| BOOK (OR DIVISION) |
CHAPTERS | VERSES | UNNUMBERED VERSES |
| TOTAL | 1189 | 31,103 | +137 |
| Old Testament | 929 | 23,145 | +137 |
| New Testament | 260 | 7958 | |
| Genesis | 50 | 1533 | |
| Exodus | 40 | 1213 | |
| Leviticus | 27 | 859 | |
| Numbers | 36 | 1288 | |
| Deuteronomy | 34 | 959 | |
| Joshua | 24 | 658 | |
| Judges | 21 | 618 | |
| Ruth | 4 | 85 | |
| 1 Samuel | 31 | 810 | |
| 2 Samuel | 24 | 695 | |
| 1 Kings | 22 | 816 | |
| 2 Kings | 25 | 719 | |
| 1 Chronicles | 29 | 942 | |
| 2 Chronicles | 36 | 822 | |
| Ezra | 10 | 280 | |
| Nehemiah | 13 | 406 | |
| Esther | 10 | 167 | |
| Job | 42 | 1070 | |
| Psalms | 150 | 2461 | +137 |
| Proverbs | 31 | 915 | |
| Ecclesiastes | 12 | 222 | |
| Song of Songs | 8 | 117 | |
| Isaiah | 66 | 1292 | |
| Jeremiah | 52 | 1364 | |
| Lamentations | 5 | 154 | |
| Ezekiel | 48 | 1273 | |
| Daniel | 12 | 357 | |
| Hosea | 14 | 197 | |
| Joel | 3 | 73 | |
| Amos | 9 | 146 | |
| Obadiah | 1 | 21 | |
| Jonah | 4 | 48 | |
| Micah | 7 | 105 | |
| Nahum | 3 | 47 | |
| Habakkuk | 3 | 56 | |
| Zephaniah | 3 | 53 | |
| Haggai | 2 | 38 | |
| Zechariah | 14 | 211 | |
| Malachi | 4 | 55 | |
| Matthew | 28 | 1071 | |
| Mark | 16 | 678 | |
| Luke | 24 | 1151 | |
| John | 21 | 879 | |
| Acts | 28 | 1007 | |
| Romans | 16 | 433 | |
| 1 Corinthians | 16 | 437 | |
| 2 Corinthians | 13 | 257 | |
| Galatians | 6 | 149 | |
| Ephesians | 6 | 155 | |
| Philippians | 4 | 104 | |
| Colossians | 4 | 95 | |
| 1 Thessalonians | 5 | 89 | |
| 2 Thessalonians | 3 | 47 | |
| 1 Timothy | 6 | 113 | |
| 2 Timothy | 4 | 83 | |
| Titus | 3 | 46 | |
| Philemon | 1 | 25 | |
| Hebrews | 13 | 303 | |
| James | 5 | 108 | |
| 1 Peter | 5 | 105 | |
| 2 Peter | 3 | 61 | |
| 1 John | 5 | 105 | |
| 2 John | 1 | 13 | |
| 3 John | 1 | (14 or) 15 | |
| Jude | 1 | 25 | |
| Revelation | 22 | 404 |
| Commandment | Jewish (Talmudic)**** | Anglican, Reformed, and other Christian | Orthodox | Catholic, Lutheran** |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| I am the Lord your God | 1 | preface | 1 | 1 |
| You shall have no other gods before me | 2 | 1 | ||
| You shall not make for yourself an idol | 2 | 2 | ||
| You shall not make wrongful use of the name of your God | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| Remember the Sabbath and keep it holy | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| Honor your father and mother | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 |
| You shall not murder* | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 |
| You shall not commit adultery | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 |
| You shall not steal*** | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 |
| You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor | 9 | 9 | 9 | 8 |
| You shall not covet your neighbor's wife | 10 | 10 | 10 | 9 |
| You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor | 10 |
In Islam Moses (Musa) is venerated as one of the greatest prophets of God. However, Islam also teaches that the texts of the Torah and the Gospels have been corrupted from their divine originals over the years, due to carelessness and self-interest. Despite this purported corruption, messages from the Torah and the Gospels still coincide closely with certain verses in the Qur'an. This is by-and-large the case with the Ten Commandments. Consequently, despite the Ten Commandments not being explicitly mentioned in the Qur'an they are substantially similar to the following verses in the Qur'an (using Jewish numbering of the Commandments):
For those Christians who believe that the Ten Commandments continue to be binding for Christians (see also Old Testament—Christian view of the Law), their negative and positive content can be summarized as follows.
Jesus Christ vs. Orthodoxy
The Evangelicals have been "re-translating" everything, including the Bible, for the past 20 to 30 years.
But you see, this has happened before. Many times.
In Christianity, the first instance was when there was a major schism between the Catholics and the non-Catholic followers of Jesus' teachings between 150 and 400 a.d..
Catholicism was actually founded on the teachings of an Italian by the name of Iraneaus, who wrote five treatises condemning anyone who didn't believe as he did. He accused anyone who disagreed with his right-wing slant on Jesus of "doing the work of the devil" and of being "blasphemers and heretics." Of course, this was exactly what Jesus Christ was accused of by a bunch of right-wingers just prior to his crucifixion. I guess Iraneaus missed the irony of his adopting the same mentality and same language as the killers of Jesus. But out of Iraneaus' teachings arose the teachings of the Catholic Church.
So, when did the Catholic Church pull a "re-translation" stunt like the Evangelicals today? Originally, there were a whole lot of gospels, letters, notes, etc. that were generated by the disciples who followed Jesus. Both male and female disciples close to Jesus wrote down what he taught and demonstrated. They wanted to remember and help posterity remember. Both male and female disciples of Jesus spread out and talked to people about Jesus.
After Iraneaus, though, a hard-core, right-wing branch of Christianity arose, led by a bunch of extremely orthodox men. These orthodox men, like the Evangelicals today and the Orthodox Jews at the time of Jesus, viewed women as subservient and submissive to the more superior men.
So, around 300 a.d. when the Orthodox "catholi" Christians met to hash out what would go into their Christian canon, they kept only 4 gospels, some letters from the more Orthodox followers of Jesus and a dream account...and trashed all the other writings numbering into the hundreds, if not thousands, of letters, gospels, or whatever generated by less-orthodox followers of Jesus in the preceding two and a half centuries.
You see, these Orthodox "catholi" "re-translated" the teachings of Jesus to fit their Orthodox Mindset, just as Evangelicals are doing today. The Orthodox "catholi" 1700 years ago did it by ruling that anything about Jesus that they found disagreeable or even offensive would not appear in their authorized canon. And these Orthodox "catholi" went after the unauthorized accounts of Jesus' life and teachings with a vengeance. And they also, in the Roman Empire, went after all the "heathens and pagans and infidels" who worshipped Roman Gods before Emperor Constantine converted.
Can you imagine how much bloodshed occurred in the century or two that it took for the Orthodox "catholi" to forcefully convert, at sword and spear point, the Roman Empire into what they called, the Holy Roman Empire? How many men, women and children must have been brutally butchered to establish Orthodox, male-dominated Catholicism as the state religion of the Roman Empire?
This is the biggest secret of the Catholic Church. Just look at how the recent Vatican report on the church horrors during the Spanish Inquisition was watered-down by the present pope.
Anyway, as far as the Catholic canon goes, notice how what Jesus taught (the four gospels) is buried between the Old Testament and the letters written by some of Jesus' more orthodox, right-wing followers in the Catholic Douay version of the bible. Why? This actually indicates the schism that occurred in the early Christian movement. Some Christians focused entirely on what Jesus taught and demonstrated, while using the Old Testament as a possible reference source, but not as canon. Other Christians, Iraneaus and the "catholi," however, studied the Old Testament extensively and then tried to "fit," "re-translate," what Jesus taught back into Judaism...like the pouring wine into bottles parable. So, through the brutal, forceful actions of the "catholi" we ended up with Judeo-Christianity, instead of Christianity that Jesus taught.
And we are seeing this same "re-translation" by the Orthodox, both Protestant and Catholic, today, which will only lead to another major schism.
Except, this time around, the Orthodox types are attempting to "re-translate" Democracy by "re-translating" the U.S. Constitution to "fit" their hard-core, right-wing, orthodox state of mind. In other words, Jesus Christ and all that he taught is about to be Crucified all over again by a bunch of orthodox right-wingers who cannot tolerate anything in their "midst" that contradicts or challenges their hard-core, rigid, orthodox mindset.
Don't you find it incredible that history just keeps repeating itself over and over again, with all the horrors in the world repeatedly generated by orthodox right-wingers who fervently believe that censorship will somehow lead to their salvation?
Jesus didn't censor. This is how I can tell who are the "True Christians" and who are the false ones. And, of course, the Orthodox-types inevitably only censor "The Truth" which will hardly lead to their salvation. Go figure.
Posted by: The Oracle at May 14, 2005 09:44 PM