what glaring contradictions are there to be found in the Bible that all of the "atheists" talk about?
And since they are always demanding "proof" that the Bible is true, I'm wondering if any of them might be able to supply "proof" that it is not true.
Before you begin answering, you should know that no acceptable answers should include links to other websites, or any mention of "evolution."
You say Christians are not "open minded" - let's see what you've got apart from hurling insults.
2006-09-12 05:04:23 · 21 answers · asked by chewie_says 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I didn't want to go to a website, I didn't want to go to Amazon.com and spend $14.95, I didn't want to hear about the link that isn't missing, I wanted to see if you could tell me your side of the story with any effectiveness. It looks like the best that the entire community could come up with is a bat is not a bird, O.K., and what about Cains wife. That's some pretty weak stuff if you ask me. Pretty dadgum lame. I pity each of you for not having a legitimate arguement between the lot of you for your rant against the Holy God, and His Exalted Christ, and His chosen people.
2006-09-12 15:41:54 · update #1
Isaiah 2:20 "...to the moles and the bats" Sounds like He groups bats with rodents. It's important to remember the ancient scriptures were originally written in Hebrew, the word translated as "fowls" in Leviticus 11 could just as likely mean, "flying animals." Anyhow, that's a really anemic example for a "glaring contradiction" if you ask me. Looks like you could come up with something more endangering to doctrine than that.
As for Noah's ark, how far did the flood have to extend to wipe out mankind at that time? How widely dispersed was humanity, seeing that it was not that long after creation. How many animals were in that region at that time? We don't know everything, do we.
As for D-I-N-O-S-A-U-R-S, there have been scholars that have suggested (again we don't know everything) there is a gap between Genesis 1 verse one, and verse two. This leaves open the possibility that He could have created/destroyed other species prior to the creation of Adam and the Garden. Personally, I don't get too hung up on thinking about that stuff, because it doesn't change what I know to be true experientially with Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. And FYI, it has been roughly 6000 years since the creation of man.
I know the Bible says this about the last days:
"Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of His coming (Jesus Christ)? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as from the beginning of creation."
In other words, there is going to be a big increase of people who are ready to discredit the veracity of the Holy Scriptures, simply on the basis of what they think they are seeing around them. "Nothing's changing, everything is the same, how come you don't see the kinds of things the Bible talks about today?"
Because they were MIRACLES. Those things weren't common back then either. But the "God factor" changes things. When He comes in on the scene, things don't have to operate according to how your mind - from it's natural experiences - says it has to happen. God is awesome. He can have Noah build a battleship if He likes, and He can get all the animals on it too. Your natural mind is bigger than your faith.
2006-09-12 06:02:00 · answer #1 · answered by firebyknight 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The major contradictions take place between the two texts. The Old and the New Testaments. In the Old, books like Leviticus speak to the rules and regulations of daily life such as, what is the correct procedure and recompense for selling your eldest daughter into slavery. The Old also speaks to revenge as in, "an eye for an eye." Then you have the New which proclaims the best course of action is to, "turn the other cheek." Consequently, what raises the ire of non-Christians is the cherry-picking between texts. It's done, or seems to be done in a effort to prove the correct course of action in modern daily life; our current morals and mores. It doesn't work because no matter what you do, you will find a contradicting parable in one or the other text.
Then you have the creation myth itself in Genesis. Given that god created only Adam and Eve, where did Cain's wife come from in the land of Nod? Any thinking person has got to question this and wonder, "Did some other god pull a creation in the next county?"
I am not Christian and I am open minded. I do not hurl insults at Christians I simply ask questions. So to counter your argument that non-Christians hurl insults, I never have. Instead, simply by asking questions, I am often perceived as hurling insults. So from my perspective, Christians in general are thin skinned. They don't like their beliefs called into question. They don't know how to handle the questions so perceive the question itself as an insult.
2006-09-12 05:23:15 · answer #2 · answered by gjstoryteller 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Go to Amazon and spend fourteen bucks for W. H. Burr, Self-Contradictions of the Bible -- it lists more than a hundred. There are hundreds of factual errors as well -- the entire business of creation and the flood related in Genesis is wholly fictitious, as has been shown by science for a century.
2006-09-12 05:13:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Great question! If the Bible had some great error, like saying the moon is made of green cheese, it could be easily refuted. However, no matter how much it is attacked by the greatest mind to trod the earth throughout history, the Bible still stands.
Amazing!
And to the fool that says the Bible says the bat is a bird, you better go read it again! You just em-BARE-ASSED yourself! ROFL!!!!!!!!!
What a loon!
2006-09-12 05:10:48 · answer #4 · answered by Bad Cosmo 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Old Testament, Levitican law discussing clean and unclean foods.
God declares the bat to be an unclean type of bird. If God is the creator of everything literally according to Genesis, how is it that he cannot distinguish a flying rodent from an avian?
This is sufficient to call at least one 'fact' into question. If your God can't even keep his testable and verifiable facts straight, how can you trust him for the facts that involve the big picture?
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Leviticus 11:13-19 (NIV)
13 These are the birds you are to detest and not eat because they are detestable: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture,
14 the red kite, any kind of black kite,
15 any kind of raven,
16 the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,
17 the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl,
18 the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey,
19 the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, AND THE BAT.
(emphasis mine)
Would you like fries with that as.s-handing?
2006-09-12 05:08:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
I think when you talk about athiests talking about contradiction in Bible its the wrong kind of athiests you are talking about. Those are people who don't understand athiesm and think its fashionable to be athiest. A true athiest will hardly care for what is written in bible ( least of talk about contradictions)
Its a matter of faith - for believers- it the faith in God and that makes them beleive unconditionally similiraily a true athiest is Not the one to find faults with religion but has faith in athiesm!!!!!!!!
2006-09-12 05:05:41 · answer #6 · answered by Mash 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A boat that was big enough to hold two of EVERY animal on earth,not to mention the animals had to be feed and taken care of, that in itself would make the boat bigger than a modern aircraft carrier and yet no trace of it can be found. talking bushes, food falling from the sky,frogs falling from the sky, god riding around in a firery chariot,Why don't these things still happen?
2006-09-12 05:15:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
lol they won't respond. But they are right about certain contradictions in the bible. AND I am religious so it is possible to see these falicies even when you believe in God.
2006-09-12 05:09:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If I wrote my own holy book, I wouldn't expect you to believe anything in it.
But as for "proof" that it's not true: D-I-N-O-S-A-U-R-S. According to the Old Testament, if you add up all the years,(and this has been done by many theologians), the Earth is only around 4000 years old.
2006-09-12 05:11:10 · answer #9 · answered by mojawoja 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Chewie, all I've got to say is...
That is the sweetest question I've seen on this site yet; and I love the way you put it. I would like to see how they answer that myself.
h.i.m.
2006-09-12 05:07:45 · answer #10 · answered by Prince J 1 · 3⤊ 1⤋