Contradictions in the bible?...

[Tempest Storm]

Here's one:

Leviticus 11:6: the rabbit also, for though it chews cud, it does not divide the hoof, it is unclean to you

Problem here is, rabbits don't chew cud.

Another:

Leviticus 11:21 - 23

Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth;

Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.

But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.

Now, one would think that a creator would know everything there is to know about his creation. Especcially when that creator is as all-knowing as God. But hey, God can make mistakes, after all, He is the project of the human imagination.

This easy:

Numbers 13:33

And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

Perhaps this was figurative, perhaps it was a metaphor, a typical Biblical exageration, or an actual discription of the sons of Anak. According the Bible, these men would have been hundreds of feet tall. Now, tell me this, they didn't go on the Ark, so how did they survive?

Way too easy...:

Joshua 8:1-29

And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai: see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land:

But archaeology has revealed that Ai was an abandoned city by the time of the Israelites and that this story is nothing more than a myth invented to explain the ruins of an ancient city that the Israelites encountered.

There are hundreds of others, including the Flood, Creation Week, ect, ect.

 

[jackalopes]

But archaeology has revealed that Ai was an abandoned city by the time of the Israelites and that this story is nothing more than a myth invented to explain the ruins of an ancient city that the Israelites encountered.

There are hundreds of others, including the Flood, Creation Week, ect, ect. [/B][/QUOTE]

SO your trusting archiology which has a huge chance of bieng incorrect? instead of beliving a book that was acually written at that time

*sigh* science doesnt prove everything

but I would like to talk to anyone who would want to go into more discussion with me about this subject. PM me and mabey we can talk on aim.

 

[Kuzmich]

I would rather believe science. All the religion does is slow down the progress, once we get rid of supersticion then our technological advance will speed up dramatically.

 

[Tempest Storm]

Originally posted by jackalopes
SO your trusting archiology which has a huge chance of bieng incorrect? instead of beliving a book that was acually written at that time

*sigh* science doesnt prove everything

but I would like to talk to anyone who would want to go into more discussion with me about this subject. PM me and mabey we can talk on aim.

A huge chance? Have any proof to back that up, or are you just making ignorant assumptions?

Never said science proves everything, but you're trying to convince us that a 2000 yeard old book, written by ppl with the scientific knowledge of cavemen does prove everything.

It is a fact that rabbits do not chew cud.

It is a fact that insects have more than 4 legs.

Now if you want to turn a blind eye to reality, then go ahead, just don't try and fill my hand with dog shit and say it's gold.

 

[Kuzmich]

Spike you back, long time no see. You right, i say human kind should stop hoping, waiting and wining so some all poweful being will show up and fix our screwed up lives. We should fix our Earth ourselves, we should shake the chains of religious superstition off us, thats the only way we gonna proggress.

 

[killer900]

ok, you can't just take 1 line from the bible and says it goes agianst itself, you have to read around the line, or even the whole bible. and the people who take the bible word for word are just plain stupid, take the Book of Revalations, it was just a really wierd dream, with a lot of symbolism, and A LOT of christians don't believe in the Book of Revelations. one of my religion teachers (who is a nun), always was telling the class that you cannot take everything word for word in the bible, you cannot believe there was even a huge flood, it might have been a plauge or something. and the rainbow being a promise, that is completely absurded, even crazy, noah, or whoever wrote genises, might have just wanted to explain why there are rainbows, and of course we know more now. Me, and my whole family are christians, and we also are very interested in science, and no matter how hard it is to believe they can go together. Even evelution and Genisis's idea (i forgot what it's called).

 

[famo14n]

well if you want to belive people trying to find out history by a bunch of rocks go ahead but I belive in a book that was written by people who were acually there.
anyway...
you have to remember that the bible was written 2000-4000 yrs ago. there could have been different kinds of animals back then. Even so, talking about animals doesnt prove anything.

 

[Kuzmich]

Well i drather believe in science then in some book that was probabl written by cracked bunch of loosers, who try to explain why they suck so much so they dreamed of a super being that tests them. Christinatity is so similar to any other religion, all the same superstition, all the same belief in life after death.

 

[Tempest Storm]

Originally posted by famo14n
well if you want to belive people trying to find out history by a bunch of rocks go ahead but I belive in a book that was written by people who were acually there.
anyway...
you have to remember that the bible was written 2000-4000 yrs ago. there could have been different kinds of animals back then. Even so, talking about animals doesnt prove anything.

A. Rocks don't lie, ppl do.

B. Those ppl also thought that they were being spoken to by God. Today, that alone is enough to get you locked up in a mental institution.

 

[jackalopes]

Originally posted by Otmorosok
, all the same belief in life after death.

that is the largest lie ive heard in my life. Christianity is very different from other religions.
I would rather belive a book then som PEOPLE that guess about history by rocks,

 

[Kuzmich]

Well budha wrote something, so did Muhamad, and other religious figures. Christianity isn't any different, exept maybe it has a longer manual that comes with the package. All monopolistic religion state the same. There is one supreme being, he made this universe, he loves all, worship him, there is a happy place you can go after you die, or a place of eternal tourment. I actually think that idea of heaven and hell was picked up by jews in Egypt, Egyptians believed that good people will go to the place of eternal happiness after hey die, and they are judged, bad people however gonna get eaten by a demon and have their soul tormented. Doesnt that sound just a little bit familiar?

 

[jackalopes]

Originally posted by Otmorosok
Well budha wrote something, so did Muhamad, and other religious figures. Christianity isn't any different, exept maybe it has a longer manual that comes with the package. All monopolistic religion state the same. There is one supreme being, he made this universe, he loves all, worship him, there is a happy place you can go after you die, or a place of eternal tourment. I actually think that idea of heaven and hell was picked up by jews in Egypt, Egyptians believed that good people will go to the place of eternal happiness after hey die, and they are judged, bad people however gonna get eaten by a demon and have their soul tormented. Doesnt that sound just a little bit familiar?

If you look at the islam religion and other religions they all branch off the bible

 

[Kuzmich]

So does Christinity, BUdha doesnt, there are many religions, all similar, Christianitie's perspective on life after death is somewhat similar to the old polytheistic religion of ancient Egypt.

 

[Tempest Storm]

Originally posted by jackalopes
that is the largest lie ive heard in my life. Christianity is very different from other religions.
I would rather belive a book then som PEOPLE that guess about history by rocks,

They don't guess. They use scientific experiments and processes that have proven themselves time and time again.

If you look at the islam religion and other religions they all branch off the bible

Actually, you'ld be surprised how much of the pagan religions Christianity encorterated when it was started. And, btw, Buddhism, along with half of the major religions in the world are older than Christianity. It's hard to copy something that hasn't even been created yet.

 

[Hot Action Akule]

The bible is a creation of man, and when it was "composed" there were literally hundreds of books on the subject. It was like a puzzle where they put in the most acurate portions. But you cant take everything in it literally, i mean it wasnt written by god and humans make errors so of course there are mistakes. The bible isnt a perfect creation of god. Its historical accounts composed by different people with different points of view. Up til the bible was created it was all oral and the story changed as it was told, its just something that happens.


(BTW: part of the bible is also from the jewish religion; Christianity is based on the same things as judism except that jesus was the savior. )

 

[Kuzmich]

Jewish religion is based on the old testement alone, but you say Bible was the creation of men, i say it was just a religious book, and as any religious book had a lot of paradoxical ideas, and untrue statements in it, one of them being, God exists.

 

[jackalopes]

Originally posted by Spike~
They don't guess. They use scientific experiments and processes that have proven themselves time and time again.



Actually, you'ld be surprised how much of the pagan religions Christianity encorterated when it was started. And, btw, Buddhism, along with half of the major religions in the world are older than Christianity. It's hard to copy something that hasn't even been created yet.

and there has been scientific evidence that proves the bible too

 

[ORC-r0x0r-ROC]

LOL, like what?

 

[Tempest Storm]

Originally posted by jackalopes
and there has been scientific evidence that proves the bible too

I don't deny that some portions of the Bible are true. I just deny the crap like the Flood, Creationism, the ressurection, and so on.

 

[Induhvidual_1]

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