RE: Does the Bible Contradict Itself?
July 18, 2012 at 3:43 pm
(This post was last modified: July 18, 2012 at 3:45 pm by Jackalope.)
(July 18, 2012 at 1:51 pm)Undeceived Wrote: It is commonly thought that Judas impaled himself on his sword, since "hang" and "impale" are the same word. It was a common form of suicide. The word for "hang by the neck" did not come about until 1400 AD.
Citation?
(July 18, 2012 at 1:51 pm)pgrimes15 Wrote: If "going back to the original Hebrew" results in a passage that has, at best, different words, and at worst a different meaning, then why isn't the whole bible just re-translated from the original Hebrew.
In the case of the OT, we don't have the original works, unless by "orginal" you mean "oldest extant".
In the case of the NT, it was written in Greek, not Hebrew.
