We shoudn’t believe bible to be word of god
as it is word of men. Whatever we believe should be our own interpretation of what is said.

We should all be thankful to whomever spends the time to create these beatiful pieces of logic.

Its so sad how many religious people actually buy the texts and believe its a word of god only to know its really texts written by disillusioned men…  Comfort is the only reason they accept this

It is of vital importance for us to understand that the Bible is a statement, not of theories, but of actual facts; and that things are not true because they are in the Bible, but they are only in the Bible because they are true.  (Mrs. Pearsall Smith - Written in 1907)

If contradictions of “the truth” (bible as an example)do not produce in your mind a healthy nausea, then you are sick, The only truth is doubt; only then we are healthy and our mind has permission to inquire our surroundings without any bias. Be concerned of those who believe that they have “the truth” because their intention is to take the power from you and give it to “god”, that is, their group.

does zion mean ‘heaven’ or ‘highest point’? -#439

I’m honestly not sure, but…does it matter that genesis and exodus were supposedly written ~1445 BC and deuteronomy and leviticus were supposedly written ~1405 BC? - Contradiction #213

c’mon guys…notwithstanding jn 10:30, contradiction #201 still seems like a bit of a reach—a somewhat petty squabble over semantics

Wow… i was really curious about this and spent about the last hour going through as many of these as i can… and… well i haven’t found any real contradictions… most of these are a reach and can be explained by the differences of the old covenant and the new covenant (ot and nt) and also verses being taken way out of context and misread…

I love this work.
And, seriously, how can people change their life just because a book says it? Without a single proof, without informations about the authors of the book, without a mere logical critic. Its totally hilarious.
Also in most of the cases they’re so mentally retarded that you can’t even talk to them and explain that science has already proved more than the 90% of human existence.
The only thing that science can’t do is prove the truth of the people’s fantasy.

I love this, it’s beautiful to see such thought and presentation in this. It’s a shame there was a significant lack of reading of the original texts…

I spent some time looking over these and I can conclude that there aren’t any real contradictions. As john above mentioned, most of these are either misread or taken out of context. It’s a wonderful attempt though, obviously a lot of precious time has been spent (or wasted) creating this.

wow! These verses are taken entirely out of context. The purpose of a verse is to help you navigate the bible. Without verses its just like reading a book.

lets say i put verses into a random book, in this book one character goes i like the colour blue and then another unrelated character goes i like red and then you compare this and say its a contradiction.

That said its a brilliant looking piece of info graphics but stuff like this gives infographics a bad name as the image is manipulative and so not a true representation of the original data. If you re-did this keeping in mind the context and anything did happen to come up i would love to see it. it would be a chalenge to me and other christians.

When people look Bible as a Book to find errors, it appears to have errors.  When you read it with heart you find the meaning and revelation behind it.  Don’t spend time in analyzing the errors posted by some one read and find if any.

Jimbo,

The argument, “These verses are taken entirely out of context,” is invalid unless you come up with specific instances. Just as if I were to say, “Jimbo’s mom is a whore,” and then when you objected, I couldn’t just say, “You took that out of context,” and get away with saying it. The fact would remain that I still said it. These contradictions still exist.

i’m confused; what does 1st kings 15:11-12 have to do with homosexuality?

the graphics are KILLER. graphics dude gets an A+. that said.

WHAT. THE. HELL.

I can hardly believe that someone would actually take this jingo journalism seriously! the guy that came up with this chart definitely needs a psychological evaluation. i would recommend a little more time studying theology, and a little less on World of Warcraft. WOW! that’s all i can say.

Great work. Just a lot of time spent on a fairy tale to begin with. Anyone who believes in the bible will not even consider this work. Come on they believe in the bible.

Amazing amount of work that went into this. Of course diving into the examples there are issues when one talks about “contradictions.”

For example:

#2. Abraham justified by faith or works.

The Romans verse/context says that he was justified by faith. The James verse by works. But the context of the verse from James is that when there is (true) faith there will be works.

This is essentially a semantic difference. Faith is still how Abraham achieved righteousness but it is through faith that there are works.

While there is a philosophical argument to be made here this is certainly not a contradiction.

And for things like #32, my reaction is “meh.”  Humans are imperfect with recollection and history. MAtters of faith and doctrine would bother me much more than numbers.

Not to be a spoiled sport, but somebody with some background in ancient history should proof these things.  Like dates of kings.  Many kings took on a co-regency with their father.  Some date the beginning of the reign when the co-regency started and some when the father died.  Just a cursory glance at this list revealed tons of “so-called” contradictions that have perfectly good explanations.  Not saying there aren’t major difficulties in the Bible.  But it’s best to do your homework.  Just because modern people don’t have a clue how ancients recorded things doesn’t mean its a contradiction.  I’m always confused when people rag on religion because of the “evidence” and then do really sloppy work at compiling the evidence.  Just saying.

The point of this, and the bottom line is that, it’s a pretty piss poor piece of writing when the author is supposed to be the unfailing, never changing, all knowing creator of the universe.

This deity couldn’t put a thousand pages of non-contradicting text together and yet is supposed to have personally created the universe? Give the poor thing a break.

#2 IS a contradiction, regardless of the ‘context’. I have yet to see the ‘companion book to the Bible that explains what the almighty actually meant’.

Even average authors write more complicated stories every day without contradicting themselves. If a ‘god’ can’t accomplish that with the one and only source of instruction it is EVER going to provide those it want’s worship from, then I shudder to think what an epic screw-up this ‘heaven’ is where the pious are supposed to end up.

Surely you’re not trying to make the argument that: god created the entire universe perfectly but can’t get a coherent book printed. Surely not.

@ 17. Dan - Good point; pointing out this ridiculous list of contradictions to those who believe in the Bible is a pointless exercise, since clearly there is something wrong with people who do believe in the Bible.

There isn’t a lot of historical/cultural/linguistic examination in these so-called “contradictions” offered. 

I will never understand the logic of fundie atheists:  Adhering to an inherently nihilistic world-view, you claim there’s no God, yet you illogically pour out so much of your time in arguing against God with superficial and poorly-researched charts like this.  Far from convincing or dissuasive, this is just a sad joke.

@ #5 cuzzani- should we doubt this statement?

“It is of vital importance for us to understand that the Bible is a statement, not of theories, but of actual facts; and that things are not true because they are in the Bible, but they are only in the Bible because they are true.  (Mrs. Pearsall Smith - Written in 1907)”

Talk about nuts and delusional and why pieces of logic like this that are actually also art should finally kill this stupid religious crap and get people to start living within logic/reason and that there is no magical human being out there just playing with hour lives.

For what its worth this isn’t a very good piece of scholarship. Not only is it lifted from another source without citation (re: http://www.historyshots.com/otherartists/4022.cfm) The graphic has NOTHING to do with the text.

Now as for the text, a thorough review of the supposed contradictions will produce complete answers if one looks beyond reading the 1st and pre-1st century CE text with a 21st Century mindset. Also going back to the theological/linguistic models there is usually much more going on. This isn’t good scholarship and frankly is stolen artwork with a supplementary text (having nothing to do with the actual graphic) attached.

If you’re going to object to theism and/or Christianity please use better resources and arguments.

Got one off of the page here. I’m so glad. With the Lords help, I’m about to debunk this whole debunker thing. 2nd commandment. Gods tells us to not make images for ourselves. The other scripture references was Him giving instructions to the people to design these things for him. So like Exodus 25:18,20 & Numbers 21:8 Are not contradicting the 2nd commandment. In Fact the clue is to understand who is talking. The 2nd commandment clearly states to not make an image (Unto thee). Key word UNTO. meaning an image for (yourself) like you being an angel. Worship to self. To resemble anything in the heavens, earth, waters deep. Now the other half of what’s being said is God talking to Moses and the others telling them what to design for Him not for themselves. (Unto) is the word that makes these not contradict itself. Will do this daily. Wanted to start with this one… So this one is debunked. I am going to go through this website to break all these down and show U people how off they are in this logic. THank you for showing me this. Because I see a lot of people on this and I will be glad to assist them in finding the Lord again.

If I got that one, I imagine how many are going to be off. Cause that was too simple. I suggest you people on here start repenting. I’m not even a christian I God is using me to get to ya’ll. SMH.. Wow I haven’t even read the whole bible but I can see that most of you guys haven’t either. Stop letting the churches interpret the scriptures for you and let Gods spirit do so.. But its cool I love this. Thank you God the Savior & Jesus. He is the Lord of Hope. But I bet none of you guys new that either. To add to this people The 2nd Command said not to create image in self glory (unto Thee) not to build in Gods Glory. This whole this is suggestive thinking MK Ultra to throw people off. Give them a little idea and it will snowball into a great large thing..

#221. Apparent Contradiction between Genesis 50:13 and Acts 7:15,16. Sam and Annaka, have you even read these verses yourself? Honestly, guys, where is the contradiction?

Gen 50:13
They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre, which Abraham had bought along with the field as a burial place from Ephron the Hittite.

Acts 7:15,16
Then Jacob went down to Egypt, where he and our ancestors died. Their bodies were brought back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor at Shechem for a certain sum of money.

And here it is explained:
http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/142

Come on guys, stop kidding yourselves.

Dan Strong (19) - very well put indeed.

#226. When did Jehoash become king of Israel?

2 Kings 13:1
In the twenty-third year of Joash son of Ahaziah king of Judah, Jehoahaz son of Jehu became king of Israel in Samaria, and he reigned seventeen years.

2 Kings 13:1
In the thirty-seventh year of Joash king of Judah, Jehoash son of Jehoahaz became king of Israel in Samaria, and he reigned sixteen years.

What’s the contradiction? The first passage talks about Jehoahaz; the second one talks of Jehoash, the SON of Jehoahaz. They’re two completely different people.

I repeat, COULD ANY ONE OF YOU BRILLIANT SCHOLARS POSTING COMMENTS HERE PLEASE POINT OUT THE CONTRADICTION IN THESE VERSES?

Are you so intellectually inept that you fail to recognise the difference between father and son? Or are you so deceitful that you would knowingly misrepresent facts?

In fact, would you just do yourselves a favour and investigate for yourselves whether this poster is true or not? Will you please have the decency to show some sort of integrity before you point a finger?

I know it’s hard. I know how much you hate Christ and Christianity. I know how much you desperately want to see the Bible proven untrue. That’s fine. But at least be honest, people.

Investigate the Bible by all means. Challenge it if you must. But please don’t be dishonest in your analysis. In fact, please don’t call this an analysis.

@Peter Rufus

In terms of Joash King of Judah’s years:

Kings 13:1 says years 23-40: Jehoahaz was King of Israel

Kings 13:10 says years 37-53 Jehoash was King of Israel.

There are 3 years of contradictory overlap there, see?

Simple arithmetic. “Analysis” if you will. Please brush up on your math. A simple calculation has undermined your entire tirade regarding “Christ hate” and “intellectual misrepresentation.” What’s wrong with actually being an intellectual?

Sincerely,
Above Average in First Grade Math

Swaroop:  I don’t know about you, but I read books with my eyes connected to my brain.  I suppose reading the Bible “with your heart” is the reason why so many people go to church to have the contents explained by a preacher.  This explains why we have so many different interpretations of the scripture.  The way I see it, you either read something and understand it, or you don’t.  Now I know why you people of faith need a shepherd.

I have gone through 5 random things in this list. and 1 is NOT a contradiction whatsoever, 2 are amazing clear wtf contradictions. and 1 is not questionable.
the other 1 was like 8 verses and i couldnt really determine a problem with it. not enough time spent yet.
as for this list i plan to go through most if not all, just to better understand the bible in my battles, and to narrow this list to the truly astonishing omg contradictions
like
man or beast… which came first?
and
Cain is a wanderer, yet lives his days out in the town of nod. ok…

I have gone through about 20 of these and atleast 2/3rds are in no way a contradiction.
There are SOME contradictions and thats for sure.
however when you make something this elaborate you need to realize you should take into account poor translation before attacking it.
I am one to believe that the bible should not translate poorly at all, after all god wrote it…
But the hebrew word for son, or father can be the same word for ancestor, or descendant.
and some of these claim its saying the wrong fathers, when its just referring to grandfathers etc…

Please make one of the Qur’an!!!

Folks, I am curious as to who put this together. It seems to me that they know enough to raise some eyebrows, but havent really done the research behind the 1) culture and 2) the theology which explains all of the so called “contradictions” that i read away. Also, it would appear that these are contradictions if you take the verses out of context….which it also appears has taken place.

If you are going to get behind something like this, you may want to put in the hard study time and look from an unbiased perspective as it seems that making a decision based solely off of this “project:” would not only leave the majority of you/us w/ egg on our face, to put it politely, put its possible, depending on what you find, that your decision about what you believe on this matter will determine whether you spend eternity in bliss with God, or eternity suffering unfathomable pain.

Just my two cents.

A contradiction, as any logician will tell you, would be saying that both P & ~P is true. To qualify for time and context, a contradiction would happen if P was uttered or believed by agent A in the same linguistic context at the same time that ~P was uttered or believed by A in the same linguistic context at the same time. Now that the logic is sorted out, while qualifying for linguistic context, most of these aren’t genuine logical contradictions. Each book in the bible probably has a different author, and was written at different times, for a particular set of ears. Semantically, I find this project to be very strange.

Finally, taking the logic out of it, and just talking about textual interpretation. does anyone worth their academic salt really read these ancient texts like a modern logical tract?

What a waist of time.

Guys, great poster, very informative and artistic. But contradictions 7 and 9 are duplications.

Like someone said it was written by man, true but God worked through them. Even if he had not since everyones playing the it came from “MAN” card does that mean when your parents told you something not to do when you were little to keep you safe they were wrong or being deceitful.  I just know I have many flaws but God died for my sins and I would rather believe in him then deal with what would happen if I didnt Im not a fan of hot places.

This is a great visualization. As an atheist brought up in a fundamentalist household, to me it doesn’t really matter how valid these contradictions are taking into consideration such scientific considerations as context or history or linguistic analysis. Fundamentalists by definition have no recourse to such defence. The point is - the Bible is taken by fundamentalists as infallible, inerrant and more authoritative than science. As long as the Bible is used a scientific text handed down directly by an omniscient & perfect Deity by creationists, there ought really not to be one contradiction of any kind in the Bible. Point out a contradiction to a believer in inerrancy and they will always come back with an “excuse”. Show them this graphic though and it becomes a little harder just to wash it away with a glib comeback.

So I randomly picked some as a sample to check for the contradictions…lo and behold, there were NO contradictions!

This poster is garbage; its ironic that the instrument of accusation here is so easily disproven by simple common sense.

now do the other religons

This is great and anyone who thinks theres a rationalization for them, there is! notwithstanding, seeing that theres some logic to cram down that rationale. Some one should create another one of these but just biblical horror and stupidity :D like Exodus 21:17 “Kill your kids if they cuss at you” such a loving god, oh wait NEVERMIND that was JUST the OLD TESTAMENT gods nicer now!

I would LOVE to address the alledged Bible Contradictions you have posted on this site! I am a Christian - but not of the re-publican guild so prominent in the churches today. I am a liberal, and a Bible believer. Give me a chance, eh?

Hi!

Graph is nice but really not new - idea is taken possibly from here http://www.chrisharrison.net/index.php/Visualizations/BibleViz as it actually said: “Inspiration: Chris Harrison”, well it’s fine.

But “contradiction list”? Please read at least 3 examples of “contradictions” to feel an attitude against the truth and logic (I’m not even mention a faith).

Really, this poster is designed to impress, but in reality - it’s a shameful lie

But this poster teach me - yes, it teach me again to check everything myself - and so make my knowledge and faith stronger.

Thanks!

WoW! . . this is so bad ... and WRONG.
Anyone reading this website and thinking it is correct ...
PLEASE just check those verses yourself.
I just went through the first five and found no inconsistencies. (of course)
I won’t waste my time with the rest since we already know what the result will be.
Notice how “excited” all of the commenters are that the Bible may be wrong !??!
Then maybe they can not believe in God . . . then maybe they don’t have to be accountable for anything.
WoW! . . how sad.

No hay contradicciones. Dios evoluciona porque es paciente y desea salvar al Hombre. Busquen y encontrarán. 

La mayoría de ateos que conozco son excesivamente arrogantes para dialogar con ellos. No quieren saber nada de Dios porque Dios siempre estará por encima de ellos.
Así se van a morir, lo siento mucho.