I don't care about bible contradictions.

[Drich]

I'm fluent in three.
So you attribute all of the bible's incompatibilities to translation alone?

I guess spending all that time learning three different languages you had to skip over math class. In basic math we learn what's called percentages. this is a percent sign % so when someone like me gives you an answer like "90% of the errors found in the SAB are due to faulty translation" It means out of say 100 errors found 90 of them were having to do with faulty translation.

In otherwords.. Not all but most errors found in the SAB are translation errors.

What about those that are simply factual contradictions, like the time Jesus was crucified or how many women went into the sepulcher?

You do know the difference between a conflict of text and a contradiction right? a conflict in a given text would mean that one person's account may not exactly reflect another but in the end the accounts agree on it's main topic. a contradiction pit's one person's account against the other. they say oppsite things. This thread is about contradictions (As per the title) not just conflicts of text.

Are you implying that an omnipotent god meaning to convey the message of ultimate truth is absolutely incapable of doing so without making it inevitable that it should be blurred and distorted?

So to you and yours 'ultimate truth' falls in how many women went into the sepulcher? or what specific time of day Christ died?

Let me ask you this.. What if I told you my wife and I went into the future just to Saturday at 11:30pm and got the winning lottery numbers, and they were 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42? Then she backed up everything I said, but she added it was actually 11:38 on Saturday night, and we also took my dog... Does her specific recollection change the 'ultimate truth' of the winning lottery numbers we provide?

Now ask yourself. Does the specific recolections of the two specific areas where the gospels conflict, change the ultimate truth of the ultimate ends to the plan of salvation? no. Not at all.

By the way, as the godly man you must be, could you explain one simple issue to me.....why is an allegedly sacred text littered with pointless figures and lists? What is the purpose of them?

what figures and what lists? the genealogies? because for the OT Jew it was away to verify the prophesy of the coming messiah.

It bothered me a lot when I attempted reading the bible. Their presence, among other details, made this supposedly infallible book look a lot like a chronicle,

Maybe because you were reading Chronicals..

law book and

Or maybe you were reading deuteronomy (the book of the law)

mythology of the Jews patched up together with rumors of an apocalyptic preacher.

Maybe because you saw a documentary on the history channel that told you that.

Underwhelmingly unimpressive for the moral absolute, IMHO

Maybe because the bible is not about moral absolutes...
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