1001 Errors in the Christian Bible

Matthew -- Errors 85-91

#85

Matthew 16: (KJV)

2 “He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. 3 And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowering. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?”

Most of verses 2 and 3 are not in the earliest extant manuscripts and were likely added to make “Matthew” more like the related story in “Luke”.

#86

Matthew 16: (KJV)

4 “A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.”

Contradicted by Matthew 11: (KJV)

20 “Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not: 21 Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.”

Apparently the author of Matthew liked the idea of Jesus concealing signs from the Jews to help explain why the Jews did not believe in Jesus but also liked the idea of Jesus performing many signs for the Jews to make them guiltier for not believing in Jesus. This leaves the Gospel of Matthew with the overall assertion that Jesus performed many signs and Jesus did not perform many signs.

#87

Matthew 16: (KJV)

27 “For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works. 28 Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.”

Unless someone presently living steps foreword and claims to be 2,000 years old this prophecy has been demonstrated to be false.

#88

Matthew 17: (KJV)

3 “And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him.”

The author of “Matthew” writes that Elijah (Elias) appeared before some of the disciples. But previously the same author wrote, Matthew 11: (KJV)

12 “And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. 13 For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John. 14 And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come.”

It was hard enough to believe that John the Baptist was Elijah before Elijah reappeared. After Elijah reappears it’s even harder.

#89

Matthew 17: (KJV)

11 “And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things. 12 But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them. 13 Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist.”

Jesus is saying that Elijah (Elias) came first but Elijah didn’t come first, Elijah restored all things but Elijah didn’t restore all things, the Jews didn’t know Elijah but the Jews did know Elijah and the Jews did to Elijah whatever they wanted but didn’t do to Elijah whatever they wanted.

#90

Matthew 17: (KJV)

21 “Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.”

The earliest extant manuscripts omit this entire verse.

#91

Matthew 18: (KJV)

11 “For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.”

Omitted from the earliest extant manuscripts.

Mein Furkengroovin Fuhrer

Just found in the basement of The Holocaust Memorial Museum!
Poetry recital by then twenty-one year old Pat Buchanan
at "Mein Kampfeehouse", Berlin, Germany, April 30, 1963.

"To mein furkengroovin fuhrer. Man, I really dug the way you
were swingin through Poland. Barbarossa was so heavy, that it
blew my mind. You restated the negativeness of the universe.
The hideous, lonely emptiness of existence. Nothingness.
The predicament of man forced to live in a barren, godless
eternity like a tiny flame flickering in an immense void with
nothing but waste, horror and degradation forming a useless,
bleak, straight-jacket in a black, absurd, cosmos.
Mein furkengroovin fuhrer, to me you'll always be the
coolest of the fritz cats and the biggest daddio of the
daddio-land."

Pat Buchanan,
Berlin, Germany
April 30, 1963.

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