我们怎样才能知道一部自称出自上帝的书确实是上帝之书？众多检验方法中的一种是：出自全知存在者的启示，必定与自身保持一致，不应有任何矛盾或抵触之处。《最后的遗嘱》，即上帝之书，正是这样说的：

How do we know that a book claimed to be from God is really the Book of God? One of the tests, out of many such tests, is — that a Message emanating from an Omniscient Being MUST be consistent with itself. It ought to be free from all discrepancies and contradictions. This is exactly what the LAST TESTAMENT, the Book of God says:

如果真主至大要我们用这种试金石来检验祂的经典（古兰经）的真实性，那么我们为什么不能把同样的检验应用于其他自称出自祂的经典呢？我们不想像基督徒一直以来那样，用花言巧语蒙骗任何人。从我所引用的基督教学者的论述中可以很容易地看出，他们一直在向我们证明圣经并非真主的话语，却让我们以为他们已经说服了我们，使我们相信了相反的结论。

If God Almighty wants us to verify the authenticity of His Book (The Holy Qur’ân) with this acid test, why should we not apply the very same test to any other Book claiming to be from Him? We do not want to bamboozle anybody with words as the Christians have been doing. It would be readily agreed from the references, I have given from Christian scholars, that they have been proving to us that the Bible is NOT the Word of God, yet making us believe that they have actually convinced us to the contrary.

这种弊病的一个典型例子,就在"昨天"再次出现。圣公会大会在格雷厄姆斯敦举行。大主教、尊敬的比尔·伯内特(Bill Burnett)正在向他的教众布道。他在自己的圣公会团体中引起了混乱。一位博学的英国人,在对一群有学识的英国神父和主教讲话时,使用的是他们自己的母语——英语,而他那些有学识的同事却严重地误解了他的意思:以至于麦克米伦先生(Mr. McMillan)——或许也是一位圣公会信徒,即英文日报《纳塔尔信使报》(The Natal Mercury)的编辑——在1979年12月11日的报纸上就大主教在他自己那些有学识的神职人员中所造成的混乱发表了如下看法:

A classic example of this sickness was in evidence again only "yesterday" The Anglican synod was in session in Grahamstown. The Most. Rev. Bill Burnett, the Archbishop was preaching to his flock. He created a confusion in his Anglican community. An erudite Englishman, addressing a group of learned English priests and bishops, in their own mother-tongue — English, which his learned colleagues drastically misunderstood: to such an extent that Mr. McMillan, perhaps also an Anglican, the Editor of an English daily — "The Natal Mercury" dated December 11, 1979, had this to say about the confusion the Archbishop had created among his own learned clergy:

“大主教伯内特在主教会议上的发言，很难说清楚明了，并且被与会的许多人广泛而戏剧性地曲解。”英语这门语言本身并没有问题，但你难道看不出，基督徒在一切宗教事务上都被训练得思路混乱吗？他圣餐中的“饼”不是“饼”，而是“肉”？“酒”是“血”？“三位一体即是一”？“人即是神”？但请不要犯错，他在处理世俗国度的事务时却并不糊涂，那时他最为精确。与他订立契约时，你必须加倍小心！他可能在你毫无察觉之际就把你出卖了。

"ARCHBISHOP BURNETTS REMARKS AT THE SYNOD WERE HARDLY A MODEL OF CLARITY AND WERE WIDELY AND DRAMATICALLY MISINTERPRETED BY MANY OF THOSE PRESENT." There is nothing wrong with English as a language, but can't you see that the Christian is trained in muddled thinking in all matters religious. The "bread" in his Holy Communion is not "bread" but "flesh?" The "wine" is "blood?" "Three is one?" and "Human is Divine?" But don't make a mistake, he is not that simple when dealing with the earthly kingdom, he is then most precise. You will have to be doubly careful when entering into a contract with him! He can have you sold out, without you realising it.

我将在下文提供的例子，用来证明我所提出的关于所谓上帝之书中矛盾之处的观点，即使是小孩子也能轻易理解和跟随。请看下文。

The examples that I shall furnish in substantiating the points I have raised about the contradictions in the so-called Book of God, would be found so easy even for a child to follow and understand. See below.

除了如前文所述那样效忠于上帝之外,魔鬼(撒旦)也得到了它应得的一份。《历代志》作者的这种两面性,让人想起那位老妇人的故事:她为圣米迦勒点了一支蜡烛,又为魔鬼点了一支。圣米迦勒正踩在脚下,这样一来,无论她将去天堂还是地狱,总会有一个朋友。这位《历代志》的作者也是如此,他确保自己在上面的朝廷里有一位朋友,在下面的朝廷里也有一位朋友。他想两者兼得,或者说想既要面包又要爱情。

Apart from showing allegiance to God as is noted elsewhere, the Devil (Satan) is also given his due. This dichotomy on the part of the author of Chronicles reminds one of the story of the old woman who lit one candle to St. Michael and another to the devil. St. Michael was trampling underfoot, so that whether she went to Heaven or Hell, she would have a friend. This Chronicles fellow, made sure that he had a friend at court Above, as well as a friend at court Below. He wanted to have it both ways, or wanted to have his cake and eat it too.

你会注意到，《历代志》和《撒母耳记》的作者在讲述大卫清点以色列人口的同一件事。大卫这一新奇的举动，其“启发”来自何处？《撒母耳记下》24:1的作者说，是“耶和华”神“激动”（RSV：“激动”）大卫，但《历代志上》21:1的作者却说，是“撒但”“挑唆”（RSV：“激动”）大卫去做这样卑鄙的事！全能的神怎么可能是这些相互矛盾的“启发”的来源呢？究竟是神，还是撒但！在哪一个宗教里，魔鬼与神是同义的？我说的不是“撒旦崇拜”，那是基督教近来滋生的一种畸形之物，即前基督徒敬拜魔鬼。基督教是产生“主义”最多的宗教。无神论、共产主义、法西斯主义、极权主义、纳粹主义、摩门教、文鲜明统一教、基督教科学派，如今又有撒旦崇拜。基督教还会再生出什么来？

You will observe that the authors of the books of "Chronicles" and of "Samuel" are telling us the same story about David taking a census of the Jews. Where did David get his "inspiration" to do this novel deed? The author of 2 Samuel 24:1 says that it was the "LORD" God who MOVED (RSV: "incited") David, but the author of 1 Chronicles 21:1 says that it was "SATAN" who PROVOKED (RSV: "incited") David to do such a dastardly thing! How could the Almighty God have been the source of these contradictory "INSPIRATIONS?" Is it God or is it Satan! In which religion is the DEVIL synonymous with GOD? I am not talking about "Satanism" a recent fungus growth of Christianity, in which ex-Christians worship the Devil. Christianity has been most prolific of spawning isms. Atheism, Communism, Fascism, Totalitarianism, Nazism, Mormonism, Moonism, Christian Scientism and now Satanism. What else will Christianity give birth to?

"Holy Bible"(圣经)一书很容易被做出各种相互矛盾的解释。这正是基督徒所夸耀的!"有人声称,而且理由充分,圣经经文一直被误用和曲解,用来为人类所知的几乎每一种罪恶辩护。"(出自美国基督教刊物《The Plain Truth》,标题为"THE BIBLE — World's Most Controversial Book."(1975年7月)。

The "Holy Bible" lends itself to all kinds of contradictory interpretations. This is the Christian boast! "SOME CLAIM AND RIGHTLY SO, THAT BIBLICAL PASSAGES HAVE BEEN CONTINUOUSLY MISUSED AND MISAPPROPRIATED TO JUSTIFY ALMOST EVERY EVIL KNOWN TO MAN" (From: "The Plain Truth" an American-based Christian Journal under the heading: "THE BIBLE — World's Most Controversial Book." (July 1975).

鉴于下文将引用《撒母耳记》和《历代志》作为进一步的证据，我认为应当先确定这些书的作者，而不是将书中的种种不一致归咎于上帝。RSV的修订者们说：

As further evidence will be adduced from "Samuel" and "Chronicles" I deem it advisable first to determine their authors instead of suspecting God of those books' incongruities. The Revisers of the RSV say:

(a) SAMUEL:作者“佚名”(仅一个词)

(a) SAMUEL: Author "Unknown" (Just one word)

(b) 历代志:作者"不详,大概由以斯拉搜集并编辑。"我们必须敬佩这些圣经学者的谦逊,但他们的"可能""大概"和"或许",总被他们那些被蒙蔽的羔羊当作"确实如此"来理解。为什么要让可怜的以斯拉或以赛亚替这些无名作者背锅呢?

(b) CHRONICLES: Author "Unknown, probably collected and edited by Ezra." We must admire the humility of these Bible scholars, but their "possiblys" "probablys" and "likelys" are always construed as ACTUALLY'S by their fleeced sheep. Why make poor Ezra or Isaiah the scapegoats for these anonymous writers?

如果上帝是基督徒所声称的圣经每一个字、每一个逗号和句号的作者,那么他也是上述算术矛盾的作者吗?

If God is the Author of every single word, comma and full-stop in the Bible, as the Christians claim, then is He the Author of the above arithmetical discrepancy as well?

注意以上内容的复述。请比较这两段引文。撒母耳记下24:13记载："于是迦得来见大卫，告诉他，对他说……"这些话在历代志上21:11中逐字重复，只是多余的“告诉他”被删去了！但是作者在删去无用短语的同时，也把时间从“七”年改成了“三”年。神对迦得说的是三年还是七年的饥荒——“降在你的两个家上”呢？

Note the reproduction of above. Compare both the quotations. 2 Samuel 24:13 tells us — "So Gad came to David, AND TOLD HIM, and said unto him . . ." These words are repeated word for word in 1 Chronicles 21:11, except the redundant "AND TOLD HIM" is removed! But while trimming the useless phrase, the author also pruned the time factor from "SEVEN" years to "THREE" years. What did God say to Gad — Three or Seven years plague — "on both your houses?"

比较这两段经文。历代志下36:9告诉我们,约雅斤登基时是“八岁”,而列王纪下24:8说他登基时是“十八岁”。那位“不知名”的列王纪作者想必是这样推理的:一个八岁的孩子能做出什么足以招致被废的“恶”呢?于是他慷慨地把年龄加了十岁,使约雅斤成熟到足以承受神的愤怒。然而,他必须平衡自己的篡改,于是把他的统治时间缩短了10天!年龄加十岁,统治时间减十天?全能的神会对同一件事说出两种大相径庭的话吗?

See below. Compare the two quotations. 2 Chronicles 36:9 tells us that JEHOIACHIN was "eight" years old when he began to reign, while 2 Kings 24:8 says that he was "eighteen" when he began to reign. The "unknown" author of KINGS must have reasoned that what possible "evil" could a child of eight do to deserve his abdication, so he generously added ten years to make JEHOIACHIN mature enough to become liable to God's wrath. However, he had to balance his tampering, so he cut short his reign by 10 days! Add TEN years to age and deduct TEN days from rule? Could God Almighty say two widely differing things on the same subject?

在八和十八之间，相差整整十岁。我们能说（主啊，赦免我们！）全知全能的至高者不会计数，因而不知道八与十八之间的差别吗？如果我们相信《圣经》是神的话语，那么全能之主的尊严与地位将跌至谷底！

Between Eight and Eighteen years, there is a gap or difference at a full 10 years. Can we say (God forbid!) that the all-knowing Almighty could not count, and thus did not know the difference between 8 and 18? If we are to believe in the Bible as the Word of God, then the Dignity and Status of the Lord Almighty will hit an all-time low!

比较第40页上的两段引文。大卫杀死了多少名战车手?是七百还是七千?再者,他杀死的是四万名"骑兵"还是四万名"步兵"?撒母耳记下10:18与历代志上19:18之间的记载矛盾,其含义不仅是上帝无法分辨百与千的差别,甚至连"骑兵"与"步兵"也分不清!显然,亵渎之语在基督教的辞典里竟假借"默示"之名出现。七百还是七千?

Compare the two quotations on page 40. How many chariot riders did David slay? Seven hundred or seven thousand? And further, did he slay 40000 "HORSEMEN" or 40000 "FOOTMEN?" The implication in the conflicting records between 2 Samuel 10:18 and 1 Chronicles 19:18 is not only that God could not discern the difference between hundreds and thousands, but that He could not even distinguish "CAVALRY" from "INFANTRY!" It is obvious that blasphemy masquerades in the Christian dictionary as "inspiration!" 700 or 7 000?

对于热爱圣经的人来说，这毫无安慰可言：要么在700后面多加了一个零（0），要么从7 000里减去了一个零，结果使本已混乱的圣经数学变得更加混乱！

It is certainly naught for Bible-lovers' comfort that a whole nought (0) was either added to 700, or subtracted from 7 000, thus making the confused Biblical Mathematics even more confounded!*

* 关于“零”的评论稍后将会讨论。

* The remarks on the Zero will be discussed soon.

至于《圣经》的"受默示作者"分不清"步兵"和"骑兵"，这一点更为严重，因为上帝本人在这里也被牵连其中，成了这种"默示"的来源，却分不清骑兵与步兵。或者，逃离以色列面前的叙利亚人可能是半人马（即身体和双腿为马、躯干、头和双臂为人的生物），这些"生物"是否曾从古典神话中走出来，去愚弄那些过于轻信的作者呢？

As for the "inspired writers" of the Bible not knowing the difference between "footmen" and "horsemen," is all the more serious because God himself here stands accused, as a source of that "inspiration" for not knowing the difference between cavalry and infantry. Or is it possible that the Syrians who fled before Israel were centaurs (i.e. a race of creatures with the body and legs of a horse and the torso, head and arms of a man), is it possible that these "creatures" had suddenly stepped out of Classical Mythology to bemuse the all too gullible authors.

所罗门王（愿他荣耀）开始为自己建造一座王宫，历时十三年。我们从《列王纪上》第七章得知这一点。你还记得帕克博士（前文）那句自夸吗，说什么“整页都被晦涩的名字占满”？那么，若论幼稚，第七章和以西结书第四十五章可谓无人能及。你至少应当亲自读一遍，此生一次便够。读过之后，你就会真正体会到神圣的《古兰经》之可贵！下面引录了这些经文，供你津津有味地（且不妨说是枯燥地）阅读。请自备一本圣经，并对其做颜色标记，以便查阅：本小册子中的各处引文，可用“黄色”标出所有矛盾之处；用“红色”标出色情段落；用“绿色”标出合理、可以接受的引文，也就是我在本文开头提到的那些——你可以毫不费力地辨认出那是神及其圣使的言语。做好这些准备之后，你便能驳倒并搅乱遇到的任何传教士或圣经学者了！“和平时期多流汗，战时就少流血。”（蒋介石）

Solomon is his glory began building a royal palace for himself which took him thirteen years. We learn this from the 1st Book of Kings, chapter 7. You remember Dr. Parker's boast (earlier on) about "whole pages being taken up by obscure names?" Well, for sheer puerility you cannot beat this chapter 7 and Ezekiel chapter 45. You owe it to yourself to read it just once in your lifetime. After that, you will really appreciate the Holy Qur’ân! Reproduced below, you will read the passages for your boring pleasure. Obtain your own Bible and colour code it for easy reference. You may colour the various references from this booklet in your Bible: "Yellow" for all contradictions; use "Red" for pornographic passages; and "Green" for sensible, acceptable quotations as the ones I have mentioned at the beginning of this essay — that is words that you can effortlessly recognize as being those of God and His Holy Messengers. With just this preparation, you will be ready to confute and confuse any missionary or Bible scholar that comes your way! "IF WE PERSPIRE MORE IN TIMES OF PEACE, WE WILL BLEED LESS IN TIMES OF WAR." (Chiang Kai-Shek)

神作为建造者、工程师与工匠 （如果你有耐心，请读这一章，并在你的圣经中读完本章其余部分）

GOD, AS BUILDER, ENGINEER AND CRAFTSMAN (IF YOU HAVE PATIENCE, READTHIS CHAPTER AND COMPLETE THE REST OF THE CHAPTER IN YOUR BIBLE)

上帝，作为土地测量员和建筑师（如果你有耐心，请阅读这一章，并在你的圣经中读完本章的其余部分）

GOD, AS LAND SURVEYOR AND ARCHITECT (IF YOU HAVE PATIENCE, READ THIS CHAPTER AND COMPLETE THE REST OF THE CHAPTER IN YOUR BIBLE)

现在请看下面的内容，注意列王纪上7:26的作者记载所罗门王宫中有2000个浴池，而历代志下4:5的作者却将数字提高了50%，变成3000个！这“上帝之书”中是何等的奢华与错误？即使上帝全能，祂无事可做，难道祂会去“默示”给犹太人这些琐碎而相互矛盾的无稽之谈吗？圣经是上帝的书吗？它是上帝的话语吗？

Now, look below and note that the author of 1 Kings 7:26 has counted 2 000 baths in Solomon's palace, but the author of 2 Chronicles 4:5 increases the kingly count by 50% to 3 000! What extravagance and error in the "Book of God?" Even if God Almighty had nothing else to do, would He occupy Himself "inspiring" such trivial contradictory nonsense to the Jews? Is the Bible God's Book? Is it the Word of God?

"无论是有意还是无意，那位'受默示'的作者竟完全无法分辨2 000与3 000之间的差别，这是不可原谅的。这是一个显而易见的矛盾。" "任何神迹都不能证明二加二等于五，或者一个圆有四个天使；无论神迹多么众多，也不能消除那些明摆在基督教教义与记载表面上的矛盾。" ——（阿尔伯特·施韦泽），摘自其著作《寻找历史上的耶稣》，第22页。

Whether it is witting or unwitting, the "inspired" writer's singular inability to grasp the difference between 2 000 and 3 000 is unforgivable. It is an obvious contradiction. "AND NO MIRACLE WOULD PROVE THAT TWO AND TWO MAKES FIVE, OR THAT A CIRCLE HAS FOUR ANGELS; AND NO MIRACLES, HOWEVER NUMEROUS COULD REMOVE A CONTRADICTION WHICH LIES ON THE SURFACE OF THE TEACHINGS AND RECORDS OF CHRISTIANITY." — (Albert Schweizer), from his book: "In Search of the Historical Jesus." Page 22.

我在完成这一系列矛盾之前，再给你举一个例子。圣经中还有成百上千个类似的例子。请看下面。这又是所罗门。他做事确实很有气派。与他相比，前伊朗国王简直像个幼儿园的孩子！历代志下9:25的作者给所罗门的马厩数量，比他给的马房数量多了一千个。"所罗门有四千个马厩……"但列王纪上4:26的作者对他的王室赞助人有着帝王般的想法。他把所罗门的马厩数量增加了1000%，从4000个变成了40000个！在某个油嘴滑舌的布道者蒙骗你说，差别只是多了一个零，即"0"之前；说某个抄写员或誊写者无意中在4000后面加了一个零，使它变成了40000，请让我告诉你，所罗门时代的犹太人根本不知道零——"O"！是阿拉伯人在几个世纪后把零引入了中东和欧洲。犹太人在文学作品中把数字用文字拼写出来，而不是用数字书写。我们的问题是——这个高达36000的惊人差异，其真正的作者是谁？是神还是人？你可以在一部内容非常全面的书中找到这些出处以及许多相关事实，书名为《圣经——神的话语还是人的话语？》，作者是A. S. K. Joommal。

Before I conclude this series of contradictions, let me give you just one more example. There are hundreds of others in the Bible. See below. It is Solomon again. He really does things in a big way. The ex-Shah of Iran was a nursery kid by comparison! The author of 2 Chronicles 9:25 gives Solomon one thousand more stalls of horses than the number of baths he had given him. "And Solomon had FOUR thousand stalls for horses ..." But the author of 1 Kings 4:26 had real kingly thoughts about his royal patron. He multiplied Solomon's stalls by 1 000% — from 4 000 to 40000 stalls of horses! Before some glib evangelist draws the wool over your eyes that the difference is only a nought, a zero — "0"; that some scribe or copyist had inadvertently added a zero to 4 000 to make it 40 000, let me tell you that the Jews in the time of Solomon knew nothing about the zero — "O"! It was the Arabs who introduced the zero to the Middle East and to Europe centuries later. The Jews spelt out their figures in words in their literary works and did not write them in numerals. Our Question is — Who was the real author of this staggering discrepency of 36000? Was it God or man? You will find these references and many more allied facts in a very comprehensive book — "THE BIBLE — Word of God or Word of Man?" by A. S. K. Joommal.

"4 千"和"4 万"之间的差别只有 36 OOO！犹太人在旧约中并没有使用"0"（零）

The Difference between 4 thousand and 40 thousand is only 36 OOO! The Jews did not use The "0" (Zero) in the Old Testament between 4 thousand and 40 thousand is only 36 OOO! The Jews did not use The "0" (Zero) in the Old Testament