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Please. would someone clarify to me what seems to be a contradiction about who killed goliath:check 1 Sam 17, 48-51
and 2 Sam 21,19
-- ENRIQUE ORTIZ (eaortiz@yahoo.com), March 19, 1999
Can you cut and paste these verses for us?
-- chris butler (chrisbutler48@hotmail.com), March 20, 1999.
Dear Chris:1 Sam 17, 51 reads
SO DAVID CONQUERED THE PHILISTINE GIANT WITH A SLING AND a STONE. SINCE HE HAD NO SWORD, HE RAN OVER AND PULLED GOLIATH'S FROM ITS SHEATH AND KILLED HIM WITH IT....
in LA BIBLE DE JERUSALEM 2 Sam 21,l9 reads
LA GUERRE REPRIT ENCORE A GOB AVEC LES PHILISTINS, *ELHANAN*,FILS DE YAIR, DE BETHLEEM, TUA GOLIATH DE GAT.....
I translate to the best of my knowledge:
the war began anew in Gob with the philistines , ELHANAN, the son of Yair, from Bethlehem, killed Goliath from Gat....
David or Elhanan?
was it the same person with different names?
ENRIQUE
-- ENRIQUE ORTIZ (eaortiz@yahoo.com), March 21, 1999.
There's a list of websites with alledged errors in the Bible and various solutions at:
http://answering-islam.org.uk/Bible/Contra/
If you check this website out and find an answer to the David and Goliath question there, please post the solution (on this thread). Thanks!
In Jesus' love, Chris
-- chris butler (chrisbutler48@hotmail.com), March 24, 1999.
Chris:thank you for your suggestion. i looked the website you kindly pointed, and in fact, under the heading
101 CLEARED UP CONTRADICTIONS... in no. 94 was the answer i was looking for. thanks again
-- ENRIQUE ORTIZ (eaortiz@yahoo.com), March 25, 1999.
You're welcome! I looked up 94, and so, for the benefit of anybody else reading this, it is a clearly traceable copyist error.In Jesus' love, Chris
-- chris butler (chrisbutler48@hotmail.com), March 28, 1999.
So it is accepted that the Bible contains contradictions?David
-- David Harrison (sharr3193@aol.com), April 05, 1999.
On the contrary, the original text of the Bible set down by each of the original writers is 100% free of error. There has been a tiny deviation, in the transmission of the text, amounting to only about one half of one percent, and regarding nothing that has damaged a single Christian doctrine. The manuscript attestation of the Bible is incredibly (miraculously) good compared to any other text of the ancient world.
-- chris butler (chrisbutler48@hotmail.com), April 10, 1999.
How can you make such a statement when you nor anybody else has the original?
-- Jamey (jcreel@hcsmail.com), April 10, 1999.
Jamey, Excellent question.Chris, So in other words, are you saying that every manuscript, copy and translation of the Bible in existence today except a set that apparently no one has ever seen has been corrupted, at least to some extent, by errors, contradictions, etc. Are you saying then that all these (but for the originals), therefore, did not come from God? By the way, how do you arrive at your percentages?
Respectfully,
David
-- David Harrison (sharr3193@aol.com), April 12, 1999.
as an HERAKLES (Hercules) w
-- albert (vazyleon@netscape.net), November 01, 2000.
as an HERAKLES (Hercules) was the title of a general in the greek army, an PHARAO was not the name or the title of a person but the name of the royal environment (as the White House tells us... or l'ElysC)e nous informe que...) GOLIATH was the title of a phillistinian Hero, not a man , a title. This explains that
-- albert (vazyleon@netscape.net), November 01, 2000.