OK I give up.
If you are allowed such leeway in an attempt to reconcile verses that :-
- any timeline can be imagined ("ancient authors were not so concerned with chronology")
- any imagined extra text can be inserted. (i.e. "Jesus might very well have said something else after the words Luke recorded, and before "he gave up the ghost". We simply don't have enough information from the texts to know with any degree of certainty.")
- any contradiction in a number or name can be dismissed as mistranslation.
then I cannot imagine ANY pair of sentences that CANNOT be reconciled as non-contradictory.
Turning the OP on its' head, can anyone construct a hypothetical pair of statements that would be construed as unambiguously contradictory, given the leeway in treatment that I have mentioned above.
Could it at least be said that the passages
2KI 24:8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mother's name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
2CH 36:9 Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.
are contradictory even if the contradiction is caused by a mistranslation thus answering the OPs question.
Regards
Grimesy
If you are allowed such leeway in an attempt to reconcile verses that :-
- any timeline can be imagined ("ancient authors were not so concerned with chronology")
- any imagined extra text can be inserted. (i.e. "Jesus might very well have said something else after the words Luke recorded, and before "he gave up the ghost". We simply don't have enough information from the texts to know with any degree of certainty.")
- any contradiction in a number or name can be dismissed as mistranslation.
then I cannot imagine ANY pair of sentences that CANNOT be reconciled as non-contradictory.
Turning the OP on its' head, can anyone construct a hypothetical pair of statements that would be construed as unambiguously contradictory, given the leeway in treatment that I have mentioned above.
Could it at least be said that the passages
2KI 24:8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mother's name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
2CH 36:9 Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.
are contradictory even if the contradiction is caused by a mistranslation thus answering the OPs question.
Regards
Grimesy
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. — Edward Gibbon
