I am looking for as many contradictions in the Bible as I can?

Question

I am having a friendly debate and was challenged to give specific contradictions that are in the Bible.
Thanks all.

Answer 1

There are none. It is a journal of God's message to us written by people who were deeply affected by God. Their experience as inspired and guided by God, authors many stories and experiences. It is infalliable because it ultimately came from God. Since God doesn't make mistakes, there are no errors or contradiction in the bible.

Answer 2

I'll give two, because I guess I am somewhat cool in that way. All right, probably the most contradictions in the Bible are the Old and New Testaments. The Old Testament is all full of anger, deciet, incest, rape, burning and pillaging, God trying to destroy the Israelites for the 50th time, and a lot of stuff like that. Then, you have the New Testament; God turned over a new leaf, he loves everyone and won't kill anyone anymore. He died for us, he healed us, he created us, he loves us. In my mind, that is a bit of a contradiction.

The second contradiction is found in the New Testament. Jesus teaches about how much God loves all of his children. And their is no death because God got angry, or anything like that. Then, we get to Acts chapter 5, where God becomes almost exactly like he was in the Old Testament and kills Saphira and Ananias. He loves us with all of his heart, and yet he kills us when he's angry? Oh, boy, God is angry a lot, though, so we are screwed. Hope this helped a little bit.

Answer 3

http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/jim_meritt/bible-contradictions.html
http://biblebabble.curbjaw.com/gospels.htm
http://members.aol.com/ckbloomfld/
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/donald_morgan/intro.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alleged_inconsistencies_in_the_Bible
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfulfilled_historical_predictions_by_Christians
http://www.atheists.org/christianity/contradictions.html
http://www.ffrf.org/books/lfif/?t=contra

There's a few to get you started. There are lots more websites as well. Besides contradictions and errors, (estimated at least 50,000) there are also 200,000-400,000 translation differences between all the known versions of the Bible, from the earliest manuscript to the most recent English translation.

Also books. These all cover a smaller number of errors and contradictions but go into them in much more detail showing that they really are errors, and can't just be explained away by the apologists. They refute all the apologetics with facts not wishful thinking.

"Who Wrote the Gospels?" by Randal Helms
"The Bible Against Itself" by Randal Helms
"Misquoting Jesus" by Bart Erhman
"101 Myths of the Bible" by Gary Greenburg
"Gospel Fictions" by Randal Helms

Answer 4

I think you will find many of the 'contradictions' are misunderstandings about the meaning of the text. The ancient Hebrew wrote with a literary style that is not common today and also they have an oral tradition which is used alongside the text. This is usually not mentioned by people today because they either do not know this or find it does not support their claims. If you think you have found some you should post them. I think you will have a friendly debate here too.

Answer 5

There are many alleged contradictions. But the Bible neither contradicts in theology nor history. Things like the 2 geneologies argument have been debunked for centuries. Many times when you hear of "contradictions" they are just arguments that are refuted time and time again.

Answer 6

Start on page 1 and read carefully. When you really pay attention you'll notice a great number of switch meanings and clever grammatical set-ups which allow for several interpretations of many idea presented in there. Then it's as simple as interpreting it the way you like and claiming via straw-man fallacy that your opponent is discredited. It's done every day in debates and politics.

Answer 7

You will find many contradictions but the people who believe this book make it their business to shoot down whatever you come up with which makes perfect sense from their perspective doesn't it. If they let your ideas go it would kill there God and bible in one swoop. I would say look in the new testament for the contradictions you seek. Jesus basically contradicts everything God the creator spent centuries to establish and in one man his laws and ideas were crushed by this man who claimed to be God. In the old it warned of false prophets and Jesus is one them! If you give me a thumbs down you understand what I say as truth!

Answer 8

Read it refusing to accept any of it. That is the biggest contradiction you can find because all contradictions found in the bible are interpretive contradictions.

Answer 9

how about "eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth" in the OT which then changes to "turn the other cheek".

Two totally opposite views from the same religion.

If you hope to convince christians that thier religion is a load of rubbish with this, I don't think you will have much luck. Most of them are too brain washed to even be able to look at any arguments objectively. I wouldnt waste your time on it.

Answer 10

there are no contradictions in the bible, there may be verses that seem to contradict another , but on deeper analysis, everything is proven consistent
on the other hand, what u will find in the bible will make u believe that its from god, u will find prophecies fullfilled etc

Answer 11

There May Be Contradictions. You Have To Seek Guidance From The Holy Spirit