A listing of the contradictions and errors in the bible.

I don’t really like laundry list posts like from either side but I find this interesting from the site that Blitz77 liked tohttp://www.geocities.com/...7273/biblicalcontradictions.html

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Gen 6:13-8:22. - The account of the flood and Noah's Ark-
Charge: This is myth, but the Bible presents it as history. It is myth because not all animals over the whole world were destroyed, for certainly they did not all fit in that most limited ark!
Reply: It cannot be denied that Noah did not have room for every single species of every kind of animal on board. Nor is there any need for such an assertion. For the Hebrew word "'erets," which is here translated "the world" or "the earth" for us, is also commonly and properly translated "land" or "country." So instead of "whole earth," which is erroneous, we ought to read "whole land," which will do no matter how much of the earth was flooded, and still gets the Hebrew right. So this charge fails, just as the one before last, for letting itself get caught in the stranglehold of poor translation.

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This quote is from Blitz’s post

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As you will notice from these sites, many of the supposed "contradictions" are from the translations-using the original Hebrew, they disappear.

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So YECs you should see that when the Hebrew is properly translated as Blitz requires Noah’s flood was NOT global.Randy

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Historical sources (including, as I understand it, the work of Flavius Josephus) do indicate that the event was witnessed by thousands. Unfortunately only a few wrote about it so that point isn't terribly convincing now that those witnesses have died.

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I have done some looking into this and have read a translation of the relevant parts of Josephus’ history of the Jews a couple of years ago. I think you can find it online. While Josephus probably mentioned Jesus in his original work, and I happen to think he did, it was probably only a brief mention and the story was almost certainly greatly enhanced by a Christian Monk who did a translation of Josephus in the third century IIRC. While I believe that Jesus existed there is actually very little hard evidence of the fact that stands up to serious scrutiny. I will try to look for some references when I have time.On the other hand, I have been to Jerusalem and walked the Way of the Cross and I think that experience would have left me without doubt that Jesus was a real person who was crucified if I ever had any doubt in the first place. Even our Jewish guide did not doubt the existence of Jesus.Randy