The conversation about Bible contradictions has become almost trite. Skeptics point out common places where the Bible seems to contradict itself, and apologists retort with equally common explanations meant to show why those parts of the Bible don't actually contradict each other. They also enjoy referring to them as "alleged" or "supposed" contradictions.
So what's the story? In this video, I'll discuss this phenomenon using the Gospels' various account of Jesus' empty tomb as an example. I'll look at possible contradictions that CAN be resolved using semantics and discuss whether these excuses - even when defensible - represent a likely reading of the text, as well as digging deeper into how the texts contradict each other in more obvious, unavoidable ways. I'll also look at examples of how apologists try to reconcile these.
NOTE ON TELLING ME TO READ APOLOGETICS BOOKS BEFORE I CRITICIZE THESE IDEAS: Honestly, this is kind of a cop-out. In my experience apologetics books really aren’t any better than apologetics videos. They’re just more of the same thing pontificated about in a longer, more tedious format. If they WERE somehow just absolutely brilliant, we’d see at least SOME distillation of this brilliance surface in apologetics YouTube. But we don’t. And that’s a telling sign of whether apologetics books are worth my time. Sorry, but short form presentation is your chance to sell people on whether your book is worth reading. Books aren’t automatic homework I should have to do before criticizing your publicly expressed ideas.
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