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- Is there a God?
There is a great variety of different believes and religions in the world which only prove that in such a numerous quantity of opinions there can not be found absolutely true or right theory. Through the comparison and contrast of Buddha and Jesus as religious teachers, distinct similarities and differences can be found. Jesus Christ the founder of Christianity was the Son of The Father, God. While the founder of Buddhism, Siddhartha Gautama was though a prince - a normal human being, who achieved enlightenment through meditation and was later referred to as The Buddha (The Awakened). The religions which resulted from the teachings of Buddha and Jesus are noticeably contrasting when compared. - Religion in the United States
In the most western societies, modernization has been accompanied by a marked decline in religiousness. America in contrast, has remained unusually religious. - Old Testament: Deuteronomy History
The Jews who are known for their strict obeying the Law Code (recognized as Torah). But it was not mentioned for 600 years, since Moses put it in to the arc (Deut.31:25,26)! God said to Joshua (came after Moses) to keep the law Moses’ given and to obey all the law do not turn from right or the left (Joshua 1:6). Time passes. Josiah, the son of king Amon (2Kings21:23,26; 2Chron.33:25), is now the king. Once he sends his secretary to Hilkiah, the high priest, in his own purposes. But Josiah’s secretary returns with the Book of the Law found by Hilkiah in the temple of the Lord (2Kings 22:3-8). - Birth Account in Matthew and Luke
The book of Matthew begins with Jesus’ lineage. Maybe it was unnecessary, but I compared Jesus’ lineage in Matthew with chronicles in the Old Testament (1Chronicles 1-3). I just wanted to ensure the reliability of Matthew. I must admit that the family tree is from Abraham till Joseph, Jesus father. So, the first difference in Matthew 1:8, it is told “Jehoram the father of Uzziah” and in 1Chronicles 3:11 Jehoram had a son, Ahaziah. Than in Matthew 1:9 Uzziah had a son Jotham and in Old Testament (1Chr3:11,12) Ahaziah-Joash- Amaziah- Azariah- Jotham. We can see that three generations are lost. Look further - “…Josiah the father of Jeconiah…” (Mt1:11) and Josiah – Jehoiakim, Jehoiachin (a variant of Jeconiah) his son (1Chr 3:15,16). Also in 2Kings24:6 we have the confirmation, that Jeconiah was Jehoiakim’s son, not Josiah’s one. And in Matthew1:12 it’s told that Shealtiel was Zerubbabel’s father but in 1Chronicles3:17-19 it’s told that Shealtiel had a brother, Pedaiah and Pedaiah had a son, Zerubbabel. And here we have an interesting thing – in xEzra5:2 we read that Zerubbabel was Shealtiel’s son (the Matthew version). But further I’m lost, because there are no names named in Matthew in the Old Testament. So that is what we have with lineage in Matthew. - Eternal life in John and Luke
While reading the book of John the first mention about eternal life we have in John 3:14-21. It is told that “everyone who believes in him [Jesus] may have eternal life”. Another words, we will get eternal life if we believe in Jesus.
Jesus talks about belief. In order to get eternal life we must believe. There is an interesting thing – who believes in Jesus believes not only in Jesus but in the one who sent Jesus, in God (John5:24, 12:44-50). Jesus emphasizes that if we believe in him we believe in God. There is no other way to believe in God without believing in Jesus and on the contrary. There are many statements in the gospel of John where Jesus teaches this (John3:36, 6:40, 47, 8:12, 12:44). - Old Testament; J-author of Pentateuch
Anyway if we follow the advice there’ll still be some black spots. For example, the mess with God’s name or often seen doublets. Just remember revealing to Abraham and naming himself as Yahweh (Gen.13:4) and the same story with Moses in Exodus; or repeating entering the arc by Noah. There are a lot of such doublets in Old Testament particularly in first five books. And probably the thesis that Pentateuch is not Moses’ work but the collection of four-author’s one has the right to exist. Among Redactor, Priestly source, Elohist author and Jehwist author (J-author), the last one is the most human, creative one. And whether you’ve read the Bible from the beginning till the end or not, you surely know the most first stories of OT, where the significant part is created by J-author. - Old Testament: Times of Moses and Aaron
The stories due to the theme of traveling (mainly books of Exodus and Numbers) were written by known to us J-, E-, P-, R- authors. We’ll make an accent on Elohist (E) and Pristley (P) authors. In particular those authors sown the confusion in relations between Moses, Aaron and roles of Moses and Aaron made by God. You see, E- and P- authors have the specific point of view concerning the importance of Moses and Aaron in Jewish nation. And just those differences in views create confusion in comprehending OT- stories. - Bible Contradictions
First thing that we notice is that God is being called different names: Jehovah and Elohim, That’s where the idea of different sources of writings comes from. (The “J”, “E” and “P” sources) - Bible History
So as we already know the DH2 was written after the fall of Jerusalem approximately between 586 and 400 BCE. At that hard time the author tried to change the focus of DH1 so that people could understand the all events that happened correctly and continue to believe in God. So the first thin he did in DH2 – he removed all references to Davidic covenant. Now we have the covenant with Moses that supersedes all covenants. The Solomonic covenant is changed. Author puts foreshadow in DH1 as if he wants to say, “ - Deuteronomy
The reason is that among many kings (Assa, Jehoshphat, Jeroboam, Manasseh, Josiah etc) that where described in 1 Kings 11- 2 Kings 23:25 Josiah is considered to be the best king. We also can see that king Josiah was a very important to the author. In 2 Kings we have 2 chapters that are devoted to Josiah, there where no king before who deserved so much attention to himself.
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