For Chrsitians who believe the Bible is the perfect Holy word of God?

Question

How do you explain all of the inconsistencies?
Follow the link to find examples.

http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/donald_morgan/inconsistencies.html


Doesn't it take just one error to make it flawed?

The link takes you to pages of bible verses and please read them in context. This is not a trick. I don't think the bible should be trashed because of errors in it, but you shouldn't call it flawless when it is flawed. So “because the bible says so” is not the end of the conversation. When you can admit that the bible has errors then maybe you can let the Holy Spirit guide you instead of something man written.

Answer 1

So you would agree if I found mistakes in a science text made during translation, then the whole book should be scrapped? Since when does disproving a part of something disprove the whole? Nonsense.

Answer 2

OK, I'll bite. I've seen these often and EVERY single time they are wrong, and an atheist or Muslim gets it off some web site.

1st "contradiction"Gen 1: 3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.

14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.

The first passage was the sun, the second was the stars. This is NOT a Contradiction.

2nd "contradiction-
Gen 1:11-27 I won't type it all out, you can look it up. It doesn't say in these passages what day God created man.
Gen 2-it says God created man first-so, no contradiction.

Another lame attempt to disprove the bible.
I'm not looking up any more. I've studied the bible for 20+ years and have never crossed a real contradiction.

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Answer 3

There are lot of contradictions in the Bible. I am just going to quote and describe only 5 of them.

1) According to the Bible, Book of Genesis
Chapter 1, verses 11-13,
Vegetation was created on the third day along with seed-bearing grasses, plants and trees; and further on as per verses 14-19, the sun was created on the fourth day. How is it scientifically possible for the vegetation to have appeared without the presence of the sun, as it has been stated in the Bible?

It also says light is created on the first day where as the source of light 'The Sun' is created on the fourth day. How is this scientifically possible?


2)According to Bible Fowl has four legs.

Lev 11:20-21: "All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you." Fowl do not go upon all four. There has not been any fossils of winged creatures found that has four legs. Insects do not have four feet either.So therefore, it is not very accurate in describing Zoology.

3 )"You shall not murder."
--Exodus 20:13

"Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man."
--Numbers 31:17-18

4)According to Bible King James Version Job 26:11 it says the heaven is placed on pillars. It says

"The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof"
This may be a metaphor but does not seem very scientific.

5) Mathematical problem in the Bible: 1Chronciles 25:3 Of Jeduthun: "The sons of Jeduthun; Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with a harp, to give thanks and to praise the LORD."

When you count them there are five names, not six. Couldn't God find a chronicler who could count?

There are also plenty numerical contradictions in the Bible that I don't want to mention. It only takes one error to make it flawed.

Answer 4

I've seen such lists before.

They are 'apparent' inconsistencies.

Scripture has "stumbling blocks" designed to snare the unwary in their own imaginations in this regard.

The Jewish leaders rejected Jesus as the Christ, using as a rationale that nowhere in the Scriptures did it say a prophet would come out of Nazareth; that the One they waited for would be from Bethlehem.

It never occurred to them that the Messiah would or could move after having been born there.

So, the real question becomes, did Jesus exist, and did he fulfill the prophesies concerning the Messiah found in the Old Testament writings, and not about getting hung up on alleged inconsistencies.

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Answer 5

"One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch girl."

There is nothing that is 100% anything. Truth is completely subjective. That is why CSI has taken over court cases, as human testimony is unreliable. They might believe it to be the truth, and to them it is. But they witnessed something from a perspective (mental & actual) different from another. From a different advantage point, a different point of view.

If everyone adhered to the "facts & truths" there wouldn't be so opinions about everything. The great point is that we have evolved to the point of tolerence (more or less). So believe what you want and we will believe what we want.

Answer 6

These are not 'inconsistencies'. They are paradoxes. God's ways are not man's ways. God created the universe with everything in perfect harmony. It's man who is inconsistent. He can't make up his feable mind that God is real and knows the end from the beginning.

Answer 7

Distinguish between apparent inconsistencies and real contradictions!

Answer 8

There are no significant inconsistencies in the Bible. I will not follow your link because I don't need to view propaganda of your point of view. If you want to explain your point of view, please explain it, but if you cannot and need some web site to do it for you, maybe you don't really believe it anyway.

Answer 9

The bibile is not the holy word of God. It is man's interpretation of various events related to religion. God didn't write it, man did.

Answer 10

I'LL BE HONEST WITH YOU, IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE IN GOD YOU WILL ALWAYS FIND INCONSISTENSIES. WILL YOU CONDEMN GOD AND MAKE YOURSELF RIGHTEOUS. I SAY THIS TO YOU. PRAY TO JESUS AND TELL HIM EXACTLY WHAT YOU THINK IN A SINCERE WAY. THEN ASK HIM TO HELP YOUR UNBELIEF AND IF THIS DINE SINCERELY FOR THE PUROPOSE OF FINDING GOD THEN HE WILL ANSWER IN SOMEWAY OR ANOTHER. WHEN WE DONT COMPREHEND STUFF WE CALL THEM INCONSISTENT. BUT WHEN YOU BELIVE YOU BEGIN TO SEE THINGS LIKE NEVER BEFORE. YOUR SPIRITUAL MIND WILL BE AWAKENED.