How many contradictions does the Bible have?

And in 1860, William Henry Burr produced a list of 144 self-contradictions in the Bible. Biblical scholars have studied inconsistencies in and between texts and canons as a means to study the bible and the societies that created and influenced it.
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What are the major contradictions in the Bible?

Biblical Contradictions
  • The Sabbath Day. “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.” — Exodus 20:8. ...
  • The Permanence of Earth. “… the earth abideth for ever.” — Ecclesiastes 1:4. ...
  • Seeing God. ...
  • Human Sacrifice. ...
  • The Power of God. ...
  • Personal Injury. ...
  • Circumcision. ...
  • Incest.
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What are the errors in the Bible?

Here are some of the more memorable (the Society of Bible Collectors furnished several of these examples).
  • 'Sin on more' ...
  • 'Let the children first be killed' ...
  • 'If the latter husband ate her' ...
  • 'To remain' ...
  • 'Owl husband' ...
  • 'Holy ghost' ...
  • 'Peace on Earth and good will toward men' ...
  • 'Out of thy lions'
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How much of the Bible is accurate?

“ … the historical books of the Old Testament are as accurate historical documents as any that we have from antiquity and are in fact more accurate than many of the Egyptian, Mesopotamian, or Greek histories. These Biblical records can be and are used as are other ancient documents in archaeological work.”
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What is the most controversial part of the Bible?

Matthew 27:24-25: “And all the people answered and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.” This scripture has been called the most inflammatory passage in the New Testament. It comes from one of the most dramatic moments in the New Testament.
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Does the Bible have errors or contradictions?



When right is wrong and wrong is right Bible verse?

We live at a time when men call right, wrong and wrong, right. At a time when evil is called good and good is called evil. Jesus spoke of times just like these in Matthew, chapter 24. The apostle Paul wrote of these times in II Timothy, chapter 3.
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Who Wrote the Bible?

That single author was believed to be Moses, the Hebrew prophet who led the Israelites out of captivity in Egypt and guided them across the Red Sea toward the Promised Land.
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Can we trust the Bible?

1. The biblical manuscripts have been reliably transmitted from the authors to us today. What should a person look for when checking to see if an ancient text has been corrupted? The person should look for other surviving copies of that text to cross reference for variants.
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Why is the Bible inaccurate?

The Bible is an unreliable authority because it contains numerous contradictions. Logically, if two statements are contradictory, at least one of them is false. The biblical contradictions therefore prove that the book has many false statements and is not infallible.
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Did God write the Bible?

In my experience as a Catholic priest, one of the most commonly held accounts of biblical inspiration among Christians is that God “dictated” the Bible. According to this view, sometimes called the verbal dictation theory, God dictated each word of the sacred text to a human author who simply wrote it down.
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What parts of the Bible have been removed?

Past of The Lost Books of the Bible
  • The Protevangelion.
  • The Gospel of the Infancy of Jesus Christ.
  • The Infancy Gospel of Thomas.
  • The Epistles of Jesus Christ and Abgarus King of Edessa.
  • The Gospel of Nicodemus (Acts of Pilate)
  • The Apostles' Creed (throughout history)
  • The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Laodiceans.
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Is the Bible historically accurate?

One can extend biblical historicity to the evaluation of whether or not the Christian New Testament is an accurate record of the historical Jesus and of the Apostolic Age. This tends to vary depending upon the opinion of the scholar.
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What is the spirit of error in the Bible?

It is the doctrine that makes a man to continue in sin and believe that as long as he has confessed Christ as Lord and Saviour, he has licence to sin and still make it to heaven. The spirit of error, when in operation, makes a man to always commit blunder or mistakes that will make him to regret later in life.
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Has the Bible changed over time?

The Bible is the holy scripture of the Christian religion, purporting to tell the history of the Earth from its earliest creation to the spread of Christianity in the first century A.D. Both the Old Testament and the New Testament have undergone changes over the centuries, including the the publication of the King ...
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Is the Bible older than we thought?

A new study has revealed that literacy may have been higher than previously believed in Israel in the sixth century, suggesting that the first five books of the Bible may have been written earlier than some scholars believed.
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How do I know the Bible is truth?

Evidence for the Bible

We have copies of the manuscripts and throughout history these copies show that the Bible has been transmitted accurately. Despite common skeptical claims that the Bible has often been changed through the centuries, the physical evidence tells another story.
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What Bible is the true Bible?

The New American Standard Bible is a literal translation from the original texts, well suited to study because of its accurate rendering of the source texts.
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What is and who is God to you?

God is our creator

God created the entire world out of nothing—and everything that God created, God called “good.” God saved the best for the last day of creation; he created man and woman in his own image. In the beginning, everyone and everything was created good. All of it was created to reflect the glory of God.
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Should Bible be capitalized?

Bible/ biblical

Capitalize Bible and all nouns referring to sacred texts. 2. Lowercase the word biblical and other adjectives derived from names of sacred texts.
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Did Jesus have a wife?

"Christian tradition has long held that Jesus was not married, even though no reliable historical evidence exists to support that claim," King said in a press release.
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What are the 75 books removed from the Bible?

This book contains: 1 Esdras, 2 Esdras, The Book of Tobit, The Book of Susanna, Additions to Esther, The Book of Judith, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch, The Epistle of Jeremiah, The Prayer of Azariah, Bel and the Dragon, Prayer of Manasses, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, Book of Enoch, Book of Jubilees, Gospel of ...
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How long after Jesus died was the Bible written?

Written over the course of almost a century after Jesus' death, the four gospels of the New Testament, though they tell the same story, reflect very different ideas and concerns. A period of forty years separates the death of Jesus from the writing of the first gospel.
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Where in the Bible does it say evil will become good?

"Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!" (Isa. 5:20.)
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What does the Bible say about doing things the right way?

Many of his blessings are obvious, but even if you are suffering for doing the right thing, 1 Peter 2:20 makes this promise: “God will bless you if you have to suffer for doing something good.”
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