Inconsistencies in the Bible - Difficulties in evaluating inconsistencies

Some religions believe that the Bible was inspired or received in singular events. Many historians who have analysed the Hebrew Bible and New Testament believe they were written over a long period of time. In addition, various religions assign varying degrees of inerrancy to these Scriptures. Because of this, inconsistencies alleged to be found within the Bible take on an importance in ecumenical and apologetic discussions. Those believing in Scriptural inerrancy sometimes refer to these issues as "difficulties"; some believe th ...

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Besides the major philosophical/theological differences brought about by different views of Biblical inerrancy and different religions, there are many other factors that may make what is an "inconsistency" to one reader seem perfectly acceptable and unproblematic to another. An inconsistency is considered here to be two statements in the Bible that cannot be true at the same time. As there is not complete agreement among believers as to which books form the Biblical canon, some alleged inconsistencies will simply not exist for some ob ...

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In several places in the Torah, there is what seems to be duplication, and in some cases triplication, of several passages and sometimes whole stories. During the narrative of the exodus of the Israelites, water is produced from a rock on two occasions, the ten commandments are given twice, there are two censuses, and an extensive law code is given twice involving two similar lists of forbidden ...

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The various censuses and genealogies in the Bible provide a large number of questions for those who seek to interpret the text completely literally. When the same event is described in two places, numbers often differ. As examples, according to Matthew, the father of Joseph is named James (Jacob in Hebrew), while in Luke he is called Eli (or Heli). Apologists explain this contradiction by stating that Luke gives the genealogy of Mary, though Luke says he is giving the genealogy of Joseph. Their opponents argue that these genealogies were mostly fabricated to attempt to show that Je ...

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According to many commentators, several of them Christian, God in the Old Testament is often vengeful, taking abrupt and often merciless action upon his enemies. In contrast, the New Testament appears to present a much lighter deity, declaring that God is love. In the early days of Christianity, this apparent contradiction lead to, or was a result of, the gnostics. The most prominent of these, Marcion, claimed that the God of the Old Testament is not the same god as that of the New, and in fact, that the God of the Hebrew Bible was th ...

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Within the Deuteronomic History, the Book of Joshua purports to present a campaign resulting in the complete conquest of Canaan. Judges is presented as the immediately following history of the area. However, in Judges it appears that the Canaanites were not vanquished as they were in Joshua, but continued to exist, being more gradually suppressed, and in some cases, notably Shechem, their land being purchased rather than conquered. The Book of Judges also presents several peculiarities concerning the Israelite state, notably th ...

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The Book of Chronicles and the Deuteronomic History both present an account of the same period of Israelite history, but contain what are apparently subtle discrepancies between them. In the Books of Kings, the basin built before the Temple has a volume of 2000 baths (a Hebrew measure, approximately 32 liters or 8 U.S. gallons), while the account in the Books of Chronicles cites a volume of 3000 baths. David's census yields a result of 800,000 people in Israel and 500,000 in Judah, according to the Bo ...

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Supporters of biblical inerrancy reply that the different names of God merely reflect different context [4] and point out that many ancient gods had more than one name. Their opponents claim that the ancient gods had more than one name because they were originally separate gods whose identities later merged. Elohim is a word translated from the original Hebrew as God. At first glance Elohim is a plural word, the singular form being either el or eloah, and is used to refer specifically to the God of Israel in various part ...

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Several significant technical discrepancies arise in textual criticism of the Pauline Epistles. Questions concerning writing style, vocabulary and the historic circumstances of the epistles have, for one reason or another, lead to there only being 7 which are regarded as genuine by a clear majority of scholars. Various shades of opinion cover the authenticity of the remainder, with the Pastoral Epistles being seen as fake by a large majority, though it must be admitted that the purpose of the Pastoral epistles differs greatly from those writ ...

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