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There was a time when I would get so jacked up about supposed contradictions in Scripture.
Whenever I would run up against an alleged inconsistency in the Bible (and there are plenty of websites that gleefully catalog them), my faith in biblical inerrancy would get challenged, and I’d feel less confident in Scripture being 100% true. So, I armed myself with resources like Norman Geisler’s When Critics Ask, Walt Kaiser’s Hard Sayings of the Bible, and Gleason Archer’s The Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties, all of which do a great job of harmonizing supposed discrepancies in the Bible.
However, what helped me more was understanding the truth that nowhere in Scripture will you find glaring, black-and-white major divergences, such as one book stating Jesus was raised from the dead and another stating He wasn’t. Small apparent contradictions (see my article, What if the Bible Has Errors for a discussion of them), like Matthew writing Peter will deny Jesus “before a rooster crows” (26:34), but Mark saying the denial will happen before “a rooster crows twice” (14:30) never challenge a single core biblical doctrine of salvation or the validity of Christianity.
And, as one person puts it, it’s not the discrepancies in the Bible that bothered him but rather the clear, undisputed, and life-changing content found in Scripture. That’s the big takeaway anyone challenging the veracity of the Bible needs to understand.
Continued below.
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Whenever I would run up against an alleged inconsistency in the Bible (and there are plenty of websites that gleefully catalog them), my faith in biblical inerrancy would get challenged, and I’d feel less confident in Scripture being 100% true. So, I armed myself with resources like Norman Geisler’s When Critics Ask, Walt Kaiser’s Hard Sayings of the Bible, and Gleason Archer’s The Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties, all of which do a great job of harmonizing supposed discrepancies in the Bible.
However, what helped me more was understanding the truth that nowhere in Scripture will you find glaring, black-and-white major divergences, such as one book stating Jesus was raised from the dead and another stating He wasn’t. Small apparent contradictions (see my article, What if the Bible Has Errors for a discussion of them), like Matthew writing Peter will deny Jesus “before a rooster crows” (26:34), but Mark saying the denial will happen before “a rooster crows twice” (14:30) never challenge a single core biblical doctrine of salvation or the validity of Christianity.
And, as one person puts it, it’s not the discrepancies in the Bible that bothered him but rather the clear, undisputed, and life-changing content found in Scripture. That’s the big takeaway anyone challenging the veracity of the Bible needs to understand.
Continued below.
The biggest contradiction in the Bible that’s not a contradiction
Are God s salvation promises to us conditional or unconditional
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