Hey everybody, Pastor Steven Anderson here from Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe,
Arizona.
Bear with us.
This is a brand new thing that we're experimenting with here, and so hopefully this works out
so that we can do more live streams in the future, and we're going to be doing Q&A.
If you notice down at the bottom of the page there, there's a place where you can enter
questions in the Q&A.
I think that there's a chat also, so you can open up the chat, and we're just going
to kind of test out some of the bells and whistles of this live streaming.
It looks like I got a couple of my pastor friends popping in here, so how's it going
Brother Robinson?
Good.
Can you hear me?
Yep, I can hear you just fine.
So we were just talking a little bit on the phone, Brother Robinson, about kind of so-called
contradictions in the Bible.
The Muslims try to pull out these contradictions.
I made a couple of videos about it over the last couple days, and you were giving
some of your thoughts.
You want to talk a little bit about that?
Yeah, I think a lot of the so-called contradictions is just not understanding the fact that there's
different perspectives going on when you're going through the different Gospels.
So you have obviously four different Gospels, and in one Gospel, for example, when you're
in Matthew, for example, and then they'll be talking about there's two men coming out
to meet Jesus, and then another Gospel will say there's one man coming out to meet Jesus.
You know, it'd be like this if I were to be at church and I say, hey, Brother Richie
was with me at church, and then to another person, I say Brother Richie and his whole
family was there with me at church.
Both those are right.
It's just the fact that in one case, I'm just talking about one person that was there,
and in another case, I'm talking about more people that were there.
I didn't say only Richie was there with me, and that was it, you know, and that's where
you get into a lot of these cases where it's like, well, was it one man or was it
two men?
And some cases-
But it has to be two men because two men includes the one guy.
Right.
Exactly.
So it's just the fact that in one Gospel, it only mentions one because it's obviously
emphasizing something different, but there was obviously two men there.
In some cases, though, it's just two different events, you know, and they try to put those
two events together and say this is the same event, and it's actually two different stories
that are similar in a lot of cases, and so they try to conflate those as well.
So that's one example of like how they really just try to find contradictions that
aren't there.
There's missing-
Or another thing is that sometimes the books are just written from different perspectives,
like Matthew, Mark, and Luke, when they give times, and they talk about the sixth
hour, the third hour, the ninth hour, it's based on starting at dawn.
It's based on like the day starting at 6 a.m. basically, whereas in the Book of John,
it's more like our 24-hour clock where the time starts at midnight.
Because I remember that kind of perplexed me when I was a kid reading the Bible because,
you know, at a point when Jesus was on the cross in the synoptic Gospels, then in
the Gospel of John, he's just being brought out by Pilate, and Pilate saying, Behold
the man.
But it's like when you say ninth hour, you know, ninth hour in one book of the
Bible may not be the same as ninth hour in another book of the Bible, because it's
two different clocks, two different methods of reckoning time.
So what's the big deal, right?
Who cares?
You got to understand the context.
Yeah, and it's kind of the same thing, too, is like when do you begin your day?
Do you begin at midnight, you know, as far as when does your clock reset?
When does the day reset?
Or does it reset at even, you know, at 6 p.m., you know, at even, so to speak,
when the sun is like at the horizon, that may be when you restart the clock.
So yeah, you're right.
And that happens throughout the Bible, too, where, you know, when does the day start?
When does the Sabbath start?
You know, you get into all those discussions, too.
Yeah, or sometimes like it'll say on the third day, right, or in the third year, you
know, that can mean different things to different people.
One of the examples I like to use is that like in America, the first floor is
the ground floor.
Yeah.
In Germany, you go into a building, you go up to the what we would call the second
floor, they call the second floor the first floor, because they don't start counting
until you go up one.
So it's like ground floor first.