Most of those contradictions are easily explained. Some are a little more difficult.
First section: On punishing immorality
God took sin quite seriously, no second chances for dishonoring parents, adultery or Sabbath-breaking.
These sins were representative of the Covenant.
Second section: On destroying other people
These people were given over to sin completely and if allowed to continue could have corrupted the pure line of Christ.
Third Section: On the evil of Biblical law Ezekiel 20
5-26
These are the preceding 4 verses
20:21 Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
20:22 Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth.
20:23 I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;
20:24 Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.
They rejected God, God rejected them.
Fourth section: On Slavery & Subjugation of Women
First, subjugation of women
Why was this verse left out of Ephesians 5:22-24
5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Husbands should be willing to die for there wives. That does not sound like subjugation to me.
Also, look at how Christ loved the church. Gave Himself for it and prays for it continually.
On slavery
This is a difficult one, but I don't believe Jesus would want us to go out and get slaves based on His teaching on servants/masters.
He that would be the greatest among you, let him be servant of all.
Fifth Section: Jesus, on His Second Coming
Jesus' Kingdom is here, but He has not yet come in His Father's glory.
Romans 14:17 The Kingdom of God is righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.
Luke 17:20 The Kingdom of God is within you.
Sixth section: Scientific Errors
Rabbits don't chew cud
" Rabbits actually DO rechew their food, but apparently they swallow the food, poop it out and rechew it a second time directly from their anus (yeah... I know... Do you still want a rabbit for a pet?)"
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What does "chew the cud" mean?
No insects (including grasshoppers) are 4-legged.
It is man's definition that says insects are 6 legged without hands.
God says otherwise. I know this is about a spider, but I believe it applies to insects as well.
Proverbs 30:28 The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces.
This is only possible on a flat earth.
Really?
pi does not = 3.
(Sceptics have ridiculed the Bible for saying that the mathematical constant is 3 instead of the more precise 3.14159. (This number is an "irrational number" and needs an infinite number digits to specify it exactly.) Two explanations for the apparent lack of precision in the measurement are given.
1) The circumference given may be for the inside circumference and the diameter may be the diameter including the thickness of the rim. This would yield a very accurate mathematical result for the inside circumference of thirty cubits. The outside circumference would be about 31.4 cubits giving a rim thickness of four inches or an hand breadth agreeing with
1 Kings 7:26.
2) In
1 Kings 7:26 we read the vessel "was wrought like the brim of a cup." That is the brim on the top of the vessel was wider than the main part of the vessel. The diameter would be given for the brim. If the brim or lip extended about four inches past the main body of the vessel then the outside circumference of the main part of the vessel would be exactly thirty cubits.
In each case the mathematical ratio for circumference of the circle is d, where "d" is the diameter and is the number 3.14159 ..... For a more complete discussion on this see the article by Russel Grigg. (r). Editor.)
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1 Kings 7:23 He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line of thirty cubits to measure around it.
The earth moves. It does not have a foundation.
Yes, it does have a foundation, I believe it is called bedrock.
The Earth spins, and it does not move out of its orbit around the sun.
Seventh section: Selected Contradictions
Enoch and Elijah were taken up, Jesus went up of His own power.
God changing His mind.
God tells us of the cautionary nature of some of His declarations and the fact that He will act in accordance with our choices: “If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed, and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned. And if at another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be built up and planted, and if it does evil in my sight and does not obey me, then I will reconsider the good I had intended to do for it. Now therefore say to the people of Judah and those living in Jerusalem, ‘This is what the Lord says: Look! I am preparing a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. So turn from your evil ways, each one of you, and reform your ways and your actions’” (
Jeremiah 18:7– 11). Note the conditional word
if: “If that nation I warned repents [like Assyria in
Jonah 3] . . . then I will relent.” Conversely, God may tell a nation they will be blessed, but “if it does evil in my sight [like Israel in
Micah 1] . . . then I will reconsider the good I had intended to do.”
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Does God change His mind?
Saved by grace alone versus needing works.
Paul and James are not talking about the same viewpoints.
In James he is referring to those who SAY they have faith, but they actually don't have it.
It would be as if someone wearing filthy rags and driving a junk car said, "I have a million dollars in the bank".
Do you really think he actually has that much money?
Jesus speaking about good works.
What is the motive for doing the good deeds? When He says not to do it to be seen, that is meant to not seek glory for yourself.
When He says to do it so others may see it, He means to do it so God gets the glory.
Jesus speaking about peace
Already dealt with by poster above.
John 1:18 No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared
him.
No one has seen the Father is what is being stated here, as He is a Spirit.
John 5:31 vs John 8:14
Verse 31. - At this point the Lord proceeds to meet the clamour which most probably arose, the doubt and questioning which broke the silence with which his solemn defence had been received. We can hear between the lines the cries of an excited crowd, declaring that these words are simply his own. Such testimony as this to himself must be sustained and sanctioned. Why and how can this Teacher take such ground as to assert about himself what no prophet, no rabbi, no chief priest of the people, not even the greatest man of men, Moses himself, had ever dared to claim? Christ admits that such assumptions as these need justification and approval over and above his ipse dixit. The words that follow are startling: If I bear witness concerning myself, my witness is not true. At first sight this is in direct contradiction to
John 8:14, where, in reply to the Pharisees' "Thou bearest witness concerning thyself; thy witness is nor true," he replied, "Though I bear witness of myself, my witness is true; because I know whence I came, and whither I go." The absolute unison with the Father, which he was not only conscious of, but had also revealed to the Pharisees, lifted his own word to the grandeur of a word of God. The Divine beamed through the human, the infinite through the finite. Here he says, "If I bear - if I and I alone were bearing witness to myself," then - supposing a case, which, as a matter of fact, is impossible - "my witness is not true." If he were acting alone, which is an inconceivable supposition, seeing that in the depths of his consciousness he knew that he was one with the Father, then for his human nature to break away thus from the Father and disdain his testimony would nullify and falsify his witness. He is not bearing witness alone.
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John 5:31 "If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true.
No Bible contradictions.
