Conflicting statements in the bible

[Statler Waldorf]

You'll need more than the claim. Till then you're just crying foul.

More than what claim?

What? Of course it's needed. To be "right" for the wrong reasons is frankly, no better than being wrong.

Again you seem to be missing the point of this thread. A contradiction cannot exist if there is any possible way to resolve it, if there are multiple ways to resolve it, it doesn’t matter which one is correct it refutes the existence of a contradiction.

But you are claiming to know what is being said, which again, would be required if one wanted to identify a contradiction, would it not?

I do not think the word contradiction means what you think it means. If John V and I have different interpretations of what a verse means but both possible interpretations reconcile any apparent contradiction in the verse then we have successfully refuted the alleged contradiction because if a true contradiction exists there is no possible explanation that can reconcile it. You’re just trying to get Christians to argue with one another on here which is not going to happen, we have Christian forums for that.

Clearly not telepath. Perhaps next you'll read my tea leaves?

There’s nothing irrational about valuing the word of someone who knows everything and cannot lie over a fallible human’s claims. In fact, it would be a bit irrational to accept the latter over the former.

Incantations from a book of spells?

No, revelation from the all-knowing.

You claimed that Quirinius was a procurator, Waldork. He was not.

According to Martyr he was a procurator, I am going to take his word over yours, you’re old but you’re not that old. I already pointed out the fallacy of your reasoning anyways; you do not know how Augustus appointed procurators, you only know how Tiberius did.