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I got One blind man from Mark 10:46, name Bartmeus who is the son of Timeus inside Jericho .............in Luke 18: 35 one blind man inside Jericho..............Matthew 20 :30 there were two blind men when leaving Jericho .................Could be three blind men altogether one inside Jericho and two outside Jericho ..............I fact every miracle that came through Jesus Christ was different , and Jesus exercised a different words to God every time
If you were to discover that the writers of the Bible actually DID intend to have humor, then what would you say? Could you take the Bible so seriously from now on? I'm not saying that it is something to be ridiculed, but just to consider that it cannot be taken so seriously and so literally as fundamentalists would say that it should. Even if it was completely made up and did have intended humor, it would not negate the fact that the intended spiritual/psychological meaning of the stories was something to take seriously.
I do take it seriously, as I believe it is Jesus in written form. There may be humorous moments, but the message is the same. I'm not sure if I'm a fundamentalist, but either way- I wonder why this "label" is seen as "bad"? To believe in Gods Word does not make one judgemental or legalistic- that is a choice of our own free will.
Mark 10 - As Jesus is leaving Jericho, just before the triumphal entry into Jerusalem, he heals a blind man by the side of the road.
Matthew 20 - As Jesus is leaving Jericho, just before the triumphal entry into Jerusalem, he heals TWO blind men by the side of the road. Everything else is the same, including the responses from the man/men and the words spoken by the crowd.
Luke 18 - BEFORE Jesus enters Jericho, he heals a blind man by the road. Everything else is the same including the words spoken by the man and the crowd, except that it occurs before entering JERICHO.
John - The most significant event I could find around this time was Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead.
Why are there so many discrepancies about this?
Seems obvious. Different people telling the same secondhand story.
They were all the same event, but I would say it's a lesson on persistence. I think what happened is that a blind man saw Jesus and heard of him coming into Jericho, and while he was waiting for Jesus to come out the same gate, he had run into another blind man who had heard him calling out, and it was that Jesus was exiting that the two were healed but Matthew will be way more observant than other gospel writers and where we find a couple other discrepancies, it is usually Matthew being precise. The persistence of the one blind man made him stand out because he was much more colorful in begging even though people advised him against it and the other didn't stand out, maybe because he was not as persistent, and maybe there is something to be learned through persistency.
But whatever the answer, it is the same event, and there is a problem, albeit not much of a problem in my eyes, and when you find a discrepancy it is usually a good thing because you will find something that you might not have found otherwise until you really look at the story from all sides.
Interesting, Hannibal, and you made the point that what is not important is the story itself, but what we see in the story and what we learn from it.
Yes. Keep in mind that God still used authors to write it---it's not literally God-dictated. It's God-inspired. In any event, there is no contradiction, and I see no errors.
Anything that uses people as God inspired vessels is subject to errors. As much as you've read the Bible you cannot point to many "inspired men of God" who didn't commit some grave errors of their own. God appears quite comfortable using flawed men to perform great things---and you would probably agree EXCEPT when it comes to biblical writers where your view goes off in a way that is not illustrated in the very Scriptures you worship.
So what if there are errors? It makes Scripture more believable on the major issues as it shows no conspiracy took place---something perfection would undermine. Instead you create a version of a "Christian Mishna" by creating fiction stories to redact Scripture.
Redaction is the basis of all fundamentalist dogma regarding inerrant and infallible Scripture. Wikipedia defines redaction (in part) as:
"On occasion, the persons performing the redaction (the redactors) add brief elements of their own. The reasons for doing so are varied and can include the addition of elements to adjust the underlying conclusions of the text to suit the redactor's opinion---."
Your view is one that cannot see the forest for the trees.
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