The World's Most Butchered Scriptures?

[mfblume]

Originally Posted by freeatlast

I started searchin gthis out some time ago and never finished.

We all have heard Moses was a stutterer.

I think he claimed to be "slow of speech"

I think what Moses was saying that did not give a quick answer but rather had to spend some time thinking things out before he spoke.

Any one have the answer, Did Mose's stutter or was just not quick to give an answer?

Albert Barnes: The double expression “slow of speech (Eze_3:5 margin) and of a slow tongue” seems to imply a difficulty both in finding words and in giving them utterance, a very natural result of so long a period of a shepherd’s life, passed in a foreign land.


Adam Clarke: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue; had some impediment in his speech, could not freely and easily bring out his words, or rightly pronounce them; so Lucian (t) the Heathen calls Moses slow tongued, or one slow of speech, and uses the same word the Septuagint does here, which version perhaps he had seen, and from thence took it.

Keil and Delitzsch: “but am heavy in mouth and heavy in tongue” (i.e., I find a difficulty in the use of mouth and tongue, not exactly “stammering”); and that “both of yesterday and the day before” (i.e., from the very first, Gen_31:2), “and also since Thy speaking to Thy servant.” Moses meant to say, “I neither possess the gift of speech by nature, nor have I received it since Thou hast spoken to me.”

[pelathais]

I'm just getting started for the day and haven't caught up on all the posts in this thread yet, but has anyone mentioned Acts 2:15?

For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.

We Apostolics have added an inflection to the "as ye suppose..." We also add the comment, "Peter didn't say they weren't drunk! He just said they were not drunk, as ye suppose...!"

This has added an aspect to our worship and behavior that the NT probably did not intend.

[revrandy]

I've always loved it when they preach that the Whale spit Jonah out on the shores of Ninevah!!

[Sam]

Originally Posted by revrandy

I've always loved it when they preach that the Whale spit Jonah out on the shores of Ninevah!!

How far inland would that whale have to go to reach Nineveh?

[pelathais]

Originally Posted by Sam

How far inland would that whale have to go to reach Nineveh?

Swam up Tigris river and spat him out on the ground there?

Off course, since Jonah boarded ship in Joppa, the whale would first have had to swim out the Straights of Gibraltar, circumnavigated the continent of Africa, passed through Hormuz and thence up the Tigris.

To do this in 3 days time would have been difficult, but not impossible. Well, virtually impossible. Okay, Jonah probably had to walk across Aram from the Mediterranean coast to infiltrate Nineveh.

*** Oh boy! Check this guy out. He says,

Today Nineveh is 1000 miles from the sea yet Jonah the prophet , swallowed by the Whale fame, lived there and was buried there. Jonah did not walk 1000 miles to be swallowed by a Whale the sea was proximate to Nineveh at that time.

I'm really taking a chance linking to him here. Apostolics tend to pick up on this type of wackiness and embarrass themselves.

[Hoovie]

"God is a Spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth."

This is most often interpreted as a requirement to worship with vibrancy and with the knowledge of Acts 2:38, rather than with the inner man and without pretension.

[Sam]

Some "Scriptures" that are quoted every now and then:

1. Mercy sought, mercy found
from the stirrup to the ground.

2. In the day of God every tub shall stand on its own bottom.

3. The Lord helps those who help themselves.

[mfblume]

Originally Posted by Stephen Hoover

"God is a Spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth."

This is most often interpreted as a requirement to worship with vibrancy and with the knowledge of Acts 2:38, rather than with the inner man and without pretension.

Right. IN TRUTH simply means in reality, and true worship.

[revrandy]

Originally Posted by Sam

How far inland would that whale have to go to reach Nineveh?

I think 40 or so...miles...

about 2 days journey...

[pelathais]

Jonah 3:3 states:

So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey.

At first reading in the KJV you get the idea that Nineveh was 3 days journey from wherever the whale (or great fish) had vomitted.

The NIV tells us:

Jonah obeyed the word of the Lord and went to Nineveh. Now Nineveh was a very important city--a visit required three days

The ASV and others follow the KJV, but the NKJV really helps us out:

So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, a three-day journey in extent.

Instead of the NIV which seems to say you need 3 days to see all of the sites, the NKJV tells us that the city huge - it took 3 days to circumnavigate it's walls.

So, Jonah may have travelled for a month to get there, but once he got there he found this huge city. We're not told that he actually walked around the city. The information discussed above seems to have been intended to related the size of the city in that day.