Launching his website in January 2010, B.J. Eduard writes:
Having observed the websites containing so-called ‘Bible Contradictions’, I am astonished at the anger of those who bring them forward. Also, not infrequently, the so-called Contradictions are supported in a way of which a schoolboy can see how trivial it is.
I am also astonished about the frequently inadequate replies of Christian writers. E.g. they often fail to see mistranslations in current Bibles, or they refer to copying errors where the textual tradition doesn’t give any support for such an assumption.
It is not my goal to discus all ‘Contradictions’ that have been brought forward in the course of time. It would take a lifetime. It is my goal to show that most solutions are much more natural than supposed usually. Let the texts speak for themselves.
Yet only one year on and the amount of information on the site addressing such contradictions is seemingly encyclopedic, and counting.
I discovered the site only last week while doing some private study to clear up a note I had made in the margin of my Bible in Acts (7:14), concerning an apparent mismatch with the figure cited in Genesis (46:27) and Exodus (1:5). Afterwards, I continued to search for other well known “contradictions” and found those addressed also. For example, the old ‘wear sandals, don’t wear sandals; take a staff, don’t take a staff’ conundrum is addressed in a post on January 4, 2010 – the inauguration date of the website; a conundrum considered by systematic theologian Wayne Grudem[1] as among the most difficult of the supposed contradictions that one is ever likely to contend.
Since discovering Eduard’s site, I had in mind to simply point readers in that direction via a short blurb (as above). However, today I found a recent article by Paul Wilkinson, whose commentary on the approach to Biblical contradictions, compliments so well, the content of Eduard’s website, that I must also commend it to you as a quite sufficient detour prior to visiting and bookmarking Eduard’s Contradicting Bible Contradictions.
Footnotes:
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As cited in footnote 10 in a previous post, “Wayne Grudem addresses some of the strongest objections against variations in the biblical text that pose a challenge to inerrancy in his freely-downloadable Systematic Theology Class, in which he also maintains there has been no passage of Scripture he has ever found that could not be resolved in such a way that also preserves inerrancy.”
