There's no contradictions in your "holy" book? Here's a couple!! Explain how I'm wrong.

Question

EX 9:3-6 God destroys all the cattle (including horses) belonging to the Egyptians.
EX 9:9-11 The people and the cattle are afflicted with boils.
EX 12:12, 29 All the first-born of the cattle of the Egyptians are destroyed.
EX 14:9 After having all their cattle destroyed, then afflicted with boils, and then their first-born cattle destroyed, the Egyptians pursue Moses on horseback.

EX 15:3, 17:16, NU 25:4, 32:14, IS 42:13 God is a man of war--he is fierce and angry.
RO 15:33, 2CO 13:11, 14, 1JN 4:8, 16 God is a god of love and peace.

EX 20:12, DT 5:16, MT 15:4, 19:19, MK 7:10, 10:19, LK 18:20 Honor your father and your mother is one of the ten commandments. It is reinforced by Jesus.
MT 10:35-37, LK 12:51-53, 14:26 Jesus says that he has come to divide families; that a man's foes will be those of his own household; that you must hate your father, mother, wife, children, brothers, sisters, and even your own life to be a disciple.
MT 23:9 Jesus says to call no man on earth your father.

Answer 1

As Y / Answers team says: keep going -you're on a roll!
Yeah, the bible is full of contradictions as are the folks who follow it. Forgive them, for they know not what they do.

Answer 2

Your simplistic, ignorant treatment of the text simply demonstrates your utter lack of appreciation for the purpose and the literary structure of scripture. The plagues God sent upon Egypt didn't happen within a week or a month. It is a condensed account of events that occurred over a period of several years. Therefore after God decimated the livestock there was plenty of time for them to acquire more animals before the next plague occurred. Obviously they did so between the plagues described in Ex 9 and those described in Ex 12, or there would have been no "first born" cattle to destroy.

I see no conflict between the fact that God desires love and peace among His people, and the fact that He deals firmly with those who reject that plan and do their own thing. Likewise I see no conflict between the fact that God calls families to honor one another, and the fact that God recognizes that some family members will reject His plan and persecute one another over religious or other issues.

I don't know what you intended to suggest by quoting Mt 23, but the meaning of the passage is obvious. We are not to give to men the respect that belongs to God alone. That's why the very next verse says "call no man your teacher". A simplistic, literalist reading of either passage misses the point entirely.

Answer 3

First off...citing contradictions between the OT and NT is irrelavent as according to the OT the entire NT is a contradiction in its very existence.

So, getting back to the passages in Exodus. In verses 3 thru 6, God first gives a list of all the animals that will be involved in the plague but then singles out the cattle...therefore, only the cattle died.

Time passed between the plagues, therefore it is reasonable to assume the egyptians bought new herds, either from the Israelites or elsewhere.

The boils were not fatal and only afflicted those animals that remained in the field. Other than pharaoh's personal stock, the other egyptians moved their animals inside.

The first born was not the entire herd.

As mentioned before, the horses, although named earlier, were not singled out for destruction at that time and survived.

Answer 4

In Exodus it says first the cattle were destroyed, as you stated, but in all of the versions of the Bible I have referenced, it is the beasts that received the other afflictions. If beasts and cattle are synonymous you may have a point, but you do not know that they are. Also, I have never thought of cattle to include horses. Where is that coming from? I think you are not reading the versus, or intentionally trying to put doubts in peoples minds who will not do the research to look up the scriptures you mentioned, and take your interpretation as fact.

Answer 5

Now, instead of following God, instead of believing in God, you have become so egotistical that you have decided to write your own Bible, and pass it off as the King James version.

The verse you quoted did not say all the horses or all of anything.

Your next so called contradiction is not a contradiction. President Eisenhower was a man of war, he was angry when he saw what Hitler had done to the Jews, he made the local Germans see what Hitler had done, and he made them bury the dead Jews. Eisenhower was also a man of love and peace. He always advocated peace, he, like God, knew that war should be used only as a last resort. ...... Do you find President Eisenhower's personality a contradiction? Of course not.

Your third so called contradiction is simply your taking things out of context, and then throwing them together as if you are proving something. This system of Bible verse jumping is used by egotistical religious leaders on a regular basis.

Answer 6

Exodus is not saying each and every animal was killed but all sorts were killed.
With regard to God's personality you are limiting Him more than you would limit a human. God's personality has many phases. That is the real meaning of the expression I am that I am.
Example: A mother can be loving and kind, but at the same time fiercely protective when her children are threatened. Is she the same woman? So God manifests different aspects of his personality based on the circumstances and who he is dealing with. Please see Psalm 23 and Revelation 16:16

Answer 7

LOL LOL - those are great. It is amazing what believers will come up with to answer that. Proof right on the page and they will still think of some lame excuse why it is OK. If the bible said "This book is fake and written by humans as a practical joke" they would still believe it is real and would find some way to explain it.

Answer 8

Why does this bother you so much? Bits of the bible were patched up 325 years after Christ by various groups of people with the sole aim of manipulating the masses through faith.

As any human concoction, especially one concocted with an ulterior motive, the bible and all of its hundreds of variations, are, naturally littered with illogical flaws; humans are fallible.

Read "Rational Spirituality" on the Dhaxem website. Conveyed from the Source only in February 2006, it is already the thinking person's modern bible. And it is entirely logical, guaranteed!

Sooner than you believe it will replace the religions. "Rational Spirituality" is the Truth about Christ conveyed by Him (as one of the Divine Souls).

Answer 9

There Are No Contradictions. Use some Intelligence And Let The Holy Spirit Guide You

Answer 10

God promises that His Word will not return void. That means if someone reads or hears His Word, it will affect their life. From your postings, it is obvious that you do read the Bible. I just pray that God will direct your reading to the scripture that will make you realize your need for Him. You are like Saul. He had all the answers, but they were to the wrong questions. Then God opened his eyes, spoke to his heart, and changed his name to Paul to show what a difference there was between his former self and his latter self. You are searching, so get ready, God is about to open your eyes and you will never be the same. Then you can put that passion to work for Him instead of against Him. Just like Paul.

Answer 11

The Bible is chock full of contradictions. Yet they are blindly ignored because Christians said they are done that way on purpose becasue it is the inspired word of God. They don't account for the fact that fallible man wrote it and that it was translated many times into various languages and certain words and phrases don't translate from one language to another. Hebrew and Aramaic don't mesh with "modern" languages of Greek, Latin and English.