ANSWERING CONTRADICTIONS: (CURRENTLY BEING WORKED ON)
CONTRADICTIONS IN THE BIBLE???
When you hear Muslims or another say there are contradictions in the Bible this is the page I will look to update when I have time to
1) Two different lineages using the same person the Husband of Mary (JOSEPH)
2) 2 Chronicals 22:1-2 / 2 Kings 8:26 - Muslims claim one says he is Ahaziah was 42 and another says 22 when he become King
3) Ezra & Nehemiah Differences in the Census
4) 2 Kings 22:1-8 - Josiah was called Righteous but muslims think verse 8 said he is a sinner.
5) The Torah was lost according to Muslims in 2 Kings 22:1-8
6) Judas and his buying land and hanging himself.
7) Was Isaac, Abraham's Only Son Contextually in Genesis 22:1-1?
1) Two different lineages using the same person the Husband of Mary (JOSEPH)
OXford university (Manuscript) and another Manuscript in New York - Hebrew
44:10 onwards - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnpansdgdeI&ab_channel=ARoodAwakening%21 nehemiah says the Hebrew manuscripts here in these two areas state "FATHER OF MARY" - THE HEBREW MATTHEW at 44:50 (Images of which)
But in Luke we have 45:30 - Joseph which is Jesus supposed Father and his lineage goes back directly to David also.
point: Even assuming that Matthew said Husband of Mary Joseph the other one in Luke does not say Husband so we can say that one is the Father of Mary and the other in Matthew is Husband and we see clearly one lineage goes through a different line to the other, so it is clearly not the same lineage but as we seen in the Hebrew manuscript in Matthew it says one is the FATHER aba in hebrew and the other is just Joseph and we know Joseph so either way the argument against the supposed contradcition works against it being a contradiction.
2) 2 Chronicals 22:1-2 / 2 Kings 8:26 - Muslims claim one says he is Ahaziah was 42 and another says 22 when he become King...
(WORKING ON)
2 Chronicals 22:1-2 (the supposed contradiction starts mid way this sentence at this point boldened.) And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead: for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned. 2 Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.
(So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned, and he was 42 years old when he began to reign and he reigned in Jerusalem this year he reigned in jeruslam)
2 Kings 8:26 - 26Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother’s name was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri king of Israel.
(So here Ahaziah was 22 years old when he become KING, but in the last verse he began to reign so he was King in Judah it seems taking over from his Father, and was King for 20 years and then reigned in Jerusalem when he was 42 year old for one year.) It doesn't say Ahaziah become King at 42 year old it says - in 2 Kings 8:26 he become KING at 22 and it says in 2 chronicles when he began his reign and he reigned in Jerusalem for one year, 2 kings 8:26 it says he is king from 22 year old and which means ALSO which could mean his entire life or after this time and reigned in Jerusalem it doesnt say when he did but in 2 Chronicals it does.)
3) Ezra & Nehemiah Differences in the Census:
Ezras Genealogy & Nehemiah Genealogies do they contradict? Well first we have to take in to consideration that this could easily have been two different times, Exra was said to have arrived in Jerusalem at 458 bc and Nehemiah in 445 BC so there is a 13 year difference, from what I have seen Israel's last census was carried out in 2008 according to the date 03/02/2022 on the website - https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/israel-starts-gearing-up-for-2021-population-census-632626#:~:text=The%20last%20census%20was%20carried,field%20and%20existing%20administrative%20databases. And it was gearing up for another population census in 2021 but it seems that maybe never happened as this is while it said they were preparing it doesn't seem to indicate that it was done, maybe because of the illness that was supposedly going around but that would be more than 10 years, however we do not know why in the old testament it was 13 years maybe they did it this way but it seems to be two different census being taken around what may have been 13 years for all we know it could have been 10 years and we have the dating wrong that the difference between Ezra and Nehemiah census could have been 10 to 13 years there for two separate census being taken hence no discrepancy since the numbers would be different by then people die and people give birth. Ezra held one on the arrivale and Nehemiah on his arrival in Jerusalem 10 years or 13 years later held one of his own.
4) 2 Kings 22:1-8 - Josiah was called Righteous but muslims think verse 8 said he is a sinner.
(WORKING ON)
5) The Torah was lost according to Muslims in 2 Kings 22:1-8
(WORKING ON IT)
6) Judas and his buying land and hanging himself.
Firstly we must see the context of Judas personality as a thief, he was stealing throughout Yehoshua (Jesus) ministry from them and used that money to buy land we see him being a thief here in John 12:4-6 - 4But one of His disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was going to betray Him, asked, 5“Why wasn’t this perfume sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?” 6Judas did not say this because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief. As keeper of the money bag, he used to take from what was put into it. // Yet the Muslims who use Judas buying land with money must be the money he was given as if a contradiction but the fact remains he Judas was a thief and used what he stole to buy that land not the money given to him. Now the way it read in Acts 1:16-18 - 17He was one of our number and shared in this ministry.” 18(Now with the reward for his wickedness Judas bought a field; there he fell headlong and burst open in the middle, and all his intestines spilled out. 19This became known to all who lived in Jerusalem, so they called that field in their own language Akeldama, that is, Field of Blood.) // So it may seem as if he used the money from what he did to Yehoshua but it doesn't explicitly state that, what it says is with the reward for his wickedness and we know stealing from the congregation as we seen in John 12:4-6 we see his reward was money from stealing, he used that money since stealing is also wickedness as is giving up Yehoshua (Jesus) so it is clear it could be either way so there could be a contradiction but also it there could not be a contradiction depending exactly which money it is talking about, logically if he threw the money down in Matthew 27:3-5 - 3 Then when Judas, who had betrayed Him, saw that He had been condemned, he felt remorse and returned the thirty [a]pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, 4 saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? You shall see to it yourself!” 5 And he threw the pieces of silver into the temple sanctuary and left; and he went away and hanged himself. // So notice if he throws the money in he no longer has that money to buy any land with, so logically the money that he bought land with which he killed himself in would have been bought with money he was stealing throughout the ministry not the money he got for his betrayal. Now this is where it may get a bit dark so please children have your parents around at this point, please do not read until you have your mother to read from here on, now when we see in the verse previous that Judas hangs himself in Matthew 27:3-5 we know it is possible for people who have hung themselves to have also decapitated themselves taking their head off their shoulders so it would not be a contradiction to say Judas died by hanging but in Acts 1:18 as we seen before that Judas was found as if he fell headlong and burst open in the middle, we see it state that so now I must show some evidence that this could be the case by hanging. I will link the site [ HERE ] from where I took my evidence from which states and I quote "A report is presented on a 47 year old man who committed suicide by hanging himself from a staircase bannister of an apartment house. The man, weighing 144 kg jumped with the noose of a 2 cm thick and 2 m long hemp rope around his neck and was completely decapitated. Death from typical "normal" suicidal hanging is usually due to cerebral ischaemia caused by compression of the carotid (and vertebral) arteries. Except for bleeding at the clavicular insertions of the sternocleidomastoid muscles there are only occasional injuries to the cervical soft parts or hyoid bone and/or laryngeal cartilage. A fall with a noose around the neck, on the other hand, is associated with more frequent injuries to cervical structures through additional axial traction and radial shearing forces of the tightening noose. Complete decapitation can occur in rare cases under extreme conditions (heavy body weight, inelastic and/or thin rope material, fall from a great height)." This is evidence that it is possible, now we see with depending on high, weight and other factors that it is possible, so how high did Judas jump from on a tree? how heavy was Judas, remember he was a thief it is possible he could have used that money that he stole also to eat allot we don't know if he was skinny, fat, plump, or morbidly obese, we do not know about his height or anything so the possibility of him hanging himself is probable that it could have decapitated him and he spilled out falling head long.
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7) Was Isaac, Abraham's Only Son Contextually in Genesis 22:1-1?
Context is Genesis 21 where Hagar is sent away with Ishmael that is why Isaac is Abrahams only son being talked about he couldn't take Ishmael if 1) He wasn't around and 2) He is not the promised son. This is not a contradiction.