From: utzoo!decvax!yale-com!brunix!gh Newsgroups: net.religion Title: Re: Biblical contradictions Article-I.D.: brunix.1866 Posted: Thu Mar 10 09:06:23 1983 Received: Fri Mar 11 03:56:27 1983 References: dadla-b.372,ihuxk.285 Hutch and some of the others tell us that the alleged Biblical contradictions are not contradictions at all -- they only appear that way, until you study subtleties of translation ("hear voice" -> "understand voice") etc. My question for them is: If the Bible is divinely inspired, why does it even APPEAR to have contra- dictions? Why did not God inspire a clear, unambiguous book? Why didn't he inspire the translators as well, to ensure continued accuracy? It seems to me that if the Bible contains a message that God wanted to get across to the world, He sure went the wrong way about doing it! Graeme Hirst, Brown Computer Science Cynic !decvax!brunix!gh gh.brown@udel-relay