My Book of Faith: 18 Clarification of Bilblical Stories

God's Introduction
Forword
SECTION I: Background
1. Meet The Author
2. How God Communicated with Me
SECTION II: The Story of Creation
1. The Origin and Nature of God
2. In The Beginning
  - The Creation of the World
  - The Life God Created
3. Life in Heaven
SECTION III: Our Separation from God
SECTION IV: Understanding Salvation
1. The Purpose, Life and Death of Jesus Christ
2. The Mystery that is Mary, Mother of God
  - Queen of Heaven and the Universe
3. The Path of Salvation
4. The Road Less Travelled
5. The Promises of Salvation
SECTION V: Building Your Relationship With God

Section 5 Building Your Relationship With God - 18 Clarification Of Bilblical Stories

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Meaning of embellishment: a detail, especially one that is not true, added to a statement or story to make it more interesting or entertaining. ³⁰

Question: Can you please provide more details as to who wrote the story and where did this person get this parable?

God’s answer:

Historians
They heard the story somewhere
and decided to record it.

Meaning: The parable was hearsay.

Question: Please confirm that you are saying that you never told this parable... but someone decided to include it based on what is written in the previous chapter?

God’s answer:

God led me to this story in the Book of Matthews, of people rising from the dead when Jesus died.

tombs were opened, and the bodies of many saints who had fallen asleep were raised. And coming forth from their tombs after his resurrection, they entered the holy city and appeared to many. (Matthew 52-53)

This did not happen

³⁰ 'Embellishment: Definition Of Embellishment In Oxford Dictionary (American English) (US)' (Oxforddictionaries.com, 2016) <http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/embellishment> accessed 15 May 2016.

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Question: Can you give a term for this- when people add in something to the original text as if it’s the original text?

God’s answer:

Take liberties

Take liberties means to change something, especially a piece of writing, in a way that people disagree with (usually + with )³¹ To explain further, God added:

Literary contribution
They added their input

God’s answer:

Not everything is the Gospel truth

Question: So you’re saying this just doesn’t only apply to the Book of Matthey but the other books as well?

God’s answer:

Inauthentic
They have been tampered with.

Question: How do we know if what is written is original and true?

God’s answer:

Only I can authenticate.

Fact from fiction
Validate. Ask the source. Seek My first-hand
information.

³¹ 'Take Liberties' (TheFreeDictionary.com, 2016) <http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/take+liberties> accessed 15 May 2016.

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