Anyone know any true contradictions in the bible?

Question

Please post only TRUE contradictions, not ones that are mis-translated, or can be interperted in diffrent ways. Please provide both parts of the scripture as well. Maybe I can help you guys better understand the bible. I do not believe there are any TRUE contradictions in the bible.

Took me a while to find but

Jesus The Song Of God:

Luke 1:26-38
26In the sixth month, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, 27to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin's name was Mary. 28The angel went to her and said, "Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you."
29Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be. 30But the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary, you have found favor with God. 31You will be with child and give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus. 32He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, 33and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever; his kingdom will never end."

2 Samuel 21:8

But the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons of Aiah's daughter Rizpah, whom she had borne to Saul, together with the five sons of Saul's daughter Merab, [a] whom she had borne to Adriel son of Barzillai the Meholathite.

Samuel 8:3

3 Moreover, David fought Hadadezer son of Rehob, king of Zobah, when he went to restore his control along the Euphrates River. 4 David captured a thousand of his chariots, seven thousand charioteers [a] and twenty thousand foot soldiers. He hamstrung all but a hundred of the chariot horses.

1 Chronicals 18:3

Moreover, David fought Hadadezer king of Zobah, as far as Hamath, when he went to establish his control along the Euphrates River. 4 David captured a thousand of his chariots, seven thousand charioteers and twenty thousand foot soldiers. He hamstrung all but a hundred of the chariot horses

Kings 4:26

26 Solomon had four [a] thousand stalls for chariot horses, and twelve thousand horses. [b]

2 Chronicals 9:25

25 Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horses, [a] which he kept in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.

I'm going to move on from Bad Liberal because you obviously have these passages quoated wrong. I have just proved your 1st 3 incorrect

Valkarie Hero - Who is to say when the man became blind? He doesn't state that he was born blind. You do realize that people can become blind half into there life don't you?

My friend below, do you read my added notes. He didn't get those quoates directly from the bible, look above this to see the true quoates.

Answer 1

Contradictions in the Bible—Why Are They There?

The Bible has many seeming contradictions within its pages. For example, the four Gospels give four differing accounts as to what was written on the sign that hung on the cross. Matthew said, “This is Jesus the King of the Jews” (27:37). However, Mark contradicts that with “The King of the Jews” (15:26). Luke says something different: “This is the King of the Jews” (23:38), and John maintains that the sign said “Jesus of Nazareth the King of the Jews” (19:19).

Those who are looking for contradictions may therefore say, “See—the Bible is full of mistakes!” and choose to reject it entirely as being untrustworthy. However, those who trust God have no problem harmonizing the Gospels. There is no contradiction if the sign simply said, “This is Jesus of Nazareth the King of the Jews.”

The godly base their confidence on two truths: 1) “all Scripture is given by inspiration of God” (2 Timothy 3:16); and 2) an elementary rule of Scripture is that God has deliberately included seeming contradictions in His Word to “snare” the proud. He has “hidden” things from the “wise and prudent” and “revealed them to babes” (Luke 10:21), purposely choosing foolish things to confound the wise (1 Corinthians 1:27).

Answer 2

There are NONE, Bible difficulties, or apparent Bible contradictions, exist. The opponents of Christianity often use them in their attempts to discredit Christianity. Sometimes these attacks undermine the faith of Christians who either don't understand the issues or don't have the resources to deal with them.

Opponents of Christianity will cite what they consider a Bible contradiction or difficulty by comparing one verse to another (or more) that seems to disagree with the first. In doing this, several verses are often referenced as being contradictory or problematic. Therefore, to make this section of CARM easy to use, it is arranged by verse for easy lookup. Since many of the same "difficulties" deal with one verse in opposition to another or even several others, I have listed all the verses addressed in the same answer. This makes the initial list look larger than it really is. For example, how many animals did Noah bring into the ark? Genesis 6:19-20 says two while Gen. 7:2-3 mentions seven. Therefore, both verses are listed and both links point to the same answer.

http://carm.org/introduction-bible-difficulties-and-bible-contradictions

If we read the Bible at face value, without a preconceived bias for finding errors, we will find it to be a coherent, consistent, and relatively easy-to-understand book. Yes, there are difficult passages. Yes, there are verses that appear to contradict each other. We must remember that the Bible was written by approximately 40 different authors over a period of around 1500 years. Each writer wrote with a different style, from a different perspective, to a different audience, for a different purpose. We should expect some minor differences. However, a difference is not a contradiction. It is only an error if there is absolutely no conceivable way the verses or passages can be reconciled. Even if an answer is not available right now, that does not mean an answer does not exist. Many have found a supposed error in the Bible in relation to history or geography only to find out that the Bible is correct once further archaeological evidence is discovered.

http://www.gotquestions.org/Bible-errors.html

The Big Book of Bible Difficulties: Clear and Concise Answers from Genesis to Revelation
By: Norman L. Geisler, Thomas Howe
http://www.christianbook.com/difficulties-clear-concise-answers-genesis-revelation/norman-geisler/9780801071584/pd/071584?event=AFF&p=1011693&

Answer 3

A 'contradiction' is when one verse contradicts another. These are all over the Bible, as you've shown us. A 'true contradiction' is one that Christians can't make an excuse for...and they're really good at making excuses that satisfy themselves. Those would all be regular old contradictions. I have no desire to make excuses for them, so to me they're 'true contradictions'. Whether 'God' is unchangeable is not the question. The question is whether the writers of the Bible were capable of being perfectly consistent in their descriptions of a character in their story book -- the answer is no...if they were, we wouldn't need to make the above distinctions.

Answer 4

Both geneologies of Jesus fail to meet the prophetic requirements of HaMosiach. One passes through Jeconiah, who was cursed by God that his line would never produce a messiah (all kings of Israel were 'mosiach'), and the other fails to pass through Solomon (and even later, then passes through on of Jeconiah's sons, so includes the Jeconiah flaw).

Yet Jesus is claimed to be HaMosiach.

What gives?

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If the 'Song [sic] of God' one is directed at me, you did not answer my question.

An angel would not announce a false messiah, so the NT is in doubt. You must explain when and why God removed this curse of Jeconiah before you can ignore it by invoking the NT.

In short, you may not use the NT to interpret the OT as the NT is allegedly the fulfillment of the OT. Thus, the OT is used to interpret the NT, and the NT is in contradiction with the OT on this issue, unless you can show me, OT, where God removes his curse on Jeconiah's lineage.

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Hmmmm.... over two hours and no answer.

Answer 5

22They came to Bethsaida, and some people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him. 23He took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village. When he had spit on the man's eyes and put his hands on him, Jesus asked, "Do you see anything?"
24He looked up and said,
"I see people; they look like trees walking around."

25Once more Jesus put his hands on the man's eyes. Then his eyes were opened, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly. 26Jesus sent him home, saying, "Don't go into the village.[a]"

This is Mark 8:22-26

The contradiction, that shows the bible must be partially skewed is that if a man is blind, then he shouldn't know what a tree looks like, so how could he make a visual comparison such as- "I see people; they look like trees walking around." It makes no sense, if he wasn't blind from birth he should have seen trees and people before, otherwise he would not know.

Answer 6

No, there are different accounts on the miner things given by the four gospels. Different people see the same scene and tell somewhat different stories, but get the main points right.

Answer 7

Bad Liberal, gave you several contradictions found in the Bible. There are more than those he listed, but he did a great job pointing them out so delicately.

Bad Liberal. My deepests respect to you.

Answer 8

2 Kings 8:26 says "Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign..."
2 Chronicles 22:2 says "Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign..."

2 Samuel 6:23 says "Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day of her death"
2 Samuel 21:8 says "But the king took...the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul"

2 Samuel 8:3-4 says "David smote also Hadadezer...and took from him...seven hundred horsemen..."
1 Chronicles 18:3-4 says "David smote Hadarezer...and took from him...seven thousand horsemen..."

1 Kings 4:26 says "And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots..."
2 Chronicles 9:25 says "And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots..."

2 Kings 25:8 says "And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month...Nebuzaradan...came...unto Jerusalem"
Jeremiah 52:12 says "...in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month...came Nebuzaradan...into Jerusalem"

1 Samuel 31:4-6 says "...Saul took a sword and fell upon it. And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead and...died with him. So Saul died..."
2 Samuel 21:12 says "...the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa."

Gen 2:17 says "But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day thou eastest thereof thou shalt surely die [note: it doesn't say 'spiritual' death]
Gen 5:5 says "And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died."

Matt 1:16 says, "And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus..."
Luke 3:23 says "And Jesus...the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli"

James 1:13 says "..for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man."
Gen 22:1 says "And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham..."

Gen 6:20 says "Of fowls after their kind and of cattle [etc.]...two of every sort shall come unto thee..."
Gen 7:2,3 says "Of every clean beast thou shall take to thee by sevens...Of fowls also of the air by sevens..."

Luke23:46: "And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost."
John 19:30 "When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost."

Gen 32:30 states "...for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved."
John 1:18 states, "No man hath seen God at any time..."


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Disprove schmisprove. These are from the KJV and they tie up with the New English. Some of them are acknowledged as contradictions by biblegateway. In the case of Ahaziah, for instance, the contradiction is silently forgotten about in later translations and the age is taken as 22. But the text remains inconsistent. Solomon's horses never add up, and as you ought to know, there are FOUR different accounts of the death of Saul.

Answer 9

When the risen Christ was appearing to Mary Magdalene he tells her not to touch him.
Touch me not... -John 20:17.
If God were love, wouldn't he have at least gave her a hug?

RE: Genesis 32:20 -I WILL see his face, peradventure, he will accept me -KJV

Answer 10

Day 1: God makes light, night, and day

Day 3: God makes plants

Day 4:God makes the sun????

How are the first two possible without the sun?