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Questioning the source of Luke’s writings

Questioning the source of Luke’s writings

Who really inspired the "text"

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Ahmad Deedat - South African-Indian Muslim missionary (South African-Indian Muslim missionary)
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[Deedat]

Let us hear

this Christian young man Hanskung.

Hanskung

he's written a book called infallible

question mark.

Author of being Christian

he says who is this man Hanskung I don't

know whether I'm pronouncing it

correctly.

Please forgive me. You know

the Scandinavian language is a bit

difficult on my tongue.

The 43-year-old Swissborn

Swissborn professor of dogmatic and

ecumenical theology and director of the

Institute of Ecumenical Studies at

Tubingan University in West Germany was

one of the select group of official

theologians appointed during the Vatican

2 council by Pope John himself.

known as the young proteé of modern

theology and consequently may not be

interpreted.

Uh he says now nowhere do

the books he says nowhere do the books

of the new testament claim to have

fallen directly from heaven.

Nowhere.

This is what our friend Hanskung says.

On the contrary, often enough, they

quite candidly emphasize quite candidly,

honestly, they emphasize

the human origin.

Luke chapter 1 verses 1 and two is

especially revealing on the origin of

the gospels.

Especially revealing.

What does it say? Luke 1:es 1 and 2.

Luke tells us, he doesn't talk about him

being tickled by the Holy Ghost or by

the Holy Spirit to write his words.

He says here, verse two, just as those who

from the beginning were eyewitnesses and

ministers of the word delivered them to

us, it seemed good to me also.

If every Tom, Dick, and Harry people

less educated myself than myself, if

they can write volumes, me a physician,

one of the most learned of the followers

of Christianity at the time, why can't I

do a better job?

This is his inspiration. The others, you

can do it. You can do it. Why can't I?

I'm more learner than you. So he says,

"It seemed good to me also, having had

perfect understanding of all things from

the very first to write to you an

orderly account, most excellent

Theophilus."

The only thing he claims is

that the other writings are not orderly.

Mine will be an orderly account. Mark is

jumping here, there, and everywhere.

Mine won't be like that. Mine will be an

orderly book.

That is he does not claim

to be inspired by God or by the Holy

Ghost or by the Holy Spirit.

His inspiration is the people that went

before him who had done the job.

And in this book of Luke

chapter 3 verse 23

we have the genealogy of Jesus.

It reads, "And Jesus

happened to be about

30 years of age when he began to preach

who being

in brackets in brackets as was supposed

the son of Joseph in brackets.

Now what's all this? Number one, if the

spirit of God is inspiring Luke to write

that,

this spirit of God didn't know how old

Jesus was.

Can you imagine this spirit of God

supposed to be God? The Christian

believes, the Pentecostals believe that

the father is God, the son is God, and

the Holy Ghost is God. But there are not

three gods but one God.

The Holy Ghost

is God, the spirit of God is God.

But this God, if he inspired Luke, this God

didn't know how old Jesus was.

So he's saying about 30 years. God

doesn't know how old Jesus was when he

began is about 30 about.

He's not sure

when he began to preach. Now in the

latest translation, the word when he

began to preach is taken out.

You know

why? The question arises, God Almighty

waited for billions of years before

coming down to earth.

And from the age

from day one to the age of 30, he didn't

deliver one sentence for the benefit of

mankind.

What was he doing for 30 years?

What did he do? One sentence to help

mankind.

He did nothing.

Not one word, not one sentence.

So when he began to preach for 30 years,

he did nothing.

So they took the word

when he began to preaches out or the

modern translation of the King James

version the word is taken out and as was

supposed are in brackets

meaning Luke

Luke didn't write those words ask any

Christian scholar any Christian scholar

what the name these words in brackets

what do they mean what do they imply and

they will honestly confess that it means

that in the original manuscripts these

words were not there as was supposed was

not there.

These are the words of the

editors trying to help the reader. They

have a right.

They have a right. In the Quranic

translation, we find the same.

The translator, he puts words in brackets,

meaning he's trying to convey to us that

look, the words are not there, but this

is what is implied.

He's trying to help

you. This help is appreciated

in the Bible also appreciated.

But now you see they can mint the word

of man is the word of man.

Now if Luke

was inspired then those words in

brackets are not inspired.

But what they have done now in the

Swedish Bible and the Danish Bible I

check them up.

The words are there

as was supposed are still there but the

brackets are thrown out.

You know now what it means

once the brackets are thrown out it

becomes the words of Luke and if Luke

was inspired they become the word of

God.

So the Christians are minting God's

word at their own leisure anytime they

want to.

They can put words in, put it

in brackets. Honest, very honest.

And then take the brackets out in every

translation other than in English, in

the vernacular, in Zulu, Africans, in

Udu, in Swedish, in in Norwegian, in

every language of the world world other

than English.

The words are retained in

the brackets thrown out. Maybe the

Scandinavians don't know what brackets

mean.

[B]

And it's very true that we do not

believe in a verbal dictation.

We

believe in a complete total inspiration.