The Errancy of the Bible!

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The Errancy of the Bible!

How many times do we hear Christians claiming that the Bible is the word of their God!  Saying, “the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are without error or misstatement in their moral and spiritual teaching and record of historical facts.”  https://theconversation.com/what-is-biblical-inerrancy-a-new-testament-scholar-explains-163613

Well, let’s take the place-names Nazareth, and BethlehemNazareth, a village we are told or small town in the days of the Christian saviour Jesus, which is an Arab majority city today.  

The Old Testament is silent, with no mention of Nazareth, among its myriad of pages.  One place high on the Christian bucket-list is the ‘polis Natzoree‘ aka the City of Nazareth aka The Town that Theology Resurrected. We have to read the New Testament for all information on this City within Galilee, which is alluded to 29 (?) times. Yet, Paul or Saul of Tarsus never acknowledges it even once. Outside the Bible, no 1st-century contemporary writer refers to Nazareth. However, they do mention villages and towns close by, just a short walking distance of no more than two (2) miles to modern-day Nazareth.  Even Titus Flavius Josephus (37-100 CE), who was a commander during the first Jewish-Roman war (66-73 CE), and whose area of control/command covered areas including that of present-day Nazareth.  Yet, in his list of cities, towns, and villages that he mentions, the name Nazareth is absent.  Moreover, there is no sufficient evidence that there was a placename Nazareth before the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE. 

From outside the Bible, it takes a known historical liar to introduce Nazareth to the world. His name was Eusebius of Caesarea—aka Eusebius Pamphili (263-339). Jesus the man that all Christian revere has many names from Hebrew to Greek, Latin to Welsh, and English to German, all accept the version of the name in their language!  There is one name used by Christians to further identify their saviour, Jesus of Nazareth.  In use since only the first publication of the King James Version Bible in the early 17th-century.  Before 1611 publication, nobody had ever heard the term or reference Jesus of Nazareth.  I emphasize that the reading of Jesus of Nazareth is strictly not correct.   The proper original term was Iēsûs oh Nazōraêos/Jesous ho NazoraiosJesus the Nazarite or Nazarene.

How did Jesus get the epithet of Nazareth?  It was made-up to differentiate the various men named Jesus, and to embellish comply to Christian teachings.  We all know that Christian teachings were built on hearsay, lies, fabrications and forgery.  I am not being malicious in attributing the fakery, there is nothing wrong in telling the truth. 

The Gentile myth that Jesus was born in Bethlehem, and that his parents moved to Nazareth on their return home from exile in Egypt, when Jesus was a toddler, are both myths.  If there was a place for Jesus to call home, it would have been Capernaum.   The true biblical Bethlehem, is Bethlehem in Galilee.  

Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) archaeologists have strong evidence that Jesus was born not in Bethlehem of tribe Judah, but more than 100 miles (ca. 161 km) north in Bethlehem in Galilee. Furthermore, see Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges Judges 12:8 and https://www.npr.org/2012/12/25/168010065/dig-finds-evidence-of-pre-jesus-bethlehem And please listen to the 3-minute commentary. 

In 2012, Bethlehem in Judah was wrongly awarded the world heritage site status. All because a church centuries ago wanted to put all its eggs in one basket! They made Jerusalem and the City of David the centre for Holy Pilgrimages. Even though they got it wrong, just as they did with the biblical place of the crucifixion, Golgotha, Aramaic for Skull aka Calvary from Latin calva: ‘bald head’ or ‘skull’ mentioned in the canonical Gospels. (Matthew 27:33, Mark 15:22, Luke 23:33, and John 19:17). Yet, the Catholic/Orthodox churches say the Church of the Holy Sepulchre lies over the place of Jesus’ crucifixion. A Catholic custom according to traditions dating back to the fourth century (?). Emperor Constantine (306-337 CE) claims the Church of Rome to be the builder of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem c. 326 CE, completed by 335 CE. However, that cannot be! As it original name was Ναὸς της Αναστάσεως, English: the Temple of Anastasis (Resurrection). Constantine the Great was a Roman emperor, and all governing administration undertook in Latin, not Greek. Byzantium officially replaced its official language from Latin three centuries after Constantine to Greek in 620 CE. That is just one example of the ancient church getting it wrong?

The vow of the Nazirites/Nazarites https://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0406.htm#1 

Nazirite, (from Hebrew nazar, “to abstain from” or “to consecrate oneself to”), among the ancient Hebrews, a sacred person whose separation was most commonly distinguished by his uncut hair and his abstinence from wine

As I have already said, Jewish scriptures are silent on Nazareth (Talmud lists 63 cities in Galilee, but no Nazareth) no mention of its existence until Eusebius of Caesarea mentions it in the early 4th-century. Most Christian sources say Nazareth had a Jewish population in the time of Jesus, which cannot be! Samaritans/Gentiles yes. 

The Latin and Orthodox churches have an understanding that the main Christian faiths would each hold claim to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, what is called the Status Quo, dating to 1757.  With each having their boundaries within the great church.  There is constant friction between orders, with one order fighting another over territory.   What happened to brotherly love or telling the truth?  What do you say?

Cofion

Approved ~ Primus Pilus

Jero Jones

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