Reading Time: 4 minutes What are your favorite Bible contradictions? This time: faith vs. works, Jesus genealogy, harm to Christians, the End, and Mary’s home after Jesus.
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Top 20 most damning Bible contradictions
Reading Time: 4 minutes What are your favorite Bible contradictions? See how many of yours are in this list. Topics: sin, women at the tomb, belief, seeing God, and God’s rules.
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You say ‘Gerasa’ and I say ‘Gadara’
Reading Time: 8 minutes This is a guest post by Lex Lata (prompted by Jonathan MS Pearce’s video, Biblical Contradictions: Demons and Gadara vs Gerasa). In the matter of proper names, the Greek copies are often incorrect, and in the Gospels one might be misled by their authority. The transaction about the swine, which were driven down a steep place by […]
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Ruddy Flood Thing Again. And Armstrong.
Reading Time: 18 minutes Dave Armstrong has supposedly refuted my refutation to his refutation of my claim that the Noah’s flood myth is a good example of the multiple sources of the Pentateuch evidenced by both redundancies through repetition and contradictions. Just to let you know, my position is wholesale accepted by pretty much every single Hebrew Bible scholar […]
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Armstrong, the Genesis Flood Contradictions and Multiple Sources
Reading Time: 16 minutes Oh, David Armstrong. David, David David. I will try to be as cordial as possible here but please excuse me if I let off some rhetorical steam at times. I recently posted a piece on the documentary hypothesis as exemplified by the Genesis account of the flood, although I should probably say the Genesis accounts […]
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Irreconcilable Resurrection Differences
Reading Time: 5 minutes In the closing stages of writing my latest book, The Resurrection: A Critical Examination of the Easter Story [UK], I had a few test readers. One was David Austin, down in Australia, who has provided a few guest articles for your delectation. Here is one – thanks muchly to him: In a previous article, I listed various […]
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Gospel of Mark’s Poor Jewish Knowledge
Reading Time: 5 minutes Here is a pretty extensive list of issues in the Gospel of Mark that show the authors lack of knowledge about Jewish customs in Jesus’ time. This casts some doubt on the hisstorical reliability of the Gospel and how he treated his sources. The author of the Gospel of Matthew omitted a number of these […]
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Contradictions in the Resurrection of Jesus Accounts
Reading Time: 5 minutes I have recently been in contact with David Austin, in Australia, who has a keen interest in the Resurrection of Jesus and the Gospel accounts thereof. This is his comprehensive offering: We have no “Originals” of any of the NT documents, only copies of copies with many differences. Our earliest complete books date to around […]
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More Damning Bible Contradictions: #25 Was Jesus Crazy or God?
Reading Time: 4 minutes The nativity stories make clear that Jesus is divine—wise men with gifts, angels visiting the shepherds, more angels updating Mary and Joseph separately, and more. So then what’s the deal with his family saying he’s crazy?
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More of the Top 20 Most Damning Bible Contradictions (Part 6)
Reading Time: 3 minutes More Easter contradictions: women bring spices to the tomb (or not) and Peter’s three denials of Jesus.