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CONTRADICTIONS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
CONTRADICTIONS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
Isn’t “Easter” an error in Acts 12:4?
Shouldn’t pascha be “passover” like every
other version has? Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands
to vex certain of the church. 2And he killed James the brother of John with the
sword. 3And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take
Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.) 4And when he had
apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of
soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.
Acts 12:1-4
The word ‘Easter’ is the correct word and the KJV is the only version I have
seen that gets it right. Read Ex. 12 and Num. 28:16-17 and it will be clear
that the Passover came before the days of unleavened bread.
In fact, by translating “pascha” as “passover” in Acts 12:4 modern bibles have
inserted an ERROR that displays not only their lack of knowledge of Greek in
context, but even more their lack of knowledge of ENGLISH!!!
You see, the man who INVENTS a particular word is the world's foremost authority
on that word. In this case, the word “passover” was INVENTED by William Tyndale.
Thus, William Tyndale knew the CORRECT definition of “passover” since he
INVENTED the word “passover” in the first place.
Singular to relate, William Tyndale did NOT use the word HE INVENTED -
“passover” - in Acts 12:4. Why? Why did William Tyndale not use the word HE
INVENTED in Acts 12:4? Because, as Dr. Thomas Holland demonstrated, the days of
unleavened bread come AFTER Passover. That's ONE reason Tyndale did not employ
the word HE INVENTED in Acts 12:4. The second reason, of course, is because
Herod was looking forward to the pagan feast of Ishtar, from which the word
“Easter” is derived, and so Tyndale, who INVENTED the word “passover” did NOT
use the word “passover” in Acts 12:4 in HIS OWN TRANSLATION.
In summary, had modern translators bothered to learn ENGLISH etymology, they
would have discovered that the INVENTOR of the word “passover” declined to use
the word HE INVENTED in this verse, because the INVENTOR of the word “passover”
did not want to MISTRANSLATE the passage, as modern bibles have done.
An article which appeared in The Trinitarian Bible Society Quarterly Record
states:
“When Tyndale applied his talents to the translation of the New Testament from
Greek into English, he was not satisfied with the use of a completely foreign
word, and decided to take into account the fact that the season of the passover
was known generally to English people as ‘easter’ ... Tyndale has ester or
easter fourteen times, ester-lambe eleven times, esterfest once, and paschall
lambe three times. When he began his translation of the Pentateuch, he was again
faced with the problem in Exodus 12:11 and twenty-one other places, and no doubt
recognizing the easter in this context would be an anachronism he coined a new
word, passover and used it consistently in all twenty-two places. It is,
therefore, to Tyndale that our language is indebted for this meaningful and
appropriate word.”
Some points to ponder about Easter
1. The Passover was at night on the 14th day of April.
2. The seven days of unleavened bread always followed the Passover.
3. The pagan festival of Astart or Ishtar (Easter) was always held late in
April to celebrate the earth regenerating itself after winter. That is why
rabbits (Playboy) and eggs, symbols of fertility are used.
4. The feast days are never called the Passover anywhere in scripture.
5. Peter was arrested during the days of unleavened bread after Passover.
6. Herod wanted to kill him during his own pagan festival of Easter coming up
in a few days.
KJV is the only version to get it right.
How many died in the plague?
1 Corinthians 10:8 and Numbers 25:9
“And those that died in the plague were twenty and
four thousand.” 24,000 Numbers 25:9
“Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one
day three and twenty thousand.” 23,000 I Cor. 10:8.
Obviously 1,000 died the next day! There is no contradiction.
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