Bible Con­tra­dic­tions

The Gospels’ Accounts Regard­ing the Call of the First Disciples

So which is the cor­rect Gospel account con­cern­ing the choice of Jesus’ first apos­tles ? The fol­low­ing Bible con­tra­dic­tion was extract­ed from an unpub­lished the­sis enti­tled Ibn Hazm On The Doc­trine of Tahrif which cites Kitab al-Fasl fi al-Milal wa al-Ahwa’ wa al-Nihal and insha’allah this will be part of an ongo­ing series to repro­duce extracts of Ibn Hazm’s crit­i­cisms of the Bible and Christianity.

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Con­tra­dic­tions On Jesus’ (Alleged) Tri­als, Death And Resurrection

The Chris­tians are fond of cel­e­brat­ing the death of their man-god (whom they claim to be Jesus, peace be upon him) every year, although it does bog­gle the mind as to why would some­one accept the fact that their god can actu­al­ly die”. How­ev­er as Mus­lims, we believe that the claim con­cern­ing Jesus (P) is false and full of con­jec­tures. A mighty Prophet of God (as we believe Jesus cer­tain­ly is) would nev­er had to bear the agony of being cru­ci­fied at the hands of his ene­mies. As it stands, we would also like to note that to sub­stan­ti­ate our claims, there are var­i­ous con­tra­dic­tions regard­ing the accounts on Jesus’ tri­als, death and res­ur­rec­tion which appear through­out the New Testament.

Was Sarah The Sis­ter of Abraham ?

Was Sarah real­ly Abra­ham’s sis­ter ? Ibn Hazm ques­tions the sta­tus of Sarah as being Abra­ham’s sis­ter, as accept­ing that viz., from the Bib­li­cal per­spec­tive would result in var­i­ous dis­agree­ments with oth­er pas­sages in the Old Tes­ta­ment con­cern­ing moral and the­o­log­i­cal issues. This is in ref­er­ence to the sto­ries of Sarah’s seizure by Pharaoh and Abime’­elech which was nar­rat­ed in Gen­e­sis 12:10 – 18 and Gen­e­sis 20, Gen­e­sis 17:17 and Gen­e­sis 20:1 – 18. We cite the relat­ed pas­sages on the sto­ry of the seizure of Sarah as follows.

Does God Change Or Does Not Change His Mind ?

Does God change or does not change His mind ? Accord­ing to Ibn Hazm, Exo­dus 32:10 – 14 and 33:3 – 14 ascribes al-bada’ (chang­ing of mind) to God and hence this presents a prob­lem to the nature of God and His char­ac­ters with regard to His All-Know­ing attribute. When one com­pares the above pas­sages side by side, the inter­nal con­tra­dic­tions between espe­cial­ly Exo­dus 32:10, 32:14 and 33:2 – 3 on the one hand and Exo­dus 33:14 on the oth­er, clear­ly rais­es many prob­lems of the­o­log­i­cal and moral con­cern from the Bib­li­cal con­text. In this case that was quot­ed above, in spite of God’s deter­mi­na­tion to pun­ish the Israelites for their idol­a­trous con­duct, He did not exe­cute pun­ish­ment due to the inter­ces­sion of Moses who had remind­ed” God of His promise made with Abra­ham and the patri­achs for their descen­dents. This Bib­li­cal pas­sage seems to implic­it­ly sug­gest that this reminder” had made God realise his wrong” deci­sion and have Him repent­ing for it. Such an obvi­ous error” or even to imply such a thing is hard­ly befit­ting any per­son of integri­ty, let alone God, the Almighty.

To do good works or saved by the blood of Christ ?

Every Chris­t­ian believe that they should do good works, that they should fol­low the law of the Prophets. How­ev­er they do not believe that a man can be jus­ti­fied by the good works.
For all who rely on doing the works of the law are under a curse, because it is writ­ten, Cursed is every­one who does not keep on doing every­thing writ­ten in the book of the law.” Now it is clear no one is jus­ti­fied before God by the law, because the right­eous one will live by faith (On Jesus). But the law is not based on faith, but the one who does the works of the law will live by them. Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becom­ing a curse for us.“Gala­tians 3 : 10 – 13
The above-men­tioned teach­ings and belief of the Chris­tians are based on Paul’s teach­ings and the New Tes­ta­ment, which are against the teach­ings of Old Testament.

On what day did the​“House of the Lord” burn down ?

Was it on the sev­enth day or on the tenth day ? Accord­ing to 2 Kings 25:8 – 9, the House of the Lord” was burnt down on the sev­enth day of the month :
And in the fifth month, on the sev­enth day of the month … burned the house of the Lord.” 
Yet, we are informed in Jere­mi­ah 52:12 – 13 that the tem­ple burned on the tenth day :
Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month … burned the house of the Lord.” 

The Bible and Its Divorce Contradiction

Accord­ing to the Bible, can a per­son get divorced and remar­ry with­out com­mit­ting adul­tery ? Remar­riage after divorce is pro­hib­it­ed because it is adul­tery. Jesus…

Geo­graph­i­cal Errors With­in The New Testament

It is well known that the Gospel of Mark con­tains numer­ous geo­graph­i­cal errors. This is summed up in Küm­mel’s clas­sic, Intro­duc­tion to the New…

Wash­ing of Hands Prac­tised by​“All The Jews”?

There is a prob­lem with this pas­sage, how­ev­er : the rit­u­al wash­ing of hands was oblig­a­tory only on the priests ! So the ques­tion remains, if the author was a native of Pales­tine and a Jew, then how was he so igno­rant of the Jew­ish cus­toms and made such a fun­da­men­tal error regard­ing a prac­tice that was only lim­it­ed to the Jew­ish priests ?

A World­wide Cen­sus under Quirinius ?

There is an attempt by each writer of the Syn­op­tic Gospels to either re-cor­rect or present their own ver­sion of what they per­ceive to…

Gamaliel And The Revolt of Theudas

In Acts 5:36, Gamaliel is record­ed to have said as fol­lows con­cern­ing the Jew­ish revolt of Theudas against the Roman Empire : Pro gar toutoon toon…

The Eclipse of Matthew 27 ?

In the arti­cle His­tor­i­cal Errors in the Qur’an ? I briefly touched upon the events men­tioned in the Gospel of Matthew sur­round­ing the cru­ci­fix­ion of…

To Teach or Not to Teach the Gentiles ?

Jun­dul­lah Claim : After Paul received the sup­posed rev­e­la­tion, he went out to teach to the Gen­tiles, imply­ing the rev­e­la­tion was for the Gen­tiles or can…

When Was Peter’s Moth­er in-Law Cured ?

Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi In Mark 1:16 — 31, we read that Jesus(P) had made his call to his dis­ci­ples before he cured one of…

Prob­lems in Rec­on­cil­ing the Birth Nar­ra­tives of Jesus

The mis­sion­ar­ies had pathet­i­cal­ly accused us of suf­fer­ing under a seri­ous form of atten­tion deficit’ ”, among oth­er low-down alle­ga­tions, and then pro­ceeds to…

Did Jesus, Mary and Joseph go to Egypt or to Nazareth ?

In Matthew 2:14, we are told that Joseph took Mary and Jesus to Egypt : When he arose, he took the young child and his mother…

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The Gospels’ Accounts Regard­ing the Call of the First Disciples

So which is the cor­rect Gospel account con­cern­ing the choice of Jesus’ first apos­tles ? The fol­low­ing Bible con­tra­dic­tion was extract­ed from an unpub­lished the­sis enti­tled Ibn Hazm On The Doc­trine of Tahrif which cites Kitab al-Fasl fi al-Milal wa al-Ahwa’ wa al-Nihal and insha’allah this will be part of an ongo­ing series to repro­duce extracts of Ibn Hazm’s crit­i­cisms of the Bible and Christianity.