Category: External Contradictions Of The Bible

  • Geo­graph­i­cal Errors With­in The New Testament

    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 Tes­ta­ment : [T]he con­sid­er­a­tions against this assump­tion [that John Mark, com­pan­ion of Peter, wrote the gospel of Mark] car­ry weight. The author obvi­ous­ly has no per­son­al knowl­edge of Pales­tin­ian geog­ra­phy, as the…

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

    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…

  • Exter­nal Con­tra­di­tion of the Bible : A World­wide Cen­sus of Quirinius ?

    Exter­nal Con­tra­di­tion of the Bible : A World­wide Cen­sus of 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 be the ​“accu­rate” sto­ry of Jesus’ birth, and this has caused dis­agree­ments between the gospel records. The dis­crep­an­cies between the dif­fer­ent gospel records were so numer­ous and glar­ing that it did…

  • Gamaliel And The Revolt of Theudas

    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 heemeroon anes­tee Theudas legoon einai tina heau­ton, hoo pros­ek­lithee androon arith­mos hoos tetrako­sioon, hos aneerethee, kai pantes hosoi epei­thon­to autoo dielutheesan kai egenon­to eis ouden. “For before these days rose up…

  • 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 the Prophet Isa(P). With regards to the cru­ci­fix­ion of ​‘Isa(P), it is record­ed in the Gospel of Matthew : Matthew 27:4 ​“From the sixth hour until the ninth hour dark­ness came over all…