How many of you believe the Bible is full of contradictions?

Question

Have you read the entire Bible and understood it's main theme?

Not just skimmed, either.

Answer 1

If it is read out of context and not correctly studied with the right heart motivation, one will find flaws. Interesting that the Bible will give a person a way out of believing it's divine message if one does not want to believe.

Answer 2

Well, Doug, I have at one time, many years ago. But I do not usually claim it is full of contradictions, and I am amazed at the number of people who just answer 'yes it is. I read it', and then leave it at that without further examples or explanation.

I know of several factual inconsistencies (creation story, flood, etc) but for contradictions I will have to refer you to some external sites that list fun stuff such as this:

GE 1:3-5 On the first day, God created light, then separated light and darkness.
versus
GE 1:14-19 The sun (which separates night and day) wasn't created until the fourth day.

GE 1:11-12, 26-27 Trees were created before man was created.
versus
GE 2:4-9 Man was created before trees were created.

These would qualify as textual inconsistencies, right?

ps. what about the 'main theme'? Are you saying some errors are fine as long as the main theme is good?

Answer 3

Yes the Bible is full of contradictions but that probably has mostly to do with the time period from which Jesus died and when the Bible was put down into words. Most of the translated Bible was like a game of Telephone. Jesus told the Apostles. The Apostles told friends. The Apostle's friends told their friends. And so on so on. Each time it passes through someone the message gets a little bit twisted in a different direction. I think the important thing is the basic point, that Jesus came and died for our sins.

Answer 4

I've read the bible twice cover to cover and yes there are contradictions. There are many different authors of the books of the bible and they recorded events as they perceived them. Even if two individuals are at the same event together neither one will completely agree on what they have seen. Since the bible was written entirely by human beings and we are imperfect beings there are contradictions.

Answer 5

Yes, I've read the whole and it's powerful. The ones who curse the Bible are probably the one who haven't sat down and read it themselves. If you see a contradiction, ask someone to help you understand, because it not a contradiction. Remember that the Bible was given through inspiration to man by God and not the words of God, so there some grammar mistakes. I challenge you to read the Bible today. God bless

Answer 6

Read the entire Bible several times through. I am currently reading, "The Devotional Bible" edited by Max Lucado. I think this one is the easiest for a first time reader to understand although a few passages might be a bit off the mark. Still it is well worth the money

Answer 7

I know it is NOT full of contradictions.

Ask any police officer and s/he will tell you that if four persons witnessed a car accident, they will all give slightly different details but that the main point will correlate. If they all give the identical report, THAT is when the police becomes suspicious.

In the case of the Bible, you cannot win an argument with those who are determined to find fault. For slight discrepancies, they say the Bible cannot be true; if there were 100 % correlation, they would charge fabrication and collusion.

Answer 8

THE BIBLE

At 1110 years O.T. books 39, done 443 BC, N.T. 50 to 100 after Christ books 27 and KJV Bible 1611 published 396 years ago at 2007 after Christ, SOME HISTORY.

I have been reading it 44 years, love every minute of it, thank God and Christ for it and understand ever so call error, surprised so few after all it has been through, so I get all I expect as being a human all before me would know that I wanted to know about them and leave me a record. I can not find a flaw in it. I do not need to be told about the dinosaurs, the earth tells that story. Gen.1:1,2 All exist as billions. Gen.1:3-25; The earth in preparation using day, the earth tells us that is a long time. We are tols every thing the average person needs to know, doctors can learn to be doctors and astronomers, lawyers, teachers and historians or what ever field the persons wants, but all of us is not the same and not meant to be. Matt.12:36; Many versed tells us to use care in all we say and do.

America 1776 plus 231 is 2007 after Christ. Where was America?

Answer 9

The Bible is an outstanding rfile alive for hundreds of years. there are a number of sects of Christianity, and those incorporate people who're desperately changing the actuality, techniques-washing the harmless to have self assurance in God, and so, they make faith and faith- a enterprise related to funds, while faith is a few thing it rather is inculcated in infants and builds as much as help the very existence of an grownup. it is not in basic terms a thank you to appreciate God- judged by mere human beings as that's extra suitable and that's inferior. how are you able to be so particular that the Bible is only the comparable, because it grew to become into while it grew to become into first composed? how are you able to be sure that in spite of you have self assurance/are made to have self assurance is powerful, while there have been innumerable conflicts over the validity and authenticity of the Bible? For eg. : Does Jesus have a blood-line? some records concerning to His courting, and so on. have been erased or hidden. What are you able to assert approximately them? So, that's incorrect to question the authenticity of the Bible as finished, even nevertheless it may be alright to have self assurance in what you think of is powerful, (provided you do not declare that what you have self assurance in, is definitely marvelous)

Answer 10

The idea that the Bible cannot be viewed as an accurate historical source is absurd. Never has archaelogy uncovered anything that goes aganist what is written in the Bible. In fact, the oposite is true. For those who would say the Bible is not the Word of God, or that the Bible contains numerous errors I would say this: Paul could say in 2nd Timothy 3:16, "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God." That's the Greek word, "theopneustos" meaning "God-Breathed." Every single word was given from God to 40 different men, and 2nd Peter 1:21 adds: "for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God." Now that was the Old Testament. The New Testament wasn't in existence when Paul used these verses. He was telling the churches in his letters what had happened in the past, but in John 16:12-13, Jesus talked about the coming of the New Testament. He says, "I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. But when He, the Spirit of Truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come."
That's the New Testamant. And we can say with John 17:17, "Your Word is Truth." Today, we have 66 books written by 40 different individuals on 3 continents covering a period of 1,500 years and there's not one mistake, regardless of what some of the critics say. They haven't studied God's Word enough to know the truth. Among the writers we had kings, poets, philosophers, prophets, scholars and fisherman. And I want you to know we have all of the Word of God today. Someone says, "Yes, but we don't have the original manuscripts" Who said so?
We have copies totalling 24,800. Now, how do we know that they're right? Well, if you take 20 items and you compare them and 19 state one thing and one doesn't, then the one is in error. We've got 24,800 manuscripts that exist today to compare one against another and we have another 80,000 quotations from the church fathers, enough to put the entire Bible together with the exception of 11 verses. Take the 80,000 quotations from the church fathers and the 24,800 manuscripts for a total of 104,800 and you have all of God's Word dozens and hundreds of times. This is so because God's Word is literally flawless. After computers have compared millions, or even billions, of letters in analyzing the 104,800 manuscripts the texts are basically flawless. So, don't listen to the critics. The Bible is without error. The Bible is the Word of God!