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Post by solitarysoul on Mar 17, 2007 16:52:43 GMT -5
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Post by solitarysoul on Mar 17, 2007 16:53:00 GMT -5
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Post by solitarysoul on Mar 17, 2007 16:53:21 GMT -5
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Post by solitarysoul on Mar 17, 2007 16:53:39 GMT -5
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Post by solitarysoul on Mar 17, 2007 16:54:01 GMT -5
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Post by solitarysoul on Mar 17, 2007 16:54:27 GMT -5
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Post by solitarysoul on Mar 17, 2007 16:54:49 GMT -5
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Post by solitarysoul on Mar 17, 2007 19:52:15 GMT -5
Genesis 1:31 & Genesis 6:6
There is no contradiction, both happened, just at different times. When God created everything, He saw that it was good. But then after the fall and rebellion of man in the garden, thus inheriting sin, God grieved.
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Genesis 1 & Genesis 2
This is one of the most popular "contradictions" against the Bible. It is not a contradiction though, it is the result of either not paying attention to the context, or reading too literally, or both. Genesis one gives a general day by day description of what God created during the 6 days. Genesis 2 however is not giving an acurate day by day account, it is recaping more specifically the creation of man in the 6th day. Furthermore, what is discussed in Genesis 2 is not discussed in the order in which it was created like in Genesis 1, rather it is discussed in order of importance. God told Adam to rule over the animals and name them. Therefore the purpose of animals was designated by Adam, so it would make sense when writing a more detailed explaination to first explain Adam.
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2 Chronicles 7:12,16 & Acts 7:48
The verse in Acts is simply discussing how God is transcendent. 2 Chronicles is only saying that God's attention will always be on the temple and He will reveal Himself to people through such places, He will reveal Himself where He wills. After all, it's a place where men go to worship and look for God.
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Genesis 1:26, Genesis 3:22, Genesis 11:7, 1 Corinthians 8:5, or 1 John 5:8 & Deuteronomy 6:4, Isaiah 43:10, Isaiah 44:6, or Isaiah 44:8
This is not refering to more than one God when God said "Our", or "let Us", but most likely refering to the fact that God is a Trinity. He is one God, but in three persons, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Also when taking the Hebrew scripture into account, considering this language in this time it also could be indicating the infinite power and soveriegnty of God.
Also when the Bible speaks of other gods it is not contradicting itself. It mentions many other gods, even by their actual names. But they are false gods created by man, worshiped idols, not actual existing gods.
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1 Timothy 6:16 & 1 Kings 8:12, Psalm 18:11, or Psalm 97:2
For the Psalm verses, keep in mind the Psalms is a very poetical book and these verses could be metaphors. Also, both of these verses could again be metaphorical and actually teaching the same thing - that God is unapproachable, and He cannot be seen.
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Genesis 3:9 & 1 John 3:20
In Genesis 3:9, God is not asking Adam where he is because He doesn't know. He knew where Adam was. But He asked Adam where he was because Adam was hiding, and God was trying to teach Adam that he needed to come out from hiding and admit to what he had done in order for his relationship with God to continue. Think about a child who is drawing all over the walls with markers, and then the child's mother walks in the room and sees him. The mother may sometimes ask, "what did you do?", but obviously the mother knows what the child did because she can see it. She isn't asking because she doesn't know, she's asking because she is trying to get the child to realize he has done bad and that he must come forward in honesty.
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Genesis 3:9,10; Genesis 32:30, Exodus 33:11, Exodus 33:23, Isaiah 6:1 or Exodus 24:9-11 & Exodus 33:20, John 1:18, John 5:37, or 1 Timothy 6:16
The key to this one is that God cannot be seen or heard in His natural unnaproachable form. But as is evident by the Trinity and the fact that God became a man through the incarnation of Jesus, if for whatever reason God wills for Himself to be seen or heard, He can temporarily take the form of something else. Because of the Trinity, He is still God, but to fulfill a mission or purpose sometimes He took other forms, such as a man (Jesus), the burning bush, the pillar of fire and smoke, etc.
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Genesis 5:24, 2 Kings 2:11, or Hebrews 11:5 & John 3:13
There are two things that need to be realized here. First of all, the Jews believed that there were three Heavens, or at least three levels of Heaven. The first level being where the atmosphere, clouds, and the birds are; the second being the stars and space; and the third being the actual dwelling place of God. This is supported in Ephesians 4:8 and 2 Corinthians 12:2 for example. Taking into account this view of the universe, it is possible that what is being said here is that Enoch and Elijah were taken up into the sky so that they would not see death, but, they were not taken to the actual dwelling place of God, which is the Heaven Jesus speaks of us being able to reach as a result of His sacrifice.
Secondly, I have noticed before non believers for some reason sometimes like to completely disregard and leave out the "...but He who descended from heaven..." in the middle of John 3:13, which basically changes the whole meaning of the verse to something that simply looks like it would contradict previous verses. Talk about taking things out of context lol. Upon noticing this I ironically actually found even another possibility to answer this question. Jesus wasn't simply saying no one has ascended into Heaven before Him, He was saying no one has ascended into Heaven, AND RETURNED to tell about it.
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Isaiah 40:28 & Exodus 30:17
This is one of those more tricky ones where you have to take into account the translation and sometimes meaning of the Hebrew words. Isaiah does not actually say "rested" or "being refreshed", it says being "faint" and "weary". In English there is little difference, but biblically speaking, "resting" and "being refreshed" is nothing more than saying that God simply ceased of His work and delighted in what He had made. It is not saying that He did so because of being faint or weary.
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Malachi 3:6 & Exodus 32:14, Genesis 6:6,7; or Jonah 3:10
This is a common mistake a lot of critics make - they only look at things from a human perspective. God is all knowing and eternal, and therefore He has always known His whole plan, even in the cases where He "changed His mind", He had always known that He would. Plus, the Bible doesn't say He doesn't change His mind, it says God Himself doesn't change. In other words, His nature and character does not change. This does not mean however that He cannot change His mind or how He works through people, as long as His perfect and just nature and will allows such changes. But again, even so, God always knew that He would "change His mind" in such situations.
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Post by ezcivuwvu on May 16, 2019 2:26:04 GMT -5
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Post by orurokox on May 16, 2019 4:40:06 GMT -5
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