Bible ‘contradictions’ and ‘errors’

Key articles

• Refutation of New Scientist’s attack on biblical inerrancy
• The Bible and hermeneutics
• Does the Bible teach error?
• Errors in the Bible?
• The sure Word of God
• The Issue of Issues (and no, it’s not creation/evolution)

Does the Bible contradict itself?

• Cainan: How do you explain the difference between Luke 3:36 and Gen. 11:12?
• How could the days of Genesis 1 be literal if the sun wasn’t created until Day 4?
• Do the genealogies of Christ in Matthew and Luke contradict each other?
• Why do all four Gospels contain different versions of the inscriptions written on Jesus’ cross?
• What part of Genesis should we believe? All of it! There are no contradictions in Scripture

Does the Bible contain scientific errors?

• Do Rabbits Chew Their Cud?
• Are praying mantises kosher?
• Does the Bible Say pi equals 3.0?
• Does Genesis hold up under critic’s scrutiny?
• The Unicorn: The Bible does not refer to fantasy animals
• Is the raqiya‘ (firmament—KJV) a solid dome?
• Jonah and the great fish
• Science, history, and the Bible

Does the Bible condone slavery, abuse of women or mass murder?

• Anti-slavery activist William Wilberforce: Christian hero (see also review of the film Amazing Grace)
• The Bible v slavery and apartheid
• The Bible’s high view of women grounded in the creation account
• London Times reports that the Bible is not anti-female: is this news?
• What’s in a pronoun? The divine gender controversy
• The history of the teaching of human female inferiority in Darwinism
• ‘Female inferiority’ raises questions (reply to critic of above paper)
• Abortion: an indispensable right or violence against women?
• Genocide, evolution and the Bible
• Is the Bible an immoral book?
• Is the Bible ‘evil’?

Does the Bible really teach a flat earth?

• Did Bible writers believe the Earth was flat?
• Flat-Earth Hey Day came with Darwin
• Is the ’erets (earth) flat? Equivocal language in the geography of Genesis 1 and the Old Testament: a response to professing evangelical Paul Seely
• Seely’s response to above, plus author’s reply
• ‘Pillars of the Earth’—Does the Bible teach a mythological cosmology?
• Who Invented the Flat Earth?
• The flat-earth myth and creationism
• Flat Earth Society leader is an evolutionist

Is the long day Joshua 10 proof of a biblical error? How did it happen? Has NASA really proved it?

• Joshua’s long day—did it really happen?
• Have computers discovered the Biblical ‘long days’?
• Have NASA’s computers really proven a long day?
• Has NASA Discovered a ‘Missing Day’?

Related Q&A Pages

• Bible
• Genesis
• Godless Religions
• Apologetics
• Countering the Critics
• Arguments Creationists Should NOT Use