Failed Scripture

 

The bible is wildly flawed! The many significant errors and contradictions prove it’s simply a collection of myths, written by bronze and iron age zealots, who didn't know where the sun went at night. The apologist will attempt ridiculous mental gymnastics to make these scriptures work, but a plain read of the text dooms them every time. This book simply can't be trusted. Below is a sampling of failed scripture. Read the words and let words mean what words mean!

 

Fail! Jesus claims he is the only one to ascend into heaven.

John 3:13 No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.

2Kings 2:11 As they continued walking and talking, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them, and Elijah ascended in a whirlwind into heaven.

Oops! The writers of John couldn’t read the Hebrew text so they made this obvious blunder. Elijah went into heaven before Jesus.

 

Fail! Gospel writers don’t agree on when Jesus was born.

Mathew 2:In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, magi from the east came to Jerusalem, 2 asking, “Where is the child who has been born king of the Jews?"

Luke 2:In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. 2 This was the first registration and was taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3 All went to their own towns to be registered. 4 Joseph also went from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, because he was descended from the house and family of David. 5 He went to be registered with Mary, to whom he was engaged and who was expecting a child. 6 While they were there, the time came for her to deliver her child.

The overwhelming historical evidence is that Herod died in 4 BCE. The census of Quirinius was in 6 CE. This means Mathew and Luke have at least a 10 year difference on the birth date of Jesus. It is simply impossible to reasonably reconcile this contradiction. 

 

Fail! Gospel writers don’t agree on when Jesus was crucified.

Mark 15:25 It was nine o’clock in the morning when they crucified him.

John 19:13 When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus outside and sat on the judge’s bench at a place called The Stone Pavement, or in Hebrew Gabbatha. 14 Now it was the day of Preparation for the Passover, and it was about noon. He said to the Jews, “Here is your King!” 15 They cried out, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!” Pilate asked them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar.

You may think that a few hours doesn’t mean much but think about it. Mark says Jesus was hanging on the cross at 9am. John says Pilate didn’t sentence him to be crucified until around noon. It's an obvious contradiction. This is allegedly one of the single most important events in history and the gospel writers don’t agree on when it happened.

 

Fail! God/Jesus say the law is forever. Paul says the law was temporary.

Deut 11:11 Therefore thou shalt love Jehovah thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments, always.

Deut 12:1 These are the statutes and the ordinances which ye shall observe to do in the land which Jehovah, the God of thy fathers, hath given thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.

Mat 5:18 For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one letter, not one stroke of a letter, will pass from the law until all is accomplished.

Mat 5:19 Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

Gal 3:24 Therefore the law was our disciplinarian until Christ came, so that we might be reckoned as righteous by faith. 25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer subject to a disciplinarian, 26 for in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith.

Heb 8:13 13 In speaking of a new covenant, he has made the first one obsolete, and what is obsolete and growing old will soon disappear.

Yahweh/Jesus say the law is forever. The law is the central aspect of God’s first covenant with man. Heaven and earth have not passed away so the law is fully in effect, even after the death of Jesus. Paul says now that Jesus has come, we are no longer subject to the law. Paul says the law is obsolete. Christians have to lie about what words mean to cope with this contradiction!

 

Fail! Paul says there is no forgiveness of sins without  the shedding of blood. Yahweh says that's a lie.

Heb 9:22 Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.

Lev 5:11 But if you cannot afford two turtledoves or two pigeons, you shall bring as your offering for the sin that you have committed one-tenth of an ephah of choice flour for a purification offering; you shall not put oil on it or lay frankincense on it, for it is a purification offering. 12 You shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall scoop up a handful of it as its memorial portion and turn this into smoke on the altar, with the offerings by fire to the Lord; it is a purification offering. 13 Thus the priest shall make atonement on your behalf for whichever of these sins you have committed, and you shall be forgiven. As with the grain offering, the rest shall be for the priest.

Paul says Yahweh will only accept blood for forgiveness for sin. Yahweh says grain works fine. This is another example of Paul contradicting Yahweh/Jesus. Both claims can't be correct.

 

Fail! OT writers don't agree how long god stays angry.

Mic 7:18 He does not retain his anger forever because he delights in showing steadfast love.

Jer 17:4 By your own act you shall lose the heritage that I gave you, and I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled that shall burn forever.

Schizophrenic much? Is God's anger forever or not? This is a great example of a contradiction that confuses the understanding of the biblical god's character.

 

Fail! The bible gets simple numbers wrong

1 CHR 21:11 So Gad came to David and said to him, “Thus says the Lord: Take your choice: 12 either three years of famine; or three months of devastation by your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or three days of the sword of the Lord, pestilence on the land, and the angel of the Lord destroying throughout all the territory of Israel.

2 SAM 24: 13 So Gad came to David and told him; he asked him, “Shall seven years of famine come to you on your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ pestilence in your land? Now consider and decide what answer I shall return to the one who sent me.

Is the punishment in threes or sevens? It can't be both. While this contradiction may not significantly change the meaning, it is absolute evidence that the bible is flawed and cannot be blindly trusted.

 

Fail! Yahweh/Jesus are schizophrenic on divorce!

Deut 24:Suppose a man enters into marriage with a woman but she does not please him because he finds something objectionable about her, so he writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house; 2 she then leaves his house and goes off to become another man’s wife. 3 Then suppose the second man dislikes her, writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house (or the second man who married her dies): 4 her first husband, who sent her away, is not permitted to take her again to be his wife after she has been defiled, for that would be abhorrent to the Lord, and you shall not bring guilt on the land that the Lord your God is giving you as a possession.

MAT 5:32 But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, makes her the victim of adultery, and anyone who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

MARK 10:11 He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her, 12 and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”

The bible is all over the place on the issue of divorce. Yahweh says divorce fine under any circumstance so long as a certificate is provided and the divorced woman doesn’t go back to original husband after being married again. In Matthew, Jesus says divorce is only acceptable if there is sexual immorality.  In Mark, Jesus gives no grounds for divorce being acceptable. Many Christians in terrible marriages get divorced, but they should have no confidence their god approves.

 

Fail! The New Testament lies about nobody ever seeing God’s face.

1 John 4:12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us

John 1:18 No one has ever seen God. It is the only Son, himself God, who is close to the Father’s heart, who has made him known.

EX 33:11 Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as one speaks to a friend. Then he would return to the camp, but his young assistant, Joshua son of Nun, would not leave the tent.

Ex 24:9 Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up, 10 and they saw the God of Israel. Under his feet there was something like a pavement of sapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness. 11 God did not lay his hand on the chief men of the Israelites; they beheld God, and they ate and drank.

It is apparent the author of John couldn’t read Hebrew or he is a liar. John claims no person, except Jesus, has seen God. The Old Testament is clear that Moses and many Hebrew elders have certainly seen and hung out with God.

 

Fail! The bible lies about God being unchanging.

Mal 3:6 For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, have not perished.

1 Sam 15:19 God is not a human being, that he should lie, or a mortal, that he should change his mind.

Heb 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. 

Ex 32:14 And the Lord changed his mind about the disaster that he planned to bring on his people.

Jonah 3:10 When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil ways, God changed his mind about the calamity that he had said he would bring upon them, and he did not do it.

Jer 26:19 “Did King Hezekiah of Judah and all Judah actually put him to death? Did he not fear the Lord and entreat the favor of the Lord, and did not the Lord change his mind about the disaster that he had pronounced against them? But we are about to bring great disaster on ourselves!”

The bible claims God is unchanging and then tells stories in which god changes his mind. This is a solid contradiction illustrating the bible’s lack of internal consistency.

 

Fail! The bible contradicts itself on if God is all-knowing.

1 John:20 whenever our hearts condemn us, for God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.

Ex 33:5 For the Lord had said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘You are a stiff-necked people; if for a single moment I should go up among you, I would consume you. So now take off your ornaments, and I will decide what to do to you.’ ” 

Surprise! This is another contradiction on the character of God. John says that God is all-knowing. In Exodus, God is angry with the Israelites but needs time to decide their fate. If God knew all, he wouldn’t need to decide anything. He would already know. If God was not all-knowing, it would explain why he often changes his mind.

 

Fail! Yahweh can’t defeat iron chariots.

Judges 1:19 The Lord was with the men of Judah. They took possession of the hill country, but they were unable to drive the people from the plains, because they had chariots fitted with iron.

The passage says that Yahweh was with the men of Judah but because the enemy had iron chariots, God and his people were defeated. That is a seriously weak god!

 

Fail! The bible disagrees with itself on who inspired David to take a census of Israel.

1 Chronicles 21:21 Satan stood up against Israel and incited David to count the people of Israel.

2 Samuel 24:1 Again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, “Go, count the people of Israel and Judah.”

In the same story, was it Satan or was it Yahweh who incited David to take a census? This is another obvious contradiction that disproves those claiming the bible is perfect.

 

Fail! The bible claims Yahweh can’t lie but then says he did.

2 Thes 2:11 For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion, leading them to believe what is false

1 Kings 22:23 So you see, the Lord has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; the Lord has decreed disaster for you.”

Num 23:19 God is not a human being, that he should lie

Heb 6:18 so that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible that God would prove false, we who have taken refuge might be strongly encouraged to seize the hope set before us

The bible says God sent delusions to the Israelites to make them believe what is false. God also sends lying spirits to possess prophets in order to lead the people into disaster. The bible then contradicts itself by saying god cannot lie and it is impossible for god to be false. Nope! It can’t be both but the apologist will break his back trying to prove otherwise.

 

Fail! The bible can’t decide who is the father of Jeconiah.

1 Chron 3:15 The sons of Josiah: Johanan the firstborn, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum. 16 The descendants of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son

Matt 1:11 and Josiah the father of Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the deportation to Babylon.

This is another blunder that proves the bible has mistakes and can’t be trusted. The OT says Jehoiakim is the father of Jeconiah. The NT says Josiah is the father. Obviously, God’s attempt to inspire the bible was imperfect. That's a problem for a god that claims to be perfect.

 

Fail! Did David kill 700 or 7000 charioteers?

2 Sam 10:18 The Arameans fled before Israel, and David killed of the Arameans seven hundred chariot teams and forty thousand horsemen and wounded Shobach the commander of their army, so that he died there.

1 Chron 19:18 The Arameans fled before Israel, and David killed seven thousand Aramean charioteers and forty thousand foot soldiers and also Shophach the commander of their army.

This obvious contradiction doesn’t change the meaning of the story much but it is another clear example that the bible has flaws and can’t be called perfect.