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I will answer your claims of Biblical contradictions. One at a time per poster, please. Once I address your contradiction you can add another, but I'm only one person so please. 1 at a time. Unless, of course, you are afraid of the truth!
I will answer your claims of Biblical contradictions. One at a time per poster, please. Once I address your contradiction you can add another, but I'm only one person so please. 1 at a time. Unless, of course, you are afraid of the truth!
In my opinion.One at a time
In Exodus 9:3 God set a plague killing all of Egypt's horses.
Exodus 14:9 The Egyptians overtook Moses on horseback.
So where did these horses come from?
And you know... the way your OP reads is kind of strange. You end with this:I will answer your claims of Biblical contradictions. One at a time per poster, please. Once I address your contradiction you can add another, but I'm only one person so please. 1 at a time. Unless, of course, you are afraid of the truth!
So... we should post one at a time... unless we're afraid of the truth? Meaning... if we're afraid of the truth, we should post multiples at a time?1 at a time. Unless, of course, you are afraid of the truth!
And you know... the way your OP reads is kind of strange. You end with this:
So... we should post one at a time... unless we're afraid of the truth? Meaning... if we're afraid of the truth, we should post multiples at a time?
Right. So... any answer to my actual on-topic post of a contradiction? I've included it below again (you know, just for easy reference):I'm sorry. I meant to say pedantic.
Ezekiel 39:10
So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down [any] out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD.
Exodus 20:15
Thou shalt not steal.
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Ezekiel 39:10
So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down [any] out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD.
Exodus 20:15
Thou shalt not steal.
Makes me wonder if some people have nothing better to do than twist and otherwise torture logic with preposterous answers.Makes me wonder if some people have nothing better to do than scour scripture searching for "contradictions".
Makes me wonder if some people have nothing better to do than scour scripture searching for "contradictions".
Context is of course, a very important aspect of any interpretation of scripture. Taken out of context, they can be given a completely different, and incorrect slant.
This is a classic example.....
Ezekiel 39:7-10....
“And my holy name I will make known in the midst of my people Israel, and I will not let my holy name be profaned anymore. And the nations shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel. Behold, it is coming and it will be brought about, declares the Lord God. That is the day of which I have spoken. “Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out and make fires of the weapons and burn them, shields and bucklers, bow and arrows, clubs and spears; and they will make fires of them for seven years, so that they will not need to take wood out of the field or cut down any out of the forests, for they will make their fires of the weapons. They will seize the spoil of those who despoiled them, and plunder those who plundered them, declares the Lord God."
Bible Gateway passage: Ezekiel 39:7-10 - English Standard Version
This was a warning to the enemies of God's people and the actions of Israel were a direct command from God. To take plunder or spoil, was a right of conquest. They had God's permission, so there was no violation of the law.
Right. So... any answer to my actual on-topic post of a contradiction? I've included it below again (you know, just for easy reference):
The contradictions of Matthew and Luke regarding the genealogy of Jesus.I will answer your claims of Biblical contradictions. One at a time per poster, please. Once I address your contradiction you can add another, but I'm only one person so please. 1 at a time. Unless, of course, you are afraid of the truth!
Regardless what time, what place, what prophecy, this displays a few things:Always check various translations. Ezekiel 39:10 in my favorite translation reads: "And they will not carry sticks of wood from the field, nor will they gather firewood out of the forests, for with the armor they will light fires.’ “‘And they will certainly make spoil of those who had been making spoil of them, and plunder those who had been plundering them,’ is the utterance of the Sovereign Lord Jehovah."
This prophecy is talking about the time when God brings about his kingdom by destroying the world, i.e. the current system of things where Satan and mankind rule. The evil will be destroyed and the meek who inherit the earth will have their mess to clean up, in effect. Those people, the evildoers, will be destroyed. (Ezekiel 39:11-13) In the aforementioned translation: "And it must occur in that day that I shall give to Gog a place there, a burial place in Israel, the valley of those passing through on the east of the sea, and it will be stopping up those passing through. And there they will have to bury Gog and all his crowd, and they will be certain to call [it] the Valley of Gog’s Crowd. 12 And those of the house of Israel will have to bury them for the purpose of cleansing the land, for seven months. 13 And all the people of the land will have to do the burying, and it will certainly become for them a matter of fame in the day that I glorify myself,’ is the utterance of the Sovereign Lord Jehovah."
Exodus 20:15 applies to another time and place, and simply telling the people of ancient Israel not to steal.
I figured the response would be something like that. If God were to speak clearly in your mind tomorrow and tell you that it was okay to steal from someone who had stolen from you, would you go do it without thinking twice?
Oh, and @Deeje - I would even go so far as to say that the act of stealing from someone who has stolen from you ISN'T EVEN HALF AS BAD as that act of a supposed authority figure (God in this case) telling a people that they should or can go and do so with full immunity.
In the end, all you have are excuses. "You have to look at the context." or "My translation says 'plunder' - and plunder isn't the same as stealing, right (hyuk hyuk)?" or "God told them to do it, so it's okay."
Makes me wonder if some people have nothing better to do than twist and otherwise torture logic with preposterous answers.
The contradictions of Matthew and Luke regarding the genealogy of Jesus.