Bible Inconsistencies
Apologies for not posting yesterday - straight home from work and back into the car for a drive down to Dumfries. Anyway, I hope this post will make up for that with a good read...
http://tinyurl.com/bf6g7
I've never read the Bible cover-to-cover - or, in fact, any other holy books so I'd never realized that there were so many contradictions and inconsistencies contained in it. However I would imagine that that a lot depends on the interpretation - this article lists these inconsistencies...
"These lists are meant to identify possible problems in the Bible, especially problems which are inherent in a literalist or fundamentalist interpretation. Some of the selections may be resolvable on certain interpretations--after all, almost any problem can be eliminated with suitable rationalizations--but it is the reader's obligation to test this possibility and to decide whether it really makes appropriate sense to do this. To help readers in this task, these lists are aimed at presenting examples where problems may exist given certain allowable (but not always obligatory) assumptions. It should be kept in mind that a perfect and omnipotent God could, should, and likely would see to it that such problems did not exist in a book which s/he had inspired. It should also be kept in mind that what is and is not an inconsistency or contradiction is to some extent a matter of opinion. You are entitled to disagree with the author that these are, in fact, inconsistencies or contradictions."
http://tinyurl.com/bf6g7
I've never read the Bible cover-to-cover - or, in fact, any other holy books so I'd never realized that there were so many contradictions and inconsistencies contained in it. However I would imagine that that a lot depends on the interpretation - this article lists these inconsistencies...
"These lists are meant to identify possible problems in the Bible, especially problems which are inherent in a literalist or fundamentalist interpretation. Some of the selections may be resolvable on certain interpretations--after all, almost any problem can be eliminated with suitable rationalizations--but it is the reader's obligation to test this possibility and to decide whether it really makes appropriate sense to do this. To help readers in this task, these lists are aimed at presenting examples where problems may exist given certain allowable (but not always obligatory) assumptions. It should be kept in mind that a perfect and omnipotent God could, should, and likely would see to it that such problems did not exist in a book which s/he had inspired. It should also be kept in mind that what is and is not an inconsistency or contradiction is to some extent a matter of opinion. You are entitled to disagree with the author that these are, in fact, inconsistencies or contradictions."
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