Wednesday, September 9, 2009

"God Is Impossible" Part 11--Contradictory History

This section of the article "God Is Impossible" makes the claim that the Bible contradicts itself on matters of history. They make general claims to hundreds of instances, none of which I've previously come across.

The only example they give is saying that the Bible doesn't say whether Timnah was a concubine or a son. Timna is mentioned as a son and a concubine, but that is because Timna is the concubine of Esau's son Eliphaz. Genesis 36 talks about her and even gives her full clan information.

Also, Esau's wives seem to have a contradiction between Genesis 26-28 and 36, but this is due to a word issue. It would take a long time to explain so go to http://www.rae.org/esauswives.html

The last example they gave was that it contradicts itself whether Jesus lineage is through Solomon or Nathan. It's actually Solomon, it seems to go both ways because Matthew traces it back through Mary and Luke traces it back through Joseph. Again, evilbible.com fails to show evidence of having done research. Joseph's lineage is through Nathan, but remember Joseph was not Jesus's biological father. Mary's line goes through David.

2 comments:

  1. Well the bible sure contradicts history:
    http://www.rejectionofpascalswager.net/bibleanalysis.html#archae
    http://faithskeptic.50megs.com/prophecies.htm
    And really your arguments for Jesus's lineage is weak.

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  2. And yes the bible is contradictory: http://errancy.org/
    http://infidels.org/library/modern/paul_carlson/nt_contradictions.html

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