All means All

# 360 - Today's Living Word comes from Mr 5:1,2 “Then they came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gadarenes. And when He had come out of the boat, immediately there met Him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,”

The account of our Lord's encounter with the Gadarene demoniac is also found in the Book of Matthew and Luke. Three different geographical locations are given in these accounts. One says “Gadarenes, another Gerasenes, and another Gergesenes.

Furthermore, the Gospel of Matthew says there were two demoniacs! Why the discrepancies? Does this cast doubt on the veracity of Scripture? Some would have you believe so.

But the variances concerning the geographical names simply mean that the place where the boat landed was in the general vicinity of these places. It's much like our tax forms that list, city, township, and state. The city being the most specific of the three.

There were two demoniacs, this is undeniable, but Mark and Luke only mention the one, but please note that they never say there weren't two. They simply mention one because he is the main character.

Never forget that Scripture is not contradictory. It is all God-breathed. 2Ti 3:16 says, “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,”

This belief in the inerrancy of Scripture is the starting point for proper study of the Scriptures, and it is a safeguard against cafeteria style Christianity. (The type of Christianity where one picks and chooses what he wishes to believe.)

All means all.

I'm Duane Matz and that's Today's Living Word