What is the biggest bible contradiction?

Sorry, don't see that at all! Yet not a single post so far has been anywhere near these issues and the member had requested Accuracy and Inerrancy.I think it looks out of place here.Brian.

Thanks for all of your replies. I'll have to ask about Jesus riding different animals from my friend Thanks Clark.
My friends' a Yehowas witness btw. He doesn't want to come speak to the forums because the bible says something that you should not be taking any kind of contact with outcasts because it may stray you from the truth or something. But he's okay with me writing here and discussing his answers with you.He got me convinced for a while that the bible is inerrant, but after some of my own studying I don't feel that way anymore.And btw, is hypermicroevolution after Noah's arc explained by creos in any way?

Another good one is Judas' death. In Matthew 27 Judas hangs himself. In Acts 1, he falls down and his guts burst open.See if you can get your friend to claim that Judas hanged himself on his own entrails.

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Kings were put to death long before 21 January 1793. But regicides of earlier times and their followers were interested in attacking the person, not the principle, of the king. They wanted another king, and that was all. It never occurred to them that the throne could remain empty forever. -- Albert Camus

Hmm... Interesting.
These are just the kind I was looking for Edited by Neutralmind, : more text

Did you see my previous entry? That was the one that bothered me the most when I was a literalist.

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Kings were put to death long before 21 January 1793. But regicides of earlier times and their followers were interested in attacking the person, not the principle, of the king. They wanted another king, and that was all. It never occurred to them that the throne could remain empty forever. -- Albert Camus

The thing is, I've never read the bible very thoroughly so I can't say about the tomb thing.

Matthew 28:Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to the tomb. An angel appeared with an earthquake, rolled away the rock blocking the entrance, and sat on it. The guards fainted. The women went to tell the other disciples and met Jesus on the way.- Mark 16:Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome went to the tomb. The rock was already rolled away, and a young man (an angel) was sitting within the tomb. No mention of Jesus before they found the other disciples.- Luke 24:Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, Joanna, and other unidentified women came to the tomb. It was empty when they got there. Suddenly two angels appeared beside them. No mention of Jesus before they got to the disciples.- John 20:Mary Magdalene came to the tomb alone. The rock was moved, the tomb was empty, and there was nothing to be seen. She ran to tell the others. Peter and another disciple ran to the tomb and saw that it was empty. When they left, two angels appeared to Mary, and also Jesus appears to Mary within the tomb.-How's that for an inerrant, divinely inspired book's description of the most important historical event in human history, and fairly recent history to the Gospel writers, and which had actual eye witnesses?Edited by Chiroptera, : typo in the Luke version

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Kings were put to death long before 21 January 1793. But regicides of earlier times and their followers were interested in attacking the person, not the principle, of the king. They wanted another king, and that was all. It never occurred to them that the throne could remain empty forever. -- Albert Camus

Sounds kinda fishy yeah edit: Where are all the creos...?Edited by Neutralmind, : No reason given.

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I've never read the bible very thoroughly....

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If I wanted to promote atheism, I would advocate for mandatory Bible reading classes in all the public schools.

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Kings were put to death long before 21 January 1793. But regicides of earlier times and their followers were interested in attacking the person, not the principle, of the king. They wanted another king, and that was all. It never occurred to them that the throne could remain empty forever. -- Albert Camus

Actually, in Finland bible reading classes are mandatory for 99% of the people all the way until university. I was one of the 5 people out of 550 in school who didn't have to go to bible reading classes. And that was because of my parents insisting I don't need to read the bible.

Are you Finnish? Because your written English is excellent. Except for no trace of an "accent".

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Kings were put to death long before 21 January 1793. But regicides of earlier times and their followers were interested in attacking the person, not the principle, of the king. They wanted another king, and that was all. It never occurred to them that the throne could remain empty forever. -- Albert Camus

Thread moved here from the Theological Creationism and ID forum.

In the US at least, it is Jehovah's Witness and not the more accurate Yahweh, and that would be an example of another contradiction. I'm not familiar with all the details but the JW's insist that it is Jehovah even though this is based on mistranslation from German Bibles.Also, the JW's Bible has even more contradictions and problems than the orthodox Christian Bible.Btw, Jesus riding two animals was part of what led my girlfriend to start questioning the Bible and eventually to lose her faith in fundamentalist Christianity. It is a great example that demonstrates how all these "miraculous" Biblical prophecies were invented. The virgin birth, also in the Gospel of Matthew, is another one, where the author is reading a mistranslation in the Septuagint from the Book of Isaiah. The virgin birth story seems to be a synthesis of that mistranslation and pagan beliefs about God[s] impregnating virgins.

Yep. When I was a Biblical literalist, what bothered me the most from a theological perspective was when I read these alleged Old Testament prophecies of the Christ's suffering and death in context, and realized what a stretch it was to make them out to be prophecies.

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Kings were put to death long before 21 January 1793. But regicides of earlier times and their followers were interested in attacking the person, not the principle, of the king. They wanted another king, and that was all. It never occurred to them that the throne could remain empty forever. -- Albert Camus

I read on some other thread about bible saying the earth is a circle. Is that correct? I mean that if the bible says so, not that if it's true...And how about "pick and choose" from the bible, any examples of that? Of people picking up stuff not minding that it is contradictory to other things mentioned in the bible.