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The Cursing(s) of the Fig Tree(s) or the Cleansing(s) of the Temple?
Dean Dough has provided a kind and thoughtful response to my on-going series discussing the multiple-event phenomenon and similar issues in 1 Samuel that should illuminate our discussion of alleged Biblical contradictions. Mr. Dough specifically pointed out that not all of the alleged contradictions in the gospels can be addressed through the possibility of multiple…
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Biblical "Contradictions" – Does God Repent?
Skeptics love to allege that there are contradictions between the gospels when the gospels say different things. If one gospel describes God one way, and another gospel describe him another way, this is sometimes alleged to illustrate a contradiction. One way to handle these claims is, of course, to address the particular alleged contradiction. Another…
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David’s Two Visits to Achish
Skeptics love to try to find fault with the gospels because there are sometimes accounts that seem to be similar in some ways, but have differences. They are fond of suggesting that these differences are contradictions. In this post, I examine two accounts that have some similarities, but enough differences that if they were in…
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David’s Two Escapes from Saul
Skeptics who wish to allege contradictions between the gospels love to claim that if there are differences between two similar accounts, this means that the two accounts contradict each other. In this post, I’ll examine a pair of accounts that are similar enough that one might think they were contradictory accounts of the same event,…
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Biblical "Contradictions" – Saul, David, and the Javelin
Skeptics love to find inconsistencies among the accounts in the synoptic gospels. If two accounts look similar, but have different details, it is alleged that they are inconsistent and that this is proof that they are contradictory – at least one of them being in error. In this post, I’ll examine a particular situation that…
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Biblical "Contradictions" – Saul-Prophet Parable Origin
Skeptics love to identify similar passages in the synoptic gospels and point out the differences in them. They then try to allege that these differences amount to contradictions. The problem for the skeptics is that these alleged contradictions are often easily harmonized. However, in this case, I want to focus on a specific example of…
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Biblical "Contradictions" – The Three Crownings of Saul
In the gospels, skeptics try to allege that the differences in the accounts are contradictions. The problem for them is that the differences in the accounts are easily (often trivially) resolved. The only reason that one might even think that they are contradictions are that they are presented in different books of the Bible. That’s…
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Conflicting Gospel Narratives!
Steve Hays recently posted a similar item to his blog, and so I thought I would post something to my blog in a similar vein. What we have here is two accounts of Israel getting a king. The first account is the judgment account, in this account having a king a judgment brought down upon…
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The Punishment of Jehu
I happened to come across an alleged Biblical contradiction. The alleged contradiction is explained thus: Let’s set up the problem clearly: 1. Elijah announced a dynastic judgment on Ahab’s line and household. God told Jehu to execute this judgment, which he did. Jehu is commended by YHWH for executing the house of Ahab in 2…