The Bible is an Inconsistent Document (II)

From here out, I'll simply post the verse pair as DAT has done, except where clarification is needed... saves space. ********************************************************* Mat 28:19 - Act 2:38 The contradiction here is whose name people are baptized in. Since these are both NT texts, there is not expected to be any lack of knowledge of the trinitarian form or anything like that. One states that you baptize in the name of all three, the other that you baptize in just Jesus' name. Stating that they're the same doesn't cut it - you must show some reason for the distinction for the same-ness argument to be salient. Joh 3:22 - Joh 4:2 This is obviously not a clarification. You do not clarify A by saying NOT A. One verse states Jesus did not baptize. The other states he did. Resolve it. Mar 16:16 - Mat 12:37 Again - you misunderstand. One states you shall be saved by faith alone; the other by works. Resolve it. Act 26:23 - 1 Kin 17:22 Regardless of how long it took the child to die, it was still raised from the dead, which directly contradicts Acts. Resolve it. Jam 1:13 - Gen 22:1 Simply stating there is a contextual difference does not cut it. One says God doesn't tempt anyone. The other says God tempted Abraham. Oh... and you could interpret the whole Book of Job as a temptation. Resolve it. Deu 24:16 - Deu 5:9 This is obviously false as the command is in the same book of the Bible, given to only the Jews, not the Gentiles. One says God punishes others for sin that's not theirs, the other states that he doesn't. Resolve it. 2 Sam 24:9 - 1 Chr 21:5 Yet again, your word that they are different is not enough. The verses obviously describe the same event. So unless the same person took two different censuses, the contradiction remains. Resolve it. ACT 1:18 - MAT 27:5-7 I've heard this one before... but the lack of the mention of a hanging suggests that what was important was that Judas committed suicide. The verses disagree on HOW, not the specific events of the hanging. So the contradiction is in the method, not the fact. Resolve it. MAT 27:46,50 - LUK 23:46 - JOH 19:30 These are Jesus' LAST WORDS. Definitely something the authors would agree on. Resolve it. Lev 25:1, 17 - Gen 25:27 - Lev 25:44 This "relationship" difference argument utterly fails when you consider Jesus' commandment to love your neighbor as yourself and do unto others as you would have them do unto you. One verse prohibits slavery, another commands it. Resolve it. 2 Pet 2:7-8 - Gen 19:8 The Bible upholds rape as just... or rather, offering your virginal daughters to be gangraped by angry sodomites. Resolve THAT with "just Lot." Psa 19:7 - Heb 8:7-8 A perfect law would work even with imperfect men. Argument failed. Resolve it. Psa 103:8 - Exo 34:6 - Jer 13:14 - Lam 3:43b - 1 Sam 15:2 - 1 Sam 6:19 Try again - God is slaughtering Israelites here. Slow to anger, rich in kindness, yet commands genocide and slaughters his own people for silly "crimes." Resolve it. Heb 13:20a - 2 The 3:16 - Rom 15:33 - Exo 15:3 - Psa 18:34 - Psa 144:1 A God of Peace and a God of War? You don't find that even a little contradictory? Your answer above admits that the nature of God is not constant. Do you want to resolve an apparent contradiction by holding that God's nature is not constant over time? GE 6:4 - FACT This is a contradiction with REALITY, DAT. Come on now. The Bible makes a prima facia claim about giants. Burden is on the Bible or proponents of it to support the claim. Support it or admit the contradiction. Gen 7:19 - FACT Once again - a contradiction with reality. It's not an opinion. The whole planet never flooded. See above about prima facia claims. Resolve it. GEN 7:2 - GEN 7:8 - GEN 7:9 - FACT This is no different than if the Bible stated that the circumference of the Earth was 4 miles. These are facts, not opinions. You need to resolve the contradictions in FACT. LEV 11:6 - FACT Coprophagous animals eat their poop, NOT chew their cud. Chewing cud involves regurgitation, but not expelling of the food. Coprophagous animals expel their food as poop before eating it again. So unless you are willing to admit that the Israelites were so stupid they couldn't tell the front end of a rabbit from the back... you still need to resolve this inconsistency. GEN 3:14 - FACT Well make up your mind... is the Bible figurative or literal. Which parts are which? Your admission of figurative language opens the ENTIRE Bible to interpretation as a figurative document... GEN 1:29 - FACT The "fall" was of man, not plants. And even if God started making poisonous plants after Adam sinned, it STILL contradicts Gen 1:29 because they're not for food. Sin/no sin does not change the inedible nature of the plants. Gen 7:6 - FACT There is scientific data about human life expectancy going back long before Biblical times. Please educate yourself on some very rudimentary facts. http://en.wikipedia.org... ********************************************************* >> "On the contrary, I have easily answered each supposed inconsistency." Actually, you have answered exactly zero of them. >> "My opponent relies on sheer volume rather than logical arguments." More like a high volume of logical arguments. There is no logical problem with any of the contradictions as I have presented them. Excepting of course the fact that they are contradictory. >> "My opponent appears not to understand the difference between comparing the Bible with itself and with comparing it with his own opinion or conjecture." That's very interesting, considering I've presented no opinion - only Bible verses and well-known facts about the world around us. AFFIRMED.