In today's article we will be covering around twenty more so called bible questions or contradictions. Please note that these are just my thoughts on the so called contractions and others may have a different way of explaining these supposed contradictions. As human beings we do make mistakes after all and only God is infallible.
1. Why is Hege's name spelled two different ways?
In Esther ch. 2 Hege is also spelled Hegai and some of the genealogies are spelled differently From Matt to the Old Testament. Misspelling names aren't bible errors, the meaning and information is still the same.
2. Why did Matthew leave out a few kings from 1 Chron. 3?
It Doesn't change where Joseph came from and also for the sake of the layout Matt 1:17.
3. Why is Jesus' Genealogy different from Matthew 1 and Luke 3?
They are similar until after David. One line through Joseph and another through Mary.
4. Did the men with Paul see what he saw? Did they hear a voice?
Acts 9:7 and Acts 22:9?
They saw the light but no man, and heard a voice but not of whom spoke to Paul, maybe they just heard Paul's voice.
5. Where the disciples allowed to carry staves or not?
Mark 6:8 and Matt 10:10, Luke 9:3
They may take a staff but not Staves Plural.
6. Did one of the Cherubs face look like an ox or a cherub?
Ezek 1:10, Ezek 10:14.
Perhaps the Cherubs face look like an Ox or maybe it was a different vision.
7. Who moved / provoked David to number Israel and How many years of famine would there be, 3 or 7?
2 Sam 24:1 (13) and 1 Chron 21:1. (12) God used Satan (2 Samuel accounts for the 3 years famine of Ch.21 and the Present year from Ch 21-24 and if David chose 3 years famine it would have made 7.
8. How could Jesus have appeared to the twelve if Judas Iscariot was already dead? 1 Corinthians 15:5
The twelfth person i think was Matthias before he was an apostle. Act 1:26
9. Why is there so many verses on a Good man (2 Sam 18:27, Psa 37:23, 112:5, Prov 12:2, 13:22, 14:14, Mat 12:35,Luke 6:45, 23:50, John 7:12, Act 11:24, Rom 5:7) when Jesus says only God is good? (Matt 19:17)
People are made righteous by faith in Jesus, it is the Holy Spirit that indwells believers. if we abide in Christ we are able to produce good fruit. So apart from God no one is good, we have all sinned.
see John 15:5, Rom 11:17-22, 2 Cor 5:21, Gal 2:20.
10. If God never Changes (Mal. 3:6) how can he change his mind (Exodus 32:14)
The answer can be found in Jeremiah 18:7-10. You gotta look at it this way. God is outside of time, he knows everything that has happened and everything that will happen. Even though we have free will he knows what we are going to do. Thus we see God never changes his mind. However we do see God warning people through his prophets of impending doom if they don't repent of their ways. This is not necessarily a prophecy of a future event but could be considered merely a threat if they don't change their ways.
11. Did Michal have children (2 sam 21:8) or not (2 sam 6:23)?
They simply weren't hers biologically.
12. Who did David buy the threshing floor and oxen from? What did he Pay for it? 2 Sam 24:24 and 1 Chronicles 21:24-25. Araunah and Ornan could be variations of the same name, he paid with Silver and Gold.
13. How could Ahaziah be 22 and 42 years old when he begun to reign? 2 king 8:26 (22) , 2 Chron 22:2 (42).
Ahaziah was literally 22 when he reigned because his fathers reign ended at 40. The 42 could be including the years of Ahab and Omri, who are Ahaziah's father and grandfather in law. In other words he began to reign in the forty second year of the dynasty of King Omri.
14. When delivering the sermon did Jesus go up on a mountain and sit (Matt 5:1-3) or did he come down and stand (luke 6:12-20)?
These could be different events or Matthew summarized the Lords movements prior to the message. Jesus could have went up to pray and then went down some of the way before delivering the sermon. It's possible he stood and sat.
15. Who asked Jesus for seats to his right and left? Matt. 20:20-21, Mar 10:35 .
There are at least a couple explainations for this. Here is my opinion.
1. James and John ask, then when Jesus says no perhaps they got their mom to ask so maybe there was two encounters?
2. Matt and Mark recorded the same event but focused on different people.
16. Did the cock crow once or twice before Peter denied Jesus Thrice? Matt. 26:34, Mar14:30, Luke 22:60, John 13:38.
This one's pretty easy to explain. The other Gospels just weren't as specific on how many crows.
17. Was the tree withred the day Jesus rebuked it or the next day? Math 21:19 , Mark 11:20.
In Matthews gospel perhaps the tree withered in appearance only at that time, but in Marks gospal it was withered fully down to the roots.
18. Justified by works (James 2:24) or faith (Gal 2:16)?
The book of Galations shows that we are Justified by faith in Jesus, whereas the book of James shows that True faith has works.
So in conclusion although it's true that there are hundreds of supposed bible contradictions out there, it is also true that all these supposed contradictions have feasible answers if only you have the time to look for them.
A good link for this topic
http://answersingenesis.org/contradictions-in-the-bible/scripture-index/
Hello Justin,
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Hi Jesse, thanks for stopping by it's nice to talk to you. As of lately I have been sick the last two weeks or so and been working on getting my own place. I recently quite my job at dollar tree so as to fit more time for other things into my life, what about you?
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