Contradictions in the Bible
"... the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we proclaimed among you, Silvanus and Timothy and I, was not Yes and No, but in him it is always Yes." (II Cor 1:19)
Verse Observations:
Ezekiel's temple - Jer 3:16
Since the curtain was torn at the death of Christ, why would there need to be a separation between the holy and common in Ezekiel’s temple? This also undoes the work of Christ. (Ezk 42:13-14, 20, 43:8)
Why should anyone have to bear their shame? This is not the way of God after the coming of Christ. (Ezk 44:13-15)
OK, this is just plain untrue; even the bible speaks against itself! And the Lord gave them rest on every side just as he had sworn to their fathers. Not one of all their enemies had withstood them, for the Lord had given all their enemies into their hands. 45 Not one word of all the good promises that the Lord had made to the house of Israel had failed; all came to pass. (Jos 21:44-45, Jdgs 1:27-36, 2:20-3:6, Jos 19:47)
Jesus' genealogies contradict and don't even match the one given in I Chr 3:19, which in turn doesn't match Ezr 3:2. How then can Jesus be said to be the son of David and to inherit his throne, and how can Zerubbabel be said to have played such an important role in God's divine plan? (Zech 4:6-10) Why did everyone know Jesus as the son of David? Somehow this was an agreed-upon fact. (Mt 9:27 [unless we call this a confession of faith]) But then, does any of this even matter, since the odds are very high that everybody is a descendant of pretty much any famous person you can name? I mean, wouldn't this mean it doesn't matter if the genealogies don't agree (except for what this means for biblical inerrancy), and it also would mean that the sacred significance of Jesus being the son of David is unfounded, but also that God's opinion that it's necessary is also unfounded?
Jer 18:16 making their land a horror, a thing to be hissed at forever. Everyone who passes by it is horrified and shakes his head.
But this isn't God's plan. His plan is to restore Israel and make it glorious.
Is 2:20-21
In that day mankind will cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats, to enter the caverns of the rocks and the clefts of the cliffs, from before the terror of the LORD, and from the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.
And yet Rv 9:20 says that even then, they still would not give up their idols.
Ezk 20:31 This isn't true! God did let himself be inquired of by them, in that he had Ezekiel prophesy to them. (vv 32-44)
Ezk 20:32 “What is in your mind shall never happen—the thought, ‘Let us be like the nations, like the tribes of the countries, and worship wood and stone.’
But this already happened and was happening!
Ezk 21:10, 13, with ESV notes ?
Jer 5:1 Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, look and take note! Search her squares to see if you can find a man, one who does justice and seeks truth, that I may pardon her.
But there was at least 3 men for whom God could have pardoned the city -- Baruch, Ebed-melech, Uriah the prophet (all these not including Jeremiah) (Jer 45, 39:15-18, 26:20)
In Matthew, the crowd, after hearing the parable of the wicked tenants, answered Jesus that the owner of the vineyard would kill the wicked tenants. But in Luke, they disagree with Jesus’ conclusion. Why the discrepancy? (Mt 21:40-41, Lk 20:15-16)
Eliphaz contradicts himself in Jb 4 (vv 2-5, 7-9, 17, 5:11-16, 19-26 versus 4:19-21 [to some extent], 5:3-5 [this is ironic because it could be applied to Job's argument just as easily, since the children don't deserve to be punished for their father's sins]).
Jb 8:21-22 What's this? Now it looks like Bildad is taking Job's side.
II Kgs 15:3 says Jotham reigned at least 20 yrs -- v 33 says he ruled 16.
How could God use Moses to command the people not to intermarry when he himself had married 2 foreign women?
Ezekiel's temple - Jer 3:16
Since the curtain was torn at the death of Christ, why would there need to be a separation between the holy and common in Ezekiel’s temple? This also undoes the work of Christ. (Ezk 42:13-14, 20, 43:8)
Why should anyone have to bear their shame? This is not the way of God after the coming of Christ. (Ezk 44:13-15)
OK, this is just plain untrue; even the bible speaks against itself! And the Lord gave them rest on every side just as he had sworn to their fathers. Not one of all their enemies had withstood them, for the Lord had given all their enemies into their hands. 45 Not one word of all the good promises that the Lord had made to the house of Israel had failed; all came to pass. (Jos 21:44-45, Jdgs 1:27-36, 2:20-3:6, Jos 19:47)
Jesus' genealogies contradict and don't even match the one given in I Chr 3:19, which in turn doesn't match Ezr 3:2. How then can Jesus be said to be the son of David and to inherit his throne, and how can Zerubbabel be said to have played such an important role in God's divine plan? (Zech 4:6-10) Why did everyone know Jesus as the son of David? Somehow this was an agreed-upon fact. (Mt 9:27 [unless we call this a confession of faith]) But then, does any of this even matter, since the odds are very high that everybody is a descendant of pretty much any famous person you can name? I mean, wouldn't this mean it doesn't matter if the genealogies don't agree (except for what this means for biblical inerrancy), and it also would mean that the sacred significance of Jesus being the son of David is unfounded, but also that God's opinion that it's necessary is also unfounded?
Jer 18:16 making their land a horror, a thing to be hissed at forever. Everyone who passes by it is horrified and shakes his head.
But this isn't God's plan. His plan is to restore Israel and make it glorious.
Is 2:20-21
In that day mankind will cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats, to enter the caverns of the rocks and the clefts of the cliffs, from before the terror of the LORD, and from the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.
And yet Rv 9:20 says that even then, they still would not give up their idols.
Ezk 20:31 This isn't true! God did let himself be inquired of by them, in that he had Ezekiel prophesy to them. (vv 32-44)
Ezk 20:32 “What is in your mind shall never happen—the thought, ‘Let us be like the nations, like the tribes of the countries, and worship wood and stone.’
But this already happened and was happening!
Ezk 21:10, 13, with ESV notes ?
Jer 5:1 Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, look and take note! Search her squares to see if you can find a man, one who does justice and seeks truth, that I may pardon her.
But there was at least 3 men for whom God could have pardoned the city -- Baruch, Ebed-melech, Uriah the prophet (all these not including Jeremiah) (Jer 45, 39:15-18, 26:20)
In Matthew, the crowd, after hearing the parable of the wicked tenants, answered Jesus that the owner of the vineyard would kill the wicked tenants. But in Luke, they disagree with Jesus’ conclusion. Why the discrepancy? (Mt 21:40-41, Lk 20:15-16)
Eliphaz contradicts himself in Jb 4 (vv 2-5, 7-9, 17, 5:11-16, 19-26 versus 4:19-21 [to some extent], 5:3-5 [this is ironic because it could be applied to Job's argument just as easily, since the children don't deserve to be punished for their father's sins]).
Jb 8:21-22 What's this? Now it looks like Bildad is taking Job's side.
II Kgs 15:3 says Jotham reigned at least 20 yrs -- v 33 says he ruled 16.
How could God use Moses to command the people not to intermarry when he himself had married 2 foreign women?