Contradictions in the Bible

First off, my rebuttal was answers, not apologies. The bible needs no apologies. To the insects aguement. You debate with only terminology and nothing else. The word used for fowl in Hebrew speaks of anything with wings, referring both times to the insects. Plus, the Hebrews did not count the hind legs as legs. It refers to four feet that they walk upon and legs above their feet. Notice that it speaks of walking on feet, but distinguishes that they have legs above the feet. The only other option is that the Hebrews which ate them raw, never noticed the other legs. Next, being non literal in places does not make it imperfect as you state. Some places are literal, some not. Here's a website to explain. http://www.freerepublic.com... Now, to the fixed earth. Considering the majority of those verses are poetic, they are literal. Also, immovable and stable does not imply non moving. If something is going in an orbit and can't be stopped, it is immovable. And no to the other one. A large part of the Old Testament is focused on the prophets trying to turn a polytheistic Israel back to god. This does not support you at all. To satan. In the Old Testament, going against what you say, it doesn't just speak of enemies. Although the name means accuser, many names had meanings back then. The word angel comes from messenger. However, satan is seen talking to The Lord in Job. Also in Zechariah, satan is seen with the high priest trying to persuade him, and The Lord openly denies satan. It is obvious that satan must be more then enemies since The Lord does not openly talk to normal nonbelievers back then. The bible is a rule book for life and shows us great love. You claim since it tells of darks acts more often it must be bad, but this isn't true. Also, people use everything as an excuse to do bad. There are plenty of atheist murders out there, that doesn't mean that's what Darwin had in mind. The bible is right, just how people take it is bad. In Matthew doesn't say you should hate your family. Jesus says that he isn't going to set up peace for a reason. The bible says that Christians should be set apart. This will not allow peace. We could have peace if we all turned atheist. Or Buddhist. Or anything the same, but Jesus came to allow people to follow him, which some would not and hate those who did. The bible even says if you don't love your brother who you have seen, how are you to love me who you have not seen. I also like how you pointed out a great point of faith. You claim it is impossible to love someone you have not seen, but that is faith. You have to be willing to give up everything for the pursuit of God. Just because you don't understand, doesn't mean it is wrong. Also, the punishments you find cruel in the old testament is justice. You consider murder a bad crime, but sin is all the crimes. The people openly goes against God and that is their punishment. Slavery is not condoned in the Bible. In the old testament they were usually slaves of war, which they had captured. Jesus never speaks against slavery for a reason. He doesn't speak against many things. If the moral values changed, so would the bad stuff. Jesus could not speak against everything. Plus, in those days, slavery was a promised job which did pay. In fact, some people opted in stay a slave for life because of the goodness of ther job. Later on, slavery was near destroyed in England under the preachings of John Wesley and George Whitefield. In conclusion, all that you have given is either misused terminology or minunderstood verses, nothing more.