Deuteronomy 4:2 states "You shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you." Doesn't this mean that the whole NT is a violation of Gods commandment?
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MrJosh
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In order to take that position you would have to have to declare that the New Testament is not the word of God. If the New Testament is not the word of God then you are correct, it violates Deut. 4:2, but if it is then there is no problem. Man is the only one who can not add nor take away from the scripture. As a matter of fact this scripture was written around 687-642 B.C. which means that other books of the Old Testament would be called into question also since some were written after this date.
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Yes, that's exactly what it means. Another reason why the Bible is full of contradictions in the midst of good moral stories. Don't take it literally, man, it's myth for the most part, sure it has some actual history in it, but it's mythology, just like Homer's Iliad, and the rest. Be a free thinker like I am...
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If you try to interprete and understand the Bible passage by passage, you'll end up in a mental instution, drooling on your straight jacket
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No, because it's a different pronoun. The people being spoken to here as "You" were plain old ordinary mortal men, and since the One adding to the word in the NT isn't a plain old ordinary mortal man no commandment is being broken. Read that sentence in Deut. as "You shall not add to the word, but I can," and everything is consistent.
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The word 'commanding' is in present tense. It implies the commands keep coming. Jesus gives another commandment in the NT. It's OK though. He speaks with divine authority. You can argue this and that is where Christians and non-Christians will differ. If you assume Jesus is the Son of God, then there's no problem. Assume otherwise and this is the least of your issues with the Bible.
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1 Leviticus 19:27 (New International Version) Do not cut the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard. How many people who believe in the Bible, and believe it to be the inspired word of the Lord, yet are clean shaven? 2 Who decided which bits were to be included in the Bible as we currently know it? Why were the so called apocryphal books of the old testament, and indeed the apocryphal gospels excluded? 3 If the passage you quote in Deuteronomy 4:2 is indeed true, then why did the Bible not stop there? Why were more books included? The inclusion of more books beyond the Pentateuch shows that man has already added more to the word.
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This sounds to me like the ten commandments are written in stone, ie can not be changed, not the whole bible. But then I am no expert, I have only read the book once and pissed my self laughing all the way through it.
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The law is summed up in 2 comandments...Love the Lord your God with all with all your heart with all your mind and with all your soul. ANd love others as yourself.
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What God? Do you mean the men who wrote it?
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Not if you take the stance that there is no god and that the bible is therefore a collection of mainly mythical and legendary stories collated by various people over a long period of time.
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It sounds that way to me. Once "the word" was established, you would think nothing more can be added. I think Jesus added a bit.
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