CONTRADICTIONS
Some critics claim the New Testament is not a trustworthy source of information about Jesus or any of the details of His life, death and resurrection because of alleged contradictions. One example of such allegations is the claim the Gospels of Matthew and Luke offer conflicting versions of from where Joseph and Mary came and…
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Pointing to alleged contradictions in the Bible is among the most common “ah ha!” moments whenever critics of Christianity make their cases against faith in Jesus Christ as the Resurrected Son of God who is the only path to eternal life (See John 14: 1-11). Michael Jones of InspiringPhilosophy.org specializes in addressing these issues on…
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It’s the Christmas season when Christians around the world celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, the Messiah. That also means you may well hear or read biblical skeptics who claim the Gospels of Matthew and Luke contradict each other in their account(s) of Joseph and Mary being visited by an Angel concerning Jesus. In the…
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Hoo-boy, this is an important alleged contradiction in the Bible because it concerns one of the most basic facts of human existence — why is it pretty much everybody has done or thought about doing or been tempted to do things which in retrospect we regret, feel guilty about, or are outright ashamed? Basically, the…
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There are multiple references in both the Old and New Testaments of the Bible that describe God as being all-knowing, or omniscient. He knows everything about everybody all the time and is never less than all-knowing. For example in the Old Testament, Psalm 44:21 tells us that God “knows the secrets of the heart,” and…
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When conversation turns to alleged contradictions in the Bible, sooner or later a skeptic will point to the “contradictory” claims in the four Gospels about how many women were at the grave of Jesus on Resurrection morning. Here are the allegedly contradictory passages — HillFaith relies upon the English Standard Version (ESV) of the Bible…
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Among the most familiar claims of critics of the Bible’s credibility is the argument that the genealogies for Joseph, the husband of Mary the mother of Jesus Christ, found in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke are contradictory. Matthew describes Jacob as Joseph’s father, while Luke points to Heli. So how can anything the Bible…
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Among the most familiar and important claims of the Bible is that God is sovereign, omniscient, omni-competent and omni-present. He knows everything all the time, including the number of hairs on the head of every person ever born. Not only that, He knows what I did on the 87th day of my 21st year on…
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Put the Gospel accounts of the women discovering the empty tomb of Jesus on the Sunday following His death by crucifixion and burial in the tomb provided by Joseph of Arimathema side by side and it can appear that there are all kinds of contradictory details provided by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. But, as…
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Among the most enduring claims of the 19th Century “Higher Criticism” School of German academics who rejected the divine authorship of the Bible is the claim that Moses was not the author of the first five books, aka the Pentateuch (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy). Chief among the contentions of such critics was that…
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