Errors in the Bible? Looking for responses from the 30 years and under crowd?

Question

OK, the criteria for answering this question is as follows: please post your age, please cite the passage(s) in question, please respond ONLY if you think you found one, please only serious answers, please keep it short. Please do not post if you are an inerrantist or cannot cite the passage. I am only interested in answers from people who disagree with me.

For example: I'm 32 years old. I note a difficulty in the following passages, which may have come from a MINOR textual variation:
2 Samuel 21:19 "Elhanan . . . struck down Goliath the Gittite"
1 Chronicles 20:5 "Elhanan . . . struck down Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite"

OK. The first seven people to answer have not paid attention to the requested criteria. I am an inerrantist, and a youth pastor. I am looking for specific responses from a specific demographic. PLEASE DON'T WASTE MY TIME!!!

IF YOU CAN'T CITE A PASSAGE, DON'T POST AN ANSWER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

I am sorry you have limited yourself by choosing not to value the wisdom of the aged.

Answer 2

I'm under 75 and you have a choice of 2, or 3, possible explanations.
They don't originate with me ....please note references.

The Targum preserves a tradition that Elhanan is to be identified with David.
A 'targum' is scripture paraphrased into another language, e.g. Aramaic.
The Soncino Books of the Bible, edited by A. Cohen comment that there is no difficulty in the assumption that there were two Goliaths, commenting also that Goliath may have been a descriptive title like “Pharaoh,” “Rabshakeh,” “Sultan.”
The fact that one text refers to “Jaare-oregim,” whereas the other reads “Jair,” (also that only the account in Second Samuel contains the term “Bethlehemite" while the Chronicles account contains the name “Lahmi,”) has been suggested by the majority of commentators to be the result of a copyist’s error.

Answer 3

Perhaps this might help you in understanding;
2Sa 21:19 - And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite, slew [the brother of] (p) Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear [was] like a weaver's beam.

(p) That is, Lahmi the brother of Goliath, whom David slew, (1Ch_20:5).
This is taken as commentary from The Geneva bible 1599, this was inserted as a translation note.
I hope it is of some aid to you.
As per youir request=75yoa

Answer 4

I am younger than 50, but my voice is still loud and clear.
My Bible, "The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures" puts it this way:
2 Samuel 21:19 "19 And war arose once again with the Phi·lis′tines at Gob, and El·ha′nan the son of Ja′a·re-or′e·gim the Beth′le·hem·ite got to strike down Go·li′ath the Git′tite. . ."
1 Chronicles 20:5 "5 And there came to be war again with the Phi·lis′tines; and El·ha′nan the son of Ja′ir got to strike down Lah'mi the brother of Go·li′ath the Git′tite. . ."

I checked it out also in "The New Jerusalem Bible" and the "King James Version of The Holy Bible" they both agree with my Bible:
Two men with the same name ( Elhanan) but of different parents killed brothers, Lah'mi and Goliath.

Answer 5

Why are you asking for only people who disagree with you, then yet ask for people to quote errors in the bible. There a bunch of them, they're not that hard to find. The whole freaking book is a error and waste of trees.

Jonah 1:17 says, "...Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights"

Matt 12:40 says "...Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly..."

Whales and fish are not related. Two different species.

Numbers 5:27-28 "And when he hath made her drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people. And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed."

it appears god has no problem with abortion

Answer 6

This is nitpicking nonsense.

What about the parable of the prodigal son that clearly and unequivocally tells us that God is unconditionally loving and would never judge any of us for any reason.

Compare this with the hundreds of examples of the judgmental nature of God found through out the old testament and much of the new.

Jesus said that this was not the case. If we think of our selves as Christians, the word of Jesus is the final authority. Not miscellaneous nonsensical judgmental ramblings from unknown authors in the bible.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 7

I'm 29 but I need a little more to go on from you. like do you have a specific translation you are working from or are you cross-referencing multiple translations? (King James, Lutheran,etc.)


Very well, if you wish to head this direction then I will present this.

in the raelian movemen they claim that Elhanan is actually a race of aliens who created us and the story of Johnah was actually him getting into a submarine. and a whole list of what I consider idiotic interpretations but hey if you think that aliens are talking to you then you've got a whole different problem. I suppose the biggest fallacy in the bible is in revelations. (I'm sorry I'm at work and don't have a bible handy to give you the exact chapter and verse) but apparently satan doesn't get cast down to hell until the endtimes.

Answer 8

HI am 32. Maybe Elhanan struck down both...Goliath and Goliath's brother? CASE RESOLVED.

Answer 9

If you were to talk to an actual theologist (not myself) you would get all kinds of things that don't make sense in the bible. There are at least 1,000 plus errors that people live by, I'm surprised that it's not considered a "sin" to live in obscurity.

I'm 22 years old. I'm a whole decade younger than you, so...

Answer 10

I'm 19.

Genesis 35:28

"And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years."

Mind explaining to me how that's possible?