Book of Contradictions: A Challenge

[Cinjin]

If someone wants to claim there are no contradictions in the bible, then please explain what Judas really did with the 30 pieces of silver for turning over Jesus, and then explain how he died.

Matthew 27:5
And he [Judas] cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.

Acts 1:18
Now this man [Judas] purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.

So in Matthew, he cast the money into the temple, then went & hanged himself.

But apparently in Acts we're told that Judas bought a field with the very same 30 pieces of silver and, while walking through it one day, fell down and burst open.

Now it appears to most readers of the bible that this would be a contradiction. I mean, after he tossed the money into the temple, did he think better about it and then go retrieve it, buy a field, start to hang himself but then change his mind, then fall from the tree he was trying to hang himself in and somehow burst open with his guts spilling out?

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They tell us that "the bible is the perfect word of god", then when we start pointing out contradictions we are told "That is a translation error..the original language..blah blah blah.."

I stop it right then and there. If someone needs to understand the original languages, then 99.999% of the believers are believing their religion off of a faulty manuscript. I rest my case. thanks for agreeing with me that this book is faulty.

I, too, noticed the "lost in translation" defense of the bible is used a lot by Christians in order to explain why a passage doesn't say what it says. Thanks for giving me the perfect comeback. If you can't trust the translation, then how can you trust any of it to be correct?

I had a fundie friend once, while explaining why drinking alcohol is evil, try to tell me that Jesus turned water into grape juice because the original word for "wine" had two translations, one being "strong drink" and the other "grape juice." Of course he never did explain why the "grape juice" translation had to be the correct one.

Add to that - that grapes are harvested once a year - how do you keep the grape juice from spoiling year round in the middle of the hot-as-fuck middle east???? Magical refridgerators?

Also, the old testament says "be not DRUNK with wine" ... isn't that tant amount to saying the "grape juice" is actually alcohol.