| › Introduction - Difficulties in the Bible
Alleged Errors and Contradictions
By
R. A. TORREY
This book does not attempt to take up in detail every concei ...read |
| › 1. A General Statement of the Case - Every careful student and every thoughtful reader of the Bible finds that the words of the Apostle Peter concerning the Scriptures, that there are som ...read |
| › 2. Classes of Difficulties - All the difficulties found in the Bible can be included under ten general headings:
1. The text from which our English Bible was translated. No o ...read |
| › 3. How Shall We Deal with the Difficulties of the Bible? - Before taking up those specific difficulties and alleged "contradictions" in the Bible which have caused the most trouble to seekers after truth, let ...read |
| › 4. Genesis One-Historical and Scientific? - There is no part of the Bible that the more scholarly opponents of its divine origin are more fond of attacking than the very first chapter in the Boo ...read |
| › 5. The Antiquity of Man According to the Bible and According to Science - One of the questions that is greatly puzzling many Bible scholars today is how to reconcile the chronology of the Bible with discoveries that are bein ...read |
| › 6. Where Did Cain Get His Wife? - In almost every place that I have visited in going around the world I have given skeptics and others an opportunity of asking questions at one or two ...read |
| › 7. Jehovah's Command to Abraham to Offer Up Isaac as a Burnt Offering - One of the most frequent objections is that the Bible says that God commanded Abraham to offer his son as a burnt offering. It is claimed that this st ...read |
| › 8. God Hardening Pharaoh's Heart - The various statements that are made in the Scriptures in regard to God hardening Pharaoh's heart have also perplexed a great many young Christians an ...read |
| › 9. The Slaughter of the Canaanites by God's Command - There are few things in the Bible over which more intelligent readers have stumbled, and over which infidels have more frequently gloated and gloried, ...read |
| › 10. Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still - One of the greatest difficulties in the Bible to many a student is found in the story contained in Joshua 10:12-14: "Then spake Joshua to the LORD in ...read |
| › 11. Deborah's Praise of Jael, the "Murderess" - It is frequently argued against the divine origin of the Bible that it defends and glorifies the treacherous murder of Sisera by Jael, and that any bo ...read |
| › 12. The Sacrifice of Jephtha's Daughter - The story of Jephthah's daughter as recorded in the Bible has presented a great difficulty to many superficial students of the Bible, as well as to ma ...read |
| › 13. "Impure" Bible Stories - An old and favorite objection to the Bible on the part of unbelievers is that there are in it "chapters that reek with obscenity from beginning to end ...read |
| › 14. David's Sin - In 2 Samuel 11 we read the story of one of the saddest downfalls of a man of God recorded anywhere in history, and at the same time we read the record ...read |
| › 15. The Imprecatory Psalms - A frequent objection urged against the Bible is founded upon some of the utterances in the so-called imprecatory psalms. Many of these utterances have ...read |
| › 16. Does the God of Truth and Love Send Lying Spirits and Evil Spirits to Men? - One of the most puzzling passages in the Bible is found in 1 Kings 22, and in the parallel account in 2 Chronicles 18. In these passages the Prophet M ...read |
| › 17. Jonah and the Whale - The story of Jonah and "the whale" has for many years been a butt of ridicule with unbelievers, and the cause of not a little perplexity with those wh ...read |
| › 18. Some Important "Contradictions" in the Bible - I am constantly meeting men who say that the Bible is full of contradictions. When I ask them to show me one, they reply, "It is full of them." When I ...read |
| › 19. "Mistakes" in the Bible - The Bible is said not only to be full of contradictions, but also to contain mistakes.
One of the "mistakes" most constantly referred to by critics ...read |
| › 20. The Two Genealogies of Jesus, the Christ - A favorite point of attack on the Bible for those who deny its divine origin and inerrancy is the two varying genealogies of Jesus Christ. Not only is ...read |
| › 21. Was Jesus Really Three Days and Three Nights in the Heart of the Earth? - Matthew reports Jesus as saying, "As Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale ("sea monster," RV marg.), so shall the Son of ma ...read |
| › 22. How Could Jesus Commend the Action of the Unrighteous Steward? - A very puzzling passage in the Bible to many is the story of the unrighteous steward recorded in Luke 16:1-14. Once when this passage was assigned by ...read |
| › 23. Were Jesus and Paul Mistaken as to the Time of Our Lord's Return? - It is constantly taught not only by unbelievers but even in many Christian pulpits and in some of our theological seminaries that Jesus and Paul were ...read |
| › 24. Did Jesus Go into the Abode of the Dead and Preach to the Spirits in Prison? Is There Another Probation After Death? - What does 1 Peter 3:18-20 mean when it says that Jesus went and preached to the spirits in prison?
A very simple answer to this question is that it ...read |
