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From: tcmaint@tektools.UUCP (Kim Vandemore)
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Subject: Bible errors or paradoxes
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Date: Sun, 2-Nov-86 02:12:08 EST
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Which version of the New Testament is correct?

Acts, Chapter 9, verse 26:

	And when Saul was come to Jerusalem, he assayed
	to join himself to the disciples...

Verse 25 of the same Chapter has him leaving Damascus and
then goint to Jerusalem in chapt. 26.

Galations, Chapter 1, verses 17-18:

	Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were
	apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and
	returned again unto Damascus.

	Then after THREE years I went up to Jerusalem to
	see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.

Just wondering...

Tad
tcmaint@tektools

[Though this posting is perhaps a bit sly, I thought the evangelicals
 among us would probably be willing to use it as an opportunity to
 discuss in more general terms how they handle the "paradoxes" or
 "contradictions" in Scripture.  I do *not* intend to discuss each
 of these individually, so you might want to refer to other similar
 problems.  Tad may not realize it, but these things are well-known,
 and there is a large body of literature dealing with them.  But
 this seems a reasonable place for one of our readers to summarize it
 for us.   --clh]