Contradictions in the Bible – Identified verse by verse and explained using the most up-to-date scholarly information about the Bible, its texts, and the men who wrote them — by Dr. Steven DiMattei
Below was extracted from Bart Ehrman’s post here.
- The creation account in Genesis 1 is very different from the account in Genesis 2.
- Not only is the wording and writing style different, as is very obvious when you read the text in Hebrew, and not only do
- the two chapters use different names for God, but
- the very content of the chapters differs in numerous respects.
- Are animals created before humans, as in chapter 1, or after, as in chapter 2?
- Are plants created before humans or afterward?
- Is “man” the first living creature to be created or the last?
- Is woman created at the same time as man or separately?
- When Noah takes the animals on the ark, does he take seven pairs of all the “clean” animals, as Genesis 7:2 states, or just two pairs, as Genesis 7:9–10 indicates?
- God Made himself known to Abraham or not?
- In the book of Exodus, God tells Moses, “I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as God Almighty, but by my name ‘The LORD’ [= Yahweh] I did not make myself known to them” (Exodus 6:3).
- How does this square with what is found earlier, in Genesis, where God does make himself known to Abraham as The LORD: “Then he [God] said to him [Abraham], ‘I am The LORD [= Yahweh] who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans’” (Genesis 15:7)?
- one of [Ehrman’s] all-time favorite passages, the description of the ten plagues that Moses brought down on the heads of the Egyptians in order to compel Pharaoh to “let my people go.”
- The fifth plague was a pestilence that killed “all of the livestock of the Egyptians” (Exodus 9:5). How is it, then, that a few days later
- the seventh plague, of hail, was to destroy all of the Egyptian livestock in the fields (Exodus 9:21–22)? What livestock?
Three Different 10 Commandments
