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1 | Advise on contradictions found in bible | Bible general Archive 1 | userdoe220 | 17577 | ||
Mathew 27:5] Judas went and hanged himself. [Acts 1:18] Judas fell headlong, and burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out. Serpent handled one, so I will also handle one. Judas did hang himself and Matthew accurately records this event. Luke just adds a little more detail to the account about what happened after Judas hung himself--Rope was cut/or broke, Judas fell down and split open and his insides came out. If you watch old war documentaries, when a person dies their body will fill up with internal body fluid. Eventually, the person’s body will rupture causing his fluids to spill forth. If Judas were hanging for any period of time, this process would be magnified when his body went crashing down to earth. Sorry for the graphic details. These two passages do not contradict each other. A contradiction is when two statements together can't possibly be true. Let me give you an example: Matthew states that Judas hung himself and died. Luke, the author of Acts, states explicitly that Judas did not hang himself. Both statements can’t possibly be true. A number of people bring up "apparent contradictions" without ever asking if the two statements can both be true at the same time! A number passages mentioned in your post definitely fall into this category. In the Gospels the Holy Spirit gave the author’s liberty to add details that they deemed important to the story they were telling. Just because some of the other gospel writers did not feel a particular detail of an event warranted inclusion into their gospel, does not mean the detail did not happen or is a contradiction. schwartzkm |
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2 | Advise on contradictions found in bible | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 17585 | ||
I completely agree with Schwartzkm. This is not a contradiction at all, but instead is just an example of two different writers giving different details about the same event. It is like the three blind men who encounter different parts of an elephant. The first man finds its leg and says that it is like the trunk of a large tree. The second man encounters the midsection and says that it is like a wall. The third man discovers the trunk and says that it is like a snake. The three descriptions at first appear to contradict each other. But after thought and further inspection they instead each give a valuable perspective that can be combined to give a complete picture. |
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