From: ds0007@medtronic.COM (Dale Skiba)
Subject: Re: Biblical Errors
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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 00:47:49 GMT

Peter White (pwhite@ems.cdc.com) wrote:
: In article <1992Oct30.023200.23807@medtron.medtronic.com>, ds0007@medtronic.COM (Dale Skiba) writes:
: |> Peter White (pwhite@ems.cdc.com) wrote:
: |> : In article <1992Oct22.210640.22295@brtph560.bnr.ca>, ingrcfb@bnr.ca (Charles Board) writes:
: |> [ weak Biblical contradictions deleted ]
: |>  
: |> : |> I've got a few hundred more if you're really interested
: |> : I'm interested, if you have something better than the above, but if
: |> : they were at the top of your list, I'd rather talk about something else.
: |> : 
: |> : I am not meaning to flame you either. I would be very happy to go 
: |> : through each of the few hundred, even if they are all of an equal
: |> : nature. 
: |> 
: |> There are probably hundreds of "Biblical contradictions" out there.
: |> Probaby 95 percent of them can be discounted fairly easily, much in
: |> the manner that you did above.  However, the 5 percent that remain 
: |> are not so easy.  Below are a couple examples of the nasty ones.
: |> 
: |> I don't think that you can resolve these nasty ones without acknowledging
: |> that there is some kind of mistake.  Just one error shoots down the
: |> idea that the Bible contains total, complete, absolute, inerrant truth.
: |> 
: |> =======================================================================
: |> 
: |>   I Kings 16:6,8
: |>     Baasha, King of Israel. died in the 26th year of Asa's reign over Judah. 
: |> 
: |>   II Chronicles 16:1
: |>     In the 36th year of Asa's reign, Baasha built a city.
: |> 
: |> =======================================================================
: |>
: Dale,
: 
: Thank you for something intelligent. I will go study, but maybe you
: can help, how do we know that both are the same guy i.e. what shows that
: it isn't two different kings with the same name?
: |>   And how does the Bible answer simple questions on the death of Judas?
: |> 
: |> 
: |>   What did he do with the 30 silver pieces?
: |> 
: |>   Who bought the field?
: |> 
: |>   How did he die?
: |> 
: |>   Where did he die?
: |> 
: |>   Why is it named the field of blood?
: |> 
: |> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
: |> Acts 1:18-19:  
: |> 
: |>   With the reward he got for his wickedness, Judas bought a field; there he
: |>   fell headlong, his body burst open, and all his intestines spilled out.
: |>   Everyone in Jerusalem heard about this, so they called that field in their
: |>   language Akeldama, that is, Field of Blood.
: |> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
: |> Matthew 27:3-8
: |> 
: |>  When Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was
: |>  seized with remorse and returned the thirty silver coins to the chief priests 
: |>  and elders.  'I have sinned,' he said, 'for I have betrayed innocent blood.'
: |> 
: |>  'What's that to us?' they replied.  'That's your responsibility.'
: |> 
: |>  So Judas threw the money in the temple and left.  Then he went away and
: |>  hanged himself.
: |> 
: |>  The chief priests picked up the coins and said, 'It is against the law to
: |>  put this into the treasury, since it is blood money.'  So they decided to
: |>  use the money to buy a potter's field for foreigners.  That is why it has
: |>  been called the Field of Blood to this day.
: |> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
: |> 
: Judas problem, I think is solved by a little analysis. 
: If we assume that Judas hanged himself we could say that someone
: came along and cut him down and that he then fell headlong and his
: intestines spilled out.
: As far as the purchasing of the field goes, we know from other passages
: that Judas was a bit in love with money, so we have two ways to go there.
: One is that he kept back some of the money and threw the rest in at the
: priests. The other is that he through it all at them and the priests 
: went and bought the field in Judas' name since it was his money and they
: didn't want to be associated with it. Something on the order of the
: legal record showing that it belonged to Judas.
: 
: Have you any others?
: |> --
: |> Dale Skiba
: 
: -- 
: Peter White
: disclaimer: None of what is written necessarily reflects 
:      			a view of my company.
: 			Used by permission, "God, make my words palatable  
: 			and sweet. I may have to eat every one of them."

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