Admitting You're a Sinner

[drfuzzy]

Then the answer ought to be simple for you, if you are at all familiar with English.

Does the book say those things or not?

You are smarter than that. You know who it calls fools and how it does not recommend we call someone a fool.

Does the Bible have contradictions? Hundreds. Apparently. Only apparently.

Yeah, my Mom's favorite answer when we found an obviously clear contradiction in the Wholly Babble was "you're reading it wrong, you don't have enough faith, God will explain it when we get to heaven, go pray to be forgiven for doubting God".              If that hideous evil book of fairy tales had said that 2 + 2 = 17 she (and the illiterate preachers she loved so much) would have tied themselves in knots trying to explain why it was TRUE - because if she thought for a moment that the book had a flaw (gasp!) god would send her to hell, do not pass go, do not collect $200.   The Bible has well over 600 clear contradictions, thousands of ridiculous lies, and plenty of passages that are pure evil.