Does the Bible Contradict Itself?

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This is something I've not heard about the NT before.

My guess would be that this is because you refuse to expose yourself to different points of view from actual scholars.

'Misquoting Jesus',by Bart Ehrman would be a good place to start. Perhaps also read up on the first Nicene council, (325 CE) at which the Christian canon was arbitrarily decided. Also have a read of 'The Gospel Of Thomas' part of the Nag Hammadi texts. Available free on line.

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The full Wiki article is worth reading,but the book is much better (a kind member sent me a pdf copy)

Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why is a book by Bart D. Ehrman, a New Testament scholar at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[1] The book introduces lay readers to the field of textual criticism of the Bible. Ehrman discusses a number of textual variants that resulted from intentional or accidental manuscript changes during the scriptorium era.

Summary

Ehrman recounts his personal experience with the study of the Bible and textual criticism. He summarizes the history of textual criticism, from the works of Desiderius Erasmus to the present. The book describes an early Christian environment in which the books that would later compose the New Testament were copied by hand, mostly by Christian amateurs. Ehrman concludes that various early scribes altered the New Testament texts in order to deemphasize the role of women in the early church, to unify and harmonize the different portrayals of Jesus in the four gospels, and to oppose certain heresies (such as Adoptionism). Ehrman contends that certain widely-held Christian beliefs, such about the divinity of Jesus, are associated not with the original words of scripture but with these later alterations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misquoting_Jesus