Many say that the bible contains contradictions, can you show them to me?

Question

Or do you just take others word and reguritate as I once did?

Answer 1

There are contradictions in every religious text, Just read the book, and you should be able to figute them out yourself. The contradictions are mainly between the old and new testaments, though, unlike thequran which contradicts itself throughout the whole story.

Answer 2

How about one of the most obvious ones,: turn the other cheek, and an eye for an eye.
I am reading a very interesting book right now by Bart D.Ehrhart who was an enthusiastic Born again Christian. So enthusiastic that he went to school to find out everything about the bible. The problem was that the more he learned the more he found out it was not quite the book of God he wanted it to be, but rather, copies of copies of copies, over hundreds of years of the gospels, most past forward verbally, and a lot of them changed to fit the benefit of the person writing it.
The title of the book is called Misquoting Jesus, the story behind who changed the bible and why.
I think it is not wrong to question the bible, nor is it sacrilige. Look into it, see what you think. Lets stop being brainwashed by the churches, and do the right stuff.

Answer 3

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PN.HTM

Gen 21:14 Placing the child on her back: the phrase is translated from an emended form of the Hebrew text. In the current faulty Hebrew text, Abraham put the bread and the waterskin on Hagar's back, while her son apparently walked beside her. This reading seems to be a scribal attempt at harmonizing the present passage with the data of the Priestly source, in which Ishmael would have been at least fourteen years old when Isaac was born; compare ? Genesis 16:16 with ? Genesis 21:5; cf ? Genesis 17:25. But in the present Elohist story Ishmael is obviously a little boy, not much older than Isaac; cf ? Genesis 15:18.

Answer 4

Sure here is an easy one.

Which are you judge by according to the bible? Faith or Works


Galations 2:16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

Revelatrion 20:12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

Answer 5

There are many inconsitencies in the Bible. I'll take just one of them here. Different accounts for Judas's death. One place he hangs himself in another he dies from a fall that causes his guts to burst out. Also, stories are inconsistent with how the money he had was disposed of on a piece of property. I am very familar with the inconsistencies in the Bible and apologetics.

Apologetics seem intellectually dishonest to me since they start from the assumption that their ideas or belief must be right and then twist and construe what the Bible says to fit their beliefs. The apologetics in this instance mainly asserts that both stories are true and that Judas somehow died in a way that combined all its elements. He hanged himself then fell and his guts burst out. So you just invented a scenerio why the inconsistency might be resolved, doesn't make it the truth of the matter (who knows, there are no eye witnesses) and it sounds implausible to those who aren't trying to justify their faith. It doesn't explain why the accounts of how the money was used differ. Also, doesn't resolve why the Bible seems to clearly have messed up here at least in terms of presenting the story accurately and entirely. Not a good arguement for a literal and infallible work from God.

The two accounts:

3 When Judas, his betrayer, saw that he was condemned, he repented and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders, 4 saying, "I have sinned in betraying innocent blood." They said, "What is that to us? See to it yourself." 5 And throwing down the pieces of silver in the temple, he departed; and he went and hanged himself. 6 But the chief priests, taking the pieces of silver, said, "It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since they are blood money." 7 So they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in. 8 Therefore that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day. 9 Then was fulfilled what had been spoken by the prophet Jeremiah, saying, "And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him on whom a price had been set by some of the sons of Israel, 10 and they gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord directed me." RSV Matt 27:3-10


15 In those days Peter stood up among the brethren (the company of persons was in all about a hundred and twenty), and said, 16 "Brethren, the scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke beforehand by the mouth of David, concerning Judas who was guide to those who arrested Jesus. 17 For he was numbered among us, and was allotted his share in this ministry. 18 (Now this man bought a field with the reward of his wickedness; and falling headlong he burst open in the middle and all his bowels gushed out. 19 And it became known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the field was called in their language Akel'dama, that is, Field of Blood.) 20 For it is written in the book of Psalms, `Let his habitation become desolate, and let there be no one to live in it'; and `His office let another take.' RSV Acts 1:15-20

Answer 6

MAT 1:16 And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.

LUK 3:23 And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli.

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GEN 7:2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.

GEN 7:8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, GEN 7:9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.


There are two examples.

Answer 7

Sure, take the story of the most important event in christianity, the resurrection, and then tell me what the bible says happened, in order, leaving nothing out.

Some "small" problems you will have: who went to the tomb, when they went, why they went, who was there (men or angels), how many (1 or 2), where they were, was the stone rolled away or not. You get the idea.

Answer 8

There isnt enough space here to show you the 300+ contradictions in Genesis alone.

And, making up excuses for them doesnt clear those contradictions up either.

Answer 9

The obvious one is that "our God is not a vengeful God"---and yet, he told Noah that the world would be flooded due to all the corruption.

Apparently, if such a major destructive event should occur again, GOD indicated that the deed would be accomplished by FIRE as opposed to a FLOOD!

Answer 10

PSA 145:9 The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.

JER 13:14 And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.
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GEN 7:2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.

GEN 7:8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, GEN 7:9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
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PRO 4:7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.

ECC 1:18 For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

1 Cor.1:19: "For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and wil bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent."
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LEV 11:21 Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth;
LEV 11:22 Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.
LEV 11:23 But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.
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Matt.27:46,50: "And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, "Eli, eli, lama sabachthani?" that is to say, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" ...Jesus, when he cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost."

Luke23:46: "And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, "Father, unto thy hands I commend my spirit:" and having said thus, he gave up the ghost."

John19:30: "When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, "It is finished:" and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost."