Category: Internal Contradictions Of The Bible

  • Prob­lems in Rec­on­cil­ing the Birth Nar­ra­tives of Jesus

    Prob­lems in Rec­on­cil­ing the Birth Nar­ra­tives of Jesus

    The mis­sion­ar­ies had pathet­i­cal­ly accused us of ​“suf­fer­ing under [SIC!] a seri­ous form of ​‘atten­tion deficit’ ”, among oth­er low-down alle­ga­tions, and then pro­ceeds to claim that we have not ​“both­ered” to respond to their arguments.  The fol­low­ing mate­r­i­al will fur­ther sup­ple­ment our case for the irrec­on­cil­able error regard­ing the birth nar­ra­tive of Jesus(P). It remains to…

  • Did Jesus, Mary and Joseph go to Egypt or to Nazareth ?

    Did Jesus, Mary and Joseph go to Egypt or to Nazareth ?

    In Matthew 2:14, we are told that Joseph took Mary and Jesus to Egypt : ​“When he arose, he took the young child and his moth­er by night, and depart­ed into Egypt.”  Yet in Luke 2:39, they went to Nazareth after Jesus’ birth : ​“And when they had per­formed all things accord­ing to the law of the Lord, they…

  • To Bring Or Not To Bring Thy Staff ?

    Tera Tak Adamar In Mark 6 : 8 – 9, we are told that Jesus com­mand­ed his dis­ci­ples not to bring any­thing for their jour­ney except for a staff : And com­mand­ed them that they should take noth­ing for their jour­ney, save a staff only ; no scrip, no bread, no mon­ey in their purse : But be shod with san­dals ; and not…

  • Where was Jesus put on when he was crucified ?

    Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi In Mark 15 : 32, we are told that Jesus was put on a ​“cross” to be crucified : Let Christ the King of Israel descend now from the cross, that we may see and believe. And they that were cru­ci­fied with him reviled him. The word for ​“cross” here in Greek is…

  • What Nation Was That Gen­tile Woman From ?

    In the realms of bib­li­cal schol­ar­ship and inter­faith dia­logue, few top­ics are as intrigu­ing as the incon­sis­ten­cies found with­in the sacred texts. A notable exam­ple of such an incon­sis­ten­cy is the dif­fer­ing descrip­tions of a Gen­tile woman in the Gospels of Matthew and Mark. While Matthew iden­ti­fies her as a Canaan­ite, Mark describes her as a Syrophoeni­cian Greek. This…

  • Who Fash­ioned The Gold­en Calf ?

    The Chris­t­ian mis­sion­ar­ies have accused the Qur’an of mak­ing a ​“con­tra­dic­tion” on the issue of who was respon­si­ble for the wor­ship of the Gold­en Calf.  It is fur­ther inter­est­ing to note, how­ev­er, that the New Tes­ta­ment con­tra­dicts the Old Tes­ta­ment on the mat­ter of blam­ing Aaron(P) sole­ly for the fash­ion­ing of the Gold­en Calf. Exo­dus 32:4…

  • Who Killed Goliath ?

    Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi In 1 Samuel 17 : 51, we are told that David slewed the Philis­tine cham­pi­on Goliath : There­fore David ran, and stood upon the Philis­tine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath there­of, and slew him, and cut off his head there­with. And when the Philistines saw their cham­pi­on was…

  • Var­i­ous Numer­i­cal Con­tra­dic­tions Between Vers­es in the Old Testament

    Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi Var­i­ous numer­i­cal con­tra­dic­tions can be seen between the vers­es con­tained with­in the Old Tes­ta­ment. We note the fol­low­ing numer­i­cal dis­crepen­cies, as follows : II Chron­i­cles 36:9 says that Jehoiachin was 8 years old when he became king. II Kings 24:8 says Jehoiachin was 18 years old when he became king.  II Samuel 10:18 talks…

  • Was Ketu­rah the Wife or the Con­cu­bine of Abraham ?

    Accord­ing to Gen­e­sis 25:1, Ketu­rah is described as being Abra­ham’s wife : “Abra­ham mar­ried anoth­er wife named Keturah.” The word used for wife in the Hebrew is (​‘ishshah) (Strong’s No. 802)[1] and The Brown-Dri­ver-Brig­gs Hebrew and Eng­lish Lex­i­con (2001) defines the mean­ing of the word as ​“woman, wife, female”[2]. But accord­ing to I Chron­i­cles 1:32, we are…