Christians plz: Do u believe that those 101 contradictions are present in ur Bible?!?

Question

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plz educate politely .

When Jesus walked on water how did the disciples respond?
(a) They worshipped him, saying, “Truly you are the Son of God”
(Matthew 14:33).
(b) “They were utterly astounded, for they did not understand about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened” (Mark 6:51-52).

Who was the father of Joseph, husband of Mary?
(a) Jacob (Matthew 1:16).
(b) Heli (Luke 3:23).

Jesus descended from which son of David?
(a) Solomon (Matthew 1:6).
(b) Nathan (Luke 3:31).

Did Jesus allow his disciples to keep a staff on their journey?
(a) Yes (Mark 6:8).
(b) No (Matthew 10:9; Luke 9:3).

According to the Gospel of John, what did Jesus say about bearing his own witness?
(a) “If I bear witness to myself, my testimony is not true”(John 5:31).
(b) “Even if I do bear witness to myself, my testimony is true”
(John 8:14).

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Answer 1

While there are contradictions in the Bible, they come from the fact that the Bible was written by many different men at many different times. Additionally, they were hand-copied by scribes many times over, and the originals of any manuscript have long since been lost. Whole books of the Bible (the oldest Pentateuch for example) are actually compliations of stories, such as two versions of the story of creation of the world, of man, etc. In short, the Bible is a work of Man.

You can't treat the Bible as the direct word of God straight from his mouth. It is divinely inspired but is not divine. It is a tool for us to become closer to God, but we have to understand how it was written and what the intentions were.

The differences you point out below stem from the fact that the Bible is the work of man. These come from the Gospels of the New Testament. Each of these Gospels was a text which comes to us from the descendents of the disciples of Christ, not from the disciples themselves. Luke, Mark, Matthew and John did not write them. They were written down several generations after Christ died, and everyone who personally knew him were already dead.

These Gospels come to us through the followers of the first disciples of Christ (those who knew him), and the teachings were passed down orally from teacher to student several times before finally being written down as we know them today. So it's easy to see how the facts could become distorted or altered with time.

Additionally, the original disciples of Jesus (and then their disciples) placed different emphases in different teachings and stories of Jesus. The Gospel of Mark focuses on Jesus being the Crucified Messiah, i.e. how Jesus, while remaining misunderstood and rejected was at the same time God's triumphant envoy, and focuses very little on elaborating Jesus's teachings and records few of his sayings.

The Gospel of Matthew focuses on how Jesus has come and fullfilled the prophecies of the Old Testament, and gives many details of Jesus' birth, life, death, and resurrection. It also focuses on details of Jewish observances, relationships with Moses, tones down the rebukes given to the disciples by Jesus, and also speaks a great deal about the Final Judgement.

The Gospel of Luke was written for non-Jewish converts, so Jewish customs are less evident, and tends not to write about the same things as Mark and Matthew (it was written at a later date than those two). It was written by an unusually gifted author who had an eye for exact information and orderly narrative, who omits anything derogatory to the dignity of the other disciples, explains obscure phrases and clears up points of topography (especially things the author found to be inconsistent in the Gospels of Mark and Matthew). In short, the author of Luke was a great writer telling a specific story, and was keen to clear up any discrepancies which already existed in the young Christain community.

The Gospel of John is a work that places far more concern in the SIGNIFICANCE of the events of Christ's life and all that he did and said, as opposed to being a documentation of what happened to Christ (a biography). The things Christ did were "signs": their meaning, hidden at first, could only be understood after glorification. The things he said had a deeper meaning not perceived at the time. The gospel according to John looks back on the earthly life of Jesus in light of this completed understanding. It is FAR more interested in worship and sacraments, religious holidays, and also seem to have been inspired by ideas from certain Jewish sects at the time (for example the dualities of Light/Dark, Truth/Lies, etc) such as the Essene documents of Qumran.

In short, each of the Gospels come from different viewpoints, trying to teach early Christians about different concepts regarding Jesus, focusing on and deemphasizing different things, written by different men with different recollections and oral traditions and were thus inevitably are going to have different ideas as to certain things in the Bible.

It is divinely inspired, but is not divine.

While being the work of man, it still teaches us much about who Jesus was, what his teachings were, and what the effects of his life and death had upon the world around him. If you take all of the stories as a whole, you come to a better understanding of Jesus than you have from any one of the Gospels by themselves. You have to understand the limitations of the Gospels, but the value of them is great nonetheless.

Answer 2

Those that come to the Bible with unbelief will find so called 'contradictions.' However Christian have found answers to each one of these situations. Sometimes one writer of the gospels captures one statement and the other remembers another statement. Try having two people take minutes in a meeting and you will have one recording one statement and other picking out another which was spoken. Both are true, but they need to be harmonized. Or another reason for so called contradictions is that an event happened more then once thus the first time this happened and the second time this happened.

Example #1: Mark and Matthew accounts of walking on water are compatible stories. In Matthew you see an immediate response of fear and then a later response of worship. In Mark only the fear or hardening of their hearts are recorded. Again a perfect example of two people recording an event and one recording a more detailed account and one a more brief account.

Example #2: Jacob was the immediate father of Joseph. However the word *immediate* does not appear in the text. The genealogy in Matthew which purposely groups the descendants in groups of 14, showing that Jesus was the son of Abraham, and which was designed for a Jewish audience. In Luke we see a list designed for a gentile audience where the reason for the list is to prove that Jesus was a son of Adam.

Example #3: Luke's genealogy shows the ancestry of Mary, while Matthew shows the genealogy of Joseph.

Example #4: In Mark they are allowed a single staff. In Matthew they to not allow staffs - as in the plural! There is no contradiction.

Example #5: In John 5:31 Jesus was speaking as he was being preserved by the Jews as a mere man. A man needed two or three witnesses for anything to be received. However in John 8:14 Jesus is speaking as He truly is; the second person of the Trinity, which with the Father and Holy Spirit are all the witnesses God needs. Read John 8:17,18; "It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true. I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me."

Answer 3

I'm not a Christian but I was raised as one so I've read some of the Bible and taken an interest in Bible stories. There are a lot more that 101 errors and contradictions in the Bible although it must also be said that the King James version of the Bible was a very carefully compiled translation.

You will find that the same is true of many religious books - including the Koran. You might have difficulty coming to terms with the fact, but many Arabic scholars and historians have worked very hard to research the Koran and related texts and
their findings are well supported.

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Oh dear, I see the usual false validations being quoted already. For those in any doubt, consider the gospel accounts of the time at which Jesus is said to have died: Both the times and durations are wildly different indicating that it is a story written second-hand by different people long after the event.

There are always attempts to justify bizarre stories and attribute some deep meaning to them but such glossed-over interpretations are universally based on personal belief, not academic knowledge. Go to reputable, unbiased academic sources to read these texts in their correct meaning.

Answer 4

These lists come up all the time. Some times the answer is that there has been an error in translation. Other times the answer is that you are reading the same story from two different perspectives or two similar stories but not the exact same story. In the one about who the father of Joseph was it has been understood by many that Luke was giving the lineage of Mary not Joseph. Things like "“If I bear witness to myself, my testimony is not true”(John 5:31). “Even if I do bear witness to myself, my testimony is true”
(John 8:14)." need to be read in the context of what Jesus was communicating.

Some things in the Bible are hard to understand and require quite a bit of learning including knowing the cultural context and knowing the rest of the Bible. Other things are easy to understand like this passage.

John 3:14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. 16 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

The first part is explained in a previous portion of the Bible.

Numbers 21:7 And the people came to Moses and said, "We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD and against you. Pray to the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us." So Moses prayed for the people. 8 And the LORD said to Moses, "Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole, and everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live." 9 So Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on a pole. And if a serpent bit anyone, he would look at the bronze serpent and live.

Answer 5

These supposed contradictions are just an error of reading and a narrow of understanding of the bible...The staff'contradiction ' for instance....is referring to 2 different times when Jesus asked His disciples to go out and preach...many Bible commentators [such as John MacArthur] have read all 4 books and put them together and listed places where their incidences coincide as all 4 books have been written from different points of view

Answer 6

There isn't any. They "write" him into the Torah. They see him where he does not exist. Rabbi Tovia Singer has it down pat. He gives lectures on how Jesus is written into the Torah and then of course you have mistranslations. I once had someone say "Its at the beginning when he said "Let us make man..." he was talking to Jesus". Now come on, that is a BIG stretch. There are so many places where it is clearly not Jesus that those get ignored. I also see that only a few actually gave verses anyway. I won't take the time to say what those verses really mean because it would probably be a waste of my time and energy (and you said you would not read extensive answers and I have a tendency to drone on and on LOL)

Answer 7

Hello, Rose:

Yes, I believe Jesus is the line of David of the tribe of Judah. And Matthew, a patriarchal Jew traces the lineage from Abraham to Joseph--he was the legal head of the house. And Doctor Luke talked with Mary, and knew she was the blood lineage. Both lineages prove Jesus was from the lineage of David, as the predictions say.

There were over a million Jews that looked for excuses not to accept Jesus as the promised Messiah. They should have listened because they perished in Rome's siege and destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70. Yet, not one Christian died--they obeyed Jesus' instructions.

Likewise, there are many who "interpret the Bible to their own destruction", yet God has preserved His Word. Manuscripts written before Christ have been uncovered that match almost perfectly with modern Bibles, and they still prove Jesus is the Messiah from Bible prophecies.

However, for the skeptics, God hid a secret message that tells you twice, "these words are sealed until the end-of-the days."

God knew people would distort His teachings, so the entire plan to save this planet is unfolded. See: http://abiblecode.tripod.com

Blessings and AGAPE, Balaam

Answer 8

Alright, I'll do the first one. After that, you need to go to this site, which addresses all 101 "contradictions."

1) No contradiction. In the first, they proclaimed that Jesus was the Son of God. In the second, they were amazed, because after the miracle of the fish and the loaves, they had not understood. Read the entirety of both chapters.

http://debate.org.uk/topics/apolog/contrads.htm

Answer 9

What's your point? Are you trying to turn people against Christianity?

I believe in the EXAMPLE of Jesus. I don't give a crap about Paul slamming homosexuals and Moses talking about killing doves if you have a wet dream. Jesus' example on earth was one of peace and love that we can all live by. Is that so bad?

Answer 10

Originally these contradictions are 10 times more that that, But we must respect bible because it is some part message of our LORD. even if there is single word sacred for us Muslims.