Book of Contradictions: A Challenge

[fr0d0]

So you're not going to defend any contradiction????

See... such wild misinterpretation shows how you get where you are.

That's fine. It wasn't my challenge - it was yours - posed to me.

I'm glad you got that.

If you want to claim that it's my fault for not going through with it - that's your business, but anyone who reads the entire thread will see that I offered several options to you and than only chose one when you demanded that I choose.

Yeah you offered several options when one single example was very clearly requested. But I'm not going to dwell on your inability to follow a single line instruction.

The contradictions I chose were weak at best - several people pointed that out and yet still, your only response was to their replys. You have succeeded at nothing. You have said nothing. You have proven nothing. If you will not engage the topic, I cannot offer an argument.

Again you failed the simple request - to find one example that I would find hard to refute, and preparing a huge get out for yourself into the bargain. I call that the height of cowardice. I happen to have been very busy with only time to dip into the forum today. I still don't have time left to dedicate any time to this... but then the challenge said nothing of speed... so that's three fails you made so far on interpretation. It's not surprising given your lack of ability in interpreting something I guess.

How that constitutes defeating me in your own mind - none of us can ever know.

Maybe 4? ...no, a conclusion of the 1st 3.

[reverendjeremiah]

For those of you who havent had a chance to get to know fr0d0..look up at that post above.

Sounds like a politician who doesnt want to confirm or deny anything

[Minimalist]

Sounds like he's been drinking.....which wouldn't rule him out as a politician, would it?

[Cinjin]

Yeah you offered several options when one single example was very clearly requested. But I'm not going to dwell on your inability to follow a single line instruction.

Alright, we got it already - I'm horribly irrational and blah blah blah. Whatever.
At this point man - take any liberties you'ed like. We're all just waiting for you to say SOMETHING about your actual challenge. ANYTHING man --- whatever you want. Just hit the topic. Any contradiction you want. Bring down that mighty religious hammer of yours.

[Watson]

Translation: I have only read a few bits and pieces of the bible that my Pastor and study group told me about.

Translation of your translation: I don't know Watson in real life and have no idea what the hell I am talking about. True, I have not read the entire Bible. I am not an expert by any stretch of the imagination, but claiming that because I have not read the entire book means I can't engage in a discussion is foolish; in my reading, I have learned much already. I have read a hefty chunk of the Old Testament and am in the process of reading the New Testament, up to the Gospel of Luke. I have done this on my own time and, oh, by the way? I don't go to church. So I do not have a 'study group' at all.

I have yet to see a contradiction within my reading, at all.

[Minimalist]

I have yet to see a contradiction within my reading, at all.

All that tells us is that your reading comprehension skills are dreadful.

[Cinjin]

Translation: I have only read a few bits and pieces of the bible that my Pastor and study group told me about.

Translation of your translation: I don't know Watson in real life and have no idea what the hell I am talking about. True, I have not read the entire Bible. I am not an expert by any stretch of the imagination, but claiming that because I have not read the entire book means I can't engage in a discussion is foolish; in my reading, I have learned much already. I have read a hefty chunk of the Old Testament and am in the process of reading the New Testament, up to the Gospel of Luke. I have done this on my own time and, oh, by the way? I don't go to church. So I do not have a 'study group' at all.

I have yet to see a contradiction within my reading, at all.

I'm very sorry. I didn't realise you were afflicted with blindness. If I'd known you had a physical handicap I would've taken it easier on you.

[Anomalocaris]

Translation: I have only read a few bits and pieces of the bible that my Pastor and study group told me about.

Translation of your translation: I don't know Watson in real life and have no idea what the hell I am talking about. True, I have not read the entire Bible. I am not an expert by any stretch of the imagination, but claiming that because I have not read the entire book means I can't engage in a discussion is foolish; in my reading, I have learned much already. I have read a hefty chunk of the Old Testament and am in the process of reading the New Testament, up to the Gospel of Luke. I have done this on my own time and, oh, by the way? I don't go to church. So I do not have a 'study group' at all.

I have yet to see a contradiction within my reading, at all.

Shove the bible up your ass. I am sure your rectum can detect the contradictions your brain missed.

[Doubting Thomas]

Yeah, D-T. As this pile of shit from CARM shows, they simply define the obvious contradiction away.

http://carm.org/bible-difficulties/matth...lling-down

There is no contradiction here at all because both are true.

Yeah, I've heard that "Judas hanged himself and then his body fell and burst open" idea before. Curious, though, why Acts conveniently omits the all-important information about Judas hanging first, and Matthew conveniently omits the falling down & bursting open part. Nor do they explain the contradiction of what happened to the 30 pieces of silver. In Matthew, Judas threw it into the temple and the high priests took it and bought a field to use as a cemetery for foreigners (IIRC). But in Acts, Judas himself buys a field with it. I know apologists like to claim that this, too, is not a contradiction because it was Judas' money that the priests used to buy the field, but I think it's very clear that these are two different stories and to try to claim they're not is just using ad hoc hypotheses.

It's that kind of constantly having to jump through mental hoops and make up explanations to explain inconsistencies in Christian beliefs that made me become an atheist. I was glad I didn't have to lie to myself any more.

[Rev. Rye]

5 pages, and i still haven't seen frodo disprove a contradiction? YOU THERE FRODO?

I heard him saying he wanted us to narrow it down to just one before he'd try to disprove them.

Yeah, I've heard that "Judas hanged himself and then his body fell and burst open" idea before. Curious, though, why Acts conveniently omits the all-important information about Judas hanging first, and Matthew conveniently omits the falling down & bursting open part.

And I don't exactly know how this is possible. Maybe the place where he hanged himself was used for basic training by the Roman Army and Judas' rope broke and he fell down a hill and got so badly beaten up that they used him as a practice dummy?


I will withdraw this objection if somebody can verify that a botched hanging could, using conditions that were possible in the first century AD, result in evisceration.