Friday, 8 March 2019

First Bible scholars now doctors fooled by the gospel narratives




After reading an article online, I thought I had to share it with you guys. I was browsing through a Christian website where I came across question and answers section, it attracted me to read through a few questions. When I came across a specific question asked by a person, I was keen to know the answer, but when I read through it I was laughing at these bewildered Christian scholars.
Let me show u the question followed by the answer given by bible expert. ending with my comment
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Question posed:
SWEATING BLOOD - The Bible states that Jesus perspired drops of blood. How is that possible?
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Answer:
Before the crucifixion, as Jesus Christ prayed in the Garden of Gesthemane, the disciple and physician Luke noted that:
“And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.” —Luke 22:44 (NKJV)
This was written by the physician Luke, a well-educated man and a careful observer by profession.
Luke is also the only gospel writer to mention the bloody sweat, possibly because of his interest as a physician in this rare physiological phenomenon, which spoke elequently of the intense spiritual agony Jesus was suffering… (Dr. Henry M. Morris, The Defenders Bible, arginal notes for Luke 22:44)
Although this medical condition is relatively rare, according to Dr. Frederick Zugibe (Chief Medical Examiner of Rockland County, New York) it is well-known, and there have been many cases of it. The clinical term is “hematohidrosis.” “Around the sweat glands, there are multiple blood vessels in a net-like form.” Under the pressure of great stress the vessels constrict. Then as the anxiety passes “the blood vessels dilate to the point of rupture. The blood goes into the sweat glands.” As the sweat glands are producing a lot of sweat, it pushes the blood to the surface - coming out as droplets of blood mixed with sweat.

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My commentary
I must agree that was a hefty academic answer, by Dr (Chief Medical Examiner of Rockland County, New York) I regards to the sweating Blood of Jesus,
Now you may think I'm going to refute the doctors answer, but I'm afraid I'm not that qualified to so refuting a dr with such high Calibre being labeled as a (Chief Medical Examiner)

I'm no doctor, but I can refute the entire verse lol.

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(These verses are Luke 22:43-44 “And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him. And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.” )
“But those verses are missing from some of the oldest and best manuscripts of Luke's Gospel.
It turns out that the account in Luke about Jesus sweating blood as he prays in the garden is missing from our oldest and best manuscripts. scribes added that because there were debates in the second and third centuries as to whether Jesus was fully human or not. These verses were inserted to show he really was human and really did suffer.”
Pulpit Commentary
the oldest authorities omit these last two verses (43, 44). Their omission in many of these ancient manuscripts was probably due to mistaken reverence. The two oldest and most authoritative translations, the Itala (Latin) and Peshito (Syriac), contain them, however, as do the most important Fathers of the second century, Justin and Irenaeus. We have, then, apart from the evidence of manuscripts, the testimony of the earliest Christianity in Italy and Syria, Asia Minor and Gaul, to the genuineness of these two famous verses. They are printed in the ordinary text of the Revised English Version, with a side-note alluding to their absence in some of the ancient authorities.
Bible gateway footnote

Luke 22:44 Many early manuscripts do not have verses 43 and 44.
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"Luke 22:44 the passage about Jesus sweating blood indeed it is not found in P75
A D type text Around around 300"
Early Manuscripts and Modern Translations of the New Testament
By Philip Wesley Comfort

New American Bible (Catholic Comparative New Testament)
Luke 22: [ 43 And to strengthen him an angel from heaven appeared to him. 44 He was in such agony and he prayed so fervently that his sweat became like drops of blood falling on the ground.] Footnote: These verses, though very ancient, were probably not part of the original text of Lk. They are absent from the oldest papyrus manuscripts of Lk and from manuscripts of wide geographical distribution.

The Good News Translation (Catholic Comparative New Testament) places Luke 22:43-44 in the main body of text with a footnote that says, Some manuscripts do not have verses 43-44.

The Revised Standard Version Catholic Bible (Catholic Comparative New Testament) banished Luke 22:43-44 to the footnotes. The passage is absent from the main body of text. The footnotes says, Other ancient manuscripts add verses 43 and 44: 43 And there appeared to him an angel from heaven, strengthening him. 44 And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down upon the ground.

The New Revised Standard Version Catholic Bible (Anglicized) (Catholic Comparative New Testament) places Luke 22:43-44 in the main body of text with a footnote that says, Other ancient manuscripts lack verses 43 and 44.
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In short, the passage of SWEATING BLOOD IN LUKE 22:44 was a later addition, fabricated, Interpolated. The embarrassing part is, this “Christian” Dr went through a hard time proving a false made up lie, the SWEATING OF BLOOD. Where was his Holy Ghost out deceiving other Christian?.


Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament. Bruce Metzger pp. 177






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