(September 4, 2019 at 12:00 am)Macoleco Wrote: I have an uncle with whom I frequently discuss about Christianity, and he always says that the Bible is perfect, and has predicted everything that has happened so far. Plus it has been written by people who never met.
Now I know the Bible is full of contradictions, but I don’t know them of memory. I need some comebacks about why the Bible contradicts itself.
Thank you
There is not one religion in the world that is perfect. Even just on science alone, science contradicts every damned religion in the world. Every religion in the world has followers who'd argue otherwise, but still, science isn't a religion and isn't a tool that is there to prop up any of them.
There are countless contradictions in the bible though.
The NT books vary on the Jesus character's linage, birthplace, and number of "witnesses" depending on book.
One verse has him demanding you abandon your family and friends if they don't follow him. In another he says, "Think not that I bring peace, I bring not peace but a sword."
But those are irrelevant to me. The two most important stories of the Jesus myth are that of his birth, and that of his death. Both imply what science knows now as to be impossible. It takes two sets of DNA to manifest into a birth. And as far as the death mythology, if one actually were to murder someone like that by spearing them in the side, allowing all the blood to train out, to the point complete brain death, organ death, and cellular death, you do not come back from that.
But even the Jesus character to me is superfluous when you take the entire bible God into account from the first page to the last page. The God character throughout the entire book remains the ultimate authoritarian power. He is clearly abusive to everyone in the OT, even if they are loyal or innocent or young. This same God fakes empathy in the NT by pretending to give a shit about humans, but when you go to the end of the book, the God character goes back to being a violent insecure bully.
There is a reason the character is written like that. Back then ruling families/kings mistook their success as coming from a divine source. And also, in antiquity the human mortality rate was far higher, so it was far more incumbent to tow the tribal line and support your local ruler. And rival kingships were often very brutal to those they defeated, even in prior and surrounding polytheism of that time.
The words "Kingdom" and "Lord" reflect the age of kings of antiquity.
