Conflicting statements in the bible

[Statler Waldorf]

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First, I'm not claiming anything. I'm noting that a simple explanation exists.

Second, you spin it as if the difference in time is short. It isn't. It's years.

A person can have an old resume which shows their highest education as a high school degree, and another which shows their highest education as a college degree. If the latter was dated four or more years later than the former, no one would yell Contradiction! This isn't rocket science.

To those saying that Christians are doing gymnastics to avoid contradictions: look in the mirror. You're doing gymnastics to try to uphold the contradictions. You'd be better off admitting that there's some crap in that chart and trying to make a chart with fewer but better charges.

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You nailed it! The following statements are not contradictory…
“Tom Brady threw 5 touchdown passes in one game”
“Tom Brady threw 6 touchdown passes in one game”

A. If we are talking about two different games there is no contradiction here.
B. Even if we are talking about the same game, the two statements are not contradictory because if the second statement is true the first statement is also true since if a person throws six touchdown passes in one game, they also threw five; so if someone kills 800 people in one battle they also killed 300 people in the same battle (especially considering one verse says 300 with his spear and the other verse’s text only reads that he killed 800 people). Either way, the unbelievers cannot prove a contradiction exists in that passage of the Bible.

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A far less inept analogy would be

-Well class, three of you thought that “2+2=4”, two of you thought that “2+2=5”, and three of you thought that “2+2=3”, which of you has given the correct answer and how do you know this to be the case?-

No, that’s not what he’s arguing at all, he’s arguing that scripture is not God’s word (or that there is no correct interpretation of scripture) simply because Christians disagree with one another which is the same as arguing there is no correct solution to “2+2=?” simply because people can disagree on what that solution is. You know that argument doesn’t logically follow Rhythm, it is okay to join me in calling him out on it.