Again a series of 25 SAB Contradictions. Not any one of them turns out to be a real Bible Contradiction. Good advice to all Bible Contradictors: Please, do your homework before you speak! Continue reading
How do you make a mess of Bible texts. Example: “… and [Judas] departed, and went and hanged himself.” “Go, and do thou likewise!” We should not suppose that we have fit the message of the Bible in the combination of these two texts. Do we? What happened in this mess? Two texts out of their context are combined and given a totally new and abject meaning. Continue reading
The Sermon on the Mount is maybe the most famous discourse of Jesus. And now the critic wants to know whether this was Jesus’ first or second sermon compared with the Sermon on the Plain? I don’t see what the Bible Contradiction might be whether the Sermon on the Mount was Jesus’ first discourse or the Sermon on the Plain. However, the critic has spoken, and so he will be answered. Continue reading
What about the expression: “I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generation of those who hate Me, …” (Exodus 20:5) The first of again 25 SAB Contradictions. Continue reading
All the ins and outs of Christmas are common knowledge, e.g. that Jesus was born of the Hoy Spirit and Joseph was not his real father. However, the SAB critic seems to know better … Continue reading
What is the rabbit Bible critics conjure up out of their hat concerning the date of Jesus’ birth? They claim that the time of the census under Quirinius in the Bible contradicts the real historical time about that census being in 6 AD. Continue reading
In this series many controversial issues, such as: Does hell exist? Does God help in times of need? Is only God holy? How should homosexuals be treated? At what time of day was Jesus crucified? Continue reading
The SAB critic has taken as a Bible Contradiction the question: Were the angels that spoke to the women, inside or outside the tomb when the women arrived? Of course an interesting question ... Continue reading
It is an old and obvious point that there is something strange with the time indications of the evangelists concerning Jesus’ crucifixion. Was it at 9 o’clock a.m. as the synoptic gospels intend or was it later, some time after noon as John seems to suggest? Continue reading
There is one significant problem in this saying of Jesus: he seems to say that the Hebrew Bible will remain intact until the end of the world. But what about some tiny scribal errors in the old Hebrew manuscripts? Was Jesus wrong? Isn’t this a Bible Contradiction? Continue reading