Today, I encountered several instances of the same exact words of Christ that were duplicated-word for word-in different books of the bible. Why?
Can it be condensed?
2006-09-25 13:04:05 · 15 answers · asked by limendoz 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
limendoz,
It sounds like you've been reading the Gospels. Different guys are telling the same story. It is believed that Mark was first. Then Matthew and Luke used copies of Mark to write their own versions.
You may find this interesting. Look up Diatessaron.
2006-09-25 13:08:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
If you were reading the words of Christ, you were reading the Gospels. There are four. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. They basically tell the same story with slight variations. That is why.
In fact, the first 3, Matthew , Mark, and Luke are known as the synoptic Gospels because they are so close to one another in form it almost looks like the three were written at the same time in the same room.
The Literary Interdependence of the Synoptic Gospels:
It is quite impossible to hold that the three synoptic gospels were completely independent from each other. In the least, they had to have shared a common oral tradition. But the vast bulk of NT scholars today would argue for much more than that.3 There are four crucial arguments which virtually prove literary interdependence.
1. Agreement in Wording
The remarkable verbal agreement between the gospels suggests some kind of interdependence. It is popular today among laymen to think in terms of independence—and to suggest either that the writers simply recorded what happened and therefore agree, or that they were guided by the Holy Spirit into writing the same things. This explanation falls short on several fronts.
2006-09-25 20:14:54 · answer #2 · answered by Augustine 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are figures of speech used where duplication of a word or words is used to empahasise a point. Also the whole bible actually tells the stroy of christ and of man. So Christ is very much features in many books.
If you condense the bible, you will lose God's emphasis. God put the figures of speech in so we would have a way to understand HIS interpretation fo the bible and not our own.
2006-09-25 20:51:42 · answer #3 · answered by ManoGod 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What you have is different people giving their interpretation of what they heard and/or saw. Much like if 4 people go to see a movie together you will have some that noticed one thing that one of the others missed and so on. Could have been condensed but then you would not have the extra stuff that is not repitition and you might miss something important.
2006-09-25 20:13:30 · answer #4 · answered by mortgagegirl101 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was composed by several men over time and was not collected into a single volume until the third century. Since it was written under divine inspiration, it should not be condensed. Consider each book or letter in its original setting and context.
2006-09-25 20:06:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It could be condensed, but then it would lose its meaning. The Bible is the inspired Word of God. As humans we need to be told some things many times before we "get it." Just like parents have to tell their children the same things over and over again. God has His reason for wanting us to read the same things again and again. It adds to our understanding. May He bless you and help you understand His Word as you continue to read your Bible.
2006-09-25 20:29:48 · answer #6 · answered by celticwoman777 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If you're talking about the gospels ( Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), they were witnesses of the life and death of Jesus Christ, and each wrote their account of it.
Since they saw and heard the same thing at many times, they wrote of it.
But what you do get is the personality of each of the writers in their version.
My personal favorite of the four is John. He was all about love!
2006-09-25 20:08:45 · answer #7 · answered by Acts 2 38 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The gospels - the first four books of the new testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) - are four separate tellings of the same story by four different authors.
2006-09-25 20:06:59 · answer #8 · answered by DidacticRogue 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is the exact same reason you must study the Bible. These things were written in differnt times. Do try to understand be in nthe counsel of wise men and they will help you to understand. Do not lean to your own understanding. The bible tells us this.
2006-09-25 20:07:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall it be established.
Rightly divide the truth. See what two or three witnesses say about the same subject.
Soul. spirit. death, hell as Acts 2:31-35; Hell fire as Mark 9:42-48 is Jer.19:2-5;
Life, new heavens and new earth, the first resurrected, the kingdom of the heavens, the kingdom of God. The God and his name, Satan as god of this world.
The subjects are endless in search of the truth, but it is all there.
2006-09-25 20:18:26 · answer #10 · answered by jeni 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋