The Bible Has Contradictions

I welcome my opponent to his first debate. But I certainly will not go easy on him. "The arguments my opponent used are just links referring to Wikipedia" >>Those weren't arguments, I was just providing context for what the debate is about. Arguments usually aren't posted in the first round. "And so I would like to request my opponent to use references and links from other websites throughout this debate, as I would do the same." >>Every Wikipedia page has it's own list of sources at the bottom of the page. Also, in the forums Wikipedia has been established by most as a generally reliable source. "We are not discussing whether the Bible is authentic or not...just discussing on its supposed contradictions" >>Agreed ===Arguments=== "But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." ~Genesis 2:17 (King James Version) "And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died." Genesis 5:5 (King James Version) >>Either God lied or this is a contradiction. One says he would die that day. The other says he died much later. "And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering" ~Genesis 4:4 (King James Version) "Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons" ~Acts 10:34 (King James Version) >>One says God respected someone. The other says God respects no one. "And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart." ~Genesis 6:6 (King James Version) "And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent." ~1 Samuel 15:29 (King James Version) >>One says God repented. The other says God never repents. Also, it says he never lies, which would make the first verse I posted have to be a contradiction. "And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female." ~Genesis 6:19 (King James Version) "Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female." ~Genesis 7:2 (King James Version) >>One says two animals every kind were put in the ark. The other says of some kinds there were seven taken. "By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations." Genesis 10:5 (King James Version) "And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech." Genesis 11:1 (King James Version) (note:both took place before the Tower of Babel.) >>One describes there being multiple languages before the Tower of Babel, the other says there was only one. "And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon." ~Genesis 15:9 (King James Version) "For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices" ~Jeremiah 7:22 (King James Version) >>One describes God commanding a sacrifice. The other describes God later saying he never commanding any offerings. "For with God nothing shall be impossible." ~Luke 1:37 (King James Version) "And the LORD was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron." ~Judges 1:19 (King James Version) >>Lol, that may be one of the most hilarious verses I've seen. Apparently God is all-powerful except when it comes to iron chariots. "And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am." ~Genesis 22:1 (King James Version) "Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man" ~James 1:13 (King James Version) >>One says God tempted someone. The other says God tempts no one. "For his sons carried him[Jacob] into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre." ~Genesis 50:13 (King James Version) "So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers, And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem." ~Acts 7:15-16 (King James Version) >>These verses describe Jacob being buried in two different locations. "The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name." ~Exodus 15:3 (King James Version) "Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen." ~Romans 15:33 (King James Version) >>One says God is a man of war. The other says he is the God of peace. "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth." ~Exodus 20:4 (King James Version) "And thou shalt make two cherubims[angels] of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat." ~Exodus 25:18 (King James Version) >>One of God's ten commandments is to not make any graven image or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven yet commands they do so only five chapters later. "Thou shalt not kill." ~Exodus 20:13 (King James Version) "And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor." ~Exodus 32:27 (King James Version) >>One of God's commandments is not to kill yet commands them to do so only 12 chapters later. "And the priest shall make an atonement for the soul that sinneth ignorantly, when he sinneth by ignorance before the LORD, to make an atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him." ~Numbers 15:28 (King James Version) "And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins." ~Hebrews 10:11 (King James Version) >>One says offerings forgive sins. The other says they don't. "And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first day of the fifth month." ~Numbers 33:38 (King James Version) "And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead." ~Deuteronomy 10:6 (King James Version) >>These verse describe Aaron dieing in two different places. "When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife." ~Deuteronomy 24:1-2 (King James Version) "And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her. And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery." ~Mark 10:11 (King James Version) >>One says that a man can divorce his wife simply because he doesn't like her anymore and they can remarry, yet the other says it's a sin to remarry. Haha, I literally have hundreds more but I ran out of character space. I'll post more next round.