{"id":328,"date":"2010-03-12T17:41:02","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T22:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/?p=328"},"modified":"2013-06-26T11:28:57","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T15:28:57","slug":"dealing-with-apparent-contradictions-part-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/?p=328","title":{"rendered":"Dealing With Apparent Contradictions (Part 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"

7.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Realize that most New Testament quotations of the Old Testament are taken from the Septuagint (LXX).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

On occasion someone will cross-reference from the New Testament, where they have just read the Biblical writer quoting from the Old Testament, to the Old Testament reference being cited.\u00a0 They will notice that the quotation may not match exactly what their Old Testament records for that verse.\u00a0 What is going on?\u00a0 We need to realize that the New Testament writer may well have been quoting from the Septuagint.\u00a0 The Septuagint is a Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament that was completed in the mid 200\u2019s B.C.\u00a0 This translation of the Hebrew Scriptures was widely used at the time the New Testament documents were being written.\u00a0 So the author of Scripture in the New Testament may have been quoting form a Greek translation of the Old Testament and when we compare that with our English translation of the Hebrew Old Testament it may not be phrased exactly the same.<\/p>\n

Beyond that, it is more than possible that the New Testament writers did not always attempt to quote verbatim when they referred to the Old Testament.\u00a0 Suppose we would make a tape recording of the conversations taking place during a small group Bible study and then compare what we quoted as Scripture with what our actual English versions say.\u00a0 Would the differences invalidate what we said in the Bible study?\u00a0 Would we be found to be liars when we heard ourselves say, \u201cPsalm 35:4 says \u2026\u201d and then discovered it did not match exactly with our version of that passage?\u00a0 No.<\/p>\n

8.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Realize that when the New Testament quotes from the Old Testament, God, as the ultimate Author, has the right to give His own meaning or interpretation of what He wrote in the first place.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Scripture makes clear that it is of divine origin.\u00a0 This means that God has the freedom to explain what He has said.\u00a0 \u201cBut know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one\u2019s own interpretation, for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God\u201d (2 Peter 1:20-21).\u00a0 \u201cAll Scripture is God-breathed \u2026\u201d (2 Timothy 3:16).<\/p>\n

9.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Use the fuller of two accounts to explain the shorter account.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Consider the Biblical accounts that describe the conversation of the Apostle Paul.\u00a0 The actual event is described for us in Acts 9:10-19.\u00a0 Paul\u2019s testimony of it before the Jews in Jerusalem is recorded in Acts 22:12-16.\u00a0 Upon reading the two accounts it becomes clear that 9:10-19 is the fuller account and 22:12-16 is an abbreviated account (little wonder Paul abbreviated it, read Acts 22 for the context in which he gave this testimony!).\u00a0 It would only make sense to allow the fuller of the two accounts to explain the shorter one.<\/p>\n

If we go to the movie theater and see a film and then try to relate it to someone who later asks us to tell them about it, we don\u2019t tell them the entire story.\u00a0 We give them the bits and pieces of the movie that will explain the basic story line.\u00a0 Although we have only reported small portions of the plot, when that person goes to see the movie they find us later and say, \u201cIt was just like you described it!\u201d
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7.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Realize that most New Testament quotations of the Old Testament are taken from the Septuagint (LXX). On occasion someone will cross-reference from the New Testament, where they have just read the Biblical writer quoting from the Old Testament, to the Old Testament reference being cited.\u00a0 They will notice that the quotation may not match […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hermenutics","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgYGxX-5i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1621,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/1621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}