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BIBLE “CONTRADICTIONS” … ANSWERED (Part One – Introduction 3)
A Booklet by Brad McCoy, Th.M.
© Copyright 1985 Reprinted with
author’s permission. May be distributed
freely but not sold.
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Note: I thought it would be
interesting for a few posts, to consider some alleged Biblical
contradictions. I hear this all the time, but no one who makes the
complaints will sit down with me and study them. Brad McCoy was my
Theology Professor in Seminary. He is an outstanding theological scholar
and teacher. At my request, he provided me with a booklet he
self-published in 1985. The booklet can be reproduced, but not sold. I
will return to the Calvinism/Arminianism series after awhile; maybe a couple of
weeks. - dh
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Introduction
– 3
(This
booklet is a response to the pamphlet “136 Bible Contradictions” printed by
Crusade publications of Redmond, Washington.)
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Biblical
“contradictions” exist only in the eyes of certain beholders. Those who come to
the Bible preconditioned to believe that it has errors will conclude that any
specific difficulty such as a certain partial or divergent account is in fact
an error or contradiction. Such an investigator comes to the Bible and
automatically assumes that it is “guilty”. This writer approaches the Bible from
the opposite perspective. He assumes that the Bible is “innocent” of errors or contradictions
when difficulties arise. After such
passages are carefully studied and understood in context, any apparent problem
will be fully resolved. Individuals who
find “contradictions” in the Bible do so not because they know too much, but
because they know too little and actually don’t fully understand the passages
they are attacking.
The
person who comes to the Bible with a closed mind, unwilling to allow it even
the presumption of “innocence” that he or she would probably grant the worst
felon, will probably be little influenced by the presentation that follows. A closed mind is an illogical and an unscientific
mind which resists, ignores or ridicules any data that does not line up with
its original prejudices. As Paul says in Romans “. . . professing themselves to
be wise, they became fools”. However, to
anyone who is willing to openly approach and evaluate the message of the Bible,
this booklet and other more detailed works will show how apparently
difficulties can be logically answered and explained. It is to such open,
honest seekers of truth that this booklet is dedicated in the hope that these
answers will encourage those broad minded individuals to go beyond examining
the individual “trees” of the “forest” of the Bible. . .and to focus on the One
who is The Answer to life’s most crucial problems. The Bible attacked for
centuries still stands as God’s infallible witness to the salvation which is
the Lord Jesus Christ.
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At
this point, I’ll conclude the Introduction.
Next, in Part Two, we’ll start with some of the alleged contradictions.
Doug
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