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Biblical Contradictions

sojourner

sojourner

Annoyingly Progressive Since 2006
It's like urban legend. The story goes round in several places, and the details change somewhat. The Bible simply includes all the variations of the same story.
 
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Vadergirl123

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Skwim said:
Well, there ya go. Any unexplainable contradiction is obviously no contradiction at all because it's simply a copyist's error. :facepalm: Which means anything in the Bible, contradiction or not, could be a copyist's error; the banal and the momentous alike.
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A copyist error isn't a biblical error. It just means a number was copied wrong. That doesn't prove the original manuscript was contradicting itself.
Introduction to Bible Difficulties and Bible Contradictions | Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry
 
mycorrhiza

mycorrhiza

Well-Known Member
Is Joseph or God/the Spirit the father of Jesus?

If it's the first, then he is not born of a virgin or the son of God, and if it's the second he is not the son of Joseph and thus not a descendent of David and thus not the messiah. How do we solve this?
 
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Vadergirl123

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mycorrhiza said:
Is Joseph or God/the Spirit the father of Jesus?

If it's the first, then he is not born of a virgin or the son of God, and if it's the second he is not the son of Joseph and thus not a descendent of David and thus not the messiah. How do we solve this?
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Both are his father. God is his heavenly father and Joseph is his earthly father. Just read through the four gospels. Jesus was 100% man and 100%God :)
 
fantome profane

fantome profane

Anti-Woke = Anti-Justice
Premium Member
Vadergirl123 said:
A copyist error isn't a biblical error. It just means a number was copied wrong. That doesn't prove the original manuscript was contradicting itself.
Introduction to Bible Difficulties and Bible Contradictions | Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry
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So when you say that the "Bible" is inerrerent you are not talking about any version of the book we have, you are talking about a collection of documents that we don't have. Your faith may lead you to think that those original documents are conflict free, but since they no longer exist there is no way to know this.

And what is the point of trying to refute the contradictions of the "Bible" we do have if that is not the book you are claiming to be inerrerent?
 
sojourner

sojourner

Annoyingly Progressive Since 2006
Vadergirl123 said:
A copyist error isn't a biblical error. It just means a number was copied wrong. That doesn't prove the original manuscript was contradicting itself.
Introduction to Bible Difficulties and Bible Contradictions | Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry
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How do you figure that an error isn't an error. Here's the bottom line:

It appears in the Bible.
It is an error.
Therefore, the Bible contains errors.

How do you draw the distinction between "Biblical error" and "copyist error?"
 
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Vadergirl123

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No. 39,44,67,68,117,282, 320,381,458, aren't contaditcions. They have to do with a different number of people being in a place, b/c the books Ezra and Nehemiah were written at different times. Ezra was written from about 538-516 B.C and Nehemiah was written from around 444-425 B.C. Over this time period their were births deaths, etc. These aren't contradictions.
 
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