Yeah, it isn't the truth of the numbers that's important, but the contradiction between them.
It's important to me. If a people is willing to lie about how big their crowds are *cough*Trump*cough*, that people cannot be trusted. That they can't keep the lie straight is irrelevant because the lie comes first.
I agree in spades, and can only say that the reason it's taken as any sort of truth is because of an overwhelming need to preserve one's faith.
Which is weird, because I worship the Truth, so if what I believe is discovered to be false, I'm honoring Truth by accepting what is actually true.
For the same reason that we take Aesop's fables as a sort of truth, even if the truth isn't in the literal telling of the story, but in the principles illustrated by them.
Exactly. I'm fine if a religion claims to have Truth, but they don't mean in a factual way but some spiritual/emotional sense. I only care if someone starts arguing that this proves the story is literally true:
The idea that the writer of Genesis was so absent minded that he contradicted himself so blatantly is far fetched.
It's not far fetched because there was no "he", only "they".
So judging those Books with some translations of them is not right.
Does translation error explain how Jesus is sinless and yet commits sins, even breaking commandments from the Top Ten, both of which involved the death penalty? Does translation error explain how God knows everything but loses the dirt to human recipe after the first go? Does translation error explain how only Jesus can forgive sins but God does it all the time in the OT? Does translation error explain how Jesus says he knows his sheep but is constantly in shock that gentiles would have faith in him?
Actually, it goes back 2000 years ago
Wouldn't Jesus be 18, before he even started his ministry per the scriptures? How were they written 2k years ago?
I dont judge a book by its cover but the contents, i cant see any contradictions on the cover, can you?
I do. People say God wrote the bible, but on the cover I see publishers, editors, etc. and none of them are God.
Translations have errors.
So does bad writing.
Because of sectarian control, the West and the East have a huge schism. The Western translations have errors. Especially the Greek Nestle Aland, Wescott and Hort and the Erasmus text. They dont want to use the Greek Text found in the Greek Church. They like money and new versions over the Truth.
All the denominations are like arguing over Maleficient's actual backstory but we're watching Princess and the Frog.
She thought she was being objective but it was objectivity within the context of her reality.
Good for y'all. I believe in the reality that I will never be loved in return. I understand it's my reality, not everyone else's. I'm truly happy you two are still a thing. I'm a sucker for true love.
Judas did not die “by falling down”. Judas was dead already before he fell down “headlong” or head first. How did it happen?
It remains a contradiction as long as each story has different details. For it not to be a contradiction, both would have to agree that both happened.