5 “Bible contradictions” Debunked
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- Опубликовано: 24 сен 2024
- People will claim that the Bible is chocked full of contradictions and it’s just a story book. Well, if you only look at passages ripped from context that could be a position you could hold to. Unfortunately, it’s not true. And this video is showing 5 examples of supposed “contradictions” being solved with basic levels of theological understanding and context.
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Oh here's a good one for the sake of debunking, the whole "Iron Chariots" debacle! It is a nigh on COMEDIC misunderstanding of the text.,
"he" referring to the Tribe of Judah, not God.
@@voltekthecyborg7898 *Judah
But yeah, it was so obvious when reading the text.
@@memeboi6017 The correlation between the Tribe of Judah and Judas Iscariot is why I mixed them up.
In fact, the judas one also makes less sense if it's a contradiction. Like what? Dude fell on the ground and suddenly, his body decided to explode like some enemy in a video game?
I turn to Cliff Knectle (I have no idea how to actually spell his name) he said that if two people report a car crash, one person says that they heard someone scream that they saw the crash, and someone said they heard a screech of brakes that they saw a crash, these are not contradictions. It is two different accounts of the same story from two different perspectives
to add to the "turn the other cheek" bit. The slap was coming from the the hand that was used to wipe the bottom. It was basically a grave insult to you personally as well, not entirely an act of violence. It was also saying that if someone is gonna start flinging poo at you (metaphorically) then be the bigger man
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Who bought the land where Judas died?
The chief priests unable to deposit Judas blood money into the temple treasury bought a potter's field
(Matthew 27 : 6 - 10)
Judas' sale was incomplete due to Passover (Leviticus 23) and lacking proper land transaction procedures
(Jeremiah 32 : 9 - 12)
After his suicide, the priests finalized the purchase in Judas' name completing the transaction.
@@justedits8048 So the bible is wrong about the order of events?
@@Blindtenwhat
it isnt, tell me what u r confused about
@@Blindten He was referring to the law done by the Jews. Because of a holiday (Passover), Judas could not finalize the transaction, and it also lacked said procedures. After his suicide, it was finally done.
@@Blindten you read what I wrote
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As an atheist the first one makes no sense to me. In Acts 1:16-19, it is said that Judas bought a field with the money he recieved for betraying Jesus and in his iniquity, died by falling while in Matthew 27:1-10, it says that Judas felt remorse for betraying Jesus and returned the money then hanged himself and the chief priests bought a field.
If somebody could explain this to me, it would be nice.
I can explain: Judas first hanged himself then his body fell apart because it was rotting for some time. And in ancient times, giving someone money to buy something would be like buying it yourself. Like, if I will give my friend money to buy a Bible, it would be like I bought it myself
@@GreatTrollger Alright, but did Judas feel guilty or not? Did he return the silver to the chief priests or did he buy the field with the silver, hang himself, then the chief priests use the silver Judas refused and bought the field? I'm honestly confused.
@@ronaldmcdonald871He just told you why, but to clear confusion, it was seen as a curse if someone hanged themselves so they bought the land with the money Judas gave back. If you connect the passages in the gospels together, yes Judas felt guilty and did return the sliver. Just as this guy says in the video, these are different observations and perspective of a true event.
@@Mend-fy9zn Right, so did Judah buy the land with the silver, then sell the land, returned the silver and hanged himself afterwards or what? Because I don't see any other way the verses could make sense together.
In Jewish custom it was common to say that someone did something when they actually sent someone to. Like in Exodus, it says Satan killed them then later God killed them. But God allowed Satan to kill the Egyptians. Judas felt guilty, gave back the money, hung himself, and the priests used his money to buy a field.
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I got some more that I could use some help on.
What are some examples I could use to help with the whole "If God is so great, why are still suffering. Why didn't God just do all the work we needed to. If it's because we're so evil what did the starving kids in Africa do to deserve their suffering? God isn't real."
And
"If God is supposed to be unchanging and all that, why does he go from this psychotic civilization destroying intolerant beast and yet is 'all loving and eternal.'."
I will try to make respond to both those questions
@@Missionarypenguin thank you
It's because god's nature is contradictory and you've just noticed that the claims about him from the Bible don't align.
Sounds like the epicurean paradox
The problem with a lot of these responses to bible contradictions is I honestly think you could use this sort of logic to explain anything. There are also contradictions in the Koran and I’m sure Christians would accept those if pointed out but Muslims would have similarly contrived explanations for them. Jesus could literally say ‘My father’s house has many rooms’ and then also say ‘My father’s house has few rooms’ and people would say that he was being literal in one and metaphorical in another or something. You can say Harry Potter is without error if you’re allowed to view anything in it from any angle that you want. I’m not saying none of these explanations of bible contradictions work, but just, if you’re having to constantly bend the face reading of the text to keep it without error maybe ask yourself what the bible would have to say for you to agree that it did have an error. What bar would it have to clear? What would a biblical error even look like? (And if you can’t even imagine that maybe think about what a Koran error would look like and imagine if the bible said the same thing and if you’d accept that as a contradiction).
Sure Luke might be looking at it from a doctor’s perspective. It’s weird not to mention anything that might imply a hanging. A mortician still tends to say the way someone died (blunt force trauma in the car example). Luke just doesn’t mention the cause of his death (if he died of hanging he clearly didn’t die from his intestines falling out). It’s just a weird omission for a supposedly perfect book.
Except that the Quran claims to be the exact word of God. So therefore it could not at all have any contradictions to deal with any difference of perception. And also the Quran is blatantly wrong about many different things such as the holy trinity being the Father Son and Virgin Mary? Which obviously we do not hold. which means we are literally able to verify today by simply asking a Christian what the Trinity is. But the quarn says that it is the unfiltered unchanged word of God surah 115.
So either God is stupid or the Quran is wrong
@@MasonWittenberg Well I agree that that’s a problem with saying that the Koran is without error. But if you claim the bible is without error you also run into similar problems because there are clearly errors in the bible. The Christian can avoid this by saying that the bible isn’t perfect but if, as this guy says, you say that the bible is without error you have the same issue.
But you’ve identified an error in the Koran. If you don’t think there are any errors in the bible can you give me an example of something that could be put in the bible that would make it have an error?
@@qfox16789 if the Bible were to say that Jesus was sinless, and then another verse that Jesus was not sinless. or where it says that portrayed that Jesus rose from the dead and then another verse that said that portray that Jesus did not rise from the dead. There are very small errors in the Bible, but it does not change the main idea of the passages. There are can be tiny mistakes made by copying errors like the 500 or 50,000 I believe where the original Hebrew letters look very very very similar. however, it does not change the main idea of the passage.
Thankfully, we have a church that was able to interpret these passages, so that it could minimalize error among believers.
@@MasonWittenberg Yeah I don't mind this reply (well I think there are larger errors). You seem to disagree with the guy who made the video who says that the bible is without errors. There are other things to be debated but I think it's a bad position to say that the bible is without errors because it doesn't even need to be for Christianity to be true.
Just separately on your Koran point why are they wrong about the trinity? And if it's just because of the way the trinity is presented in the bible, that's not evidence right? That just shows that the bible and koran conflict. Why can't the bible be wrong about that and the koran correct?
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Based? BASED ON WHAT!
@@AblereSinAblere On the Scriptures, duh.
@tapani1857 oh I'm sorry but it's actually an online joke where we don't really know what based means
@@AblereSinAblere Ok, nerd. Gosh.
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Im not a Lutheran and I take the Lutheran view of the Eucharist as you described as my view.
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CONTEXT!!! GIMME THE CONTEXT!!
Atheists after they realize every single argument of theirs has been debunked:
If you do enough mental gymnastics, I suppose you could come to a conclusion like that...
@@multi-milliondollarmike5127 that speaks for both sides
Bruh@@multi-milliondollarmike5127
@@multi-milliondollarmike5127 It's not mental gymnastics, Most High-Level atheists scholars don't even believe in bible contradictions Because they supposed contradictions are all so idiotic and read without context. I was debating a classical internet atheist who quoted a parable from Jesus talking about Dogs returning to their vomit and Dogs eating the leftover crumbs, in which they tried to use this to say he's calling people Dogs when he's just making an analogy between the actions of a dog and a human. It's stupid.
@@unrivaled.zzz11 How would you explain the world being made in 6 days, the sun standing still in the sky, the world being said to have pillars and a cornerstone, or the idea that the Biblical flood happened even though there's no evidence the world was ever flooded? As for contradictions, how do you explain Elijah being brought into heaven without being under the blood of Jesus?
7:18 perfect. This isn’t a contradiction, but it’s great to find the mention of the work of the father and not jesus. 😊
5:09 yea this is a contradiction as jesus said that he came to fulfill the laws and he followed the laws. So going against the laws are contradictory.
Debunk nonstamp
But we know from scientific observation that the Earth is not gonna last forever... and one minute before you said that the Bible is completely true. Did I misinterpret that?
You definitely did. You need to know the books in context, one book is talking literally about the longevity of the Earth, stating that it’ll not last forever and will come to and end, and another book is more of a poetic approach. It obviously isn’t literal but more emotional. It says that everyone will die, but the Earth will continue to thrive, as in, one person’s death won’t stop the lives of others. For example, my friend died, I mourned for a few weeks or even months, but after that, I continue with my life, so his death didn’t stop others (or the Earth) to stop thriving. Hope you understood it.
@@d3vd4s But in the video one passage talks about how the earth lasts forever and the one where it talks about the fire is also (according to the guy in the video) about the earth lasting forever... and we know that´s not gonna be the case. Could it maybe be that the people who wrote the bible didn´t know about modern science and were wrong? or does this "context" not count? or even more likely, that you believe in the bible and will simply interpret it as you see fit to fit the reality of the world we live in?
@@artu262 who is saying God can't just make the earth last forever? I don't see your problem here
The current earth will not last forever and will pass away one day. The New Earth will last for eternity. Hope this clears things up
@onionsans the solar system has a finite life, cosmology tells us. Or are you the kind of Christian that doesn't believe in modern science?
I wanna see DarkMatter2525 cope and seethe to this video. That guy gets on my nerves.
I wouldn't mind seeing these 2 debate, or for him to debate someone with similar arguments. It certainly would be entertaining.
So because he’s right your angry.
@@andidyouknow8208 Don’t like your own comment loser
@@multi-milliondollarmike5127 he would be too preoccupied insulting him and demeaning his intelligence the whole time to get anything productive done. I’m talking about DarkMatter btw
@@MrAwesomeSolos Then there would just have to be a moderator to keep things on point. I've watched DarkMatter's videos before and I never got the impression that he was boisterous and abrasive.
These are understandable but also mostly opinion and personal interpretation. If you could simply interpret the entire bible this way, with no ground or baseline for these interpretations within scripture itself, you could assign whatever meaning or interpretations you wanted to any part of the bible, which ultimately means there's no 'real' meaning to the words. This is also kinda evident in 5:15 of the video where you can see this happen across denominations where people can assign their own interpretations to correct these 'contradictions'. Ultimately, this view of personal interpretation is also why there are so many denominations. In any case, I do belive the bible holds truths, however as a believers of God we have a responsibility to investigate the historical credibility of the gospels and their authors, to find why these discrepancies exist in the first place, and to find the true message of Jesus.
also, in many cases, the english transaltions of the greek give vastly different meanings and loses a lot of nuance in language, but that's something that's unavoidable when it comes to translation. Not to mention, even greek wasn't the original language of Jesus nor the disciples so there's actually at least two layers of this loss.
@@magicaldoriito9829I havent read your whole comment nor have I watched this video because I dont have the time right now but
The gospels weren't translated from aramaic to greek. They were written in greek because greek was the common trade language at the time. So it's really one layer.
Also, as time goes on it isnt uncommon for there to be minor copyist errors, especially when talking about numbers. But the most important messages of the bible such as the gospels cant be corrupted considering the amount of manuscripts there are saying the same thing. If there were major contradictions , I would understand your point.
2:01 again method of death are two different things and trying to compare two DIFFERENT articles of clothing is not the same.
When you want everything can be reconcialed especially if you made up things to fill the gaps .
You make a simple mistake you change the facts to support the inerrancy theory .
Why did God allow Evil to exist
Free will. He lets us do what we want and lets us repent but if we dont we pay the price
2:58 This doesn’t even deal with the fact the Earth based on science literally will be destroyed by sun in approximately 5 billion years.
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Micah 7:18, Jeremiah 17:4. It talks about God's anger to a certain people in one being forever, and the other showing forgiveness to, which could be describing the same people. In other versions of the bible it would just say his anger would last forever, but in the NKJV they used "kindled a fire in my anger which shall burn forever." To me I still think this is a contradiction. Because if you're talking about the lord's anger lasting forever and not forever, then I think this would be a contradiction.
God's anger in this case is Hell. Hellfire itself is said to be the Lord's wrath. So, by that take, Hell is the very destination that is God's Wrath made manifest into a realm of pure torture and suffering, with no end in sight. It's no wonder that God would rather us in Heaven than in Hell, and sent Jesus Christ to die for our sins.
@@voltekthecyborg7898 I don't think that's what it means, it would talk more about destruction then, which is talked about later on in that chapter. But for that, I don't think it was meant for hell specifically for that verse.
1:34 Dude what? I have never heard of someone who hung themself exploding when they fell. This seems like a whole lot of mental gymnastic
If a body is rotten after a long time, and the string broke, it could very possibly "explode" when it falls to the ground due to the impact.
@@lixun7390 No it won’t.
@@andidyouknow8208it is a chance of it happening. Do your research before u yap ok?
@@andidyouknow8208in the middle east? Outside? Absolutely
jesus is not the messiah jesus did not fulfill the messianic prophecies the bible says the messiah will gather the exiles in deuteronomy 30:3 isaiah 11:11-12 jeremiah 30:3, 32:37 ezekiel 11:17, 36:24 the bible says the messiah will rebuild the temple in isaiah 2:2-3, 56:6-7, 60:7, 66:20 ezekiel 37:26-27 malachi 3:4 zechariah 14:20-21 the bible says when the messiah comes there will be world peace and a complete end to war in micah 4:1-4 hoseah 2:20 isaiah 2:1-4, 60:18 the bible says the messiah will bring universal knowledge of god in zechariah: 3:9 8:23, 14:9, 16 isaiah 45:23, 66:23; jeremiah 31:33 ezekiel 38:23; psalm 86:9 zephaniah 3:9. jesus didn't do any of these things, so jesus can't be the messiah.
Jesus is coming again
@onionsans So you are saying that jesus didn't fulfill the prophecies, but he will come back and fulfill them? You could use that argument to say anyone is the messiah because if they don't fulfill the prophecies, you could just say they will come back and fulfill them.
@@Pomni740 Jesus fulfilled many prophecies during his time on earth. It is not the same at all
@onionsans jesus did not fulfill any prophecies.
@@Pomni740 sounds like you haven't read the Christian bible at all. Matthew and Hebrews are good for explaining how Jesus fits in with the Old testament or the "Tanakh". You'll see that Jesus actually fulfills many prophesies