The Bible is free of contradiction

Thank you for the response. Again, you make good points. I will try to be more precise in my meaning pertaining to God's change of mind. For clarity: change one's mind: to change one's opinions or intentions. God saw that mankind was good, but in [Gensis 6] God saw that evil had spread wide across the earth, and He regretted having created man. His opinion changed in that He believed man to be good until Adam and Eve's fall, and thereafter He saw that they were wicked (with the apparent exception of Noah and his family). I hope that cleared things up. I am so glad that you took the time to include that passage from [John 8], for you have prompted me to check that, and that has shown me that there are not one, not two, but three lines missing from my Bible! This is outrageous! And how did I miss this? Now I must wonder how many other missing verses there may be here...I'll be getting in contact with Holman Book Publishers, mark my words. Now I'm angry. But enough about that. The debate must go on. Obviously I concede to this, thank you. Again, the Ten Plagues of Egypt. http://www.publications.steveplatt.net... This article uses some Marr and Malloy as one source, so that's a bonus. There are some interesting points that I hadn't read about before now, too. I concede on the sins of the father. I concede on Jacob's spiritualistic name of Israel. I had left out [Exodus 3:22] because I had not deemed it of import. It seems I was wrong. If you please, the women did ask the Egyptian women to give them valuables. It was a common practice to give gifts to those who were leaving forever. But you must keep in mind that this is just after the occurence of the Ten Plagues. By the end of it, the Egyptians, who had just lost so many of their loved ones, would believe that the horrors of the epidemic had been sent by the divine--whether from their own gods or from the Hebrew God. They would have done anything for the Israelites, anything they'd asked, because the Egyptians were terrified and grief-stricken and weary. Even if the Israelites had not said it aloud, the obvious implication is, "Give me your valuables or another plague will come." So, God told the Israelites to take advantage of the distraught Egyptians. It's stealing, which He later forbids. "Dead Zed." You're so clever--I love it. Also I concede. I had confused myself somehow, which I realized right after I posted my argument. I was thinking more along the lines that the rest of Zedekiah's life was torment. Eh. Ah, let's see. I have 7500 characters remaining at this point, and there's another round after this one. I'll see what I can dig up. In [2 Samuel 24:1], "The LORD's anger burned against Israel again, and He stirred up David against them to say: 'Go, count the people of Israel and Judah." So God tells David to go and count his army. After the deed is done, David thinks that he has sinned despite following God's order. (It's a sin in that if David knows how many men there are, the enemy very well now knows it, too.) But why on earth does God punish David? [2 Samuel 24:15] - "So the LORD sent a plague on Israel from that morning until the appointed time [3 days], and from Dan to Beer-sheba 70,000 men died." Concerning the death of Judas: [Matthew 27:5] - "So Judas threw the money into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself." [Acts 1:18] - "Now this man acquired a field with his unrighteous wages. He fell headfirst and burst open in the middle, and all his insides spilled out." I have seen several reconciliations of this passage, but none of them seem to be up to par. One was that Judas tried to hang himself, but failed and instead jumped to his death from a cliff on his property. But [Acts] states that he had fallen in a field, and Matthew does not say that Judas tried, and mentions nothing of this 'bursting open.' I'll leave it at that. Again, thank you, and I look forward to the next round.