Why does bible have contradictions if its the word of God for according to Bible God is not the author of ...?

Question

God is not the author of confusion

Answer 1

Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the worlds and surely the best of guidance...

Surely the Quran is a book that has never been changed. As Allah says in the Quran he would preserve it till the end of this world. The book as Allah says is from Allah but the people have changed it to suit their own lives and has not been preserved properly and so therefore errors were formed by humans. Here are some of the errors...

First of all lets go to the Book of Genesis, Chapter 1 says that the heavens and earth was created in 6 days and talks about the morning and evening, referring to a 24 hour period of 6 days.

Now the book of genesis (1:3 and 5) talks about the creation of light on the first day.

Book of genesis (1:14 and 19) says that the cause of light, i.e sun and the stars etc. were created on the 4th day.

The error is- How can Light be created before even the cause of light has been created (i.e the sun and the stars).

Book of genesis(1:9-13) says that the earth was created on the 3rd day.

Error- without the earth created how can you have a day or night because it depends on teh earth's rotation.

Book of genesis(1:11-13) says that the vegetation(i.e the plants herbs etc.) were created on the 3rd day, while the sun was created on teh 4th day.

ERR. how can the vegetations survive if the sun was created only on the 4th day.

Book of hebrews(1: 10-11) says that God created the heavens and the earth and that they will perish.

Book of ecclestesies(1:4) says that the erath will abide forever.

ERR. Either one has to be wrong because both cannot take place. One it has to perish or one it has to abide forever. So you have atleast one choice of an error here.

Answer 2

I've read the bible through many times and I can honestly say that, though I have often heard people talk about its many contradictions, I've yet to see them. I admit there are some things that are hard to understand or maybe seem to be contradictory, but I've always found an answer (usually through theologians, historians ,etc.). But it is so amazing that 66 individual books were written by over 40 differernt authors, over the span of 1500 years, in three different languages, on three different continents; and the fact that those 66 books were made into one and have survived the the centuries of war and those who have tried to destroy it, is a testimony that God inspired it. Also, the bible has one theme, redemption, and all the prophecies of old pointed to Christ, and since He resurrected and ascended back to God, the world has found hope and reason for living. By the way, it's still the number 1 selling book every year and of all time, and it's still the most read book. And those are just facts. You can trust the word of God.

Answer 3

I can't believe that there are people who have read the bible several times and still don't see any contradictions. That's what blind faith does to people. Or they are so scared of their god, that they don't even dare to question any word in their book.

To answer your question: The bible was written by many people over a long time and therefore it contradicts itself naturally. Only think of the commandments and then the killings that happen in the bible. So god is against killings but sends the great flood and drowns people? Or god asking a man to sacrifice his sun? - OK, he then shows "mercy", but still allows an animal to be killed.

Ah, this book is so full of contradictions, I could go on and on and on. I guess someone should write a book about them, but then probably also gets killed LOL

Answer 4

Easy to answer man wrote it, but lets take a closer look at why. If you think of the time it was written most of man kind could not understand what God was, or have no idea how or where we came from , and no idea how the earth was made, so man wrote the Bible, and all the holy books so man could understand, and learn from it, but man also used it to control man. Try to explain 2 thousand years ago how the earth was made, remember you have no way to prove anything, so it's much easier to add your own words to fill in the missing bits, and to make it easy for others of that time to understand, but remember there is much in the bible than can be proved via history

Answer 5

The Hebrew Scriptures and the writtings of the New Testament have so many contradicitons and inconsistencies due to how and when they were composed and by who.
The Hebrew scriptures were not written down until the time of the Baylonion deportation when it was discoverd that many of those persons who had memorized the text (as it was primarily carried and distributed at that time, a common practice of many cultures) had died or were dying. Three different groups, the priestly, sect, the scribe and the Eloist all wrote their own versions with differences or variations contained in each, promoting the ideaology and political perspective of each. The books attributred to Moses (the Torah, the first five books) obviously were not written by the prophet (peace be upon him) as they contain the details of his death and burial.
There is also the problem of the various disporations (by the Phoneicians, Assyrians, Meedes, Greeks and Romans, etc.) where for all practical purposes, the Hebrew scriptures, in Hebrew, were lost and/or destoryed. The Septagent, a Greek versions of these wrtings were translated back into Hebrew.
Then there were the political debates as to what is and what is not scripture with the Jewish community, just as it was debated as to who was and was not a prophet sent by God (YHWH, in Hebrew).
Transaations are not as good as originals, and the further a docuament is removed from the original the less reliable it becomes. When you add the political/power aspect to the mix, with committtees serving as the deciding group the problems become worse and more involved.
Similar probmes happened in the compilation and composition of the books of the New Testament. None of the currently accepted books were written until seventy to one hundred years after the earthly ministry of the Prophet Jesus (peace be upn him) had ended. All of his original companions had also died by that time so you have "schools" which supposedly wrote in the style of Mark, or John, or Peter, or James, or Judas, etc. None of the books were written in the languages which Jesus would have spoken or used in his daily life (i.e., Hebrew for religious services, Aramaic among the Jews of Palestine as the usual spoken daily language, common Greek as the language of business in the Middle East of that time and a little Formal and common Latin which he might have learned for the then occupying army). They were written in Classical Greek.
The Roman Catholic church decided, by committee, what was and was not scripture at the time of the Council of Nicene shortly after the Emporer Constantine made Catholicism the religion of the state.
UNless you are a bibical scholar, chances are good that you have only read transaltions of the works that have been accepted, noting the difference in what has been accepted by the many and various sects of Christianity. any translation you might be reading is probably very far removed from the origninal.
The only inspired scripture available now is the Holy Qur'an, which is still written in the language in which it was revealed, was compliled during the lifetime of the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, and shortly after his death and is complete and consistent throughout. If you have never read it, it might be worth your time to do so even though you will likely have to read a translation, unless you are willing to learn Arabic (which would also be worht you time and effort.)
I hope that this brief historical overview helps clear some of your confusion.
For a good overview of the Old Testament, including hisotry, development, writing styles, etc, please refer to the St. Jerome's Bibical Compendium. There information regarding the New Testament is also very good (and very honest for mostly Catholic scholars).

Answer 6

The bible was written by many people on different times indeed. I do think that this book has a long term purpose which was good for certain people but very negative for others. Its just sickening to learn from this that God has choses certain people and to hell for others. hihi
What's so strange is to learn that Jews had lived in the desert for 40 years leaded by Moses out of Pharoes land, and still today we never saw any acheology who could prove that!!!
For millions of years bones of human beings had been discovered in Africa early as this century, that means there should be traces of these people in the desert if that is true.

Answer 7

Men look for contradictions where none exist. Men also like to start their own little groups, in opposition to the authority of the only church that Jesus personally founded.

All of this leads to confusion.

Everything God saw fit to include in authentic scripture (which effectively rules out many existing versions and translations) is totally without error.

Answer 8

Look. I have been to those Atheist sites that point out all these supposed contrdictions. They pile them up so that you won't check on them. Almost all of the time, they don't know what they are talking about. They are unscholarly. Thanks for not posting a plethera of verses, because I keep checking them out, and most of them are silly attempts by English speaking Atheists who try to understand everything in the Bible using English only. That's fine if you want to remain an Atheist-- call it stubborness, laziness, unscholarly, and irrational, but don't call it admirable.

So I am telling you, Almost all the supposed contradictions are just lame English attempts at denying the Bible that they already made up their minds not to believe.

Send me two contradictions, PLEASE. If they are contradictions ( I'm NOT saying that there aren't any! ) then I will tell you that they are contradictions. If they are not contradictions, then I will tell you why.

Just don't believe everything that you read from those sites, unless you want to commit intellectual suicide.

Answer 9

The bible was written by a great many people, and suffers from transcription errors and mis-translations. There is an entire academic discipline devoted to study of the origins of the bible, and it's quite a long and interesting story. The bible may or may not be the "word of God", in the sense that the writers (and copyists and editors) may have been "inspired" by God.

There are, as you point out, many minor and well-known inconsistencies (wives of Cain and Able, number of people and angels at the tomb of Jesus, etc.). These are not really significant, in my opinion. What matters more is that the moral system laid out in the bible is ancient, obsolete, and cruel. The bible describes how to treat your slaves. The bible commands the death of idolaters. The bible urges genocide upon non-Jewish tribes. The bible suggests it's OK to pimp your daughters. Clearly, it is an ancient political text more than it is the basis for a just and caring life.

Answer 10

Its not that it has contradictions.
Its just that you look for them. So therefor, you find them. Alot of things in the bible, relate to events that happened at another time and place.
They are just referring to, events that have passed. so one can have a better understanding.
Or that somethings mean the same as others. but are worded different. And have different meanings. depending on how one reads it. No one said God wrote it. What was wrote, was what was relayed to the person ,who wrote it.