Bible contradictions.

[flobadob]

I came across this bible contradiction chart but I'm not too sure how to check out what it means. Can anyone give a couple of examples from using the link, thanks. http://www.thealmight...ons-ReasonProject.png

[jomifl]

I guess you just look up the biblical references agains each question to see what different versions of the 'truth' there are.

[jomifl]

PS. you will need a bible, can't help there.

[wildwood]

You can find all the passages online. The answers are pretty obscure. Rather than an Atheist site, I suspect that it may only pretend to be so all visitors start reading bible passages.

Where is Naomi when you need her?

[flobadob]

If that is the case wildwood then it is rather ingenious.

[ll_billym]

Well I've just checked #221:

In Genesis it says that Jacob was buried by his sons in Canaan, in Acts it says he's buried in Shechem. A Google search seems to indicate that Shechem is a place in Canaan.

All in all too much work involved for a book what I don't believe much of anyway.

[Answerprancer]

The bible is full of contradictions, I thought this was a well known fact among intelligent thinking people that recognise it as nothing more than a story book.

[mike11111]

Some stories turn out to be true. Be careful, AP, we have already lost three atheists in the past week, one flounce and two banned. If it carries on like this God will win by default.

[Answerprancer]

PL ..aw come on, it's no more controversial than disputing Beatrix Potter.

"you can't run a country by a book of religeon, not by a lump or a heap or a smidgeon"
(Frank Zappa)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWUptVHNfvw

[Answerprancer]

Mike - s/he who is without sin and all that :-)

[jno]

the word "dord" appeared in dictionaries for a while, defined as "density". In fact the original text had just meant to say that density could be abbreviated to either a capital or lower case "d" - that is, "D or d". The word didn't exist. Jane Austen in Emma wrote about apple blossom in June (even though her family pointed out to her that she'd got the wrong month).

The thing is, when people write things down, they sometimes get it wrong. I wouldn't worry about it too much.

[jake-the-peg]

Yes when people write things down they sometimes get it wrong.

Sometimes though they make it up

You might find it interesting to discover that the codex sinaiticus the oldest existing bible. In this the Gospel of Mark stops at the empty tomb. That's it no resurection nothing else zip.

Similar in other early copies of Mark

So where did the rest of the text in today's bible come from?

It also contains thousands of modifications in the original text. for example in the begining of Mark where we now have Jesus described as the Son of God at the very begining 1:1 that phase is omitted. - Who put that in?

There are some 14,000 corrections in this text - many more than just simple mistakes by professional scribes.

What you're looking at is an editors copy - people agreeing on what was in and what was out.

Anybody who thinks that Gospels were the result of an apostle like Mark sitting down at a desk and writing down what he'd experienced needs to take a serious look at that document

[beso]

This site documents a lot of the rubbish in the Bible.
http://www.ebonmusing...eism/biblecontra.html

If I recall correctly Naomi posted the link that introduced me to that site.

[flobadob]

Interesting.

[jake-the-peg]

This is my favourite

http://www.evilbible.com/

Not contradictions but all the passages they don't want to talk about

[jomifl]

Hi Jake, I presume that you watched the TV programme about early bibles, fascinating stuff, it confirmed a lot of my previously unsupported assumptions. Just think.. If a committee got together to write a definitive account of something that happened 300 years ago ie. 100 years before the battle of trafalgar. All based on hearsay and a few scraps of parchment what a fascinating load of bollacks it would be.

[jomifl]

Mike.. was god losing? must try harder.

[jake-the-peg]

Yes, I knew about Sinaiticus before - they rather skipped over how it found it's way out of St. Catherines monastry didn't they? still we won't go into that one!

Didn't realise exactly how much modification it had been subjected to though - very interesting.

You can also see the development of writing in it. The earliest texts are all in capitals and no spaces between words!

Amazing anyone could read them

[wildwood]

Wow, J-t-P, what an interesting site that evilbible is. I have looked up some of the passages and they are true word for word.

Rampant murder, slavery, rape and evil acts. Who could possibly consider the bible as a book of the 'good' lord?