Return to Nazareth:
  • Matthew says Herod tried to kill Jesus, forcing the family to flee to Egypt (Matthew 2:13-15).
  • Luke says they went straight to Nazareth after Jesus’ birth (Luke 2:39), with no mention of Herod’s massacre or Egypt.
• Visitors & Announcements:
  • Matthew mentions the Magi (wise men) visiting Jesus in a house (Matthew 2:11), implying some time had passed.
  • Luke mentions shepherds visiting Jesus in a manger (Luke 2:15-16), suggesting an immediate visit after birth.

The Gospels also differ on key details of Jesus’ resurrection:

• Who Visited the Tomb?
  • Matthew 28:1 – Mary Magdalene and “the other Mary.”
  • Mark 16:1 – Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome.
  • Luke 24:10 – Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and “other women.”
  • John 20:1 – Only Mary Magdalene.
• Was the Stone Already Rolled Away?
  • Matthew 28:2 – An angel rolls the stone away in front of the women.
  • Mark 16:3-4 – The women find the stone already rolled away.
• Who Appeared First?
  • Matthew 28:9 – Jesus appears to the women on their way back.
  • John 20:14-17 – Jesus appears only to Mary Magdalene.

• Jesus’ Last Words on the Cross:
  • Matthew 27:46 & Mark 15:34 – “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
  • Luke 23:46 – “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.”
  • John 19:30 – “It is finished.”
• The Death of Judas:
  • Matthew 27:5 – Judas hangs himself.
  • Acts 1:18 – Judas falls and bursts open in a field.

Even the words of Jesus that we read in English are not actually the words that he spoke

Personally, I would tend to trust the red-letter Bibles revealing the actual words of Christ over everything else, in terms of closeness to God’s intended message, but of course Jesus did not speak English. He probably spoke mostly Aramaic.

And even this historical fact is practically unknown by most American Christians today, at least in my observations of their knowledge. They bizarrely assume Jesus spoke English. But that’s absurd, since the English language did not exist during the entire life of Jesus. English would not come into existence for centuries later, and far from Jerusalem.

So if Jesus did not speak English, but the words we read of Jesus are presented to us in English, and those words in The Gospels are very often contradictory, what does that tell us?

Again, it doesn’t mean we throw out The Gospels or the teaching of Christ, as there is tremendous value to be found there, but what it must remind us is that reading the Bible in English is absolutely not reading “the word of God,” it is reading a translated, interpreted, redacted, selected rendition of history, filled with biases and political agendas and human bias in the translations.

Jesus of Nazareth looked Middle-Eastern

Astonishingly, I have found that very few Christians realize that Jesus did not speak English, and they do not realize that by today’s standards, he would look very much like a Middle Eastern man, possibly similar to a Palestinian, or a Jordanian, or Lebanese man.

He was not “white,” even though he is often deceptively depicted as such in western Christian culture. As Roman soldiers demonstrated, Jesus was impossible to tell apart from the other local men of his time.

Quite literally today, if a typical American Christian saw a man who looked exactly like Jesus of Nazareth, that typical Christian would, in their own mind, think they were seeing an Islamic fundamentalist just by judging him on his looks. They’d be wrong, of course, but that’s how they would judge Jesus today, for the most part, having virtually no knowledge of the history of Jesus or the history of the world.

Learning from God must expand far beyond any written, translated word

So even in reading the red letter Bible of the words of Jesus, we are only reading (in English) a translated version that is NOT word for word what Jesus actually spoke, and the translated versions may not be entirely faithful to the original words of Jesus himself, so we have to learn to expand our understanding of God through other confirmatory means such as observing nature, seeing the miracles of God in life, developing our relationship with God, etc.

This does not mean the Bible cannot be incredibly informative, of course, but the Bible was only written about one group of people in one part of the world, and that group had virtually no contact with other civilizations that coexisted on planet Earth at the same time, including the civilizations of India, China, Egypt, greater Africa, Meso-America, Rome and eventually the “Rus,” among others. Those civilizations had their own writings and journeys to contribute to human spirituality and human understanding of our place in the universe. Importantly all human beings are children of God. Thus, they all have a role to play in the pursuit of the understanding of God.

If we are wise, we pursue all knowledge throughout history, beyond merely the “Middle East” which did not even have the largest populations of the world across the span of time when most of the Bible was originally written.

Here’s a video from the American Museum of Natural History that explains the history of human populations, based on archaeological records:

 

Real Christians exercise their minds and explore God’s great cosmos to find answers

Finally, if you think no Christian has any right to scrutinize what the Bible says and try to align its teachings into a cohesive, integral philosophy of human existence, then you aren’t living in the spirit of our Creator in the first place.

He gave us free will so that we might use it to expand, discover and ask questions of the cosmos. Any “religion” that does not allow expression of free will and the process of discovery isn’t a legitimate religion, but rather a supremacist doctrine of blind obedience to other men or to centralized institutions such as “the Church” which sadly has many globalist elements that have demonstrated a great many mistakes and abuses of power, as many churches and mega-churches pushed death jabs and obedience to lockdowns and Fauci’s “science.”

In contrast to all that, I teach freedom with faith, which means maintaining faith in life and creation but also maintaining your ability to think, to create, to question and to exercise free will. God wants you to think for yourself, I believe, not to be a slave to the control of a particular group of men, whether a government, or an institution.

Faith is a personal journey, of course, and each of us must independently pursue it. But living a comic book version of Christianity is no real faith at all. A watered-down, revisionist, spoon-fed version of “Christianity” that follows an ignorant herd of conformity-demanding institutions betrays the entire intent of Christ himself, in my view. And it is this shallow, comic book version of “Christianity” that leads to absurd outcomes such as Christians loudly calling for the bombing of children in Gaza, claiming God is on their side.

God is never on the side of mass extermination of the innocent.

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