Episode 8: Walking Contradiction

In this episode of the Theopologetics Podcast I discuss several alleged contradictions in Scripture, pointed to by theological liberals as evidence against the inerrancy of Scripture, and by skeptics as evidence against the overall reliability of the Bible.

• Green Day, Walking Contradiction, from the Insomniac album, 1995

• Ligonier Ministries, with Dr. R.C. Sproul
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• Contradiction: In classical logic, a logical incompatibility between two or more propositions. As Aristotle’s law of noncontradiction states, “One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect and at the same time.”

• Contradictory Accounts of Creation
  • Genesis 1:25-27 vs. Genesis 2:18-19 (humans after animals, or animals after humans?)
  • Genesis 1:27 vs. Genesis 2:18-22 (man and woman after animals, or man then animals then woman?)
  • Genesis 1:11,26 vs. Genesis 2:5-9 (plants before humans or after?)
  • Blog post refuting the alleged contradictions
• Contradictory Accounts of the Triumphal Entry
  • Matthew 21:1-7 (cf. Zechariah 9:9)vs. Mark 11:1-7, Luke 19:29-36 and John 12:14-15
  • Blog post refuting the alleged contradiction
• Contradictory Accounts of Paul’s Conversion
  • Acts 9:7 vs. Acts 22:9 (companions heard or didn’t they?)
  • Acts 9:7 vs. Acts 26:14 (they stood or they fell?)
  • Acts 9:8 vs. 1 Corinthians 9:1 and 1 Corinthians 15:8 (Paul saw Jesus or didn’t see Jesus?)
  • Blog post refuting the alleged contradictions