Does the Bible have errors or contradictions? 

Thank you for this resource. It is insightful, encouraging and useful!

The problem that I have is heavy christians telling me THE BIBBLE IS PERFECT, IT HAS NO ERRORS, WHAT IS WRITTEN THERE IS WHAT HAPPENED NO DOUBT, AND NO ONE TELLS THE STORIES DIFFERENT AT ALL, I'm like really???? I have been reading the Gospels over and over, and over trying to find what really happened, or How it happened and nothing adds up.

hmmm i like the "the car and mini-van example" now try explain how the high mountain became temple

I agree that we shouldn't take the series of events literally, both in timeline and content, but where should we draw the line? If the word of God was meant for all people shouldn't it be understandable and relavent to all that are living, instead of being relegated to the knowing few to interpret the word for us? It's so interpretable too. Why does it need such explanation? If the word of God was meant for us it would have been revised by now. And there would be no grey area in the matter. I respect all nonviolent beliefs, but the idea of all this never made sense to me personally.

Keeping in mind that the stories in the Bible was pass around orally for years after the actual events and was collected to become the book, I don’t find it surprising that it have so many contradictions and inconsistencies

Given that the temple was on a mountain and was an image of a mountain ie "temple mount" "mountain of God", I think we have a good explanation for the supposed temptation contradiction. This fits perfectly with the "car/minivan" example in the video.

This is a solid answer but the question he really responds to is "are there errors or contradictions in the gospels?" There's not anything said about other kinds of perceived errors throughout Scripture.

The point about the differing points of emphasis at 3:00 is exactly right, but how do you get to the conclusion that there’s no contradiction…? If you went back in time to the final temptation, one of those things would not be historically accurate. A contradiction means that two events could not have happened at the same time in the way in which they are described. That example, would by definition, be a contradiction.

Thank you Dr.Robert Plummer!

You can't say they wrote exactly what the Holy Spirit said to write and then admit there are differences because of different writers' viewpoints or summaries. That is a contradiction.

“What is the role of the nation of Israel in the gospel narrative?” There’s been much debate over the meaning of “God’s people” found in the Old Testament as it relates to the church in the New Testament. What distinctions must be made and why did God even choose a nation in the first place?

Thanks it's very informative.

New to this channel, one thing I learned tonight, I should not read the comments on this channel.

That was great. Could you please speak about the missing books in the Bible? And what that means in terms of perhaps the lack of knowledge we as believers have in terms of what they contain and speak about?

If someone dies without an offspring and his brother makes a son for him, the grandfather of the baby remains the same (after all the brothers had the same father), so there can be no different lineage, there could be only one person who is different in the lineage. So this explanation for the different genealogies found in Matthew and Luke is a nice try, but eventually it fails to explain the difference.

There are factors that seems to cause these alleged contradictions. 1) The time of the event of account (different time of event results to difference in observation), 2) The details of the observer (one might have not recorded some and the other have), 3) the emphasis of the account (one might have different perspective than the other or a different approach), 4) and lastly, complimentary where the accounts looks different but actually not contradicting but giving more details.

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I appreciated this. Thank you. I had wondered about the different lineage recorded down in Matthew and Luke. Thanks for explaining that.

I think it is true that this is a good eyewitness account of the Gospel. This was clearly not an infallible inerrant record, though. Just minor details like the number of soldiers in an army (e.g. 1 Chronicles 21:5 vs. 2 Samuel 24:9), the year a certain king began his reign (e.g. 2 Chronicles 36:9 vs. 2 Kings 24:8), or the details of Apostle Paul's itinerary (Acts 9, 11, 15,18:22, 21 vs. Galatians 1:18, 2:1).

Why would you say that there was a contradiction between the accounts of the temptation of Jesus? The order is different but the substance is the same. You mention that there is a contradiction between accounts where, in the account of a specific temptation, Jesus is taken up onto the pinnacle of the temple but in the parallel account of the same temptation, Jesus is taken to the top of a mountain. I don’t see this... what am I missing?

the bible at its current version has been distorted by translation barriers, versions to suit different eras, cultures, and places. it’s comparable to a game of telephone but 2000 years of slight variations until it isn’t the same thing anymore.

I agree with most of this. But personally, I believe that Luke's genealogy flowing through Mary and Matthew's flowing through Joseph to be more plausible. If a levirate marriage is said to be the difference in Matthew's genealogy, then why doesn't it flow through Elimelech rather than Boaz - where we are given in Scripture that a marriage (not technically levirate, but it served the same purpose) produced a legal line through Elimelech?

Could you please explain to me 2Kings 8:26 and 2Chronicles 22:2 please?

Love how he literally says don't ask questions the readers didn't intend to answer, cool, sounds like brain washing to me

I don't understand why he lying about something like that , there are many contradictions between the different versions of the bible

Yes, there are errors. A simple unbiased reading of the Bible shows this.

1. God is satisfied with his works Gen 1:31 God is dissatisfied with his works. Gen 6:6 2. God dwells in chosen temples 2 Chron 7:12,16 God dwells not in temples Acts 7:48 3. God dwells in light Tim 6:16 God dwells in darkness 1 Kings 8:12/ Ps 18:11/ Ps 97:2 4. God is seen and heard Ex 33:23/ Ex 33:11/ Gen 3:9,10/ Gen 32:30/ Is 6:1/ Ex 24:9-11 God is invisible and cannot be heard John 1:18/ John 5:37/ Ex 33:20/ 1 Tim 6:16 5. God is tired and rests Ex 31:17 God is never tired and never rests Is 40:28 6. God is everywhere present, sees and knows all things Prov 15:3/ Ps 139:7-10/ Job 34:22,21 God is not everywhere present, neither sees nor knows all things Gen 11:5/ Gen 18:20,21/ Gen 3:8 7. God knows the hearts of men Acts 1:24/ Ps 139:2,3 God tries men to find out what is in their heart Deut 13:3/ Deut 8:2/ Gen 22:12 8. God is all powerful Jer 32:27/ Matt 19:26 God is not all powerful Judg 1:19 9. God is unchangeable James 1:17/ Mal 3:6/ Ezek 24:14/ Num 23:19 God is changeable Gen 6:6/ Jonah 3:10/ 1 Sam 2:30,31/ 2 Kings 20:1,4,5,6/ Ex 33:1,3,17,14 10. God is just and impartial Ps 92:15/ Gen 18:25/ Deut 32:4/ Rom 2:11/ Ezek 18:25 God is unjust and partial Gen 9:25/ Ex 20:5/ Rom 9:11-13/ Matt 13:12 11. God is the author of evil Lam 3:38/ Jer 18:11/ Is 45:7/ Amos 3:6/ Ezek 20:25 God is not the author of evil 1 Cor 14:33/ Deut 32:4/ James 1:13 12. God gives freely to those who ask James 1:5/ Luke 11:10 God withholds his blessings and prevents men from receiving them John 12:40/ Josh 11:20/ Is 63:17 13. God is to be found by those who seek him Matt 7:8/ Prov 8:17 God is not to be found by those who seek him Prov 1:28 14. God is warlike Ex 15:3/ Is 51:15 God is peaceful Rom 15:33/ 1 Cor 14:33 15. God is cruel, unmerciful, destructive, and ferocious Jer 13:14/ Deut 7:16/ 1 Sam 15:2,3/ 1 Sam 6:19 God is kind, merciful, and good James 5:11/ Lam 3:33/ 1 Chron 16:34/ Ezek 18:32/ Ps 145:9/ 1 Tim 2:4/ 1 John 4:16/ Ps 25:8 16. God's anger is fierce and endures long Num 32:13/ Num 25:4/ Jer 17:4 God's anger is slow and endures but for a minute Ps 103:8/ Ps 30:5 17. God commands, approves of, and delights in burnt offerings, sacrifices ,and holy days Ex 29:36/ Lev 23:27/ Ex 29:18/ Lev 1:9 God disapproves of and has no pleasure in burnt offerings, sacrifices, and holy days. Jer 7:22/ Jer 6:20/ Ps 50:13,4/ Is 1:13,11,12 18. God accepts human sacrifices 2 Sam 21:8,9,14/ Gen 22:2/ Judg 11:30-32,34,38,39 God forbids human sacrifice Deut 12:30,31 19. God tempts men Gen 22:1/ 2 Sam 24:1/ Jer 20:7/ Matt 6:13 God tempts no man James 1:13 20. God cannot lie Heb 6:18 God lies by proxy; he sends forth lying spirits t deceive 2 Thes 2:11/ 1 Kings 22:23/ Ezek 14:9 21. Because of man's wickedness God destroys him Gen 6:5,7 Because of man's wickedness God will not destroy him Gen 8:21 22. God's attributes are revealed in his works. Rom 1:20 God's attributes cannot be discovered Job 11:7/ Is 40:28 23. There is but one God Deut 6:4 There is a plurality of gods Gen 1:26/ Gen 3:22/ Gen 18:1-3/ 1 John 5:7 Moral Precepts 24. Robbery commanded Ex 3:21,22/ Ex 12:35,36 Robbery forbidden Lev 19:13/ Ex 20:15 25. Lying approved and sanctioned Josh 2:4-6/ James 2:25/ Ex 1:18-20/ 1 Kings 22:21,22 Lying forbidden Ex 20:16/ Prov 12:22/ Rev 21:8 26. Hatred to the Edomite sanctioned 2 Kings 14:7,3 Hatred to the Edomite forbidden Deut 23:7 27. Killing commanded Ex 32:27 Killing forbidden Ex 20:13 28. The blood-shedder must die Gen 9:5,6 The blood-shedder must not die Gen 4:15 29. The making of images forbidden Ex 20:4 The making of images commanded Ex 25:18,20 30. Slavery and oppression ordained Gen 9:25/ Lev 25:45,46/ Joel 3:8 Slavery and oppression forbidden Is 58:6/ Ex 22:21/ Ex 21:16/ Matt 23:10 31. Improvidence enjoyed Matt 6:28,31,34/ Luke 6:30,35/ Luke 12:3 Improvidence condemned 1 Tim 5:8/ Prov 13:22 32. Anger approved Eph 4:26 Anger disapproved Eccl 7:9/ Prov 22:24/ James 1:20 33. Good works to be seen of men Matt 5:16 Good works not to be seen of men Matt 6:1 34. Judging of others forbidden Matt 7:1,2 Judging of others approved 1 Cor 6:2-4/ 1 Cor 5:12 35. Christ taught non-resistance Matt 5:39/ Matt 26:52 Christ taught and practiced physical resistance Luke 22:36/ John 2:15 36. Christ warned his followers not to fear being killed Luke 12:4 Christ himself avoided the Jews for fear of being killed John 7:1 37. Public prayer sanctioned 1 Kings 8:22,54, 9:3 Public prayer disapproved Matt 6:5,6 38. Importunity in prayer commended Luke 18:5,7 Importunity in prayer condemned Matt 6:7,8 39. The wearing of long hair by men sanctioned Judg 13:5/ Num 6:5 The wearing of long hair by men condemned 1 Cor 11:14 40. Circumcision instituted Gen 17:10 Circumcision condemned Gal 5:2 41. The Sabbath instituted Ex 20:8 The Sabbath repudiated Is 1:13/ Rom 14:5/ Col 2:16 42. The Sabbath instituted because God rested on the seventh day Ex 20:11 The Sabbath instituted because God brought the Israelites out of Egypt Deut 5:15 43. No work to be done on the Sabbath under penalty of death Ex 31:15/ Num 15:32,36 Jesus Christ broke the Sabbath and justified his disciples in the same John 5:16/ Matt 12:1-3,5 44. Baptism commanded Matt 28:19 Baptism not commanded 1 Cor 1:17,14 45. Every kind of animal allowed for food. Gen 9:3/ 1 Cor 10:25/ Rom 14:14 Certain kinds of animals prohibited for food. Deut 14:7,8 46. Taking of oaths sanctioned Num 30:2/ Gen 21:23-24,31/ Gen 31:53/ Heb 6:13 Taking of oaths forbidden Matt 5:34 47. Marriage approved Gen 2:18/ Gen 1:28/ Matt 19:5/ Heb 13:4 Marriage disapproved 1 Cor 7:1/ 1 Cor 7:7,8 48. Freedom of divorce permitted Deut 24:1/ Deut 21:10,11,14 Divorce restricted Matt 5:32 49. Adultery forbidden Ex 20:14/ Heb 13:4 Adultery allowed Num 31:18/ Hos 1:2; 2:1-3 50. Marriage or cohabitation with a sister denounced Deut 27:22/ Lev 20:17 Abraham married his sister and God blessed the union Gen 20:11,12/ Gen 17:16 51. A man may marry his brother's widow Deut 25:5 A man may not marry his brother's widow Lev 20:21 52. Hatred to kindred enjoined Luke 14:26 Hatred to kindred condemned Eph 6:2/ Eph 5:25,29 53. Intoxicating beverages recommended Prov 31:6,7/ 1 Tim 5:23/ Ps 104:15 Intoxicating beverages discountenanced Prov 20:1/ Prov 23:31,32 54. It is our duty to obey our rulers, who are God's ministers and punish evil doers only Rom 13:1-3,6 It is not our duty to obey rulers, who sometimes punish the good and receive unto themselves damnation therefor Ex 1:17,20/ Dan 3:16,18/ Dan 6:9,7,10/ Acts 4:26,27/ Mark 12:38,39,40/ Luke 23:11,24,33,35 55. Women's rights denied Gen 3:16/ 1 Tim 2:12/ 1 Cor 14:34/ 1 Pet 3:6 Women's rights affirmed Judg 4:4,14,15/

Tnk you so much

very clear

But what about other details, like there being no record of Caesar Augustus ordering a census of all the world around the time of Jesus, and even if he had it would have been a tax census and so he'd never have ordered everyone to return to their ancestral towns...because Rome didn't care what "tribe" the provincials were from. He'd want Joseph to be near all Joseph's taxable property, which was in the area of Nazareth.

Since errors were found in the Bible you could classify the inerrancy of the Bible is false.

Yes, Mark had 1 man sitting on the right and the woman running out the tomb and telling no one. John had Mary Magdalene by herself seeing nothing and running to tell Simon Peter Matthew had an earthquake, an angel decend, and jesus at the tomb Luke had the women saw 2 men Looks like a contradiction to me. The number of women, what they saw, and who they went to tell are all different.

The book of Malachi says that if you don’t tithe, you’re cursed by God and you go to hell. But the books of Romans and James say that salvation is a gift of God through Jesus Christ, that it cannot be earned so that no one can boast. So which one is it? If salvation really is a gift from God, he shouldn’t be charging us an admission fee to get into Heaven! As a Christian myself, I’m struggling with this contradiction. No pastor or preacher has ever addressed this discrepancy, and I’ve heard and seen hundreds of sermons.

I understand that a single story might have many angles given who is telling it. But I think the way preachers teach the Bible is that it is the infallible inerrant Word of God, a God who does not change. If the spirit gives Mary a word about the son that she’ll have, that same spirit must give the same report to Joseph. This gentleman is suggesting that the complexity of the ancient world and ours are the same and therefore contradictions are inevitable but which is it? Is the Bible inerrant and infallible or does the Bible make room for the complexity that allows one author to omit or jumble up or retell a story in their own way? I submit to you that the style of religious writings in the ancient world have never been about creating a book that fits in the non fiction section, but as a group of stories that have elements of fiction to emphasize some spiritual point. The Bible is not infallible or inerrant but the original authors weren’t intending that.

As a believer I shouldn't have to do this much mental gymnastics to convince myself the Bible is true. Like Job is the oldest book in the Bible, 1st Thessalonians is actually Paul's first letter and Mark was the first Gospel written. The deeper I dig, the more doubts arrise in my mind. Im literally the guy that no preacher wants to engage with. So I guess im forgiven since God knew I would have a highly developed intellect. I also have to remind myself to stay humble. The best quote spoken by a non jew is when Pilate asked "what is truth?" I think I suffer from the faith paradox. I want it to be true but I fear that it isn't. Please pray for me.

To be fair, the Temple was on top of a mountain (Moriah?)

The Dead Sea Scolls have shown the Bible to have Missing Books, missing Psalms, etc. The book of Enoch was part of the old testament and part of the Dead Sea Scolls and is missing from the Bible

Just goes to show, people can justify anything, explain away anything if you have to be right about something

Awesome high school English teacher you would be

This is a recklessly and irresponsibly weak argument for the truth and consistency of the bible. If you believe in this, it's only because you so badly want to believe in it. Be a critical and intelligent thinker for a minute here people.

There are errors and incongruities in the Bible and we can't deny that. But I don't think God promised that the book would be perfect. After all it was compiled by the Catholic church in the early days. But I choose to follow and obey as much as I can and follow Christ. That much is clear.

If myself and 3 friends were walking in a parking lot and happen to witness two men fighting. Then later we all wrote down an account of what we saw I'm sure there would be some Contradictions between the 4 of us. One of us might have seen how the fight started from a distance, while another might have noticed other details like who else was in the parking lot besides us and between the 4 of us we might not even agree on who won the fight, even though we all witnessed the same event, right? Does that mean that our stories are innacurate? Maybe when they stand alone but when they are all read as one they would probably support and sustain one another because of the abundance of evidence. Sure there will be some discrepancies but let's not miss the forest for the trees. And to be honest if we all told the same exact elaborate story and everything was perfect it would smell pretty dam fishy.

So he admits that there are different facts and versions fo the same story. SO WHICH ONE IS TRUE? They can not all be true? I call nonsense to all of it.

The greatest difference between Matthew and Luke is not about the sequence of the temptations. What about the entirely different birth narratives and the entirely different genealogies? Which by the way are the genealogies of Joseph, who by these very gospels was not the father of Jesus, so these two genealogies fail to demonstrate what they intend to demonstrate, i.e. that Jesus was a descendant of David.

What about ezia Ch 2 and Nehemiah Ch 7?????

''And I would argue that these are the same kind of surface-level incongruities that we would expect in any historical retelling of an incident by different eyewitnessess'' Yet here we have perserved the Quran without a single contradiction/error

That question should nowadays be asked only in church where every mass attendant is expected to believe that the Bible or rather the Bibles are 💯% the word of God Almighty! Don't ask that question to non-christians cause the correct and logical answer is YES with so many arguments to support that YES!

It's obvious from this talk that you can't get an inerrant Bible from what the Bible actually says, so you have to mush it around and "interpret" it however you need to in order to make it inerrant. You can have an inerrant Bible or a Bible that says what it says. You can't have both. You choose an inerrant Bible because what's important to you is that you be an inerrant interpreter of the Bible, not that you interpret the Bible with respect for what it says. To you, the Bible is just a way to puff up your own self-importance, and puffing up one's own self-importance is one of the primary tenets of white evangelicalism.

What if different versions have contradictions?

The bible states that "God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow". Yet, in the old testament God commanded people to be stoned for sin. But in the New Testament, God apparently has a change of heart and sends his son to die for our sins. Either way, it seems that this God is a masochist.

Wow, that's a long explanation to a simple question. Are we to expect that every apparent contradiction in the scriptures needs such an explanation to overcome that contradiction? Why not just admit, that at least to us, the Bible has many contradictions, and that whatever the Bible means by "God breathed," it does not mean without error or contradiction. Inspiration is not simply unilateral (controlled by God alone), but bilateral (through human beings) and God must be ok with that. In fact, that's the theology that makes incarnation (and the Spirit-led life) possible.

If God doesn't lie and the prophets were acting on inspiration of the holy spirit, then why are there even the slightest contradictions........ Doesn't make sense

---- as this video shows, if you ask honest questions, expect dishonest answers

I'm a Christian and I have a question in exodus one of the commandments is do not kill then in the book of judges after the war god is offered the daughter as a sacrifice why is he okay with it?

Yes.

“Does the Bible have errors or contradictions?" Yes,from the page one to the end.If you say that's the world of God then I have to say,Your God don't know the truth.

1 Corinthians 14:22-25. Verse 22 contradicts verses 23-25.

Where was God when the clever serpent was tempting Eve to disobey Him and eat the fruit of knowledge? Why did God need to "come down" to discover the Tower of Babel and who is He talking to when He says "We"?

24:1 The Lord inspired David to take the census. 21:1 Satan inspired the census.

I agree to be honest and real. There are many discrepancies that cannot just be explained away. You need to accept that as fact and not create a false narrative simply to explain it away. Let me give an example. What is the true story of the calling of Andrew and Peter? Is it Matthew or John? Both can’t be true. Here come the quotes: First John a long one for needed context: 35 The next day John was there again with two of his disciples. 36 When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, “Look, the Lamb of God!” 37 When the two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus. 38 Turning around, Jesus saw them following and asked, “What do you want?” They said, “Rabbi” (which means “Teacher”), “where are you staying?” 39 “Come,” he replied, “and you will see.” So they went and saw where he was staying, and they spent that day with him. It was about four in the afternoon. 40 Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who heard what John had said and who had followed Jesus. 41 The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and tell him, “We have found the Messiah” (that is, the Christ). 42 And he brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon son of John. You will be called Cephas” (which, when translated, is Peter[a]). Now Matthew that quick and to the point: 18 As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. 19 “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.” 20 At once they left their nets and followed him. Both cannot be correct.

Do you owe a debt of gratitude to the Catholic Church for assembling the canon?

This is why I tell people that what’s important in the bible is not so much the words written as the Message and the wisdom from it.

"Does the Bible have errors or contradictions?" Absolutely Yes! The NASB and the NIV bibles are far more accurate than the KJV bible, except for the NKJV. And this goes for many others. Oh indeed. However there are many errors in those bibles too. IE: ALL bibles have enumerable numbers all over it. Oh YES they ARE there. MOST can't stand that and they will not accept it. I was one of those for 70 yrs. But NO more. They ARE there! Bible scholars have known this for a 1,000 yrs. Do the research with sincere prayer and an open mind; and you will KNOW there are errors galore. But does that mean we should throw our bibles in the garbage? HEAVENS NO! Think about this...If you had just bought a brand new car and on the way home from the dealer; there came up a storm; and it caused all kind of dirt and mud ALL over your car. Now I ask you, "Are you going to throw that car in a junkyard; OR are you going to wash it and make it shine again? HUH?" IN other words, go to Jesus in real sincere prayer and ask him to give you wisdom, understanding and truth; BEFORE you read your bibles. And Jesus WILL steer you around the errors (satan-led); and bring you to the untold number of golden truths (Jesus-led) all over your bible(s). I have done this for the last 14 yrs (89 now), and I have learned more in those years than I learned in the previous 70 yrs. Oh indeed yes. Try it. Remember, that you will never understand warmth until you have experienced cold; you will never enjoy light until you have experienced darkness; And you will never understand the truth until you have experienced the lies. Remember satan's power is second ONLY to Jesus' power... ...Yes, satan is the smartest angel; he is the most beautiful angel and he is the MOST powerful angel (and entity) there is, except for Jesus. But Jesus gives us "free will"; and He lets satan do what he wants to; UNLESS you come to Jesus and beg that he stops satan from tempting you. Oh indeed yes! Thus, satan is the one that "inspired" all writers of the bible to lie; while Jesus was "inspiring" them to to speak the truth. Oh yes. IE... ...Compare Deuteronomy 24:1 vs Mathew 19:3-8. And compare Mathew 1:1 vs Mathew 22:41-45 and John 8:58. Also compare James 2:26 vs Ephesians 2:8 and 9. And I can go on and on and on; where there ARE bold contradictions. Thus... ...2nd Timothy 3:16 is NOT true...but there are many other proofs. Oh yes indeed. Could I be wrong? ABSOLUTELY yes! But all others must bare the same. In any case, Praise Jesus; for He is the ONLY true God there will ever been. AMEN!

---- look up the accounts of the death of Aaron: they have Aaron dying at two different times, in two different manners, in two different locations and being buried in two different locations - these are absolutely contradictory and only an intellectually dishonest person would deny this ---- meanwhile, the contradictions begin on the first page of your current bible layout: was man created before the animals? --- or after the animals ? it is impossible for both to be true.

ALso, in Genesis chapter 1. .who was first created? earth or sun?. .if you notice in creation the bible said. day 1, day 2, etc. . .history said that the sun is older than the earth. .thank you so much. .God bless. .

Using the bible to prove the bible is true? Hmmmm

God Himself can come to earth and HE DID. Yet people will always reject Him if they don’t want to acknowledge His glory. So people will always find flaws and contradictions in His Word because they don’t WANT to believe. It’s something that we as mere humans can’t do nothing about. However, as true Cristhian’s, we are to share the gospels and be a witness-to the world. He will do the rest.

I thank God that He directed me to this site, great Professors.

Lol I have a friend that can’t wrap his head around the Bible and how it came to be. He makes the contradictories argument all the time. I love the talks we have about Jesus, the Bible, and life. My favorite question from him, “what makes Christianity different from all the others?” Only answer we can ever give Jesus. Love yalls videos. I sent this one to him so we could discuss it.

The English Bible's are full of differences between each other . If you want to know the true recordings of the biblical books , either read the translated hebrew ones or read the books alone as pdf and not as the whole English Bible as some changes may be there.

Then if I follow you correctly polygamy was followed in the New/Old Testament, as long as you had a brother(s) die you could marry his(their) widow(s) too and keep your own. Or, just be a King like Solomon and David.

Still looking for explanation that will satisfy me of bible contradictions... Some just mention the contradiction with no explanation... Some give the explanation but when checked, it's doesn't go parallel with the explanation,e.g mistranslation but when i checked,it was not a mistranslation at all...even it was a mistranslation,why don't you gather all the versions,and make a new one with no mistranslation,and order all Christianity sekt to use ONLY it then?? It is now over 400 years from king james bible's first version,now with so many versions,,and you can't synchronize it??? Imagine the people,who died believing the mistranslation for hundred of years!! Don't tell me it is the same,no they don't!! Some sekt use differ bible,even some has more books than other,even some books delete some verse,,even some sekt that remove some book said that this books was a fabrications!! Some give long explanation bla,bla,bla...but the explanation was not parallel with christian faith...e.g : bible written by men inspired by god,but then told about writer ask witnesses,some gave A,some gave B stories, it's okay,but don't claim bible is word of God then,just say it word of man,and yes,man do make mistakes...and it was not inspired by god,it was inspired by the witnesses,inspired by human, ourselves...it is the only reasonable answer for all those contradictions Some said you need holy spirit guide to understand the bible...they told me,first,you need to believe jesus died for you sins...hello,how on earth someone need to have faith first,proof later?? It is a blind proof 😂 Prove to me first that bible is word of god,answer my doubt,only then we talk about holy spirit Some even go hardcore,saying that god make it is hard for human to understand bible,hello...why god do so?? Isn't that god supposed to make human easy to understand him?? Isn't god supposed to give a scripture that easy for human to understand?? If i die then,God ask me, 'why you don't believe in religion i ask you to hold?', so i can say, my Lord, I can't understand your word at all 😂😂😂

Interesting video but - sorry - there is a difference between contradictions and clearly mistakes. You have to agree that God never wrong so His Word of God, inspired books, in "pure" form must also be free of errors/mistakes. For example - I would never trust any coursebook of Mathematics if that book would has many mistaeks, did you? I found dozens mistakes in the Bibile... Could you answer me about these few examples below? 1. Matthew 1: 6-16 vs Luke 3: 23-31 Two completely different pedigrees of Jesus, do not match not only the names but also the number of ancestors. (your answer didn't convince me) 2. Genesis 6: 3 vs Genesis 11:11 vs Genesis 9:29 God determines man's life expectancy at 120 years, other verses says something different 3. Matthew 10:10 vs Mark 6: 8 What Jesus finally commanded? 4. II Samuel 24: 1 versus I Chronicles 21: 1 God or Satan excited David? Because it's a HUGE difference ... 5. Genesis 16:16 - Abraham is 86 years old when Hagar gives birth to a son; Genesis 21: 5 - Abraham is 100 years old when Isaac is born; 100 - 86 = 14, that is how old Ismael is when Isaac is born; Genesis 21: 8,10 Isaac weaned on the day of the expulsion of Ismael and Hagar (in the Middle East children are breastfed for approximately the first 2 years, 2 + 14 = 16); Genesis 21: 14-19 - "put her and her child on her shoulders", "abandoned" to the death of the child, " "God heard a moan, lift the boy and take his hand", " gave the boy to drink". At the time, 16 years old was an adult. Here Ismael described as defenseless children. I will be grateful for the answer.

Was Jesus born during the first census of quirenious or during the reign of King Herod? We know Herod died in 4 BC. His son reigned for 10 year and was removed from the throne. At this time Judah was annexed into Syria and Quirenious was appointed Governor of Syria. His first task was to take a census of the newly annexed Judea province for taxation purposes. We know quirenious was leading a massive military campaign during the final years of Herods life. This creates a real problem. Both birth accounts cannot be true.

Let me help you...the messiah can only come from the David, Solomon line

I wish this was true. I wish there were no contradictions in the bible. I wish that there was some sort of all-knowing, all-powerful father figure in the sky taking care of us. I really do. Some meaning in this chaos and misery would be nice. But it's not. Two minutes of reading the bible shows the contradictions. A few moments of thinking about Christian theology and you see the absurd logic - sacrificing yourself to yourself to appease yourself?? And if you allow yourself to believe - TRULY believe - all of this, you'll allow yourself to be manipulated in thousands of other ways. We need MORE critical thinking, not less.

Life expectancy in the time of Jesus was 35 years. The first word we have of Jesus existence was Mark’s Gospel, written 50-60 years after the death of Jesus. Two generations! Mark portrayed Jesus with little detail because he never met the man, and he presented Jesus as a righteous man chosen by the Holy Spirit. Matthew and Luke wrote their Gospels about 70 years after the death of Jesus. They, too, had never met Jesus, but they described him in much greater detail than Mark and presented Jesus as the “Messiah.” John wrote his gospels about 90 years after the death of Jesus. He never met Jesus, but he quoted Him at length and described Jesus as God. We don’t have a single first-person account of Jesus, not a single account of anyone saying, “I met Jesus, I saw Jesus, I was there when John baptized him.” We don’t have any account of his physical appearance or any official government records of his existence, not of his trial or execution. The historical record has not one written word by Jesus himself, which seems odd. A fundamental part of Jesus’ mission on earth was to deliver the “Word of God.” It’s hard to believe that God-the creator of the universe-was illiterate. Most of the places that Jesus is said to have passed through in the Bible didn’t exist when Jesus supposedly walked the earth. For instance, there is no record in archeology of Nazareth-Jesus’ boyhood home-until the 4th Century A.D., when the mother of Emperor Constantine, Helena made a pilgrimage to the place where Nazareth was supposed to exist. Helena found nothing but a well over which she built a church, and a pilgrims' tourist town grew up around that, which they called Nazareth. Did Jesus exist? Perhaps, but? And the virgin birth? It wasn’t unusual 2,000 years ago for gods to come down and have sex with human women. It happened. If you think that’s crazy, read the Book of Revelations.

People really out here taking Bible out of context. Yes the Bible is God's word, but it is almost like, explained in the beggining of the gospels especially if you have one with an excerpt about the book before it, that these are the PEOPLES SPECIFIC EXPERIENCES no everybody gonna be perfect y'all. Nobody but maybe Catholics said apostle's were perfect.

I agree, should we follow gods law or laws of the lawless church. No biggie to get it right.

So your explanation of the two linages that are listed in the bible for Joseph is quite interesting. One is biological and one is legal? So you are saying that God made a mistake when he used the word "begat" in these linages? Any honest person understands begat means the biological process of producing a offspring. So He really didn't mean begat, He just used the word? Seems with reasoning like that you can make the words in the bible mean anything you want them to. Also feel free to get in touch with you and your organization to find out what the words mean in the bible, sometimes a dictionary will lead you astray. Might want to change you talks to Sometimes I Give Dishonest Answers. I know a lot of people will disagree with me if I say there are errors and contradictions in the bible, and most will do great mental contortions to rationalize a explanation to protect their traditions. So was Jairus's daughter very sick when he came to Jesus and after the group started to Jairus's home a servant delivered the news that she was dead, Mark 5:21-35 or was Jairus's daughter dead when Jairus approached Jesus, Matt 9:18.

there are 22 scripture books quoted in the bible that are completely missing from the bible.

The only honest answer would be to the question why would there be contradictions in the most important book in the history of the world this isn't telling of a car accident or changing a car battery these are important books and for him to equate the two is ridiculous beyond measure

Nothing is proven by scripture alone anyway. That's not enough to really convince anyone. Anything can be written. Talk, as they say, is cheap. If it's really true, there will be other evidence that is more convincing. Moreover, it is the Spirit of the Most High, the living Word, that convinces us of what we need to know when we are ready to receive it. But many don't seek that guidance; they settle for the teaching of man and traditions instead.

Battery repair guy?

Yes, it does.

If the Bible has discrepancies that are validated then it is not pure or holy. Timeline issues between religion and civilization is the biggest red flag..

The contradictions we see in the Bible.....had they been found in another book claiming to be the word of God, we would have used them as evidence to discredit that book. Why then should we give the Bible a pass? It is disingenuous, at best, for us to be that uneven in how we judge books on their credibility.

Of the Bible has hundreds of real and seeming contradictions. That's why we need the infallible teaching authority of our Holy Mother the Catholic Church to explain what different difficult passages mean.

He is basically saying, The book of God, has errors just like any other historical book, but he is comparing THE BOOK OF GOD to historical books...

Who are we to know, there are no originals. All other copies are dubious.

im surprised this video its this long. because its super easy: it was wroten by humans, 40+ humans to be precise, which never agreed, nor they knew jesus. ppl dont know that jesus was black, how can a man be white from israel? if this was wrong, imagine other stupid fairytales added there, espacially 20-100 years after jesus died.

Instead of all the mental gymnastics you have to do to commit to the entire Bible being the inerrant word of God...I think it's easier to just look for God in nature. Nature is self-evident, and can never deceive you. Doctrine and scriptures on the other hand? These things are man-made, and can always potentially deceive you. Christians, you don't have to give up your faith entirely. But as long as you insist on biblical infallibility/inerrancy, you paint yourself into a pretty tight corner. Most of Christianity's best aspects came from European stoicism. You can still have all of that without having to commit 100% to the Bible. God is bigger than a mere human book.

I have asked many Christians about the Battle of Jericho and WHY would someone, who was "inspired" by a god, write that Joshua asked his god to stop the World for 5 hours so that he could win the battle. Most people, with an IQ above room temperature, know that the Earth revolves around the Sun. NOT the reverse. The Sun isn't moving, but the Earth is. If there WAS a god, he would have known this, and he would have NOT have allowed that to be in his "holy" book.

I feel like it's easier just to admit that the bible contradicts itself. Read the OT. It's full of contradictions. Chronicles and Samuel are constantly at odds with each other... Especially where King David is concerned.

You shouldn’t have questions about the Bible if it is the word of God. There also shouldn’t be an authority on what the text meant. If it were the word of god it should make sense to everyone from the start.

Short answer: yes.

How did he become a doctor? He's just lied. You can't one say God speaks the truth and then different men get it wrong. God got it right or God didn't.

Im a muslim and i respect all . What you are doing is just playing around just answer the quastion man . I really like to know the right answer . I dont think it's that hard to answer

There are actual errors in the Bible. But fortunately, they are not so severe as to discredit the notion that the Bible is God's Word. After all, God let man do all the copying down through the centuries. It is inevitable that errors would creep into the text. Since God let man do the copying, it virtually guaranteed errors would occur. And, we didn't disappoint Him...we came through!