(June 16, 2015 at 10:05 am)Drich Wrote: 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.
Oh. So the divinely inspired authors don't agree with each other on events relating to the divine, and that doesn't bother you in the slightest.
Quote:So to you and yours 'ultimate truth' falls in how many women went into the sepulcher? or what specific time of day Christ died?
Nice dodge, but the bullet didn't miss you: you admitted there are contradictions in the scripture you apparently (since you didn't bother to) can't be explained by the usual 'that's metaphorical'
Quote: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.
Irrelevant. You are not god and do not claim to be all-powerful and all-knowing. Answer me, Dripsy: is your god capable of writing a book that would not contain contradictions?
Quote:what figures and what lists? the genealogies? because for the OT Jew it was away to verify the prophesy of the coming messiah.
Yes, that and all the other absolutely pointless figures, like the unnecessarily detailed description of the ark for example
Quote:Or maybe you were reading deuteronomy (the book of the law)
Which DOES happen to be in the bible, doesn't it now?
Quote:Maybe because you saw a documentary on the history channel that told you that.
Overinterpretation on your part....I was hinting at the fact that the gospels are not eyewitness accounts, not implying no one similar to the biblical Christ existed. And I don't watch the History Channel.
Quote:Maybe because the bible is not about moral absolutes...
It isn't? Ah, those pesky catholics implying the existence of objective morality must've been reading something else then....
It's really very nice of you to be so self-incriminating, Dripsy, saves me a lot of trouble.
The point that I'm asking you to address is this: if god is perfect, why is the bible so imperfect?
