SIDEBAR 5: CONTRADICTORY PROOFS From Geisler and Saleeb, Answering Islam: Insisting that the Qur’an must be divine revelation because it is self-consistent and noncontradictory is also not convincing. Some critics raise significant questions about how totally consistent the Qur’an is. For one thing, they point out that the most blatant…
Matthew 18:3-9 to 2 Maccabees 7 One last example, solely to make it an even dozen and not at all because I have run out of examples (there will be hundreds more below),[1] is from Matthew 18:8-9: 8Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and…
Matthew 11:25-30 to Sirach 51 Eleventh example: A great many books and articles have been written discussing the allusions that Matthew 11:25-30 (focusing on “28Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me;…
Matthew 11:19-30 to Wisdom 9:10 etc. The tenth example, also from the Evangelical Biblical Theology Commentary: Interestingly, Sirach had described the wise scribe in detail about two centuries before the ministry of Jesus. … But, although Jesus fit these descriptions well, he had not attained this wisdom in the way…
Matthew 22:13 to Wisdom 17:21 A ninth example, also from the Evangelical Biblical Theology Commentary, on Matthew 22:13 (and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth): “Outer darkness” probably connotes the deepest darkness that is so distant from any source of light that not…
Matthew 15:22 to Wisdom 7:20 An eighth example, from the Evangelical Biblical Theology Commentary: … Wisdom of Solomon, which was probably written in Egypt in the second century BC, indicates that Solomon knew “virtues of roots” and “powers of spirits,” knowledge associated with exorcism (Wis 7:20). … Based on this…
Matthew 6:12 to Sirach 28:2 Seventh: the Our Father, the prayer given to us by God Himself. Manners and Customs of the Bible, by James M. Freeman (d. 1900), breaks down the pieces of the Lord’s Prayer (Matthew 6:12) and notes that: The second, “Forgive us,” echoes the Eighteen Benedictions,…
Matthew 27:43 to Wisdom 2:18 Those are five examples specifically paralleling the list from Don Stewart on the Blue Letter Bible’s website; let us now consider a sixth example that is of a similar character but is not specifically set out on Stewart’s list. The example is a reference to…
John 10:22 to 1 Maccabees and 2 Maccabees A fifth example: It should be noted that the Feast of Purim celebrated the events recorded in the Book of Esther. We read of the following command given in the Book of Esther… (Esther 9:28 NRSV)…This verse commands a continuous celebration of…
John 4:10 to Sirach 24:19-21; vs. Hebrews 1:3 A fourth example: It is also possible that the reference of Jesus to “living water” was referring to Song of Solomon. Jesus said the following to a Samaritan woman whom He met at a well: … “If you only knew what God’s…
