Monday, June 23, 2008

Questioning the Bible (IV): why do the books, Chronicles & Ezra, seem to overlap?

This query highlights the way in which the, supposed, word of God, was bound together with such disorder.
the last two verses of Chronicles read as follows; 22) "Now in the year of Cyrus, King of Persia, that the word of the Lord, spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah, might be accomplished, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus, King of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout his Kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying 23) Thus saith Cyrus, King of Persia, all the Kingdoms of the earth hath the LordGod of Heaven given me: and he hath charged meto build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? the Lord his God be with him, and let him go up."
Go up where? This abrupt end/break shows, as I have already said, the disoder and ignorance of the text, in which the bible was mashed together, as you can see by the first three verses of Ezra; 1:1-3;.

" Now in the frst year of Cyrus, King of Persia, that the of the Lord, by the mouth of Jeramiah, might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus, King of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his Kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying 2) Thus saith Cyrus, King of Persia, the Lord God of Heaven hath given me all the Kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah 3) Who is there among you of all his peole? his God be with him, and let him go UP to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of theLord of Israel ( he is the God) which is in Jerusalem.


This proof, among others, shows the uncertainty of the authors, we just need look at the first three verses in Ezra and the last two verses of Chronicles; for by whatkind of cutting and shuffling has it been that the three first verses in Ezra, which comes after Chronicles in the bible, should be the same as the last two verses of Chronicles, or is it that the last two verses in Chronicles should BE the first three verses inEzra. To look at this it is hard to believe that the authors knew their own work at all, or tha,t the most likely explanation, was that the compilers of the bible didn't know the authors work, thus the text becomes just page after page of work that has no titles, no beginning and no end. It feels like this was the case, that the compilers read what they wanted to read and then placed it into the bible, giving the names it required to give the word credability, but paying no attention to the layout. The over lap is an oversight, probably done by another compiler who had no knowledge of the other compilers work.
This aside, the books are nothing more than a history of the jews and has no more relevance to the word of God, than a history of the civil war!

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