Did you find any Contradictions in the Bible? Part 1?

Question

Well someone did. Can someone confirm this? or these?

1. Who incited David to count the fighting men of Israel?
God did (2 Samuel 24: 1)
Satan did (I Chronicles 2 1:1)

2. In that count how many fighting men were found in Israel?
Eight hundred thousand (2 Samuel 24:9)
One million, one hundred thousand (I Chronicles 21:5)

3. How many fighting men were found in Judah?
Five hundred thousand (2 Samuel 24:9)
Four hundred and seventy thousand (I Chronicles 21:5)

4. God sent his prophet to threaten David with how many years of famine?
Seven (2 Samuel 24:13)
Three (I Chronicles 21:12)

5. How old was Ahaziah when he began to rule over Jerusalem?
Twenty-two (2 Kings 8:26)
Forty-two (2 Chronicles 22:2)

6. How old was Jehoiachin when he became king of Jerusalem?
Eighteen (2 Kings 24:8)
Eight (2 Chronicles 36:9)

7. How long did he rule over Jerusalem?
Three months (2 Kings 24:8)
Three months and ten days (2 Chronicles 36:9)

Answer 1

Yep, they're true.

Answer 2

This is a trick question I know it. There is no doubt in my mind. The thing is full of contradictions and not just the ones you mention. It's full of historical, geological, biological, and other gross inaccuracies. I will not venture into morals. Suffice to say that the morals of the good book would today lock you up as criminally insane. I mean if today I take out my young boy tress him up and get ready to slit the kid's throat in the name of god what do you think we will do to a father like that. I doubt very much that he will be admired by millions. But after all that "story was borne in the bronze age and possibly earlier. I have this feeling that the majority of the believers do not have a clue what BRONZE AGE means. Not as a date but as living in the bronze age. We do no really have extensive scientific evidence but fro the little we know it was a terrifying time to be alive and alien to our way of life so alien as to be incomprehensible that people could actually survive the conditions. The further back you go the worst it gets.

Answer 3

The bible which I have read does not contain part 1 as you have stated, but it consists of many books written by the prophets and apostle and those books were place in one b ook alone which is called, The Bible

Answer 4

There are many others. But only open-minded people accept those contradictions, not hard-nosed Christians. When it suits them, the bible is God -inspired and has no errors or contradictions - when the going gets tough, different men wrote it from their understanding! That's bible for you!!!

Answer 5

There are very many contradictions in the Bible. In fact for everything positive there is something negative about the same subject. I believe the Old and new Testaments bear this out.

Answer 6

Whenever I go to someone who has an advanced understanding of the Bible and present them contradictions they end up running circles around me.

I don't even bother with the contradictions in the Bible as it is useless. Go to a Christian news feed and ask there, you will probably receive a lot of information from knowledgeable scholars.

Edit:
Here are a few examples.

The first contradiction:
http://www.carm.org/diff/2Sam24_1.htm

The Second:
http://www.carm.org/diff/2Sam24_9.htm

The Third
http://www.carm.org/diff/2Sam24_9.htm

etc.

Answer 7

That god is terrible with numbers
That god relies on donations called "ties"
This has been going on for too long now
That god is also terrible with money

Answer 8

Man... if anyone I know could come up with this earlier, I wouldn't have to waste 20 years of my life doubting about leaving the religion.

Answer 9

2 Sam, ch 24, v1 "Now then the anger of the Lord burned against Israel, and it incited David against them to say"Go, number Israel and Judah."

So just going by your first verse, you illustrate not having read the book or the context behind the point you are trying to make.

Answer 10

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Answer 11

I predict your chances of getting a straight answer are slim to none.