1001 Errors in the Christian Bible
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John -- Errors 604-610
#604
John 16: (KJV)
7 “Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you
that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto
you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.
8 And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness,
and of judgment:”
False prophecy. No evidence of any “Comforter” doing anything
or having any effect in the last 2,000 years. More anachronistic apology.
Subsequent Christianity can’t argue based on whatever the historical
Jesus supposedly said, it has to be based on an imaginary contemporary
“Comforter”.
# 605
John 16: (KJV)
12 “I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear
them now.”
Compare to John 15: (KJV)
15 “Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth
not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things
that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.”
Either John’s Jesus forgot what he told the disciples in the previous
Chapter or we have two different John’s Jesuses (multiple authors).
Since the context of John’s Jesuses’ speeches here is eternal
judgment for the entire Universe do you think it’s asking too much
for them to get their stories straight? Otherwise, some smart Jewboy attorney
is going to get the entire sentence thrown out on a technicality.
# 606
John 16: (KJV)
25 “These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time
cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew
you plainly of the Father.”
John’s Jesus couldn’t speak clearly about the Father while he
was alive. He had to wait until he was dead. “the time cometh”
above is better translated “the hour cometh” and is not used
in Greek to refer to the distant future, certainly not over 2,000 years
later. We’re still waiting for anyone to plainly show us the Father.
# 607
John 17: (KJV)
12 “While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name:
those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the
son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.”
There is no prophecy in the Tanakh that the Messiah would be betrayed.
“John’s”
“the scripture” always refers to a specific verse elsewhere
in “John”. That no specific verse is cited here is a clue that
there isn’t any. It’s likely that the original “John”
cited some verse and a later “John” didn’t think it was
such a good cite and omitted it to leave the reference general.
# 608
John 18: (KJV)
4 “Jesus therefore, knowing all things that should come upon him,
went forth, and said unto them, Whom seek ye?”
Compare to Mark 14: (KJV)
43 “And immediately, while he yet spake, cometh Judas, one of
the twelve, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from
the chief priests and the scribes and the elders.
44 And he that betrayed him had given them a token, saying, Whomsoever
I shall kiss, that same is he; take him, and lead him away safely.
45 And as soon as he was come, he goeth straightway to him, and saith,
Master, master; and kissed him.
46 And they laid their hands on him, and took him.”
John’s Jesus is identified via conversation while Mark’s Jesus
is identified via a kiss. John’s Jesus was more of a talker while
Mark’s Jesus was more of a doer.
# 609
John 18: (KJV)
6 “As soon then as he had said unto them, I am he, they went backward,
and fell to the ground.”
Compare to Mark 14: (KJV)
45 “And as soon as he was come, he goeth straightway to him, and
saith, Master, master; and kissed him.
46 And they laid their hands on him, and took him.”
After John’s Jesus is identified there is a delay in his capture.
After Mark’s Jesus is identified there is no delay.
# 610
John 18: (KJV)
9 “That the saying might be fulfilled, which he spake, Of them
which thou gavest me have I lost none.”
Compare to John 17: (KJV)
12 “While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name:
those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the
son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.”
“John” tries to show prophecy fulfillment in 18:9 moving beyond
the Tanakh to what Jesus said, “which he spake”, but in Jesus’
first such attempt has Jesus misquote what he supposedly said himself
a chapter earlier as he spaked that the son of perdition (Judas) would
be lost to fulfill prophecy of the Tanakh. So the first time John’s
Jesus claims prophecy fulfillment of something he said himself he gives
a false prophecy which ironically does fulfill a prophecy in the Tanakh,
the one about false prophets.