[Faith-talk] WHO wrote the Bible? And CBN promoting Islamophobia for dummies.

[Mostafa]

Apart from the most rabid fundamentalists among us, nearly everyone admits that the Bible contains errors. A faulty creation story here, a historical mistake there, a contradiction or two in some other textual poses. 



 But is it possible that the problem is worse than that -- that the Bible actually contains lies?

Most people wouldn't put it that way, since the Bible is, after all, sacred Scripture for millions on our planet. But good Christian scholars of the Bible, including the top Protestant and Catholic scholars of the United States illustrious seminaries   will tell you that the Bible is full of lies, even if they refuse to use the term. And here is the truth: Many of the books of the New Testament were written by people who lied about their identity, claiming to be a famous apostle -- Peter, Paul or James -- knowing full well they were someone else. In modern parlance, that is a lie, and a book written by someone who lies about his identity is a forgery.

Most modern scholars of the Bible are reluctant of using these terms, and for understandable reasons, some having to do with their clientele. Teaching in Christian seminaries, or to largely Christian undergraduate populations, who wants to denigrate the cherished texts of Scripture by calling them forgeries built on lies? And so scholars use a different term for this phenomenon and call such books "pseudepigrapha."

You will find this antiseptic term throughout the writings of modern scholars of the Bible. It's the term used in university classes on the New Testament, in seminary courses, and in Ph.D seminars. What the people who use the term do not tell you is that it literally means "writing that is inscribed with a lie."

And that's what such writings are. Whoever wrote the New Testament book of 2 Peter claimed to be Peter. But scholars everywhere -- except for our friends among the fundamentalists -- will tell you that there is no way on God's green earth that Peter wrote the book. Someone else wrote it claiming to be Peter. Scholars may also tell you that it was an acceptable practice in the ancient world for someone to write a book in the name of someone else. But that is where they are wrong. If you look at what ancient people actually said about the practice, you'll see that they invariably called it lying and condemned it as a deceitful practice, even in Christian circles. 2 Peter was finally accepted into the New Testament because the church fathers, centuries later, were convinced that Peter wrote it. But he didn't. Someone else did. And that someone else lied about his identity.

The same is true of many of the letters allegedly written by Paul. Most scholars will tell you that whereas seven of the 13 letters that go under Paul's name are his, the other six are not. Their authors merely claimed to be Paul. In the ancient world, books like that were labeled as condemnable lies.

This may all seem like a bit of antiquarian curiosity, especially for people whose lives don't depend on the Bible or even people of faith for whom biblical matters are a peripheral interest at best. But in fact, it matters sometimes. Whoever wrote the book of 1 Timothy claimed to be Paul. But he was lying about that -- he was someone else living after Paul had died. In his book, the author of 1 Timothy used Paul's name and authority to address a problem that he saw in the church. Women were speaking out, exercising authority and teaching men. That had to stop. The author told women to be silent and submissive, and reminded his readers about what happened the first time a woman was allowed to exercise authority over a man, in that little incident in the garden of Eden. No, the author argued, if women wanted to be saved, they were to have babies (1 Tim. 2:11-15).

Largely on the basis of this passage, the apostle Paul has been branded, by more liberation minded people of recent generations, as one of history's great misogynists. The problem, of course, is that Paul never said any such thing. And why does it matter? Because the passage is still used by church leaders today to oppress and silence women. Why are there no women priests in the Catholic Church? Why are women not allowed to preach in conservative evangelical churches? Why are there churches today that do not allow women even to speak? In no small measure it is because Paul allegedly taught that women had to be silent, submissive and pregnant. Except that the person who taught this was not Paul, but someone lying about his identity so that his readers would think he was Paul. 

It may be one of the greatest ironies of the Christian scriptures that some of them insist on truth, while telling a lie. For no author is truth more important than for the "Paul" of Ephesians. He refers to the gospel as "the word of truth" (1:13); he indicates that the "truth is in Jesus"; he tells his readers to "speak the truth" to their neighbors (4:24-25); and he instructs his readers to "fasten the belt of truth around your waist" (6:14). And yet he himself lied about who he was. He was not really Paul. 

It appears that some of the New Testament writers, such as the authors of 2 Peter, 1 Timothy and Ephesians, felt they were perfectly justified to lie in order to tell the truth. But we today can at least evaluate their claims and realize just how human, and fallible, they were. They were creatures of their time and place. And so too were their teachings, lies and all.



The average Christian Apologist knows nothing about the various textual discrepancies which the Bible consists.



   

 They never admit that the Bible consists of textual discrepancies and contradictions.



Instead of admitting that, they resort to knavishly  slander and assault Islam, because of its threatening entity to them, and, to cover up their theological shortage.



Consequently, it’s odd for them to admit that the Bible consists of forgeries.



To define technically, what is forgery?



Linguistically, Forgery is the Criminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraud.



Biblically, or in the biblical literature context; a forgery is the imposed scriptural chronicle that is inscribed with a lie.



   There isn’t a biblical passage that narrates an account which could possibly be excepted, even, the parables of Jesus that are recounted throughout the gospels.



According to  renowned  Biblical scholars, they all are utterly susceptible to substantial textual criticism, and they all are filled with doubtful factors.



I suspect that Apologists of CBN would be dare enough to confront this enormous crisis.





I found them to be the most wickedest missionaries I ever met.



They just can’t speak the truth.



CBN wicked Apologists are the one who brought it to themselves.



I am not going to stay silent whilst wicked Apologists of CBN are deliberately assaulting Islam, denigrating and slandering its entity on a virtually daily basis.



If any of the recipients is affiliated with CBN mischievous Apologists, he should’ve notified them about my defiant disposition to persistently withstand Islam.



      CBN wicked Apologists are eminently convicted with radically prejudicial and hateful sentiments, and we are unlikely to tolerate their intent inequity, which is politically motivated.



As I distinctly emphasized many times, it is a mental combat against Islam and Muslims.



This mental combat is going to be the mortal combat for those who waged it.



They forced us to periodically engage on this mentally confrontational conflict, and we’re ready to face the challenge.



I am still going to carry on exposing the terrible evilness of CBN affiliates.



I will present my plausible evidence, which plainly substantiates their allege involvement to support and supply Israel militarily. So watch out for the post that is yet to come.