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CONTRADICTIONS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT

CONTRADICTIONS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT

Isn’t “Easter” an error in Acts 12:4? 

Shouldn’t pascha be “passover” like every other version has? Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church. 2And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. 3And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.) 4And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.  Acts 12:1-4

The word ‘Easter’ is the correct word and the KJV is the only version I have seen that gets it right.  Read Ex. 12 and Num. 28:16-17 and it will be clear that the Passover came before the days of unleavened bread.  
In fact, by translating “pascha” as “passover” in Acts 12:4 modern bibles have inserted an ERROR that displays not only their lack of knowledge of Greek in context, but even more their lack of knowledge of ENGLISH!!!

You see, the man who INVENTS a particular word is the world's foremost authority on that word. In this case, the word “passover” was INVENTED by William Tyndale. Thus, William Tyndale knew the CORRECT definition of “passover” since he INVENTED the word “passover” in the first place.

Singular to relate, William Tyndale did NOT use the word HE INVENTED - “passover” - in Acts 12:4. Why? Why did William Tyndale not use the word HE INVENTED in Acts 12:4? Because, as Dr. Thomas Holland demonstrated, the days of unleavened bread come AFTER Passover. That's ONE reason Tyndale did not employ the word HE INVENTED in Acts 12:4. The second reason, of course, is because Herod was looking forward to the pagan feast of Ishtar, from which the word “Easter” is derived, and so Tyndale, who INVENTED the word “passover” did NOT use the word “passover” in Acts 12:4 in HIS OWN TRANSLATION.

In summary, had modern translators bothered to learn ENGLISH etymology, they would have discovered that the INVENTOR of the word “passover” declined to use the word HE INVENTED in this verse, because the INVENTOR of the word “passover” did not want to MISTRANSLATE the passage, as modern bibles have done.
An article which appeared in The Trinitarian Bible Society Quarterly Record states:

“When Tyndale applied his talents to the translation of the New Testament from Greek into English, he was not satisfied with the use of a completely foreign word, and decided to take into account the fact that the season of the passover was known generally to English people as ‘easter’ ... Tyndale has ester or easter fourteen times, ester-lambe eleven times, esterfest once, and paschall lambe three times. When he began his translation of the Pentateuch, he was again faced with the problem in Exodus 12:11 and twenty-one other places, and no doubt recognizing the easter in this context would be an anachronism he coined a new word, passover and used it consistently in all twenty-two places. It is, therefore, to Tyndale that our language is indebted for this meaningful and appropriate word.”

Some points to ponder about Easter
1.  The Passover was at night on the 14th day of April.
2.  The seven days of unleavened bread always followed the Passover.
3.  The pagan festival of Astart or Ishtar (Easter) was always held late in April to celebrate the earth regenerating itself after winter.  That is why rabbits (Playboy) and eggs, symbols of fertility are used.
4.  The feast days are never called the Passover anywhere in scripture.
5.  Peter was arrested during the days of unleavened bread after Passover.
6.  Herod wanted to kill him during his own pagan festival of Easter coming up in a few days.

KJV is the only version to get it right.


How many died in the plague?

1 Corinthians 10:8 and Numbers 25:9

“And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.” 24,000 Numbers 25:9
“Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.” 23,000 I Cor. 10:8.
Obviously 1,000 died the next day!  There is no contradiction.

 

 


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