Depending on how long you've been religious, it can be a pretty long journey to recognizing the flaws in the Bible. Once you do, you will realize that there are a great many of them and that the biggest barrier is the way you view the Bible. One thing to be aware of is that a great deal of what we believe about our particular religion was simply told to us repeatedly by lots of people, and so we assume it to be valid without really putting it to the test. Getting over that obstacle is a big step, IMO.
A good site for a list of contradictions in the Bible is http://contradictionsinthebible.com/
It is written with a viewpoint towards understanding how those contradictions inform scholars about how the Bible was written and compiled, and what it tells us about the people who wrote/compiled it and the history of the various stories. It isn't done as an attempt to "disprove the Bible" as much as it is the research that begins once you realize that it's just a compilation of old stories and legends that were written by several groups of people and finally compiled by a different group of people into the book we have today. It does have its uses, as a way of understanding the people and cultures that it encompasses. It's just not a guide book given to us by an all-powerful creator deity.
A good site for a list of contradictions in the Bible is http://contradictionsinthebible.com/
It is written with a viewpoint towards understanding how those contradictions inform scholars about how the Bible was written and compiled, and what it tells us about the people who wrote/compiled it and the history of the various stories. It isn't done as an attempt to "disprove the Bible" as much as it is the research that begins once you realize that it's just a compilation of old stories and legends that were written by several groups of people and finally compiled by a different group of people into the book we have today. It does have its uses, as a way of understanding the people and cultures that it encompasses. It's just not a guide book given to us by an all-powerful creator deity.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
