Why did God make the universe like clockwork but filled the Bible full of contradictions?

Question

To the brim!

Answer 1

Gotta make you wonder how he couldn't come up with a better plan

Answer 2

ok so i be attentive to you have gotten like 1000's of solutions already, yet ought to provide mine. it is what i be attentive to is real in my coronary heart. The Bible isn't crammed with contradictions what so ever. God is desirable, he's organic. not something he says could be a lie. He could by no skill contradict something that he has already suggested. What has passed off is people settle directly to take verses. Chapters. Books. and make an entire doctrine on one little ingredient. They DONT see the bible as one vast photograph. One e book. you ought to examine from commencing to end with a view to appreciate the entire concept. with a view to confirm God's word for sure. quite Church has taught us that some books at the instant are not for us and therefor it relatively is just one vast ole mess. each thing will contradict one yet another simply by fact we've desperate to take lit bits and products and not examine the bible promptly forward in it relatively is context.

Answer 3

Some contradictions are probably due to the fact that the scripture has been translated, re-translated, and "corrected" by men over the years.

Other apparent contradictions are because the text relates to inner mystical experiences which few people understand.

Answer 4

Have you ever heard two people describe an event that they both witnessed? If so, did you notice that each person emphasized details that impressed him? One may have left out things that the other included. Both, however, were telling the truth. It is the same with the four Gospel accounts of Jesus’ ministry, as well as with other historical events reported by more than one Bible writer. Each writer wrote accurate information even when one retained details that another omitted. By considering all the accounts, a fuller understanding of what happened can be gained. Such variations prove that the Bible accounts are independent. And their essential harmony proves that they are true.

Here some examples:

For example, at Matthew 8:5 we read that when Jesus came into Capernaum, “an army officer came to him, entreating him,” asking Jesus to cure his manservant. But at Luke 7:3, we read of this army officer that “he sent forth older men of the Jews to him to ask [Jesus] to come and bring his slave safely through.” Did the army officer speak to Jesus, or did he send the older men?

The answer is, clearly, that the man sent the elders of the Jews. Why, then, does Matthew say that the man himself entreated Jesus? Because, in effect, the man asked Jesus through the Jewish elders. The elders served as his mouthpiece.

To illustrate this, at 2 Chronicles 3:1, we read: “Finally Solomon started to build the house of Jehovah in Jerusalem.” Later, we read: “Thus Solomon finished the house of Jehovah.” (2 Chronicles 7:11) Did Solomon personally build the temple from start to finish? Of course not. The actual building work was done by a multitude of craftsmen and laborers. But Solomon was the organizer of the work, the one responsible. Hence, the Bible says that he built the house. In the same way, Matthew’s Gospel tells us that the military commander approached Jesus. But Luke gives the added detail that he approached him through the Jewish elders.

Here is a similar example. At Matthew 20:20, 21, we read: “The mother of the sons of Zebedee approached [Jesus] with her sons, doing obeisance and asking for something from him.” What she asked was that her sons should have the most favored position when Jesus came into his Kingdom. In Mark’s account of this same event, we read: “James and John, the two sons of Zebedee, stepped up to [Jesus] and said to him: ‘Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever it is we ask you for.’” (Mark 10:35-37) Was it the two sons of Zebedee, or was it their mother, who made the request of Jesus?

Clearly, it was the two sons of Zebedee who made the request, as Mark states. But they made it through their mother. She was their spokesperson. This is supported by Matthew’s report that when the other apostles heard what the mother of the sons of Zebedee had done, they became indignant, not at the mother, but “at the two brothers.”—Matthew 20:24.

Answer 5

Just wait for the sequel: Bible II - God gets in your face!

Maybe we could get George Burns to reprise the role. Anything's possible where religion is concerned.

Answer 6

I have read over and over about the Bible being "filled" with contradictions. But not once, never do they site any contradictions.

Your question is just another example of blindly believing anything that agrees with your religion and then trying to push it down my throat. Please stop and try to be more tolerant.

Answer 7

The Bible does not have contradictions. I've seen books that "prove" biblical contradictions. The only contradictions are in the interpretations of it.

GOD Bless.

Answer 8

Because the Bible was written by men and what is in it, is how they perceived the world back then. You don't honestly think that bats are birds and bugs only have four leggs do you?

Answer 9

Sad to see you were sucked into the "Bible full of contradictions" nonsense. Name some. I guarantee that any you name have already been explained, probably numerous times.

Answer 10

God didn't write the bible. Somebody wrote it because they were inspired by him, and God gave the go-ahead.
However, when it got screwed up, he gave the Muslims an order when they wrote that book: Don't interpret it. That didn't go well, either.

Answer 11

I asked why a magical mystical God would make such a mechanical universe. I didn't get any good answers. Why not make the sun run on spirit juice?