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Yahshua.

If we would walk in truth we must not neglect those Scriptures that serve to refute some doctrinal
belief we have adopted. There are men and women who are zealous in their contention that the
Father and the Son are in every way identical to one another. To the other extreme there are those
who declare that Christ is not God at all. Both positions are proven false as we apply ourselves to
“rightly divide the word of truth.”

I am in no way intending to criticize those who have sincere objections that hinder them from being
able to accept specific truths. The world is a very confusing place. There are a myriad of voices
declaring a plethora of contrasting and often incompatible beliefs. The church itself is fractured into
thousands of denominations that are largely divided along doctrinal lines. As I demonstrated in the
writing Yahweh’s Book, even our Bibles are leavened throughout with error. Yahweh has not
preserved the Bible without error anymore than He has preserved the body of Christ without error.
This may seem to some to be a bad thing, but it is in an environment of error, deception, and lies that
Yahweh is best able to prove those who are lovers of truth, and to cause His people to exercise
themselves in the pursuit of the same.

I have observed a similarity in the zeal of some who are offended at the teaching that reveals that the
Son of God is a creation of the Father, and the zealousness of those who are offended when they hear
it declared that there are contradictions in the Bible. I understand the reaction. Some believe that
teaching that Christ was created by the Father is an attack on the Son of God’s divinity. Similarly,
some believe to describe the Bible as anything other than perfect and inerrant is an attack on God
or Christianity. When strong emotions are aroused people tend to lose their ability to reason. Fear
and anger are hindrances to the apprehension of truth.

An example of the errors in the Bible is readily observed in books of the Bible that parallel one
another, but differ in their accounts. The books of Kings and Chronicles give accounts of similar
things, but contain differences. The same is true of the Gospels, particularly the synoptic Gospels
of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. I will cite a couple of examples.

Describing the Bronze Laver, also called the Molten Sea, that Solomon had constructed to hold water
for the ceremonial washing of the Levitical priests, the book of I Kings and the book of II Chronicles
differ by a third in its capacity.