The King James Bible is without contradiction.

I will only present one contradiction per round. I hope Pro and the DDO audience will not hold it against me, family complications are effecting the time available to spend online. .. I apologize for eliminating promised content but hope you will still find my arguments interesting and worth viewing. Now, let us return to the subject matter! *Ding* Round 2! Interesting! Very interesting. So, in response to a discrepancy that is clearly present, Pro proposes a scenario in which it could be reconciled, using fine mental gymnastics! However, even if the proposed scenario was true it does not change that this is still a textual discrepancy. Pro is working around the author"s text to support what Pro wants instead of reading what the author(s) put! I am willing to say Pro"s argument could be historically accurate, that doesn"t matter to this debate! This debate is over the textual variations of the KJV, not how one can "maybe" think up scenarios where it can "possibly" fit together. I accept that the bible doesn't have every subject covered. I never made such a statement. However if Pro is giving it an interpretation then that is based on how Pro is reading it. It has little to do what the text actually says. What a text says is what the words are in the text. Not how one can rationalize in light of a presupposition that the KJV Bible is inerrant. That's enough of a response to Pro's post. On to more discrepancies! So, where did Mary and Joseph take Jesus after his birth? This may seem like an odd question for me to ask! However in our source material, the KJV (and all the translations I've read for that matter! ) the gospels say two different sets of events. This will be two stories that are at odds in such ways that they cannot reasonably be reconciled. I will now provide links to the appropriate chapters in the respective gospels. Matthew Chapter 2 . https://www.biblegateway.com... Luke Chapter 2 . https://www.biblegateway.com... In the Gospel of Matthew, we see Joseph is given a vision in a dream. He is warned of Herod's treachery and they (Mary, Joseph and Jesus) depart for Egypt, they do this waiting out Herod's passing. For quick reference, this essentially takes place in Chapter 2 verses 13-15. So Bethlehem to Egypt. Now what does Luke"s Gospel have to say about these events? In Chapter 2 verses 21-24, it says nothing. Jesus is born in Bethlehem, but that is where the similarities stop. They circumcise him after 8 days, then wait for Mary to be pure (Law of Moses on child birth, Leviticus 12), they then go to Jerusalem to present Jesus to the Lord. They go places, but none of those places are Egypt. In Matthew, Jesus' events after birth are at odds with what Luke says the following events where. Either Jesus stays in Israel, or he doesn't! Same goes for Mary and Joseph, they cannot be in two places at once. They either went to Egypt, staying there until Herod's death OR they stay in Israel! If they stay, it says Joseph and Mary took a trek to Jerusalem every year for twelve years. This is at odds with staying in Egypt for years awaiting Herod's death. It doesn't say years in Matthew, my opponent may bring up. It doesn't matter. Either Jesus' parents did what it says in Luke or Matthew. It would be hard to argue that Luke would leave out such important details as Joseph and Mary fleeing to Egypt for a nondescript amount of time to save Jesus. Since Herod kills all the children two and under in Matthew, it should be reasonable to believe that Jesus remained in Egypt no less than two years. These would be two years that Joseph and Mary did not attend Passover in Jerusalem. This is at odds with Luke, who attests that they attended it every year until Jesus' 12th birthday. I am well aware that omission does not mean contradiction. It cannot be made right through the text though. In one, Herod is after Jesus. In the other, Herod is not discussed (well, his son is in the next chapter and they bear the same name). Either Herod was after them and they were driven out of Israel to Egypt for a time or they stay in Israel and go about their business. To fix this inconsistency one would have to keep making their explanation more and more outlandish. The simplest answer is of course that these are two different story traditions, which is why there is such disconnect between Matthew and Luke. So, I assert that these are contradictory stories. Most of the events, people, and places do differ. Shepherds or wise men? Fleeing to Egypt or no such trek? Either one happened or the other did! To reconcile these and smash the stories together is to disregard their authors who wished to share particular stories. It is in essence, the reader making their own gospel. That is fine, theologically! It is not fine to use such arguments to claim that a collection of books, never likely meant to be read in light of each other, are not contradictory! They are contradictory. If one text claims something that the other does not, while claiming other events in the same time frame, then they are at odds. Thank you.