The Bible is not God's Word

Congratulations, Con! You have successfully managed to stall even more time! Rather than defend the Bible's contradictions, all you have done is criticize me on how I chose to present my examples of Bible contradictions! Now, even if I plainly list out all of the Bible's contradictions, you will rebuttal them in the next round, and I will never have a chance to show how weak you defense is! Well played, Con! Well played. I would just like to point out to everyone that contradictions are one of the biggest red flags proving that the Bible isn't divine, and all Con has done thus far is make excuses to avoid having to address specific contradictions. In conclusion, Con has failed to prove that the Bible is God's Word. Either way, I will continue to disprove the rest of his arguments. My opponent has written "...both of the groups have written parts of the Bible, the learned King and the uneducated Shepard, and they both hold to one thought, how can this be if they were not guided?" This sounds like he completely ignored my last argument, that despite social class, all members of a single religion would have the same religious views. The rich Jews is subject to the laws of Moses just as much as the poor Jew is. I don't understand why Con isn't able to comprehend this. And once again, he has failed to address the fact that the compilers of the Bible purposefully selected only certain stories. My opponent has written "...if you had actually read the Bible you would know that...Jesus returned from the grave and gave the grace, mercy and strength to spread the good news." First of all, I have read the Bible in its entirety several times, so it would be nice if you could stop assuming things like that. As I have done before, I assert that I am not saying Jesus couldn't have been resurrected. The apostles were very devoted to Jesus and that is why they were able to overcome the odds and spread Christianity in hostile territory. However, they could easily have made up some white lies to help increase Christianity's appeal. AND ONCE AGAIN, the Gospels CONTRADICT each other SO much, that it is impossible for them to all have been inspired by God. But of course, rather than prove me wrong on that, Con would criticize me on using a video instead of boringly listing each and every Bible contradiction out. My opponent has written, "... Jesus feed 5000 men (plus women and children) who followed Him to hear Him teach...Upon his resurrection Jesus appeared to more than 500 of his follower. Sorry not a small group at all." A very small group compared to the total population of Judea at the time, which was around 4-5 Million (1) My opponent has written, "The Bible does in fact call the earth round... well before we figured out that the Earth was round and both while the leading wise men of the age said the earth was flat." Completely false. Pythagoras, Plato, and Aristotle all taught that the Earth was round (2). Are they divine too, now? My opponent has also written, "How about the flood of Noah that is recorded in the Bible surely there would be some data to back this up, and what we find all mountains have marine fossils on them how can this be unless all mountains did not exist until marine animals evolved or the mountains where covered with water from a worldwide flood. " OR the ancient marine life lived in an ocean covering the region long before the mountains sprung up (3). My opponent has written, "If the Bible where from God then it would be able to predict the future and events, we call these prophesies that would occur in the future, what do we see? In Jesus alone we see over 300 prophecies fulfilled." Con forgets about all the prophecies that were NOT fulfilled (4) Honestly, all of your arguments were pretty decent and they actually took quite a bit of thinking and research to disprove. However, in the end, none of them matter if you can't prove that the Bible is non-contradictory, and you didn't; you made excuses to avoid having to take on the impossible task. God is perfect, and his word would never contradict itself. If the Bible was truly God's word, that would make God a schizophrenic, jealous, merciless control-freak who plays favorites and is the world's biggest hypocrite. Thank you for reading. Have a nice life. SOURCES: (1) http://en.wikipedia.org... (2) http://www.infosources.org... (3) http://www.nytimes.com... (4) http://forum.thefreedictionary.com...