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ultima said:
DaRev said:

Dude, i'm not going to do your work for you. You need to quote specific verses from the NT that contradict each other. That's how this is suppose to work I think. So simply saying the e.g. "early life of Jesus" is not much help. Now if you can't be bothered to find contradicting passages of the bible, I understand.

Excuse me? My work? You asked, I provided. You could stop being lazy, open up the book you so adore, find the parts which I mentioned and read for yourself. Or, if you want me to try to dig them out for you, you could at least ask nicely. Really dude? Where are your manners?

That said, I have not picked up these books in a really long time, so I can't give you an in-depth analysis (honestly, not that the bible is even worth such an analysis). But here are some things I alluded to.

 

  • Matthew 2 claims that Jesus was born during the time of King Herod. Luke 2 claims that Jesus was born around the time Emperor Augustus called for a census to be taken. King Herod died in 4 BCE. The aforementioned census was taken in years 6/7 ACE. There's around a 10 year discrepancy there. Moreover, Luke asserts that the census sought to register everyone in the world; that is not the case, as the purpose of the census was to register only the citizens of the Roman Empire, for taxation purposes. Not to mention that much of the world was undiscovered by the Romans at that time. On top of that, Luke claims that the citizens had to return to their own towns for the census. This is also ludicrous.
  • Matthew 1 and Luke 3 provide two very different genealogies for Joseph. The names are in the paternal family tree are different. Moreover, the number of generations from Abraham to Joseph are vastly different in the two accounts (39 versus 54 by my count).
  • Death of Judas: Matthew 28 states that Judas hangs himself. But according to Acts 1, he falls in a field he buys, and dies. Funnily enough, it's described as his body getting torn and his guts spilled. LOL!
I assure you, this is a very small subset of contradictions in the new testament. You should sit down and read the book yourself sometime.

 

@bold. Seriously? It's an expression. Can you just please chill? We're all smart here, nobody is more intelligent than anybody else. Let's all just respect each other and work the kinks out, k? That goes for me, darev and everyone else here too.