Category: External Contradictions Of The Bible

  • Explor­ing Pop­u­la­tion Dynam­ics : Demo­graph­ic Dis­crep­an­cies in Bib­li­cal Narratives

    Explor­ing Pop­u­la­tion Dynam­ics : Demo­graph­ic Dis­crep­an­cies in Bib­li­cal Narratives

    Explore demographic disparities in biblical accounts, focusing on Genesis, Exodus, and Numbers. Through textual scrutiny and mathematical models, unravel the enigmas of ancient Israelite society. Discover the delicate balance between narrative tradition and empirical evidence, shedding light on historical complexities.

  • Geo­graph­i­cal Errors With­in The New Testament

    Geo­graph­i­cal Errors With­in The New Testament

    It is well known that the Gospel of Mark con­tains numer­ous geo­graph­i­cal errors. This is summed up in Küm­mel’s clas­sic, Intro­duc­tion to the New Tes­ta­ment : [T]he con­sid­er­a­tions against this assump­tion [that John Mark, com­pan­ion of Peter, wrote the gospel of Mark] car­ry weight. The author obvi­ous­ly has no per­son­al knowl­edge of Pales­tin­ian geog­ra­phy, as the…

  • Wash­ing of Hands Prac­tised by ​“All The Jews”?

    Wash­ing of Hands Prac­tised by All The Jews”?

    There is a problem with this passage, however: the ritual washing of hands was obligatory only on the priests! So the question remains, if the author was a native of Palestine and a Jew, then how was he so ignorant of the Jewish customs and made such a fundamental error regarding a practice that was…

  • Exter­nal Con­tra­di­tion of the Bible : A World­wide Cen­sus of Quirinius ?

    Exter­nal Con­tra­di­tion of the Bible : A World­wide Cen­sus of Quirinius ?

    There is an attempt by each writer of the Syn­op­tic Gospels to either re-cor­rect or present their own ver­sion of what they per­ceive to be the ​“accu­rate” sto­ry of Jesus’ birth, and this has caused dis­agree­ments between the gospel records. The dis­crep­an­cies between the dif­fer­ent gospel records were so numer­ous and glar­ing that it did…

  • Gamaliel And The Revolt of Theudas

    Gamaliel And The Revolt of Theudas

    In Acts 5:36, Gamaliel is record­ed to have said as fol­lows con­cern­ing the Jew­ish revolt of Theudas against the Roman Empire : Pro gar toutoon toon heemeroon anes­tee Theudas legoon einai tina heau­ton, hoo pros­ek­lithee androon arith­mos hoos tetrako­sioon, hos aneerethee, kai pantes hosoi epei­thon­to autoo dielutheesan kai egenon­to eis ouden. “For before these days rose up…

  • The Eclipse of Matthew 27 ?

    In the arti­cle His­tor­i­cal Errors in the Qur’an ? I briefly touched upon the events men­tioned in the Gospel of Matthew sur­round­ing the cru­ci­fix­ion of the Prophet Isa(P). With regards to the cru­ci­fix­ion of ​‘Isa(P), it is record­ed in the Gospel of Matthew : Matthew 27:4 ​“From the sixth hour until the ninth hour dark­ness came over all…