how many contradictions are in the bible exactly? has anyone ever counted?

Question

my guess is six hundred and sixty six....... but there are sooo many who could count

Answer 1

Which begs the questions;
How many contradictions and misrepresentations of scientific fact can be found in "Mother Goose"? Or The Brother's Grimm? Aesop's Fables? et al? I have heard that most Experts cannot agree on how tall the Easter Bunny actually is.
I don't believe one should be allowed to vote, be considered an adult or educated until one learns at least some critical thinking skills. I like to start my students out with the parable of the underground den found in Plato's Republic.

Answer 2

There are no proven contradictions in the Bible. Many skeptics have pointed to things that seem to be contradictions, but usually these are cases where there is a difference in the context, the person speaking, the person addressed, the sense of a word used, verses that are talking about different people or objects, or other such variances.

For example, If one person says, "Bob is rich" and someone else says "Bob is poor", there seems to be a contradiction, but there could be many factors to explain this.

It could be a different time. Bob could have been born poor and late in life he may have gained his riches.

There could be more than one person named Bob.

Bob could be finanicially poor, but have a happy life, and therefore be rich by being blessed in other ways. So the two people could be using the word "rich" in two different senses.

When it comes to the Bible, quite often alleged contradictions can be reconciled simply by looking at the context to see what the word actually is saying.

Again, for thousands of years men have been trying to refute the Bible and they have never been able to prove a single contradiction in the text. Not one!

If you would like to see some specific charges against the bible answered, I invite you to visit the web site I have listed below.

Answer 3

A contradiction is something that is glaringly different or opposite. For example, if someone said it was daytime when it happened and someone said it was night. but a smaller difference, like someone said it was noon and someone said it was 2:00 pm is not a contradiction but a variance.

You will find many variances in the Bible, as in anything witnesses don't fully agree usually. In fact,, in court testimony, if two or three witnesses say the exact same thing then it is suspected that the testimony is false and a practiced script. for instance, if an eye witness says that a man is tall, thin, wearing a dark blue shirt and has a moustache,,, and another witness says that the man is tall, thin, wearing a black shirt and clean shaven... that is within acceptable limits. I one witness says it was a short woman in a skirt, and another says it is a tall man in chinos we have a contradiction.

no court would be put off by a difference in a detail.

Answer 4

It is true that there are many contradictions in the Bible. This is probably due to their being so many so called men of god that are purported to have written it. It seems that if the writers were men of god, they would be on the same page. Maybe there is confusion based on the possibility these writers were being influenced by not 1 but many different dieties, each with a different outlook. If there is supposedly only 1 true god, then why didnt this god put all of these writers on the same page, so to speak?

Answer 5

Part of the beauty and the realiticness of the Bible is its mess-ups. These were real people that wrote the book. They made mistakes... I think it makes the Bible all the more real, and true (oddly enough!). If it were "perfect" with no mistakes, it would be hard to believe that any of it actually happened - on the contrary, we would think some sort of highly intelligent person created a hoax story.

Answer 6

Are there contradictions or merely distinctions which you don't understand? There are countless texts that clearly explains such "contradictions," and have been since time immemorial. If you wanted to count contradictions in the bible, one would first need to read such works in order to determine which instances are truly contradictions and which are merely short comings on your own part.

Answer 7

Amazing how people who don't read the Bible "know" there are contradictions. I actually read it, and guess what, there are no contradictions. Everytime I ask one of you to prove it, you all shut up, you don't have anything but your weak excuses and your girly crying. Well, go cry some more until you can show me some contadictions that are real and substantial.

Answer 8

although your question is rhetorical...

the Bible contradicts itself on certain issues when you compare old testament to new testament.

This is because the new testament did away with alot of the old traditions. Which made it easier for us to woship. I think God saw that the traditions where hard to follow and somewhat confusing to the people.

p.s. if you don't believe in the Bible, which it appears that way, then why do you believe in the Devil???

Good cannot exist without evil, and vice versa...

Answer 9

The first one is the first sentance and it ends with the last one. The whole thing is not right. I challenge anyone out there to prove to me that the bible is in its true and ORIGINAL state never being rewritten by MAN. To say it is gods words then means that the word of god is lowly and that us mear humans can comprehend them. The word and voice of god are only heard and seen by the Elohim (look it up and get educated you fundies). I wait...

Answer 10

as some1 already pointed to good site
http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/contra...

it's more than a tousand as contradictions in both OT and NT

PS to jane_749
well if you like serious details that won't stand in any court except Texas try to answer who find the empty tomb of jesus. You won't need anything else to dismiss the whole bible.