To all the wise people who say the Bible is full contradictions?

Question

Don't you think they would have changed it before they would let the public read it. And if its wrote by a lot of uneducated people they get my vote for a book that's endured a long time thur history

Answer 1

They did change it alot before letting people read it. That is the problem.

Answer 2

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The origin of the English Bibles of today can be traced to a time when men, supposedly under the divine inspiration of God, first wrote the books of the Bible. Before the fourth century CE, there were more that 30 different gospels, some of which can be found on the Gnostic & Apocrypha page. Many were officially outlawed during the Council Nicaea in 325 CE and the Council of Laodicea in 364 CE. These councils eventually agreed on what is now considered the "word of God", under the direction of Constantine, collating the accepted teachings into a single comprehensive book.

Most of what we now know as the Old Testament was originally written in Hebrew, and the New Testament largely in Aramaic or common (koine) Greek. Since no printing press existed until 1450 AD, all of the original compilations of the Bible were done by hand.


The supposed "historical facts" don’t even line up. Like the wrong prophet with the wrong king at the wrong battle and it was first written down years after the fact. That’s is historical fiction. The setting maybe a historical fact, but what they said happened is fiction. We don’t know who wrote the gospel, The first one Mark was written at least 30 to 60 years after Jesus died. Matthew and Luke had a copy of Mark with them when they wrote their books. John was deliberately written to fill in the gaps and the arguments that the new christian faith was having. These are stories passed on for years and years before written down. None of these are first hand accounts even though they are written that way.
Every religion has their spin on it, but try to find the facts. The conclusion is that there is little in the bible old or new that is fact. It mentions places that are real, but that’s about it. You can walk the streets where Jesus carried his cross, but did he really carry a cross? I try to find sources out side the bible that mention the same thing the bible does. Like the census that was talked and why Joseph went to Bethlehem. No record of it ever happening outside the bible. This is not the stone age. There was all kinds of trading with other countries. Something should have been mention somewhere about this massive disruption of the economy. Anyhow, we base our faith on the stories of Jesus in the gospels. It they can not be proven as fact, even by the Roman empire, then faith is based on fiction?

What is the foundation? Well, I learned that my foundation is not on a book, but in a feeling I have. The love of Jesus Christ, fictional character or not is a real love. It’s a unconditional Divine love. I just decided to let go of the dogma and go with my feeling. Believe what I want to believe on faith. No one can know that mind of God, so why try. The only thing true in the bible is that we should love one another as (fill in the blank with any loving divinity) has loved us.

Answer 3

"They" did change it. Both before and after it was released to the public. However, the people doing the changing had just as diverse an assortment of ideas as the people that originally wrote it, so the rewriting probably added as many contradictions as it removed.

The Bible is a book written by a "committee" in which the committee members couldn't communicate with each other and were often separated by vast amounts of time and cultural differences. Small wonder it has so many inconsistencies and contradictions.

Rather than choosing to base your faith on a book that is so obviously flawed in so many ways, why don't you just find a different basis for your faith? It would be a lot easier than constantly having to deal with all the obvious problems with the text. A lot of Christians manage to be Christian without having to believe that a book full of errors contains no errors.

Your insistence on believing that the Bible is somehow perfect and holy is really a form of idolatry. The Bible was created by men, just like the idols of the ancient times. The idolaters believed their idols were perfect and holy too, even if they saw obvious scratches and nicks. Your belief is just a superstition, it is exactly like their belief.

Answer 4

Some people are gullible enough to accept anything without looking in to it anyway.

If more people were wise, and questioned things the world would be a much better place, and religion would have died off ages ago.

While there are people still gullible enough to believe it the powers that be are going to continue cashing in on it. Big business religion.

Answer 5

Check out the names of the 12 apostles.
The list in the Gospel of Luke is different from the one in the Gospel of Marcus. Both men (Marcus & Luke) had never met Jesus during their lifetime!

Answer 6

It's not so much the writers of the bible as it is the lack of a good editor. I'm sure they were counting on people being taken in by the so-called word of god that any discrepancies would be overlooked. And it worked.

Answer 7

The contradictions were made after science advanced in the more recent years.

Answer 8

Give me a break. Have you read the bible? It IS full of contradictions. Mosaic law has been contradicted.
BTW, I'm a Christian.

Answer 9

It reflects the different cultural needs of the different eras in which it was written. Of course, there will be contradictions.

Answer 10

I do not stand by that ignorant assumption.Test His resolve. As you are. Religion. Nothing but a power play and that is simplistic at best. Enjoy your tragedy while you can. I can't wait to see the fall.