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No Contradictions In The Bible-
*First of all, a person cannot understand the meaning of the Bible without the Holy Spirit of God. It is the Holy Spirit who makes the Bible real to the believer. The Holy Spirit is the Illuminator, as well as the Revelator of the Holy Scriptures. Without Him, you cannot and will not understand the Bible.
1 Corinthians 2:10- But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit...
1 Corinthians 2:11- ...even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
1 Corinthians 2:12- Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us by of God.
1 Corinthians 2:13- Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
1 Corinthians 2:14- But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
*It is also worth noting the difference between a contradiction and a discrepancy.
**Contradiction- Something that is both right and wrong, at the same time, and in the same context. To be inconsistent.
**Discrepancy- A difference or change in the story.
As you will see, there are discrepancies, for example in the four gospels. Each gospel writer may write about the same parable or story, but each one writes in their own characteristic manner and from his own mind. For example, Matthew, a Hebrew tax collector, writes from a Hebrew mind. Mark, the traveling companion of the Apostle Paul and Peter, writes from a Roman mind. Luke, Paul's physician-missionary, writes from a Greek mentality. John the beloved disciple, is different, and his gospel is different from the other three.
When each of these writers describe the same event, they all don't write the SAME words. However, when you do a systematic study of the event, you see exactually what is being said by all the gospel writers. So there are discrepancies, but that does not mean there is a contradiction. Please consider the following verses:
1. Does God repent?
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* Genesis 6:6
The skeptics may say, "If your God is holy and just; then why does the Bible say that he has to repent?"
First of all, I would like to take the opportunity once again to say that God IS Holy and Just in all that He does! This is not a contradiction.
Secondly, ALL sin is offensive to a sinless (impeccable) God.
Thirdly, since ALL sin is offensive to a sinless God, who would God repent to anyway? God cannot repent to Himself, if He could, then that would mean there was a part of Him that was not holy and just and He would not be trustworthy.
The phrase- The LORD repented...in some form is found in the Old Testament about thirty (30) times and is a change of mind or intention that accords with God's righteous purposes. Whenever it is found, it is what serious students of the Bible call an anthropopathism- which is a human emotion applied to a non-human being. It does not mean that God made a mistake in His dealings with men, but it indicates a change in Divine Direction resulting from the sinful actions of men. It is describing the pain that is caused God by the destructiveness of His creatures.
2. The death of Judas?
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* Matt. 27:3-5
* Acts 1:18
Here are two passages in the New Testament that seem to contradict pertaining to the death of Judas. So, can these verses be reconciled? Sure. Consider the following:
First of all, Matthew's Gospel gives us the cleft notes and Luke in the book of Acts gives us the rest of the story. Luke of course was a physician, so he gives us more details than does Matthew.
Matthew says, "Judas departed and went out and hanged himself."
Luke then says, "...falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst and all his bowels gushed out (through the rupture of his body)."
It is very important to note the time of the year this took place. Matthew tells us that Judas hung himself during the feast of unleavened bread (Matt. 26:17). During this feast, no work was done. If there was a body hanging outside of Jerusalem, no Jew would have worked to take a corpse down and bury it during the feast days. The feast days were in the spring of the year, and Judas was possibly hanging in the sun for 4-6 days in 70-80 degree weather. The noose probably broke due to the composition of the body and the wild animals that had begun to feast on the body.
So these two verse are not contradictory; they are complimentary.
3. Human or ghostly impregnation?
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* Acts 2:30
* Matthew 1:18
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