Are there clear mistakes and contradictions in the Bible - which is claimed to be the absolute word of God ?

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1. Will you be sued for violating copyright when you copied everything from a website? (a) Yes (Some copyright law) (b) No (Some other copyright law) :P.
2. if you only read the bible to see the Contradiction not the logic. you are a stupid. Read the bible as a tool for your salvation. theres no contradictions on that.
3. Where there any contradictions that Jesus Christ is the Son of God?
4. No
5. so what's your question?
6. wow you did your homework here. All I can say is that the bible was inspired by god written by man and therefore full of human error. written by many men in many different points of view, and why they say "only believe some of what you hear and most of what you see" :)
7. yes and this is the reason i left christianity and became a muslim. god does not contradict god. so there for a prfect god could not have made such mistakes. hense forth proving the bible is WRONG!!
8. Good grief! You obviously have never served jury duty. Twelve people can hear and see the same testimony and arrive at different conclusions about the facts based upon their own interpretations of what they saw and heard. I applaud your obsessiveness about the Bible.
9. God wants us ALL to find him, so he covered all his bases.
10. For someone to spend this much time and effort to find descrepancies such as these without even caring about what you read, your effort was a complete waste of your time. You may never know why God does what he does or says what he says. Put the Bible away or give it to someone else.
11. so much of the bible has been changed or kept in secret that very few if any really know the truth.
12. The bible you all have today is not 100% pass down from Jesus. In fact it had re-edit by his disciples many times through thousand of years. That is also why many religions related to Jesus' teaching were formed.
13. A wise man once said that the Bible is theologically perfect enough to leave Bible scholars in awe, and is human enough to give any doubter a seed of doubt. With that being said, all the alleged contradictions in the Bible are simple misunderstandings of those who want to rush to condemn the Bible rather than understand it. All percieved inaccuracies have explanations and theories. I would encourage you to research these matters further case by case rather than copy and pasting entire websites.
14. I, sadly, was not able to research all of these in one sitting, but the ones I read were misunderstandings. When you do come across a seeming contradiction, get a study Bible or do some research. It'll give you some information on it and better your comprehension.
15. THANK YOU for doing all of this, that was alot of effort! Sadly, when you do point out that there are, in fact, contradictions in the Bible, & most twist it around & claim not to care, after proclaiming that there are no contradictions!
16. I am still not ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and I seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness.
17. Wow, that's a big list 1. 2 Sam. says "the anger of the Lord burned against Israel, and *it* incited David" 1 Chron. says "Satan stood up ... and moved David" - who's to say *it* means the Lord? I wouldn't put a line in the Bible if a passage called God *it*. 2. (and many others) Exact numbers are the most often mistaken in the Bible for a few reasons. The main 2 are because the numbers were faded and very hard to distinguish if it had worn out, or if a smudge looked like a number, or made a number look like a different number. The second most common reason is estimations. One person says "there's a million fish" and another person counts the exact number of fish and there are 890,000, one's exact, and the other is either exaggerating or estimating. 3. Ark of the Covenant before/after Philistine defeat? The interpreters of the Scripture labeled the chapters for a reason. There were obvious breaks in writing, like we break in between paragraphs. The two accounts are at different times, and nowhere in 1 Chronicles does it mention the order of events of the Philistines or the taking of the ark. They are two separate events. One being written after the other doesn't imply chronological order. 4. Joshua's conquest - Chapter 10 does not mention that he captured Jerusalem or the Jebusites. Chapter 15 only talks about the Jebusites in Jerusalem. There is no connection between the two verses aside from the kings and cities that WERE overthrown. 5. Genealogies - There are a lot of changes among duplicate genealogies, one includes Jesus himself. In that day, it was common for a man to lay with his brother's wife, should his brother die. This is so that the brother's family could live on. The differing names refers to this. (The translation for Joseph's father in the Luke passage is Heli or Eli, not Hell). 6. Jesus' prayer in the garden (I picked random ones from your list because it's pretty long). The John passage that seems to contradict the others reads "Now My soul has become troubled; and what shall I say, 'Father, save Me from this hour'? But for this purpose I came to this hour." It seems to me like he's praying for salvation from death. If there's a specific one that you'd like me to defend, please e-mail me at seth.p@centrum.cz.
18. He does not want you.