Jesus’ Passion & Crucifixion: Supposedly Clashing Reports

Last updated on: January 23, 2025 at 12:14 pm By Dave Armstrong

Chapter 8 of my book (available for free online), Inspired!: 198 Supposed Biblical Contradictions Resolved. See the Introduction and ch. 1: How Do Atheists Define a “Biblical Contradiction”? All Bible passages RSV unless otherwise noted. ***** Was money Judas’ motive for betraying Jesus (Matt. 26:14-15) or not (Mark 14:10-11)? The claim here is that Mark doesn’t mention money as Judas’ motive. He proposed a betrayal to the “chief priests” and then they “promised to give him money.” But in Matthew’s account, the demand for money is... Read more

Jesus’ Infancy: Allegedly Contradictory Accounts

Last updated on: January 23, 2025 at 12:11 pm By Dave Armstrong

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Chapter 7 of my book (available for free online), Inspired!: 198 Supposed Biblical Contradictions Resolved. See the Introduction and ch. 1: How Do Atheists Define a “Biblical Contradiction”? All Bible passages RSV unless otherwise noted. ***** 135. Why do only Matthew (1:18, 20, 23) and Luke (1:35) know of the virgin birth; shouldn’t we expect other writers to mention this, too? Arguments from “expectation” or plausibility are not, strictly speaking, the same as establishing a logical contradiction. This is the argument from silence, too, which is... Read more

Bible on God’s Revealed Nature & Character

Last updated on: January 23, 2025 at 12:09 pm By Dave Armstrong

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Chapter 6 of my book (available for free online), Inspired!: 198 Supposed Biblical Contradictions Resolved. See the Introduction and ch. 1: How Do Atheists Define a “Biblical Contradiction”? All Bible passages RSV unless otherwise noted. ***** How can God regret or change his mind about what he has done (Gen. 6:6-7; 1 Sam. 15:10-11, 35), if he is omniscient and knows all things? What does it mean for God to say, “I regret”? Can God change his mind? Is God ignorant about the future? Is he... Read more

Biblical “Contradictions” Based on Ignorance of Logic

Last updated on: January 23, 2025 at 12:08 pm By Dave Armstrong

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Chapter 5 of my book (available for free online), Inspired!: 198 Supposed Biblical Contradictions Resolved. See the Introduction and ch. 1: How Do Atheists Define a “Biblical Contradiction”? All Bible passages RSV unless otherwise noted. ***** Did Jesus (Matt. 3:16; Mark 1:10) or John the Baptist (John 1:32) see the Holy Spirit descending like a dove at his baptism? They both saw the same thing. So what? If my wife and I both see a meteor lighting up the night sky, that’s somehow a “contradiction”?! Remember, that’s what all of... Read more

Scientific Biblical “Contradictions” & “Errors”

Last updated on: January 23, 2025 at 12:07 pm By Dave Armstrong

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Chapter 4 of my book (available for free online), Inspired!: 198 Supposed Biblical Contradictions Resolved. See the Introduction and ch. 1: How Do Atheists Define a “Biblical Contradiction”? All Bible passages RSV unless otherwise noted. ***** Genesis 1:1: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” doesn’t assert that God created everything out of nothing (ex nihilo). I submit that it is quite reasonable and straightforward to interpret this verse as describing creation of everything out of nothing. In any event, many passages in... Read more

Alleged Biblical Factual & Historical Discrepancies

Last updated on: January 23, 2025 at 12:04 pm By Dave Armstrong

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Chapter 3 of my book (available for free online), Inspired!: 198 Supposed Biblical Contradictions Resolved. See the Introduction and ch. 1: How Do Atheists Define a “Biblical Contradiction”? All Bible passages RSV unless otherwise noted. ***** Did God create birds from “the waters” (Gen. 1:20) or the ground (2:19)? Genesis 1:20 in KJV might be reasonably interpreted as saying that birds were created from or out of the water (“Let the waters bring forth . . . fowl”) but it is an unfortunately imprecise and inaccurate... Read more

Biblical Idiom, Language, Theology, & Culture

Last updated on: January 23, 2025 at 12:02 pm By Dave Armstrong

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Chapter 2 of my book (available for free online), Inspired!: 198 Supposed Biblical Contradictions Resolved. See the Introduction and ch. 1: How Do Atheists Define a “Biblical Contradiction”? All Bible passages RSV unless otherwise noted. ***** 1.Why did Matthew take the very unusual step of including four women (Matt. 1:3, 5-6) in Joseph’s genealogy? Isn’t that a contradiction over against other biblical genealogies? The four women were Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, and Bathsheba. But this is not “very unusual” in the... Read more

Books by Dave Armstrong: “Justification: A Catholic Perspective”

Last updated on: November 29, 2023 at 3:10 pm By Dave Armstrong

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[completed on 8-30-23] This is a book in which I debate Brazilian Calvinist Francisco Tourinho on one of the two “pillars” (as Protestants describe them) of the Protestant Revolt: justification by faith alone, or sola fide (the other being Scripture Alone or sola Scriptura as the rule of faith). Tourinho was a worthy opponent, we have established cordial and mutually respectful relations, and it was a pleasure to interact with him. I hope to debate him many more times. The... Read more

How Do Atheists Define a “Biblical Contradiction”?

Last updated on: December 1, 2023 at 3:18 pm By Dave Armstrong

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Chapter 1 of my book (available for free online), Inspired!: 198 Supposed Biblical Contradictions Resolved. ***** A common tactic of biblical skeptics is to question the veracity and historical trustworthiness of the New Testament based on alleged numerous “contradictions” therein. But most of these so-called “problem passages” can easily be shown to be non–contradictory and in fact, complementary. This is what might be described as the “1001 Bible contradictions” ploy. Anyone can go look up the definition of “logical contradiction.”... Read more

“Inspired!: 198 Supposed Biblical Contradictions Resolved”

Last updated on: January 23, 2025 at 11:49 am By Dave Armstrong

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[completed on 3 June 2023; 146+ pages; all biblical citations from RSV; available for FREE via linked installments on this page] Table of Contents Introduction [read below] Chapter One: How Do Atheists Define a “Biblical Contradiction”? [read online] Chapter Two: Critics’ Misunderstanding of Biblical Idiom, Language, Theology, or Culture (#1-35) [read online] Chapter Three: Alleged Factual and Historical Discrepancies (#36-89) [read online] Chapter Four: Supposed Contradictions and Errors with Regard to Science (#90-95) [read online] Chapter Five: Manufactured “Contradictions”... Read more