The Family Loftus

Answers in Gen­e­sis posted another excel­lent arti­cle. Keep in mind, that if your mind is already made up (i.e.: the bible is con­tra­dic­tory), the infor­ma­tion in their post will be of lit­tle value to you. As the author says:

…for many peo­ple, the belief that the Bible con­tains con­tra­dic­tions and inac­cu­ra­cies is an excuse for not believ­ing. Many such peo­ple have not actu­ally read the Bible for them­selves. Still fewer have ana­lyzed any of the alleged contradictions.

The author goes on to explain how many peo­ple claim con­tra­dic­tions in the bible, such as:

• Bib­li­cal inerrancy in the orig­i­nal man­u­scripts
  The vast major­ity of the bible is iden­ti­cal to the orig­i­nals as writ­ten by the authors (Paul, Moses, David, etc…). A few details have been found that can be ques­tion­able, for instance where two dif­fer­ent pas­sages describe the same event, yet use two dif­fer­ent num­bers in Eng­lish, yet the num­bers are very sim­i­lar in Hebrew.
• Pre­sup­po­si­tions can cre­ate dis­crep­an­cies
  Peo­ple approach scrip­ture with their own beliefs and ideas already formed, instead of look­ing at what scrip­ture says.
• Incor­rect con­text
  Peo­ple will assume a pas­sage of scrip­ture says some­thing it really doesn’t, because they fail to look at the con­text of the writing.
• Trans­la­tional errors
  Many assume mis­trans­la­tions give rise to dis­crep­an­cies, yet there are extremely few of these, and none that impact actual doctrine.

There are other issues, too many to enu­mer­ate here. Go to the orig­i­nal arti­cle and check it out for yourself.

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