Okay, you have to see this

[conuly]

It's a chart detailing the various contradictions in the Bible. Even clicking on the image doesn't make it very big, you'll want to open the PDF.

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[mc776]

Even clicking on the image doesn't make it very big, you'll want to open the PDF.

I was expecting a relatively small image.

Somehow "small" got conflated with "simple" in my head.

I lold when I saw the huge half-ball of threads.

[chaos-by-design.livejournal.com]

River Tam would have a field day with this.

[conuly]

River Tam doesn't need the help.

[chaos-by-design.livejournal.com]

Maybe she's the one who created it. ;)

[leora.livejournal.com]

Neat! Read through some comments on the post within Project Reason. Found a link trying to refute these contradictions. It gave two examples stating that they weren't actually contradictions saying it chose them randomly. I agree that the first example they gave didn't seem to actually be a contradiction, which implies that some of the contradictions listed aren't really. Although the second example they gave and claimed was not a contradiction was. They quoted the Biblical passages in translation, and unless the translation is off, they pretty clearly did contradict. While the idea behind not making graven images was so that you do not worship them, it did pretty clearly state do not make any graven images of anything on Earth or in the Heavens lest you worship them. It read as it is too dangerous to do so because people might worship them. So, the later verse that instructs them to make a graven image whose purpose is not to be worshiped is still a contradiction, because it still is an instruction to do what they have been explicitly told not to do.

Now, you can argue that it was a special exception, and that's more or less reasonable. But it is still in conflict with the previous verse. And you would think a better instruction if a deity meant to actually give accurate laws would be do not make any graven images unless I explicitly instruct you to. But that isn't what they had been told. And that sort of shoddy thinking is understandable in a human, but seems a bit odd coming from a deity.