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Genesis contradictions?

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Humanistheart

Well-Known Member
The bible contradicts itself left and right.

God tempts men
Gen 22:1/ 2 Sam 24:1/ Jer 20:7/ Matt 6:13
God tempts no man
God is satisfied with his works
Gen 1:31
God is dissatisfied with his works.
Gen 6:6
God dwells in chosen temples
2 Chron 7:12,16
God dwells not in temples
Acts 7:48
God dwells in light
Tim 6:16
God dwells in darkness
1 Kings 8:12/ Ps 18:11/ Ps 97:2
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
God is tired and rests
Ex 31:17
God is never tired and never rests
Is 40:28
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
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
God is all powerful
Jer 32:27/ Matt 19:26
God is not all powerful
Judg 1:19
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
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
 
sojourner

sojourner

Annoyingly Progressive Since 2006
Humanistheart said:
The bible contradicts itself left and right.

God tempts men
Gen 22:1/ 2 Sam 24:1/ Jer 20:7/ Matt 6:13
God tempts no man
God is satisfied with his works
Gen 1:31
God is dissatisfied with his works.
Gen 6:6
God dwells in chosen temples
2 Chron 7:12,16
God dwells not in temples
Acts 7:48
God dwells in light
Tim 6:16
God dwells in darkness
1 Kings 8:12/ Ps 18:11/ Ps 97:2
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
God is tired and rests
Ex 31:17
God is never tired and never rests
Is 40:28
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
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
God is all powerful
Jer 32:27/ Matt 19:26
God is not all powerful
Judg 1:19
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
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
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So? What's your point?
 
sojourner

sojourner

Annoyingly Progressive Since 2006
Humanistheart said:
The title was genises contradictions. Listing contradictions in genises and between gospels seamed relevant enough to the post. That was the point.
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Is it particularly grievous to you that the Bible contradicts itself?
Does that factoid keep you up nights?
Does it change the paradigm of human endeavor?
Does it shake the foundations of faith?
Does it mean that we can no longer believe in clothesline wire as a green alternative to to the electric dryer?

What's the point of the thread? To inform us all of the obvious?
 
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Bick

Member
I accept the Genesis account of creation and the beginning of the human race as, first of all, literal, unless from the context some parts could be considered figurative.

The sons of Adam and Eve did marry their sisters, for that was all there was until there were offspring from that marriage.

Disease and impurities weren't in those early humans, such as became true in later centuries. For instance, the weak and sickly offspring of the European royalty who kept intermarrying their close relatives.

In the Genesis story Adam lived to be 930 years and had sons and daughters. No doubt, when mature, they would move away to raise their own crops for food, etc (my speculation).
 
Wandered Off

Wandered Off

Sporadic Driveby Member
Bick said:
In the Genesis story Adam lived to be 930 years and had sons and daughters. No doubt, when mature, they would move away to raise their own crops for food, etc (my speculation).
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So the kids were like 200 before they finally got a job and moved out.
 
Riverwolf

Riverwolf

Amateur Rambler / Proud Ergi
Premium Member
Humanistheart said:
You are resorting to name calling like childish when you have no real arguments to back them up and you want to call others childish. Interesting.
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He's good at that. :D

He actually does have arguments (I've coaxed them out of him a few times); he just feels it's a waste of time to share them.
 
Jayhawker Soule

Jayhawker Soule

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Premium Member
Humanistheart said:
You are resorting to name calling like childish when you have no real arguments to back them up and you want to call others childish. Interesting.
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Laundry lists of contradictions are regurgitated almost weekly in innumerably forums such as this. They are devoid of seriousness, devoid of scholarship, and devoid of value, being little more than juvenile attempt at ridicule.

Yes, there are contradictions in Genesis.
Yes, critical theists and Biblical scholars by the thousands have known about them and studied them for centuries.
Yes, the most reasonable (and widely embraced) explanation is that the Tanakh is a human effort.
Therefore?​
 
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Humanistheart

Well-Known Member
Jayhawker Soule said:
Laundry lists of contradictions are regurgitated almost weekly in innumerably forums such as this. They are devoid of seriousness, devoid of scholarship, and devoid of value, being little more than juvenile attempt at ridicule.
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Again, based on nothing. If you do not have something relative to the thread and your not able to make any arguments to support a given position, nor to post a responce without resorting to the behavior in which your attempting to attribute to others, such as juvenille and childish, it's unlikely your mature enough to converse on this site.
 
sojourner

sojourner

Annoyingly Progressive Since 2006
Humanistheart said:
Again, based on nothing. If you do not have something relative to the thread and your not able to make any arguments to support a given position, nor to post a responce without resorting to the behavior in which your attempting to attribute to others, such as juvenille and childish, it's unlikely your mature enough to converse on this site.
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I haven't noticed you engaging in any relevant argument here. You haven't even bothered to tell us your point. We can only assume that, since you're a non-believer, you hope to ridicule the Bible. Can you provide some relevant argument to refute that assumption? Otherwise, we're propbably going to come to the conclusion that it's unlikely you're mature enough to converse on this site.
 
Riverwolf

Riverwolf

Amateur Rambler / Proud Ergi
Premium Member
Humanistheart said:
Again, based on nothing. If you do not have something relative to the thread and your not able to make any arguments to support a given position, nor to post a responce without resorting to the behavior in which your attempting to attribute to others, such as juvenille and childish, it's unlikely your mature enough to converse on this site.
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The point Jay is trying to make is that you have not provided an argument; you've stated a fact. Saying that the Bible has contradictions is like saying "air has oxygen"(as my English teacher would say.) It's been common knowledge for centuries.

You have not provided any debatable argument.
 
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