From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!CAD:tektronix!teklabs!mikec Newsgroups: net.religion Title: Biblical Contradictions Article-I.D.: teklabs.1824 Posted: Mon Mar 14 18:37:39 1983 Received: Fri Mar 18 02:12:20 1983 In the beginning man created his Gods. Fundamentalists have been trying to make Hell on earth every since. The supremely superstitious are certain that there is something to Divine Revelation. They start out by assuming what they are trying to prove and then declare a miracle has occurred when they end up near their starting point. The first Biblical contradictions occur in the first chapter of the first book. Here are a few of the several dozen known errors in Genesis. Verse(s) Statement(s) Genesis 1:11..12 Genesis 1:26..27 Grass and trees were created before man. Genesis 2:7..9 Man was created before trees. Conclusion : Either (some) people are vegetables or this is a "straw man" argument. Genesis 1:20..22 Genesis 1:26..27 Birds (fowl) were created before man. Genesis 2:7 Genesis 2:19 Man was created before birds. Conclusion : Some people are bird brained. Genesis 1:24..27 Animals were created before man. Genesis 2:7 Genesis 2:19 Man was created before animals. Conclusion : No matter what the outcome of evolutionary debates, the Bible will be right again. Genesis 1:27 Man and woman were created at the same time. Genesis 2:7 Genesis 2:18..23 Man was created before woman. Conclusion : Fundamentalists are certain that a man is at least 3 times better than a woman. Genesis 1:31 "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." Genesis 6:6 "And it repented the Lord that he had made man on earth, and it grieved him at his heart. Conclusion : Even the omnipotent and omniscient screw up. Genesis 2:17 "But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." Genesis 3:3 "But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. Genesis 5:5 "And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years." Conclusion : Adam was wise to not nit-pick this one. Has anyone out there ever eaten any "smart" fruit ? Genesis 4:26 "... then began men to call upon the name of the Lord." Exodus 6:3 "... but my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them." In both verses the same Hebrew word is used in the original (YHVH). Conclusion : Another example of "knowing without Knowing". Genesis 6:2 "That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose." Genesis 6:4 "... when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men ...". Note that God has several "sons". 1 John 4:9 "... God sent his only begotten son into the world ...". Conclusion : In the old days, when families were overly large (to combat high mortality rates), one sometimes looses track of ones progeny. Genesis 6:4 "There were giants (Nephilim) in the earth in those days ...". Genesis 7:21 "And all flesh died ... and every man:". The only people to survive were Noah's clan. Numbers 13:33 "And we saw the giants ... (Nephilim)". Conclusion : You can't keep a good giant down (see Goliath). Genesis 6:19 "And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark ...". Two of every kind. Genesis 7:2..5 "Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens ... fowls also of the air by sevens ... And Noah did according unto all that the Lord commanded him." Seven of some kinds. Conclusion : While "two" is a subset of "seven", the whole fable is just plain silly. Where did all that water come from ? Where did it go afterward ? Two of every "sort" or "kind" would amount to somewhere between 4,000,000 and 10,000,000 different animals on board the "ark". Note that no mention is made of plants. Micheal D. Cranford Tektronix Teklabs