
Years ago I was asked whether I believe in
He was outraged. I learned about them in bible college? What kind of godless so-called “bible college” did I attend? Well it was an Assemblies of God school, which outraged him all the more because that’s his
I pointed out, same as my professor pointed out, that if he hadn’t told us about the errors, plenty of
It’s for this same reason I’m writing about them here. They exist. Deal with ’em.
’Cause as you know, plenty of Christians refuse to deal with them. In fact this is part of the reason the New International Version is so popular: Its editors have deliberately edited out most of the errors. I’m not kidding. They straight-up changed the text… and now they can claim the
How can they defend this behavior? Meh; they don’t even try. They just figure it’s their duty as good Christian inerrantists to delete the discrepancies, lest antichrists use the discrepancies against them. How they did it—yet can claim any degree whatsoever of intellectual honesty—is by moving ’em to the footnotes. When
Some Septuagint manuscripts and Syriac (see also
2 Kings 8:26 ); Hebrew forty-two
My copy of
But to be fair it’s not just the
And what’s to say 42 is the wrong number, not 22? Maybe Ahaziah was actually 42 years old. You don’t know.