http://www.godrules.net/articles/deutero.htm 1) Jasher is known to have had edits to it, so likely the Cain story of Jubilees is the accurate one. Josephus never mentions anything about Lamech klling Cain. Further, the Jasher account follows the legend of "The Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan". So likely the Jasher account is just an embellishment, to explain something to fill in the gaps.. http://www.godward.org/hebrew%20roots/biblical%20research/cain_and_his_family.htm 2) The Septuagint has been misunderstood on dating, due to an issue with adding 100 years, as a result of counting in a different way. By starting with 100 at age 0, it explains the main "issues" with chronology between it and other texts(such as the Hebrew Masoretic).. 3) I think the problem with claiming such a thing as you are here, is that we are making many assumptions when approaching genealogies.. There are actually several methodologies. I looked into the matter, and since there are about 4 or so methodologies, it can become very confusing trying to get them all to match and align.. HERE IS AN EXAMPLE OF HOW MESSY IT CAN GET: http://www.ldolphin.org/sewell/sewellchron.html . With the Septuagint, the extra 100 years on each date is a result of the counting method employed. So, you would actually subtract that 100 years to correlate counting methods, and then it closely aligns with the Masoretic. 4) 400 years of the Early Church, which disappeared in 388 AD when Roman Catholic Church was formulated. The 7 days, could be 700 years.. Which would put it around 1100, around the time of the Great Schism (Rome not over entire Church anymore). There is also another interpretation that puts it around the time of the Reformation.. At any rate, the 400 years seems to make sense to me, because its a "parable" of sorts, not "literal". http://www.hallvworthington.com/getverses.php?search=4%20Esdras%207:28-29;&version;=160; http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/apo/es2007.htm 5) Same as with the Septuagint.. Starting with 100 as 0. A different form of counting.. Of course, we are only taught one form in school, but there are actually many ways to count. So, he would have been 760 years old, which fits with the 7 generation curse and fits the rabbinical tradition of 100 years per generation. 6) So far, every time someone comes up with a "contradiction" its because they are looking for errors or playing off things they can not understand.. James White has an agenda.. He also admits he has his own slant on Greek. his "camp" of interpretation. The fact is, we should be seeking to objectively analyzing things, not making the data fit our view. James doesn't seem to know Church History, other than whatever has been spoon fed to him in Seminary.. HERE IS THE ANSWER: It has been said by some Higher Critics that this is historically impossible, since Nebuchadnezzar was a Babylonian king who ruled in Babylon. However, historically, Nabopolassar the father of Nebuchadnezzar, conquered Nineveh in 612 B.C., and the Assyrian Empire in 609 B.C., and Nebuchadnezzar after him ruled from Babylon over Nineveh, and over the Assyrians who lived there. The text does not say that Nebuchanezzar ruled in Nineveh, it says he ruled over the Assyrians in the great city of Nineveh. And although Nineveh had been taken from the rulers of the Assyrians, among them Cyaxares/Arphaxad king of the Medes,[6][7] the people still retained their ethnic identity as Assyrians in the great city of Nineveh under the rule of Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon. It was not unusual for conquerors to conscript the armed forces of conquered territories, as did the Babylonians, and the Assyrians before them, and after them Alexander, and Rome at the time of the Republic and the Empire. http://www.conservapedia.com/Book_of_Judith#Historical-grammatical_text_analysis:_historical_setting James White is a joke.. There is no "debate" on the Apocrypha.. I have still yet to see a "contradiction". All the alleged ones I have all solved.. I agree with you.. I should do a video on this.. I have seen many other alleged "contradictions" and solved them also very easily. I will include those in the same video..

• published: 01 Oct 2015
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