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ReformedChapin

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Please don't misrepresent me...and grow up. BIBLEGATEWAY has no contradictions area....you are getting this from another website.

I can refute this with the proper context for the millionth time...I wont waste my time until you show me the source of your "contradictions."
 
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THE... SOURCE... OF...THIS... CONTRADICTION...IS... THE...BIBLE...WHERE...ELSE...DO...YOU...THINK...IT... COMES...FROM?

Talk is cheap. If you could refute it, you would have by now. Sti;;, nice to have definitive proof as to who is the finer Biblical scholar... I can support MY claims about the Bible (i.e. it has contradictions) while you (i.e. it is inerrant and has no contradictions) clearly cannot.

I know you're a bad looser, but I will TRY to be gracious in victory
 
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Man...burn...
 
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She posted direct links to the verses themselves on Biblegateway.

That is confusing to you how?
 
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Nope, you have a website...I know you do. And I know you want to make up the contradictions in your head. Have fun, my job isn't to convince...no one can.
 
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Nope, you have a website...I know you do. And I know you want to make up the contradictions in your head. Have fun, my job isn't to convince...no one can.
how do you think I'm making this up in my head? go and look in your own Bible then... right there, next to your elbow... go on, check the verses, they're just as contradictory in your hard copy Bible as they are in my head...
 
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There is no confusion. Those direct links are from another website citing biblegateway.
*BUZZZ*

Try again. I double checked the linx just now. They are direct linx to biblegateway.

Linx to Bible verses.

This isn't rocket science here.

Checking a URL against a site is as simple as a click man! Give it a try.
 
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how do you think I'm making this up in my head? go and look in your own Bible then... right there, next to your elbow... go on, check the verses, they're just as contradictory in your hard copy Bible as they are in my head...
There is no contradictions, you should brother reading verses in context not just looking up at websites online to satisfy yourself.
 
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There is no contradictions, you should brother reading verses in context not just looking up at websites online to satisfy yourself.

All right here you go:

There they are.
tulc(thinks some of the gold may have "fallen off the truck" somewhere)
 
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thanks tulc

But I think I should point out that however much gold, the gold was about four hundred and it was taken to Solomon.
the sort of contradiction we need to see is if one of the texts said there was gold taken to Solomon from Ophir and the other text said no-one went to Ophir and there was no gold taken to Solomon.
On the topic concerned, however we do have a real contradiction. The Bible only countenances man/woman union and celibacy and condemns same-sex sex, yet some claim same-sex sex is ok which is contarry to what the Bible says.
What is worth noting is why those who quibble about how much gold between the Chronocles and Kings accounts, should be so bothered when they cant merely disbelieve passages like 1 Cor 6, 1 Tim 1 and Romans 1.
 
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GOAL POST SHIFTING ALERT!!!!

If There is ANY contradiction in the Bible, then the Bible is NOT inerrant...PERIOD!

Thats not to say the Bible is invalid, or worthless... its just not perfect.
 
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Dear EnemyPartyII
I do accept your claim of goal post shifting and this is not the only instance where the Bible has different details. Nonetheless Christian chuches in general claim the Bible is inerrant and infalible is matters of faith, conduct and salvation.

However in your haste to disprove the bible so you can justify same-sex sex, I see you have failed to address the issue where you dont believe the exclusions and condemnations of same-sex sex. Why would you be bothered by two different amounts of gold taken from Ophor to Solomon when you dont believe Genesis 2, 19, Lev 18 and 20 Judges 19, Matthew 19, Mark 10, 1 Corinthians 6, 1 Timothy 1, Romans 1, Ephesians 5, Hebrews 13, 2 Peter 2, Jude 1. Clearly you arent really interested in the accuracy of the Bible so much as justfying what you want.

passages of Scripture used to define marriage as one man and one woman are descriptive, not prescriptive
Diffcult to justfy that as the pasages say that it was God's purpose that man and woman shall be united, and God created woman for man. The passages are most definatley prescriptive.
 
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the whole point of pointing out Biblical contradictions and errors, is an exercise in showing that the Bible is NOT inerrant and changeless... and that therefore, sensible and reasonable, rational interpretation is not only acceptible, but REQUIRED to understand it... otherwise its just a bunch of conflicting, badly written claptrap
 
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Christian chuches in general claim the Bible is inerrant and infalible is matters of faith, conduct and salvation.

...which isn't a problem generally, where the problem lies is when people start claiming that their understanding of scripture is also inerrent and infallible.
tulc(been called a "cafetereia Christian" so often it only amuses me anymore)
 
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Phinehas2

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Yes that is correct tulc, and we can see from those remarks about 'just your opinion' that what is just someones opinion on a particualr topic is actually and opinion shared by the majority of the church.
The problem doesnt just lie with people claiming it is their understanding, the problemis here telling individuals that its just their opinion, when in fact it isnt just their opinion.
 
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Phinehas2

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Dear EnemyPartyII
I agree with that except it doesnt mean the Bible is changeless. If you prospose to change the examples given how much gold are you proposing. What i think you want to do is suggest that the pronoucements against same-sex sex can be changed. I mean Genesis 2, 19, Lev 18 and 20 Judges 19, Matthew 19, Mark 10, 1 Corinthians 6, 1 Timothy 1, Romans 1, Ephesians 5, Hebrews 13, 2 Peter 2, Jude 1. ??
Maybe someone wont believe 1 Corintians 13 and all that stuff about love either.
 
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