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Psalm 58:8 reads, “As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.” Snails do NOT melt! Is therre a contradiction?
Continue reading “Do snails really melt in Psalm 58? Answering the Atheist”Leviticus 11:21-23 reads, “Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth; even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind. But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.”
Insects do not have four feet! Is there a contradiction?
Continue reading “What? Insects don’t have four feet! Answering the Atheist”Leviticus 11:6 reads, “And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof, he is unclean to you.” Rabbits do not chew the cud!
“Gerah” means to chew cud or also perhaps grain, or berries. It does NOT mean dung, and there is a perfectly adequate Hebrew word for that, which could have been used. Furthermore, the phrase translated “chew the cud” in the KJV is more exactly “bring up the cud”. Rabbits do not bring up anything; they let it go all the way through, then eat it again.
The description given in Leviticus is inaccurate. Rabbits do eat their own dung; they do not bring anything up and chew on it.
Continue reading “Do rabbits really chew the cud? Answering the Atheist”The bat is not a bird! In Leviticus 11:13-19, we read, “And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, the ossifrage, and the osprey, and the vulture, and the kite after his kind; every raven after his kind, and the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, and the little owl, and the comorant, and the great owl, and the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.” Again, Deuteronomy 14:11-18 declares, “Of all clean birds yet shall eat. But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagles, and the ossigrage, and the osprey, and the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind, the little owl, and the great owl, and the swan, and the pelican, and the grier eagle, and the cormorant, and the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.” Is there a contradiction?
Continue reading “Why is the bat listed with birds? Answering the Atheist”Who is punished for the sins of the father? Isaiah 14:21 declares, “Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathes; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.” Yet, Deuteronomy 24:16 states, “The fathers shall not put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers; every man shall be put to death for his own sins.” Is there a contradiction?
Continue reading “Are children punished for their father’s sins? Answering the Atheist”Was Jesus the result of human or ghostly impregnation? In Acts 2:30, we read, “Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne.” However, in Matthew 1:18, it is written, “Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: when as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.” Is there a contradiction?
Continue reading “Jesus’ conception: of human or spiritual origin? Answering the Atheist”How many stalls and horsemen did Solomon have? In 1 Kings 4:26 we read, “And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.” However, 2 Chronicles 9:25 records, “And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chaiots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities, adn with the king at Jerusalem.” Is there a contradiction?
Continue reading “Solomon’s stalls and horsemen – how many? Answering the Atheist”Is it folly to be wise? In Proverbs 4:7, Solomon is recorded as saying, “Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting, get understanding.” Solomon again, in Ecclessiastes 1:18 says, “For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.” The apostle Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 1:19, “For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.” Is there a contradiction?
Continue reading “Is it folly to be wise? Answering the Atheist”How many animals went into the ark? In Genesis 7:2, Moses writes, “Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are nto clean by two, the male and his female.” A few verses later, Genesis 7:8-9, he records, “Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth uponn the earth, there went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded. Is there a contradiction?
Continue reading “How many animals went into the ark? Answering The Atheist”Which came first in the creation account, beasts or mankind? Moses records in Genesis 1:25-26, “And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.” One chapter later, in Genesis 2:18-19 he writes, “And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.”
Did Moses make a mistake in his writings? Is there a contradiction?
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