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The Bible, Absurdities and Contradictions 3

13 More Contradictions in the Bible

Abstract

The absurdities of the bible are used to indoctrinate children still. It all began with Adam and Eve who led the human race into sin! When God made woman in the Yehouistic creation story, he cut out one of Adam’s ribs and made it into a woman. So, women are inferior beings, only made as an afterthought. Few preachers would say it was a myth, but the truth is the exact opposite. Males are the afterthought—the first sex was the female. Everyone begins life as a female but by birth about half develop features of maleness. Here a few biblical absurdities and contradictions are considered.

14 More Contradictions in the Bible

14—God is not kind but brutal. In an illustration of the true purpose of all priestly religions, God gives commands for the brutal punishment of those who had stolen booty from Jericho intended for the treasury of the priesthood:

And the Lord said unto Joshua… he that is taken with the accursed thing [the booty] shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath;… and Joshua and all Israel with him took action, and his sons, daughters… and burnt them with fire and stoned them with stones... so the Lord turned from the firmness of his anger.
Joshua 7:10

Nor was God averse to killing children to punish the disobedience of their parents:

I will send wild beasts among you that will rob you of your children.
Leviticus 26:22

Not only that but, if anyone continued in disobeying the tyrant god, He says He will make them eat the flesh of their own children:

Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury… and ye shall eat the flesh of your sons and of your daughters.
Leviticus 26:28

But he wasn’t awful only to the Israelites, he killed off plenty of their enemies too:

And that night the angel of the Lord smote in the camp of the Assyrians 185,000 men,
2 Kings 19:35

this being the occasion when they woke up dead! God deliberately set up all the tribes of Canaan for destruction by the Israelites:

For it was of the Lord to harden their hearts that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might utterly destroy them, and that they might have no favour.
Joshua 11:20

He ordered the most brutal savagery by the Israelites on the Midianites, massacring all their males and, having captured the women and children, butchering the women and male children, and raping all the female children.

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites… and they slew all the males; and the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives… and Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive? Kill every male among the children and every woman that hath known man,… but all the female children… keep alive for yourselves.
Numbers 31:2,17-18

It is difficult to believe that children can be brought up with this god as an example but it might explain a lot of the savagery of the soldiers of supposedly civilised countries. It is, for example, similar to the behaviour of the American soldiers at Mi Lai in Vietnam, and more recent examples in Iraq.

15—Perhaps God is right and it is the people’s fault:

The statutes of the Lord are right,
Psalms 19:8

so if the people follow them they will live correctly. The trouble is, as we saw at the creation, that God is peevish and out of spite, confirmed by Ezekiel, he sometimes gives statutes that are not right:

Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgements whereby they should not live.
Ezekiel 20:25

That leaves any Jew or Christian with problems. What are the right statutes and what are the wrong ones? It seems that Paul the apostle was aware of the same dilemma:

God our saviour —will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of truth.
1 Timothy 2:4

And God assists with the work of the devil to tempt the unrighteous, accepting that some cannot be saved:

God shall send them a strong delusion, that they shall believe a lie; that all might be damned who believe not the truth.
2 Thessalonians 2:11-12

Evidently this lie is not an easy one to see through—it is a strong delusion. A reasonable guess at what it is would be the Jewish-Christian religion.

16—Perhaps that is the only way to reconcile the evidence with the claim that God is just in :

He is the Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are judgement, a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
Deuteronomy 32:4

And He is a righteous judge:

Shall not the judge of all the earth do right?
Genesis 18:25

What, though, is just and right about punishing children for their fathers’ errors? Yet that is the theme running throughout the Christian theory of redemption. God tells us himself:

For I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
Exodus 20:5

It is repeated:

Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers.
Isaiah 14:21

But where did this iniquity come from in the first place? Again He tells us because we would never guess, especially if we are Christians:

I make peace, and create evil, I the Lord do all these things.
Isaiah 45:7

There is a curious circularity here which renders God an unsuitable judge but which God doesn’t seem to notice or doesn’t expect us to notice.

17—Psalms seeks to persuade us His anger endureth but a moment:

For his anger endureth but a moment: in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
Psalms 30:5

but, when the Israelites were in the wilderness:

The Lord’s anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the Lord was consumed.
Numbers 32:13

18—Christian churches no longer have the ritual sacrifice of animals that the Jewish religion required. But is that right? Does God want sacrifice or doesn’t he? As usual it depends where you look. In the Jewish scriptures in many places God commands His people to offer up sacrifices:

Thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement.
Exodus 34:36

And the priest shall burn all on the altar to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord.
Leviticus 1:9

That’s clear enough then. But what about Isaiah and Jeremiah, a couple of significant prophets if ever there were any:

To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me, saith the Lord… I delight not in the blood of bullocks or of lambs.
Isaiah 1:11

Jeremiah says that God never told them to offer sacrifices anyway:

For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices.
Jeremiah 7:22

It’s all in the Holy Book, so what do you believe? Of course the purpose of sacrifices is to feed the priesthood, who therefore do not have to work. Only bits of the animal are burnt to offer up a savour to god. The rest is scoffed by the priests. The priests never had to atone for the sin of Adam by the sweat of their brow. Nowadays, sacrifices are not needed because priests get their income from the platter or by special donations from those trying to buy their way into heaven—altogether more sophisticated!

19—Psalms assures us:

Good and upright is the Lord,
Psalms 25:8

but Amos says that whenever evil occurs it is the Lord’s work:

Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?
Amos 3:6

20—Any Christian, a follower of the God of love, must expect that their God forbids human sacrifice. And that is what God seems to command:

Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them… for even their sons and their daughters have they burnt in the fire of their gods.
Deuteronomy 12:30

So do not look back in your bible, you Christians, because you find in Leviticus that God commands human sacrifice among the sacrifices that shall be offered to Him:

No devoted thing that a man shall devote unto the Lord of all that he hath, both of man and of beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed, every devoted thing is most holy unto the Lord. None devoted which shall be devoted of men shall be redeemed, but shall surely be put to death.
Leviticus 27:28

21—Christianity depends strongly upon the supposed compassion of the otherwise vengeful God:

Every man that asketh receiveth, and he that seeketh findeth.
Matthew 7:8

Let the Christians only read Proverbs:

Then they shall call upon me, but I will not answer. They shall seek me early, but shall not find me.
Proverbs 1:28

22—The worst crime in our society has always been murder, though now rape perhaps is worse. Naturally God forbids murder, being adamant that:

Thou shalt not kill.
Exodus 20:13

It seems fairly definite. Curious it is then that in God tells people they must murder those close to him.

Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp and slay every man his brother… his companion, and… his neighbour.
Exodus 32:27

And murder his enemies, man women, infants and babes in arms:

Now, go and smite Amalek and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not, but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling.
1 Samuel 15:3

Do Christians really believe this barbarity? Admittedly, in Leviticus there is the crudest evidence of justice, God liking to have it both ways—an eye for an eye, a murder for a murder:

He that killeth any man shall surely be put to death.
Leviticus 24:17

23—What of lesser crimes? God firmly forbids stealing:

Thou shalt not steal.
Exodus 20:15

Yet the passage when the Israelites are preparing to leave Egypt seems to command stealing, “spoil” meaning “despoil” or plunder:

When ye go ye shall not go empty; but every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in her home, jewels of silver and of gold and raiment; and ye shall put them on your sons and your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.
Exodus 3:21

24—God is certain in Exodus that he forbids adultery:

Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Exodus 20:14

But by the time we get to the book of Deuteronomy, things have changed a bit and now He commands adultery, if the woman is not the wife of anyone you know:

When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the Lord thy God hath delivered them into thy hands… and seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and thou hast a desire unto her that thou wouldst have her to thy wife, then shalt thou bring her home to thine home …and she shall be thy wife.
Deuteronomy 31:10

25—It might seem surprising that such a vengeful god should command that vengeance is wrong, but he does:

Thou shalt not avenge nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Leviticus 19:18

It almost comes as a relief when we read as far as Psalms to find:

Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the lord and of them that speak evil against my soul… Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow… Let his children be continually vagabonds and beg; let them seek their bread also out of desolate places.
Psalms 109

One might argue that in the one case the revenge is against one’s own people and that is wrong, but it is all right to take revenge on one’s enemies. But is that what turning the other cheek means?

26—All of this is simply taking advantage of the innocent inconsistencies in an old book, some might say. The Old Testament is not meant to be the full revelation of God. You have to look to the New Testament for that. So we hear from Paul the Apostle in his own words:

Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Romans 10:13

This surely is the epitome of Christianity. Why then does Matthew disagree:

Not every one that saith unto me Lord, lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he that doeth the will of my father which is in heaven.
Matthew 7:21

This is the fundamental disagreement between Paul and the Jerusalem church that no Christian can resolve. Paul says anyone can be saved but James says it depends on what you have done. Priests and Pastors like to have it both ways. It is easy when you are joining, but, thereafter, it depends on whether you do what you are told.

27—Who carried the cross upon which Jesus was crucified? Three of the gospels declare that Simon carried the cross, while the fourth gospel says that Jesus himself carried it. Is John right? If so, then Matthew, Mark and Luke are wrong. If Simon carried it, Jesus could not have done so, and if Jesus carried it, then Simon did not. It must be admitted by all that a rational mind could not have written or inspired both of these stories, and if one is true the other is false.

28—Jesus says:

Therefore go and make disciples of all men, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 26:19

Yet, Paul can declare:

For Christ did not send me to baptise.
1 Corinthians 1:17

We could go on. Christians put forth the bible as a work which in some way came from God, as a book which is reliable in its statements, and correct in its narrative of events. Now, it is patent to everyone that in the gospels there are two distinct accounts of the carrying of the cross. How can Christians reconcile this fact with their theory that God is the author of the bible?

There are too many gospels, too many stories of Jesus. It would have been better for Christianity had all but one of these narratives been destroyed. They contradict each other in so many essential points as to make them totally unreliable as records of facts.