and please dont lie and say there arent any.....
2006-11-27 05:20:08 · 26 answers · asked by Red Eye 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
wow some people are really blind
2006-11-27 05:24:38 · update #1
lol there are over a 100 ill list them for another question
2006-11-27 05:29:46 · update #2
Could it be because God never wrote any of it?
Read the course in miracles. A real revelation, not a counterfeit one like the bible.
Love and blessings Don
2006-11-27 05:38:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Bible is a library of 66 books by over 40 different authors penned over a period of 1500 years, on three continents, in several languages, and by severals races and cultures. The Bible says the God "inspired" the writing of it. It does not say he wrote it.
The different books record the history of people who had encounters with God over the cetnuries. This encounters often reflect the personality of the person writing them. For example, if you read about the life of David in 1 and 2 Samuel, you can see that it is the work of someone who knew David personally, and includes a lot of his personality, shortcomes, strenghts, etc. Then you hop over the 1 Chronicles and read about David. They stories there are recorded by the official court historian. They are long on names and treaties and proclaimation, but short on personality. Many of the shortcomes mentioned in Samuel are omitted. Both accounts are accurate, they just do not cover all the same events or from the same point of view.
Keep in mind also that the Bible is an expanding revelation. Things that are known at the end of the book where only guessed at in the beginning. Abraham was still dealing with the idea that God might require human sacrifice. God had to set him straight. Moses was still dealing with the idea the God might just be one of the many Egyptian gods. God had to set him straight. Even the first generation of Christians had to deal with racism, and whether God could possible include non-Jewish in the redemption of Christ.
There are no contradictions in the scriptures. But there is unfolding of the truth. I have seen some of the list of "contraditions" "In Genesis 1 God says everything is good, but in Genesis 6 he says it is bad". (Yes, but in between there is Genesis 3 where man sinned and changed things. The plot has advanced since chapter 1.) "In place God says "I will never forgive them", and in another "I will remember their sins no more". (Yes, but one was spoken to people who refused to repent and change, the other to his children who came seeking his forgiveness. Different people. Different situation. Same God. Just like you would forgive your child if they came and ask, but would not forgive an unrepentent murderer and rapist.)
God is a complex enough subject that it took over 3.6 million words to explain him. That you should be able to find two things in a book that size that you can label as contradictions should not surprise anyone. (There not contradictions, but with a little effort you can make them appear that way.) But if one makes an honest reading from end to end of the entire Bible, you will find that its themes, doctrinces, images and teachings are consistant throughout. Each builds on the revelations that have gone before and foreshadow (or prophecy) the ones to come.
2006-11-27 13:45:04 · answer #2 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well because GOD didn't write the bible.
Man did, and man is the most contradictory life on this planet.
How easy is it for me to write a book, claim it is the word of "master" and eventually throughout time about two milenia, everyone would believe it.
Oh but for everyone else,
God does not contradict, but the bible certainly does.
How many verses are there about "cleaning the soul" So man goes out and KILLS anyone who does not believe,.
And then on the next page or verse, THOU SHALT NOT KILL!
VENGANCE IS MINE
LET HE WHO IS WITHOUT SIN CAST THE FIRST STONE
All very contradictory to the verse's talking about conversion, and the"laws of the land"
That's what happened with the bible.
2006-11-27 13:26:22 · answer #3 · answered by danksprite420 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
He didn't write any contradictions in the bibles.
but when emperor Constantine ordered the new Canon, and Whole books as well as sentences were removed it ruined the Whole bible. and that is why i wont take the bible literally.
And to make things worse there is also the king james bible that just screwed things up even more :)
2006-11-27 13:32:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm not lying, but am still saying there aren't any. If you would be so kind as to give some examples, that would help out everyone. Otherwise I migth have to say that maybe the problem is with your understanding of the Bible.
2006-11-27 13:29:55 · answer #5 · answered by dovaje 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why aren't you capable of coming up with an original question? Just because the "view point" is not the same through out the Bible does NOT mean they are contradictions. God's word is eternal, but He does give different instructions for different times. Every atheist talks about these "contradictions," but none of them can show any.
2006-11-27 13:25:15 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
If religious people never answer hard questions in intelligent ways and never change their beliefs, then why did you bother to ask?
Besides, it is only one more contradiction in the Bible on an already-lengthy list of them.
2006-11-27 13:24:54 · answer #7 · answered by thebraindamaged1 2 · 4⤊ 1⤋
The best case thing you could have done was to include some examples in your argument. Anyone can see contradictions in anything if they are hoping to find it. I can open up an Algebra book and if I hate math and dont really want to learn it I will only see things that dont make sense to me.
2006-11-27 13:26:46 · answer #8 · answered by h nitrogen 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋
You need to be a little more specific but this is probably due to our extremely limited capacity to understand concepts that only God can understand. If you would like to be more specific I could probably give you a better answer.
2006-11-27 13:28:34 · answer #9 · answered by Richard F 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Hmmm
Well which contradictions are you talking about? It never contradicts about when Jesus rose from the dead, which message he preached, or how he died. That's all the bible is really for. To tell you about Jesus' life and what he preached. The rest is just amusement or to teach you what God is like, or even for morals. Please give a specific contradiction?
();-D
shadowgirl
2006-11-27 13:23:12 · answer #10 · answered by Mr. T, formerly known as Shadow. 3 · 1⤊ 4⤋