Try to justifiy this contradiction:
14. How many overseers did Solomon appoint for the work of building the temple?
Three thousand six hundred (2 Chronicles 2:2)
Three thousand three hundred (I Kings 5:16)
2007-11-01 23:51:45 · 16 answers · asked by Acid 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Why would God let his message to be written by many different people and the message is lost!
isnt the message for mankind!? Or was it only for People of those time? If latter is true and its time to come to Islam!
2007-11-02 00:00:57 · update #1
SEAN! LOL GOOD JOB!
I M ENJOYING MOST OF THE ANSWERS .
The Athiests too provides good answers ! :D
Oh yes where is that Jesussaves Guy??
2007-11-02 00:02:55 · update #2
JESUSSAVES GUY! : Why dont u teach me man!?
GUYS! Why is this Jesussaves guy unable to see this contradiction?
2007-11-02 00:05:58 · update #3
Cmon man...anyone can screw up a body count....hit them with something more than THAT!!! Here..try explaining THESE...
ON THE SABBATH DAY
"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy." -- Exodus 20:8
"One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind." -- Romans 14:5
ON THE PERMANENCY OF THE EARTH
"... the earth abideth for ever." -- Ecclesiastes 1:4
"... the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up." -- 2Peter 3:10
ON SEEING GOD
"... I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved." -- Genesis 32:30
"No man hath seen God at any time..."-- John 1:18
ON HUMAN SACRIFICE
"... Thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God..." -- Leviticus 18:21
[In Judges, though, the tale of Jephthah, who led the Israelites against the Ammonoites, is being told. Being fearful of defeat, this good religious man sought to guarantee victory by getting god firmly on his side. So he prayed to god] "... If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands, Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the LORD's, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering" (Judges 11:30-31).
[The terms were acceptable to god -- remember, he is supposed to be omniscient and know the future -- so he gave victory to Jephthah, and the first whatsoever that greeted him upon his glorious return was his daughter, as god surely knew would happen, if god is god. True to his vow, the general made a human sacrifice of his only child to god!] -- Judges 11:29-34
ON THE POWER OF GOD
"... with God all things are possible." -- Matthew 19:26
"...The LORD was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron." -- Judges 1:19
ON DEALING WITH PERSONAL INJURY
"...thou shalt give life for life, Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. " -- Exodus 21:23-25
"...ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on the right cheek, turn to him the other also." -- Matthew 5:39
ON CIRCUMCISION
"This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised." -- Genesis 17:10
"...if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing." -- Galatians 5:2
ON INCEST
"Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of this mother..." -- Deuteronomy 27:22
"And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter...it is a wicked thing...." -- Leviticus 20:17
[But what was god's reaction to Abraham, who married his sister -- his father's daughter?] See Genesis 20:11-12
"And God said unto Abraham, As for Sara thy wife...I bless her, and give thee a son also of her..." -- Genesis 17:15-16
ON TRUSTING GOD
"A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD..." -- Proverbs 12:2
Now consider the case of Job. After commissioning Satan to ruin Job financially and to slaughter his shepherds and children to win a petty bet with Satan. God asked Satan: "Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause." -- Job 2:3
ON THE HOLY LIFE-STYLE
"Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart..." -- Ecclesiastes 9:7
"...they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not..." -- 1 Corinthians 7:30
ON PUNISHING CRIME
"The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father..." -- Ezekiel 18:20
"I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation..." -- Exodus 20:5
ON TEMPTATION
"Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man." -- James 1:13
"And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham..." -- Genesis 22:1
ON FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS
"Honor thy father and thy mother..."-- Exodus 20:12
"If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. " -- Luke 14:26
ON RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD
"...he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. " -- Job 7:9
"...the hour is coming, in which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth...." -- John 5:28-29
ON THE END OF THE WORLD
"Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom. " -- Matthew 16:28
"Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled. Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away. " -- Luke 21:32-33
"And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light." -- Romans 13:11-12
"Be ye also patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh." -- James 5:8
"Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time." -- 1 John 2:18
"But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer." -- 1 Peter 4:7
These words were written between 1800 and 1900 years ago and were meant to warn and prepare the first Christians for the immediate end of the world. Some words are those supposedly straight out of the mouth of the "Son of God." The world did not end 1800 or 1900 years ago. All that generation passed away without any of the things foretold coming to pass. No amount of prayer brought it about; nor ever so much patience and belief and sober living. The world went on, as usual, indifferent to the spoutings of yet another batch of doomsday prophets with visions of messiahs dancing in their deluded brains. The world, by surviving, makes the above passages contradictions.
2007-11-02 00:00:32 · answer #1 · answered by Seán 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
It doesn't matter exactly how many because obviously numbers are going to be confused.
It's not as if they were counted individually it was probably just an estimate.
The message is important not the numbers.
In response to Sean's answer - Most of the books in the Bible were written by different people hundreds of years apart. Some things are bound to get confused and people have different opinions and these probably came into play also. Gospel writers may not have heard the Genesis story so would not have known that God had been seen face-to-face so would interpret it as best they could.
Jesus was God incarnate so God had kind of been seen face-to-face anyway.
As for the Genesis story it is just that... another parable told to try to convey how the world was created and how we have come to receive original sin. None of the Genesis story is real or literal!
2007-11-02 00:14:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Come on, you got to do better than that...
Different authors written during different times and one of them might be *wrong*... Oh wait, I'm helping you... Hold on.
Apologetics time baby!
What you don't know is that 300 of them were slackers and boated to Australia for surfing. The writer of Kings was jealous and decided not to count them in you see...
Or better yet, 300 were only supervisors and not chief deputies. 300 were demoted because of the above surfing incident.
I guess the moral of the story is:
This is why I don't believe in the bible inerrancy doctrine. It just makes us look silly trying to justify and harmonize everything. Doing so is idolatry I believe because people are making the bible into a divine thing like God.
The bible is a book written by people, for people, mainly about God.
If you want to ask a good one use these:
Gen 6:19-20
Gen 7:2-3
Gen 7:8-9, 15-16
2007-11-02 00:01:22 · answer #3 · answered by Emperor Insania Says Bye! 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I could answer your question. In organizing the work, Solomon conscripted 30,000 men out of Israel, sending them to Lebanon in shifts of 10,000 for a month, with a two-month sat at home between shifts. (1 kings 5:13, 14) As burden bearers, he conscripted 70,000 from among the "alien residents" in the land, and as cutters, 80,000. (1 kings 5:15; 9:20; 21; 2 Chronicles 2:2) As foremen over the work, Solomon appointed 550 men and apparently 3,300 as ASSISTANTS (1 Kings 5:16; 9:22, 23) It appears that, of these, 250 were Israelites and 3,600 were "alien residents" in Israel. (2 chronicles 2:17, 18.)
So we see that the bible dosen't contradict. It is just that you will have to investigate, to understand it.
If this dosen't answer your question, let me know.
2007-11-02 01:03:10 · answer #4 · answered by Mely 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you would like to know for sure you need to visit the Jeb Bush favorite "HOLY LAND" amusement park in Orlando, Florida where they have a replica of Solomon's temple built in there. It is a 1:1 replica and it looks rather small. It took Solomon 7 years to build using an astronomical number of slaves working in 2 shifts...!!! When you see it you are forced to say... "you're kidding me!" -- I could build it by myself in less than a month! -- It had no plumbing and no electrical wiring so much easier to build! Hey, Solomon depletes the cedar forests in Lebanon for the wood to construct the doors of the Temple and so on...
BTW, if God the Holy Ghost inspired the Bible writers... he/it(KJV) was probably confused or had a terrible hangover... Carbon paper didn't exist in those days. So the Holy Ghost had to jump from one writer to the next whenever they were ready to write anything... that can be confusing to anybody!
2007-11-02 00:15:15 · answer #5 · answered by Opus 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Unlike the Q'uran which Muslims claim was written by the hand of Allah and passed to Mohammed all nice and neatly typed with numbered pages and footnotes, the Bible was inspired by God. He didn't dictate its contents and He wasn't overly interested in nitpicky nonsense. His message got across to all who gave and give a rat's patootie.
Viz and to whit:
There IS a God. There is NO pantheon of deities busy dragging each other around by the braids and spilling their blood all over the universe.
Man IS created in the image of God. And the how and when of it is unimportant!
Man is created to be the child of God, NOT His plaything, NOT His slave, and NOT His scapegoat.
Man is fallen in his nature, unable to live up to his true potential. The exact mechanics of the problem are unimportant. Jesus came to us and fixed that. EVERY SINGLE PERSON on earth has the opportunity now to live up to their potential as a child of God. If not while on earth, then at death when they meet the Risen and Glorified Lord and hear His invitation to, "Come. Follow Me."
Given all of the above, a slight miscalculation in the exact number of non-union workers becomes totally inconsequential!
The only people who might be bothered by it are those poor souls whose faith is utterly dependent upon the belief in the literal inerrancy of Scripture, a belief which does not even qualify as a crutch, but a weak reed indeed.
It does, however, provide a foolish and specious excuse for atheists with little or no decency or good sense to "dig" at the faith of billions. Pity their lives are so puerile.
2007-11-02 00:17:22 · answer #6 · answered by Granny Annie 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
a million.Judas loss of life: while somebody commits suicide, there are continually rumors with regards to the hows and whys. The "how" does not rather count quantity, does it? if reality learn, the guy felt in charge and killed himself. perhaps by using surprising, perhaps by using leaping -- in spite of the fact that. It in simple terms does not rely. 2. Slaves: Slaves have been extensive-unfold on the time the previous testomony and New testomony have been written. Acknowledging that there have been slaves isn't condoning slavery. Giving slave-proprietors and slaves information for handling the placement in a Christian way isn't condoning slavery. Christianity from the 1st replaced into continually "radical" approximately no longer have social training yet treating everybody as equivalent, and you could tell that by using the thought slaves could be lively factors of the Christian community, too.
2016-10-03 04:13:24 · answer #7 · answered by manjeet 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry if I'm offending anyone but the Bible is full of contradictions. That is because the old kings and religious people changed stuff to suit themselves or to exaggerate certain things. For example, it is not mentioned anywhere in the Bible that Jesus is anything but a prophet of God. Think about it!
2007-11-01 23:59:00 · answer #8 · answered by crab1 2 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Different people wrote the accounts. Each estimated. Obviously the answers differed a little bit.
God didn't edit for consistency.
Computers didn't exist yet.
The deadline arrived and the book was sent to the publisher.
The publisher didn't edit for consistency.
Computers didn't exist yet.
The deadline arrived for people who wanted to buy faith and so they bought the Bible.
People didn't care about consistency. At first.
Computers didn't exist yet.
God didn't edit for consistency.
2007-11-01 23:57:02 · answer #9 · answered by redfelipe 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Like I said the Bible was written by many men over hundreds of years. Thing get lost mistranslated or embellished.
2007-11-01 23:56:26 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Apparently the "inspired word of god" is both open to interpretation as you see fit and also full of contradictions because "men wrote it".
2007-11-01 23:59:31 · answer #11 · answered by Cotton Wool Ninja 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋