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Subject: Whole Bible flawed? |
Bible Note: Here's a good site that answers questions about contradictions in the bible: http://www.drdino.com/FAQs/FAQbible1.jsp Are there contradictions in the Bible? See this in Seminar Slideshow Online: The Creation Order, The Brass Bowl, Solomon's Horses and Chariots, Rabbits Chewing the Cud Hear this on Seminar on Audio Online: The Creation Order, The Brass Bowl, Solomon's Horses and Chariots, Rabbits Chewing the Cud A: When I was a new Christian, someone showed me the apparent contradictions between the creation accounts in Genesis 1 and Genesis 2. According to Genesis 1, God made the trees on day three, the birds from water on day five, and the animals on day six, all before man. But Genesis 2 records the creation of trees, animals, and birds from dirt on day six, all after man. This apparent contradiction disappears when one reads in Genesis 2 that the events in that chapter describe the events regarding the creation of the items in the Garden of Eden only. God knew Satan could come and say he had created all things if Adam did not actually witness God’s creative power. God made Adam on the sixth day, put him in the garden, made some trees to grow before Adam, then made 1 more of each of the animals so that Adam could name them and select a wife. The rest of the world was already full of plants and animals from earlier in the week. Another apparent contradiction appears in I Kings 7:23 and II Chronicles 4, the description of the large bowl called the brazen laver. According to both passages, the laver measures 10 cubits (elbow to fingertip, about 18 inches) across and 30 cubits around, a ratio that does not equal pi (3.14159…) and appears to be not mathematically valid. However, the 10 cubit measurement spans the outside of the bowl; the handbreadth thickness of the brass is included in the diameter which balances the ratio to equal pi very neatly. There are no contradictions in the Bible. Many scoffers have sited I Kings 4:26 "And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen" and II Chron. 9:25 "And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen" as a contradiction. There is no contradiction. He had 40,000 stalls for horses yet only 4,000 stalls for the chariots. They had 10 men and 10 horses per chariot in case they got a "flat tire." See II Sam 10:18 "And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew the men of seven hundred chariots of the Syrians," and I Chron. 119:18 "But the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew of the Syrians seven thousand men which fought in chariots," to show the same point. The men of 700 chariots would be 7000 men. Numbers 25:9 tells us, "And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand." Yet, I Cor 10:8 says, "Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand." Scoffers who cannot read well see a contradiction here also, but it is obvious that 1000 died later of the same plague. Aristotle's dictum stated that when a critic criticized a document, the benefit of the doubt goes to the document not to the critic. No one has ever proven a contradiction in God's Word though thousands have tried. The Bible is the anvil that has worn out many hammers. This topic is covered in more detail with pictures and calculations in the seminar notebook. We offer a great book (even though the author is a little sarcastic with his response to the scoffers questions) that deals with all of the other so-called contradictions or problem passages in the Bible. The book is called Errors in the King James Bible and costs about 14.95. |