Bible Misquotations
There are numerous instances in the New Testament where passages from the Old Testament are quoted from, but when these source passages are looked up and compared with the New Testament citations thereof, we discover that they are severely mutated by the New Testament writers. In fact, they are often assigned entirely different meanings from those which were originally intended by the Old Testament authors in question. This more than suggests that the New Testament authors who made these blunders were either sadly bereft of a proper grasp of the Old Testament or, worse yet, were twisting Old Testament passages to suit their fancy. This situation also illuminates, once again, the reality that the Bible cannot be the product of divine inspiration. With that said, we will now embark on this aspect of our investigation. In 1 Corinthians 3:19, 20 Paul wrote: “It is written…‘the Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.’” Here Paul misquoted Psalm 94:11, which says: “The Lor...