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Over 63,000 bible contradictions, Someone found them all (Original Post) Heather MC Jul 2014 OP
That way you can pick the stuff you like Turbineguy Jul 2014 #1
No,no,no,no,no. Those are not contradictions. cleanhippie Jul 2014 #2
Got it, Context is a bitch! Heather MC Jul 2014 #11
The other issue... rexcat Jul 2014 #17
Isn't that like 60-70 contradictions/page LostOne4Ever Jul 2014 #3
63,001 AlbertCat Jul 2014 #4
Oh, there's a God... Hissyspit Jul 2014 #9
Thus explaining why there are 63,000 different Christian sects Lordquinton Jul 2014 #5
It don't give no never mind if there are contradictions. defacto7 Jul 2014 #6
Some good videos at that link too. progressoid Jul 2014 #7
+1 sakabatou Jul 2014 #10
The Non Stamp Collector is Awesome!! Heather MC Jul 2014 #13
Whenever I see this graphic I'm surprised at how much the New Testament contradicts itself. deucemagnet Jul 2014 #8
The New Testament stuff is funny Heather MC Jul 2014 #12
Love it... Soylent Brice Jul 2014 #14
Google "Joseph Wheless" for an earlier version... onager Jul 2014 #15
Cool, but he can't be that forgotten if he can be googled Heather MC Jul 2014 #16
Damn! His books are still on Amazon too! onager Jul 2014 #19
There are no contradictions... rexcat Jul 2014 #18

cleanhippie

(19,705 posts)
2. No,no,no,no,no. Those are not contradictions.
Wed Jul 16, 2014, 04:12 PM
Jul 2014

Youre ignoring the context. Youre interpreting it wrong. You're letting your bias get in the way.

The bible is the infallible word of god. What you see as a contradiction is your fault for not understanding.

Got it now?

rexcat

(3,622 posts)
17. The other issue...
Fri Jul 18, 2014, 09:49 AM
Jul 2014

it's all an allegory unless there is a need for something to be taken literally to fit someone's world view. This is always done at the discretion of the person making the judgment with no rhyme or reason needed. Believers are given magical abilities by their god to make those distinctions.

LostOne4Ever

(9,288 posts)
3. Isn't that like 60-70 contradictions/page
Wed Jul 16, 2014, 04:29 PM
Jul 2014

Last edited Wed Jul 16, 2014, 06:15 PM - Edit history (2)

Why am I not surprised?

Edit: I need to learn to read better

Lordquinton

(7,886 posts)
5. Thus explaining why there are 63,000 different Christian sects
Wed Jul 16, 2014, 05:48 PM
Jul 2014

Each of them with the right and true gospel.

defacto7

(13,485 posts)
6. It don't give no never mind if there are contradictions.
Wed Jul 16, 2014, 07:53 PM
Jul 2014

If God wants to make contradictions in the word of God then he can rightly do so. We can't know the grand plan a God. He's just testing us. He's putting fear in us cause he loves us so.

deucemagnet

(4,549 posts)
8. Whenever I see this graphic I'm surprised at how much the New Testament contradicts itself.
Wed Jul 16, 2014, 10:19 PM
Jul 2014

I always thought that was where God supposedly pulled his shit together, but apparently not.

 

Heather MC

(8,084 posts)
12. The New Testament stuff is funny
Thu Jul 17, 2014, 09:13 AM
Jul 2014

Honestly the scripture that states "God's word is never changing" cancels out all the changes
So keep killing babies, it's all good

onager

(9,356 posts)
15. Google "Joseph Wheless" for an earlier version...
Thu Jul 17, 2014, 12:35 PM
Jul 2014

Earlier as in 1926.

Wheless was from Tennessee and raised a Southern Methodist. And unfortunately for Bibleists, he became a lawyer.

Having been raised in the church, Wheless got to wondering about contradictions in the Bible.

And being a lawyer, he approached the problem in a lawyerly way - he bought several Bibles, cut them apart and mounted them on boards so he could directly compare passages.

Wheless wrote two books that probably sound ho-hum in the age of New Atheism, but were groundbreaking for atheism back in the 1920s - "Is It God's Word?" and "Forgery In Christianity."

He was one of the first proponents of the "Jesus Myth" theory and is pretty much forgotten today. Which is sad.

onager

(9,356 posts)
19. Damn! His books are still on Amazon too!
Fri Jul 18, 2014, 01:03 PM
Jul 2014

I guess I meant "forgotten" in the sense that's he's not a big name anymore in atheism. Or something like that. I'm a geezer so I'm often not quite sure what I mean. And get off my lawn, you young whipper-snapper!

This is a great Amazon review of Wheless' book "Is It God's Word?:"

This book combines wit erudition humour and devastating textual comparison to catch the bible writers out in their contradictions and self serving invented laws and prophecies. If I had read this book 20 year ago I could have saved myself 18 years in the cult of evangelical christianity. Reading this book played a decisive part in my deprogramming there from. No doubt modern higher biblical criticism could tidy up some of the details in Wheless' book...Meanwhile buy this and read it for shear enjoyment of the prose and the humour that can be had from critical study of that looney book the bible.

rexcat

(3,622 posts)
18. There are no contradictions...
Fri Jul 18, 2014, 09:59 AM
Jul 2014

in the christian holy book. It just looks that way to fool the non-believers.

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