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1 | Bible contradictions | Bible general Archive 2 | RichardMorris | 115185 | ||
I participate in a secular forum (for guitar players) that is great because I get to witness to hundreds of people all over the world. In a thread I started about The Passion Of The Christ, this guy comes up with about a dozen Bible contradictions. Some of them I can handle cause they are simple problems of not understatnding context or language. The others are tough and need a resource to use to refute with. Any ideas? Here are some examples. 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 Richard |
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2 | Bible contradictions | Bible general Archive 2 | ischus | 115186 | ||
Richard, If these are the worst contradictions they are presenting with, then you are blessed indeed! I do not profess to have the answers here but I will do my best with the two questions you have given. 1) Ecclesiastes, as you recall, is poetry. It is designed to evoke stark images of contrasting ideas, but not always to be taken literally. This is the case in the verse you bring up, where the writer is saying that man's life is futile and meaningless, since it is so short compared to the earth's existence. He is not giving some scientific information about the earth, he is constrasting two different lives, one is short, the other seems like it goes on forever.(By the way, most times that the word "forever" occurs in scripture, it should be translated as "to the end of an age or time period"). You can take 2 Peter to the bank- he is not writing poetry here- he means business. 2) In Genesis 32, Jacob has just spent the night in a strenuous wrestling match against God- a physical match. This was a theophany, God taking the form of a human to interact physically with Jacob. Jacob was face to face with this form of God, but he was not seeing God in his complete, divine, spiritual glory. John is correct in stating that no man has seen God in all of His glory (not even Moses), since this would destroy our little, physical bodies when in his perfect presence. Hope this helps :) ischus |
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