Christians: How many Bible contradictions can you explain?

Question

Here's a list of about 70 Biblical contradictions. How many can you explain?

http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/jim_meritt/bible-contradictions.html

Answer 1

hey Jared, how many Dr. Seuss stories can you explain?

Answer 2

1) SOME crucifixions had nails through the wrists. 2) SOME crucifixions had nails more distal and through the palm. 2) SOME crucifixions had NO nails, but the arms were tied to the patibulum (cross bar). 3) In the original language of the New Testament, little distinction was made between hand and wrist. The people at the time weren't so anal about exactly were on the hand/wrist the nail was put. Their main focus was on the main point -- the one who had been crucified and a spear run into his side was there talking to them. He had risen as he had told them he would. Biblically, the nail could have been through either the wrist or palm. EDIT: 'Nail through palm CAN'T hold up a person. ' Actually someone tried it on a human replica and the palm did hold up. [Note: TWO palms, plus feet, plus the friction from the wood, plus the pain that would keep someone from putting all their weight on the palms.] EDIT: Modern crucifixes are not reliable replica. The Bible does not specify palm or wrist. The Bible indicates hand (which for those writing the text could be palm or wrist.) A modern crucifix carries as much authority as an Italian painting of the Christ. [Who cares what the Italian painting looks like? The Bible indicates that Jesus was Jewish not Italian. (Also, David was circumcised regardless of what Michelangelo's sculpture shows -- in case this might become an issue too.)]

Answer 3

Quite a few actually. Some months back, I did about 25 of them. It took me a couple hours, so it's a good thing I got BA for it, lol. Give me a minute, and I'll find the link. Some of the others (and then some) are done here:
http://debate.org.uk/topics/apolog/contrads.htm

I'll be back in a minute with the other link.

Okay, it took longer than I thought it would. It was WAYYYY back on my list of BAs. Anyway, I wish I could actually rewrite it. I was mistaken about some of the things on there (like with the insects that supposedly had four legs. After I looked into the passage further, it goes on to say that they have four legs for walking, and two more for jumping. Sounds like crickets and grasshoppers, doesn't it?). Oh well. Here's the link:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ag7h0dNi9u7_QUBJa4ngVlLty6IX?qid=20061201165456AA3W8z2&show=7#profile-info-1269184a04c2a5ecd44d66727f8fabfaaa

Answer 4

Wow, impressive scholarship and research.

But my question is: what's the point of explaining Bible contradictions?

Everybody except for the hard-headed, fact-ignoring, weak-of-faith fundamentalists (and, granted, there are a bunch of them) KNOWS the bible is full of contradictions and mistakes about biology and psychology.

But that doesn't mean God's truth can't still be in there.

Just exactly the same way God works through weak, fallible, self-contradicting people today, He works through the contradictions and "mistakes" in the bible, a book that was written through His inspired, but nevertheless fallible sons and daughters..

The point is unchanged, to me. The bible is God's word. It's just not a magical book full of pixie dust that you can just suspend your intelligence to read. It's an insult to God to put your brain on "pause" to read scripture and just expect everything in there to be unquestionable.

God gave us brains and expects us to use them even when, ESPECIALLY when we read His word.

Answer 5

The bible was written by people, moreover, storytellers. It was written several hundred years after the death of it's deity (New testament). As for the old testament, it is predominantly from the jewish texts and is irrelevant unless you lived in that time. This is because at that time in human evolution all of the acts of nature needed to be explained as supernatural.

The point is, the biggest contradiction that the bible has is that it is made of parables (stories with underlying meanings) and yet it is sold in the non-fiction secion of the book store.

Answer 6

There are very few contradictions if you are able to recognize that much of the Bible is meant to be taken figuratively, and not literally. I mean...c'mon a flood covering the ENTIRE planet? Even if the ice caps melt, there STILL wouldn't be enough liquid water on earth for that. The earth created in exactly 6 days? Please! Much of the Bible is obviously metaphor.

Answer 7

All of this can be overlooked as long as the ones doing the overlooking use the Bible to condemn gay people.

Answer 8

I & my Father are one===Only God-Realized person like JESUS can say this & not by layman.
2. Possibilities of translation & printing mistakes
3. Jesus & Trinity cannot be denied

Answer 9

Now with these supposed contradictions, Has the person who wrote those questions actually read the chapter that those verses came from?

Answer 10

C'Mon. You know as well as I do that the Jesus freaks will have a stupid explanation for all of them.