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Didalam Markus 12 : 28-29, seorang Guru Taurat telah beratnya kepada Yesus, hukum yang paling mustahak diantara segala-galanya.

"Inilah hukum yang paling mustahak," jawab Yesus. Dengarlah Bani Israel, Allah tuhan kita ialah Allah yang Esa. hendaklah kamu mengasihi Allah dengan segenap hati kamu, dengan segenap jiwa kamu, dengan segenap fikiran dan dengan segenap kekuatan kamu. (Markus 12:29)

Guru Taurat itu berkata kepada Yesus, "Bagus guru, benarlah katamu itu, bahwa Allah ialah Tuhan, dan tiada Tuhan lain daripada Dia.

“Inilah hidup yang kekal itu, yaitu bahwa mereka mengenal Engkau, satu-satunya Allah yang benar dan mengenal Yesus Kristus yang telah Engkau utus.” (Yohanes 17:3).

Jelaslah bahwa Yesus adalah utusan bukan Tuhan. Bahkan pernyataan itu keluar langsung dari mulut Yesus, di Kitab Yohanes 7:16, yang berbunyi :

“Jawab Yesus kepada mereka : ‘Ajaranku tidak berasal dari diriku sendiri, tetapi dari Dia yang telah mengutus aku’”.

Ayat-ayat yang mengatakan Yesus adalah Nabi :
Matius 21:11, Lukas 7:16,  Yahya 70:40,

Yahya 8:42, Yesus datang dari Allah dan disuruh oleh Allah.

Lukas 10:21, Yesus bersyukur kepada Tuhan langit dan bumi.

Yahya 20 : 17, Yesus naik kepada Allah.

Kisah Rasul-Rasul 3:13, Yesus itu hanyalah hamba yang dimuliakan oleh Allah.

Namun ada beberapa ayat yang mempertuhankan Jesus pula seperti dalam 2 Korentus 1:3
1 Petrus 3 :15..

Ada pula ayat yang mengatakan Yesus itu anak Allah (matius 16:16), (Kisah Para Rasul 8 :37)

Begitulah bible tidak konsisten dalam perkara ini.

Matius 10:4 , Yesus mengutus kedua belas sahabatnya supaya berdakwah hanya kepada bangsa Israel yang sesat (domba-domba yang sesat), dan jangan pergi kepada bangsa bangsa asing.
(Lihat juga dalam Markus 6:7, Lukas 9:1-6)

Matius 3:11, mengkhabarkan kedatangan Nabi Muhammad saw.

Yahya 19:14, mengatakan jam 12 tengahari,.. Markus 15:25, mengatakan jam 9 pagi..

Lukas 2:21, Yesus disunatkan dalam usia seminggu..
Juga dalam Kejadian 17:10-11

'Sesungguhnya aku, Paulus, berkata kepadamu: jikalau kamu menyunatkan dirimu, Kristus sama sekali tidak berguna bagimu….sebab bagi orang yang berada di dalam Kristus Yesus hal bersunat atau tidak bersunat tidak mempunyai erti, hanya iman yang berkerja oleh kasih.” (Galatia 5:2)

'Juga babi hutan, karena memang berkuku belah, tetapi tidak memamah biah, haram itu bagimu'.

Ulangan 14 : 8

Imamat 11 : 7

Oleh sebab itu, peliharalah dirimu, jangan minum anggur atau minuman yang memabukkan dan jangan makan sesuatu yang haram. (14) Janganlah ia makan sesuatu yang berasal dari pohon aanggur; anggur atau minuman yang memabukkan tidak boleh diminumnya dan sesuatu yang haram tidak boleh dimakannya.” (Hakim-hakim 13 :4 dan 14) juga dalam Imamat 10:9

“Dan sesudah ia menurunkan mayat itu, ia mengafaninya dengan kain lenan, lalu membaringkannya di dalam kubur yang digali di dalam bukit batu, dimana belum pernah dibaringkan mayat.” (Lukas 23:53)
“Orang yang telah mati itu datang keluar, kaki dan tangannya masih terikat dengan kain kafan dan mukanya tertutup dengan kain peluh. Kata Yesus kepada mereka: bukalah kain-kain itu dan biarkan ia pergi.” (Yohanes 11:44)

Ajaran dosa warisan ini adalah ajaran buatan Paulus. 

“Sebab itu, sama seperti dosa telah masuk ke dalam dunia oleh satu orang, dan oleh dosa itu juga maut, demikianlah maut itu telah menjalar kepada semua orang, karena semua orang itu telah berbuat dosa.”(Roma5:12)

“Kerana semua orang telah berbuat dosa dan telah kehilangan kemuliaan Allah. Dan oleh kasih karunia telah dibenarkan dengan Cuma-Cuma karena penebusan dalam kristus Yesus.” (Roma 23-24).

Dan ada pula di kitab Korintius 15:21-22.

Ayat yang terdapat dalam kitab Korintius dan Roma hanyalah surat-surat hasil buatan Paulus yang dikirimkan kepada jemaat di Korentus dan Roma. Coba bagi saudara yang punya Injil sekarang dibuka kedua kitab tersebut, diawal surat saudara akan melihat judul besar yang berbunyi: “Surat Paulus Yang Pertama Kepada Jemaat di Koretus”, dan “Surat Paulus Kepada Jemaat di Roma”.

Yesus Membantah Ajaran Dosa Warisan
Sekarang mari kita semak bagaimana pendapat Tuhan orang Kristen tentang dosa warisan ini.

“Janganlah ayah dihukum mati karena anaknya, jangalah juga anak dihukum mati karena ayahnya; setiap orang harus dihukum mati karena dosanya sendiri.” (Ulangan 24:16)

“Aku, TUHAN, yang menyelidiki hati, yang menguji batin, untuk memberikan balasan kepada setiap orang setimpal dengan tingkah lakunya, setimpal dengan hasil perbuatannya.” (Yeremia 17:10)

Inilah ajaran yang benar dan masuk akal kerana berasal dari Tuhan. Sedang ajaran warisan yang dibuat Paulus sangat tidak masuk akal dan tidak adil, karena gara-gara dosanya Adam, apakah seluruh manusia menanggung dosa itu juga?

Jesus mengatakan dia datang bukan untuk mengubah hukum Taurat :

“Janganlah kamu menyangka, bahwa aku datang untuk meniadakan hukum Taurat atau kitab para nabi. Aku datang bukan untuk meniadakannya melainkan untuk menggenapinya. Karena aku berkata kepadamu: Sesungguhnya selama ini belum lenyap langit dan bumi ini, satu iota atau satu titikpun tidak akan meniadakan hukum Taurat, sebelum semuanya terjadi.” (Matius 5:17)

“Jika ada orang yang menolak hukum Musa, ia dihukum mati tanpa belas kasihan atas keterangan dua atau tiga orang saksi.” (Ibrani 10:28)

Paulus (Nabi Palsu) pula mengatakan :

“Tetapi sekarang kita telah dibebaskan dari hukum Taurat, sebab kita telah mati bagi Dia, yang mengurung kita, sehingga kita sekarang melayani dalam keadaan baru menurut roh dan bukan dalam keadaan lama menurut huruf hukum Tuhan.” (Roma 7: 6) 


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Kepada yang berminat nak baca bible pun boleh, apa salahnya. Jangan takut pada ilmu, cuma mereka yang berada dalam kejahilan dan malas berfikir sahaja akan takut pada ilmu. Saya telah terdedah kepada bible sejak kecil lagi, sebab dikampung saya, 99 % adalah Kristian, cuma emak, saya dan kakak saya sahaja yang Islam. Saya selalu melihat gambar "Yesus" disalib dan sekitarnya ada beberapa tengkorak manusia. Sepupu saya kata, itulah Tuhan. Saya tidak tahu apa-apa pada masa itu. Emak saya pula tidak dapat mengajar saya mengenai Islam, sebab emak saya 'buta huruf', cuma emak selalu sembahyang 5 kali sehari semalam. Setiap kali azan diradio, saya akan berlari naik rumah dan duduk 'konon' nak sembahyang. Berbalik kepada cerita kitab Injil ini, saya mempunyai kecenderungan ingin tahu pada sesuatu. Saya suka membaca buku agama di perpustakaan dan pada masa yang sama, saya juga telah membaca terjemahan Al-quran. Kemudiannya, saya ke Kota Kinabalu, mencari kitab Injil. Saya masuk kedai jual Kitab tersebut, dimana tertulis larangan untuk orang Islam memasuki kedai itu, Saya apa peduli, muka sayapun orang 'bilang' macam bukan 'Islam' (sebenarnya istilah ini salah, muka saya sebenarnya bukan macam Melayu, itu yang benar), saya masuk dan beli, pada masa itu, saya masih bersekolah di tingkatan 3 (kalau tak silap), dan sejak dari itu, saya sekali sekala akan membaca kitab Injil dan pada masa yang sama, saya amat meminati buku-buku tuliasan Syeikh Ahmad Deedat. Pembacaan saya tidaklah menjadikan saya masuk Kristian, malah saya semakin percaya kepada kitab saya iaitu Al-Quran. Sebab itulah saya hairan dengan pelbagai larangan itu dan ini, dan terbaru isu penggunaan kalimah "Allah", kononnya takut orang akan keliru. Mungkin betul juga akan keliru, tetapi sampai bila kita harus melakukan tindakan supaya 'orang-orang yang mudah keliru' ini, akan terus dilindungi supaya tidak akan keliru. Zaman ini, ialah zaman dunia tanpa sempadan, tidak seharusnya kita melaksanakan sesuatu yang menghalang manusia dari mencari sesuatu.  Apapun bacalah kitab orang lain, setelah membaca kitab sendiri, orait, OK bah kalau kau..:

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Who wrote the bible

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As with the Old Testament, we just don't know who wrote most of the New Testament. Tradition has assigned the Gospels and most of the Epistles to certain authors, all of whom were important figures in Jesus' life or the early days of the faith. It was important for the early church to believe the authors wrote the works attributed to them, since their eminence lent the writings authority. But since we don't have the original signatures, none can be verified except through textual clues.
The first generation of Christians didn't see any need for a permanent written record of the sayings and stories of Jesus. Jesus' return and the restoration of the Kingdom of God on earth were imminent--why bother preserving stories if the world was about to end? Stories were simply passed along orally, primarily as a means of preaching and convincing outsiders. But as the first generation began to die off and hopes for the Second Coming dimmed, there was a need to preserve Jesus' words and deeds for posterity.
Quite a few collections of stories about Jesus circulated in the early church, among them The Gospel of Thomas, The Gospel of Mary, and the Secret Book of John. Some of these gave very different and in some cases conflicting accounts of the gospel and, most importantly, of Jesus' alleged resurrection. Some argued for the physical resurrection, with the mantle of leadership falling on those who had experienced it firsthand: the apostles. Others said the resurrection was a spiritual event that anyone could experience. Some thought this latter "heresy" would have led the church away from an organized entity into a situation where anyone could judge the truth for themselves. As Elaine Pagels points out in The Gnostic Gospel, this was no trivial matter. The decision on which interpretation was "correct" was central to the future of the church.
We'll return to the question of how the "canonical" books of the New Testament were determined in the fifth and last installment of this answer. For now we'll just say that Iraneus, the bishop of Lyons in 180 AD, decided that the validity of any work had to be judged by whether it was "apostolic." That is, it should have been written by or for one of the twelve apostles. But, as Pagels goes on to say, regardless of whether the names given to the Gospels are those of the actual authors or merely reflect a claim to apostolic authority, "we know virtually nothing about the persons who wrote the Gospels."
Recent scholarship or, more correctly, recent rethinking of previous scholarship has brought an intriguing possibility to the table. Matthew, Mark and Luke are termed the Synoptic Gospels, so called because they generally agree on the details and timeline of Jesus' life, sometimes even using the same words to describe the same events. Because of this similarity, quite a few scholars posit that there was a previous collection of Jesus' sayings and works which all three gospel writers relied on when compiling their histories. This collection, as yet just a theoretical construct, has been given the name "Q" (short for Quelle, German for "source").
It's a tempting idea. Mark is regarded as the earliest gospel and hence closest to Q. Of the 661 verses in Mark, only 24 aren't quoted in either Matthew or Luke. Matthew and Luke occasionally disagree with Mark regarding Jesus' words or the order of events, but they never both disagree on the same point.
Burton Mack in The Lost Gospel: The Book of Q and Christian Origins offers another conjecture. It's possible Q was the work not of a single person, but rather of a community trying to give written form and substance to what it believed. If that's the case, the question of authorship in the usual sense evaporates. But rather than have this discussion come to an abrupt end, we'll work on the assumption that the authors were individuals, not a committee.
Mark, not an apostle himself, was an associate of the apostle Paul for a short time, but the gospel bearing his name is (to some minds) based on the preaching of Peter. It's generally assumed to have been the first gospel written, coming in right before Matthew at about 65 AD.
The author of Matthew is traditionally held to be the tax collector mentioned in Matthew 9:9, sometimes referred to as Levi. However, Matthew borrows heavily from the Gospel of Mark. It's hard to believe someone who was in close contact with Jesus would have had to rely on secondary sources. Since this gospel has the most quotations from the Old Testament, sometimes going to ridiculous lengths to try to show that Jesus was the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy, it's assumed that Matthew was written for a Jewish audience. There is suspicion that it might have been originally written in Hebrew, although only Greek texts have ever been found. Scholars differ on the composition date, but most agree on roughly 65 - 70 AD with a few placing at as late as 100 - 134 AD.
The Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts are assumed to have been written by the same person, since they are addressed to the same individual, a Roman named Theophilus. The author was a doctor, Paul notes in Colossians 4:14. If Mark represents the teachings of Peter about Jesus, Luke most likely represents the teachings of Paul. Luke claims to have researched his material, but his dating, especially in the early chapters regarding Jesus' birth, is inconsistent with other sources.
The book of Acts can be seen as a sequel to the gospel of Luke, starting where the previous book ends. But where in the earlier work Luke needed to research the story, in Acts he is a character in it. He was a companion of Paul on his missionary journeys and was present during his imprisonment. In this sense, Luke had more first-hand experience of Paul than he had of Jesus. Both books were probably written after Matthew and Mark, probably around 65-70 AD but before the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD.
The Gospel of John differs markedly from the other three books both in tone and in some historical details. John does not follow the timeline in the other three and adds quite a few stories and details not found in them. For this reason, it's thought that John's gospel was not a child of Q, but a completely original work either by someone who knew Jesus directly or by one of his associates. The three letters of John found near the end of the New Testament are generally assumed to have been written by this same individual.
The identity of John has remained a mystery, although tradition has it that he is "the disciple that Jesus loved" mentioned in John 13:23. But here is a curious thing. In the entire gospel, John never mentions his own name (although he does mention other gospel writers). His purpose is to exalt the deity of Jesus. It seems out of character for him to pat himself on the back in that one verse, if in fact he was John the apostle.
William Barclay gives us an elegant answer. He states outright that even if John was not the direct author of the book, it was at least written under his authority. The book likely dates from about 100 AD, the last of the books to be written. If this dating is accurate, John would have been very old. Barclay posits that it was probably a group writing remembrances from John's fading memories, and it was they who described John as the disciple Jesus loved..
The letters to the Romans, the Corinthians, the Galatians, the Ephesians, the Philippians, the Colossians, the Thessalonians, Timothy, Titus and Philemon are widely assumed to have come from the hand of the apostle Paul and are called the Pauline epistles for that reason.
E. P. Sanders says it's fairly clear Paul was unaware of the four Gospels, and the authors of the Gospels didn't know of Paul's letters.
A few small stylistic variations in Colossians and Ephesians make some scholars suspect Paul didn't write them, but the evidence is sparse and unconvincing. The letters to Timothy and Titus are suspect as well, and some critics feel they were later edits of some of Paul's more personal correspondence to individual church leaders, or pastors. Hence, they are often referred to as the Pastoral epistles.
The author of the letter to the Hebrews is completely unknown. Stylistic or literary criticism has failed to match it with any known author, although it is usually included among the letters of Paul. Some names that have been bandied about are Barnabas (an associate of Paul), Apollos, or even a dual authorship of Aquilla and Priscilla, two Christians who ran a church out of their house in Rome. Early tradition knew that it was anonymous, but since it was such a popular work among the early Christians, it was included among the letters of Paul in order to insure its apostolicity and thus its place in the Bible.
The letter of James isn't anonymous, but it's not known who exactly James was. Five people named James are mentioned in the New Testament, one of whom was the brother of Jesus. It's this person whom tradition has accepted as the author, although the evidence is sketchy.
It's always been assumed the first and second letters of Peter were in fact written by Saint Peter. No real objection to that belief has been raised until rather recently, largely because few early church fathers quoted it as they did other canonically accepted books.
The Revelation is often called the Revelation of Saint John. Tradition says this is the same as the author of the fourth gospel, but that seems implausible. The style of the Greek is different, and while the gospel author avoids mentioning his own name in order to focus attention on Jesus, the author of Revelation mentions his own name repeatedly. He doesn't call himself an apostle, as would be his right, but merely a prophet. Exactly who the author was is open to conjecture. There is no real consensus, except that he was apparently a Jewish writer, writing in Greek to the Jewish believers after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. Most critics put the date at about 95 - 100 AD.
RESOURCES:
The Literary Guide to the Bible, edited by Robert Alter and Frank Kermode, Belknap Press, 1987The Gospel of John, by William Barclay, Westminster John Knox Press, 1975The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible, by Robin Lane Fox, Knopf, 1992The Lost Gospel: The Book of Q and Christian Origins, by Burton Mack, HarperSanFrancisco, 1993Testament, by David Morell, Warner Books, 1993The Synoptic Gospels, by Keith F. Nickle, John Knox Press, 1980The Historical Figure of Jesus, by E.P. Sanders, Penguin Books, 1993The Catholic Encyclopedia - online at www.newadvent.org/cathen/
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