it's NOT 2 seperate incidences, it's same incidence described in 2 places in bible. Perhaps the writers of bible weren't sure whether it was God or Satan !!! If bible was inspired from God thru Holy Ghost onto writers of bible then perhaps God himself forgot whether it was He or satan, Alzheimers perhaps !!!
it does affect theological concepts , as discrepancies confirm that biblwas not inspired by real GOD, coz HE CAN NOT make mistakes.
what a theory!!! that difference in numbers will make them seem go toghter well !!!!...... wow..... i am NOT intelligent enough to understand this concept. If i tell my one child that there r 10 chairs in our house & tell other child that there r 15 chairs , How in the world does it serve any good purpose. & If i tell my children that GOD told me this thru his Holy Spirit, then What i'm doing is nothing BUT A BIG LIE..........................
........same way bible was NOT written by Jesus nor the writers of bible were inspired by God thru Holy Spirit .... they only collected stories from different sources & compiles over 1500 years & then told ppl that Holy Spirit inspired them.
Quran:2:79:"Then woe to those who write the Book with their own hands, and then say:"This is from Allah," to traffic with it for miserable price!- Woe to them for what their hands do write, and for the gain they make thereby.
You do not understand the nature of God and how he relates to the spirits, and satan, and devils. Since you are void of this understanding you fall short of understanding the verses of the difficult verses of the bible. I have three things to write:
1) First of all you're not quoting the whole verse, stop eliminating whole portions of what you quote...so that you may take it out of context.
2) The whole of 2 Smauel 24:1 reads:
"And again
the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah"
From what you typed you taught the idea that the verse said "God told David to number Israel" but in truth it does not say such.
3) Who or what was this anger?
[SIZE=+1]!tX [/SIZE]Satan (saw-tawn'); Noun Masculine, Strong #: 7854
- adversary, one who withstands
- adversary (in general - personal or national)
- superhuman adversary
- Satan (as noun pr)
Satan, even Belial, and all of creation must bend to the will of God. Satan here represents the "anger of God."
An example can be found in Numbers 22:22
And
God's anger was kindled because he went: and the
angel of the LORD stood in the way for an adversary
(hebrew- Satan) against him. Now he was riding upon his donkey, and his two servants were with him.
This verse shows that because God's anger was kindles, God allowed an adversary (satan) to come. Thus, the contridiction that you supposedly found, was no contradiction at all.