(March 7, 2015 at 10:47 am)watchamadoodle Wrote:(March 7, 2015 at 4:30 am)Godschild Wrote: Many will disagree with what you have stated, many extremely good Biblical authorities. You take one side and post it without any representation of the opposite. If it were proven then as you stated then there would be no counter argument and there definitely is.Let me give you an example of an obvious mistake in the gospel of Matthew (18:15-22 RSV) that I would correct in the watchamadoodle Bible:
Quote:Reproving Another Who SinsSo in 18:15-20 we hear practical rules for dealing with wayward church members. Basically you are to have a meeting with fellow church members and treat the naughty member like a leper. Hmm... Does that sound like Jesus to you? Jesus was criticized for associating with social outcasts, so does it make sense that he would instruct his followers to cast people out?
15 “If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. 16 But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every word may be confirmed by the evidence of two or three witnesses. 17 If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector. 18 Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. 19 Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. 20 For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them.”
Forgiveness
21 Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” 22 Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy times seven.[a]
Then in 18:21-22 when Jesus is asked how many times to forgive he say 7 time 70 (i.e. no limit).
Apparently 18:15-20 is a rule for the early church that was mistakenly inserted into the Gospel of Matthew by a scribe. It should be removed IMO.
Matthew 18:15-20 is in accordance with Paul's doctrine about expelling the evil person from the church in 1 Corinthians 5:9-13.
