Inerrant Lie #68

Another lie from "God's ineffable, inerrant word":

According to Matthew, Jesus of Nazareth told a lie about the identity of the one whom Moses' book of Genesis credits with making Adam and his wife.

Notice especially the first three words of the passage cited by Jesus in the lie told: "23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. 24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh [Genesis 2:23 & 24]."

According to the apostle Matthew, Jesus, when holding forth on the subject of marriage said: "4 Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, 5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh [Matthew 19:4b - 5]?"

Did we create ourselves? If so, Jesus' lie would at least be true in spirit; but his query "Have ye not read?" makes what Jesus said false witness of what Moses wrote in Genesis. Moses credited Adam– not his creator– with the statement in question.

Inerrant Lie #67

Another lie from "God's ineffable, inerrant word":

The apostles Mark, Luke, and John record the day of the week upon which Jesus' crucifixion took place, in their respective gospels. All three agree Jesus was crucified on Friday.

For example: John records that it was because the next day was the sabbath (Saturday) that the condemned's legs were broken, in the hopes they would perish before the sabbath and not therefore defile the holy day with their accursed presence. Jesus was, of course, already dead when the leg- breaking took place, so the soldier who broke the legs of those crucified with Jesus stuck a spear in Jesus' side, instead. Thus, one of Jesus' five wounds itself signifies the day of the week on which he died.

As to the time of day on Friday at which he was interred in the tomb: it would have been Friday night. Matthew records it was Friday evening before Joseph of Arimathea received Jesus' corpse from Pilate for burying. Therefore the sun would have set on Friday before Jesus' interment.

All four gospels report that, before sunrise on Sunday morning of the following week, Jesus was verified to be out of the tomb. The problem is that, when the Jews came to Jesus begging of him a sign that they might believe on him and his prophecy, Jesus said, "...An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: 40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth [Matthew 12:39b - 40]."

Friday night- to- Sunday morning is two nights and one day: not three days and three nights. Thus, the sign Jesus provided is at least as false as Jonah's prophecy against Nineveh. Do true prophets provide false signs and "lying wonders [2 Thessalonians 2:8 & 9]?" Does God-- like a modern- day politician-- tell lies and hyperbole to control the behaviors of those who attend upon God's words? Or is Jesus the Devil?

Inerrant Lie #66

Another lie from "God's ineffable, inerrant word":

Jonah, like many (if not all) of the Bible's noteworthy contributors told a lie in the name of the LORD. Like most, if not all, of the liars in the Bible, Jonah credited the LORD with inspiring the lie he told Nineveh. Unlike most of the Bible's contributors, Jonah admitted to being a false prophet and to being angry with the LORD for making him so.

Jonah was purportedly sent by the LORD to Nineveh to prophesy against them of their destruction. Being a "stiff- necked" Jew, however, Jonah wanted no part of such a ministry. As he records admitting to the LORD after- the- fact: he suspected the LORD would repent of the perdition purposed against Nineveh. So Jonah ran away from Nineveh to avoid the infamy of false prophesy.

In Jonah 4:2, it's recorded, "And [Jonah] prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil."

What this confession indicates, besides Jonah's aforementioned aversion to being considered a false prophet, is that Jonah knew the LORD had repented-- with regularity-- of the evil (and the good) he had purposed against (and for) the Jews over the hundreds of years since the exodus from Egypt. It also implies Jonah suspected that, unlike the Jews, Nineveh would repent of their wickedness; allowing the LORD to repent of the destruction he purposed against Nineveh.

All the above notwithstanding, Jonah prophesied against Nineveh unequivocally: without mentioning any possibility for the Ninevites to be forgiven– by repenting; or sacrificing; or any other means. "And Jonah began to enter into [Nineveh] a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown [Jonah 3:4]." False.