atheist, what are some of the errors and contradictions in the bible?

Answer 1

Here is small example of biblical contradictions

http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/contra/by_name.html

Enjoy reading.

Answer 2

1. When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a pleasing odor for the Lord -- Lev.1:9. The problem is my neighbors. They claim the odor is not pleasing to them. Should I smite them?

2. I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her?

3. I know that I am allowed no contact with a woman while she is in her period of menstrual uncleanliness -- Lev.15: 19-24. The problem is how do I tell? I have tried asking, but most women take offense.

4. Lev. 25:44 states that I may indeed possess slaves, both male and female, provided they are purchased from neighboring nations. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans, but not Canadians. Can you clarify? Why can't I own Canadians?

5. I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2. The passage clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself?

6. A friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is an abomination - Lev. 11:10, it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I don't agree. Can you settle this? Are there "degrees" of abomination?

7. Lev. 21:20 states that I may not approach the altar of God if I have a defect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear reading glasses. Does my vision have to be 20/20, or is there some wiggle room here?

8. Most of my male friends get their hair trimmed, including the hair around their temples, even though this is expressly forbidden by Lev.19:27. How should they die?

9. I know from Lev. 11:6-8 that touching the skin of a dead pig makes me unclean, but may I still play football if I wear gloves?

10. My uncle has a farm. He violates Lev. 19:19 by planting two different crops in the same field, as does his wife by wearing garments made of two different kinds of thread (cotton/polyester blend). He also tends to curse and blaspheme a lot. Is it really necessary that we go to all the trouble of getting the whole town together to stone them? -- Lev.24:10-16. Couldn't we just burn them to death at a private family affair like we do with people who sleep with their in-laws? (Lev. 20:14)

Answer 3

There are no errors or Contradictions in the bible, nor in the Bag-vat Geetha nor in the Koran nor in the 'Gone with the wind nor in Grimes' fairy tales.
Who got the idea that there are errors and contradictions in fairy tales or fictional literature?

Answer 4

You can start by comparing the old & new testiment. If you can't tell something is seriously amist, consider the following:
If you are to feast in heaven with god...you will eventually need to crap(bible neglects this obvious reality). Perhaps in heaven we fart perfume, but I would suspect someone would have spoke of this selling feature.

Answer 5

Most of Geneses accept when it states that life originated from the soil where bacteria had lived 3.5 billion years ago. Proof is recorded in the fossilised rocks and tested under scientific analysis as this same bacteria can be found today.

Answer 6

firstly, there's the old, and there's the new whatchacallit. then there are so many different versions.
if they don't contradict, there wouldn't be so many different churches, denominations & sects. well, that's just for starters. among any same christian grouping, there're also quite a number of sub-sets & interpretations of the bible.
to test whether i'm right or wrong, just ask "different" christians whether jesus is god. you'll get many different answers. that's just how contradictory the book written by 40 monks is.

Answer 7

You will find, that ALL of the answers you receive are very strong efforts to find something that does not exist. Some will be so stupid as to list the evilbible, what a pathetic joke, or jesusneverexsited. or whydoesgodnothealamputee, but all of these are sad, sad, examples of some peoples shear stupidity. If you truly find something that you have a question, email me direct if you want I will be happy to show you very clearly in print, what it means or says.

Answer 8

The whole thing is a classic work of pure fiction. It is thus erroneous and contradictory by its very nature of being fictional.

"To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents, composed, revised, translated, distorted and 'improved' by hundreds of anonymous authors, editors and copyists, unknown to us and mostly unknown to each other, spanning nine centuries. This may explain...the sheer strangeness of the Bible. But unfortunately it is this same weird volume that religious zealots hold up to us as the inerrant source of our morals and rules for living." (Richard Dawkins in "The God Delusion")

"Those who wish to base their morality literally on the Bible have either not read it or not understood it." (Bishop John Shelby Spring in "The Sins of Scripture")

Answer 9

This question is illogical. We do not believe in the 'bible' so therefore, we do not CARE what the 'bible' says... errors or otherwise.

The whole book is a crock0shit

Answer 10

Well, the claim that a "God" created the universe - that's kind of an important error. There's also a bunch of incorrect claims about life after death, and "souls", and then the false claim that the various species around us were created in their current form.

There are all sorts of more trivial mistakes, contradictions and the like as well, but those are probably the most important errors in the Bible.

Answer 11

The easiest is, 'an eye for an eye', which is contradicted nicely by, 'turn the other cheek'.

Bonkers book.