Textual
76 entries.
| Sheet | Objection | |
|---|---|---|
| Positions | The bible is internally inconsistent, filled with hundreds of contradictions, factually and theologically | Argument page → |
| Positions | Creation Ex Nihilio is an extra biblical creation. | Argument page → |
| Concepts | Eisegesis: 'Eisegesis is the act of imposing one's own subjective interpretations or pre-conceived ideas onto a text, rather than drawing ou… | Argument page → |
| Concepts | Exegesis: 'Exegesis involves reading out of the text, seeking the original author's intended meaning through careful analysis of the text's… | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | needs review 'Why isn't God around?' — with a citation of Lev 20:3 and no further argument given. | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | 'Most of Christian analysis is strained Eisegesis' — illustrated by asking whether Deuteronomy 32:4 ('The Rock, his work is perfect... a fai… | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | Psalm 19 declares 'the law of the LORD is perfect,' which stands in tension with the objectionable civil and ritual laws catalogued elsewher… | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | Exodus 4:24-26 depicts the LORD meeting Moses (or his son) and seeking to kill him, averted only when Zipporah circumcises their son and tou… | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | God has Moses feel his own breast/hand and it turns leprous, then is restored, as a sign to convince Israel Moses was sent by God (Exodus 4:… | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | Numbers 23:19 states God does not lie or repent/change his mind, yet many other texts (Genesis 6:6, Exodus 32:14, 1 Samuel 15:11,35, Jonah 3… | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | Isaiah 45:7 has God say 'I form the light and create darkness, I make peace and create evil, I the LORD do all these things' — apparently ma… | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | Jesus says he came to bring division, not peace (Luke 12:49-53), apparently contradicting the 'Prince of Peace' and 'peace on earth' portray… | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | Early biblical texts reflect polytheism — Elohim is grammatically plural, Genesis 1:26 has God say 'let us make man in our image,' and compa… | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | 'Zombie Apocalypse' — Isaiah 26:19 ('Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise... the earth shall cast out the de… | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | The KJV references mythical creatures as though real: 'satyrs' (Isaiah 34:14), 'unicorns' (Isaiah 34:7 and elsewhere), 'wizards' (Leviticus… | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | Three rows citing 'weird creature' texts as evidence the Bible is mythological/credulous: 'Demons' (James 2:19 — demons believe and shudder)… | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | 'Flat Earth': Matthew 4:8 has the devil take Jesus to 'a very high mountain' and show him 'all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor'… | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | 'Additions to New Testament': Mark 16:9-20 (the 'longer ending,' including the basis for Pentecostal snake-handling, poison-drinking, and to… | Argument page → |
| Specific Issues | needs review 'CK' — a bare BibleGateway link to Proverbs 12:21 and Deuteronomy 28:63 (NRSVUE), with no stated argument. Appears to be a stray personal no… | Argument page → |
| Failed Biblical Prophecies & ot | Matthew 27:9-10 introduces a quotation as 'what had been spoken through the prophet Jeremiah' — the thirty pieces of silver given for the po… | Argument page → |
| Failed Biblical Prophecies & ot | Matthew 1:21-23 cites Isaiah 7:14 ('the virgin shall conceive') as fulfilled in Jesus's virgin birth, but the Hebrew word Isaiah actually us… | Argument page → |
| Failed Biblical Prophecies & ot | Mark 1:1-3 introduces a composite quotation as 'written in the prophet Isaiah,' but the quoted material combines Malachi 3:1 ('I send my mes… | Argument page → |
| Failed Biblical Prophecies & ot | Combined objection concerning New Testament use of Davidic lament psalms: (1) John 13:18 applies Psalm 41:9 ('the one who ate my bread has l… | Argument page → |
| KJV Issues | Deut 8:9 — KJV renders Hebrew nechosheth as 'brass' ('out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass'), while NRSVUE and NIV render it 'copper', i… | Argument page → |
| KJV Issues | 2 Kings 17:16 — KJV translates Hebrew asherah as 'a grove' (of trees), while NRSVUE has 'a sacred pole' and NIV 'an Asherah pole'; the sprea… | Argument page → |
| KJV Issues | Deut 23:17 — KJV translates Hebrew qadesh as 'sodomite,' while NRSVUE has 'illicit shrine' service and NIV has 'shrine prostitute,' implying… | Argument page → |
| KJV Issues | Gen 49:6 — KJV has Jacob's sons 'digged down a wall' in their anger, while NRSVUE and NIV both have them 'hamstrung oxen,' a substantial fac… | Argument page → |
| KJV Issues | Exodus 26:9 — KJV uses 'couple' for joining the tabernacle curtains, while NRSVUE and NIV use 'join,' cited as another example of KJV wordin… | Argument page → |
| KJV Issues | The KJV translates several distinct terms — Hebrew Sheol, and Greek Hades, Gehenna, and Tartarus — all simply as 'hell,' collapsing genuinel… | Argument page → |
| KJV Issues | Much of the KJV New Testament relies on the Textus Receptus, a collection of late and sometimes corrupted Greek manuscripts, leading to incl… | Argument page → |
| KJV Issues | In Genesis, the Hebrew הַשָּׁמַיִם is translated 'heaven' (singular) in Gen 1:1 but 'heavens' (plural) in Gen 2:1 and 2:4, even though the s… | Argument page → |
| KJV Issues | The same Hebrew word עֵינֹת (eynot) is translated 'wells' in Exodus 15:27 but 'fountains' in Numbers 33:9, despite both verses referring to… | Argument page → |
| KJV Issues | The KJV renders the same Hebrew or Greek word differently within close proximity — for example, 'land' and 'country' both translate the same… | Argument page → |
| Jesus is late | Early post-apostolic writers continued expecting an imminent Parousia: 1 Clement (ca. 96 CE, 'Soon and suddenly shall His will be accomplish… | Argument page → |
| Jesus is late | 'Jesus says in Luke he will not drink wine UNTIL "the Kingdom of God comes", and then in John drinks wine saying "It is finished". What abou… | Argument page → |
| Gods Anatomy | Ezekiel 1:27-28 describes 'the loins' of the divine glory-figure on the throne-chariot — implying God has genitals, i.e. a literal humanlike… | Argument page → |
| Biblical Texts | Masoretic Text (MT): Leningrad Codex, 1008 CE, used in the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia; Aleppo Codex, 925 CE; the Masoretic tradition 'de… | Argument page → |
| Biblical Texts | (Implicit, arising from the Masoretic/DSS data): even granting close correspondence between Qumran and the MT in cases like Isaiah, other De… | Argument page → |
| Biblical Texts | Septuagint (LXX): ancient Greek version of the Hebrew Scriptures, translated by a number of Jewish scholars over the course of the third, se… | Argument page → |
| Monotheism in the Bible | Exodus 6:3 has God say he appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as 'God Almighty' (El Shaddai) but 'by my name, the LORD (YHWH), I did not m… | Argument page → |
| Monotheism in the Bible | Deuteronomy 32:8-9 has 'the Most High' (Elyon) apportion the nations 'according to the number of the gods,' with YHWH receiving only Israel… | Argument page → |
| Monotheism in the Bible | Deuteronomy 32:43 exists in meaningfully different forms across manuscripts: the MT is shorter, the LXX renders it with a doubled colon call… | Argument page → |
| Monotheism in the Bible | Genesis 1:26, 'Then God said, Let us make humans in our image, according to our likeness...' uses plural verb forms and pronouns for God's s… | Argument page → |
| Monotheism in the Bible | Psalm 82 depicts God (Elohim) taking his place 'in the divine council,' judging 'in the midst of the gods (elohim)': 'I say, You are gods, s… | Argument page → |
| Child Sacrifice | needs review Row 1: a bare link with no argument stated, citing Ezekiel 20:25-26 and 2 Kings 16:3 (NRSVUE). Row 2: a spreadsheet section header/category… | Argument page → |
| Child Sacrifice | Exodus 22:29, 'The firstborn of your sons you shall give to me,' immediately follows instructions to offer the produce of harvest and press… | Argument page → |
| Child Sacrifice | Ezekiel 20:25-26: 'Moreover, I gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live. I defiled them through the… | Argument page → |
| Child Sacrifice | Jeremiah 7:31 (also 19:5, 32:35): 'And they go on building the high place of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn t… | Argument page → |
| Eschatology Comparison | Hebrews 9:22 states 'without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins,' but Leviticus 5:11-13 allows a poor person to bring a g… | Argument page → |
| Contradictions | Jesus said he came not to abolish the Law but to fulfill it, warning that not one letter would pass away until all is accomplished (Matt 5:1… | Argument page → |
| Contradictions | Genesis 2:7 and 2:19 appear to have man formed before the animals, while Genesis 1:24-26 has the animals created before man -- two incompati… | Argument page → |
| Contradictions | Deuteronomy 24:16 expressly forbids putting children to death for their parents' sins, and Ezekiel 18:20 restates that 'the son shall not be… | Argument page → |
| Contradictions | Revelation 21:1-4 declares that in the New Jerusalem 'death will be no more; mourning and crying and pain will be no more,' while Isaiah 65:… | Argument page → |
| Contradictions | Genesis 1 presents Yahweh as sole creator of everything by fiat, but other texts (Isa 27:1, Ps 74:13-14, Job 26:12-13) depict God defeating… | Argument page → |
| Contradictions | Matthew 7:21 says 'Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Fathe… | Argument page → |
| Contradictions | Luke 8:41-42 describes Jairus's daughter as dying, at the point of death, when Jesus is summoned, while Matthew 9:18 has Jairus say his daug… | Argument page → |
| Contradictions | 2 Kings 23:29-30 and 2 Chronicles 35:23-24 appear to disagree on where King Josiah died -- Megiddo or Jerusalem. | Argument page → |
| Contradictions | Hebrews 9:22 states 'without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins,' yet Leviticus 5:11-13 allows a poor worshiper to bring… | Argument page → |
| Contradictions | John 3:13 states 'No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven, the Son of Man,' yet 2 Kings 2:1-12 narrates Eli… | Argument page → |
| Contradictions | Four parallel-passage numeric discrepancies between Samuel/Kings and Chronicles describing the same events: the famine offered to David is '… | Argument page → |
| Contradictions | 2 Samuel 21:19 states that 'Elhanan son of Jaare-oregim, the Bethlehemite, killed Goliath the Gittite,' apparently conflicting with 1 Samuel… | Argument page → |
| Contradictions | Genesis 32:30 has Jacob say 'I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved,' Exodus 33:11 says 'the LORD used to speak to Moses… | Argument page → |
| Contradictions | James 1:13 (KJV) states 'let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he an… | Argument page → |
| Contradictions | Matthew 27:3-5 has Judas, remorseful, return the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests, then go away and hang himself, with the pries… | Argument page → |
| Contradictions | 1 Kings 7:23 describes the bronze 'Sea' in Solomon's temple as ten cubits in diameter and thirty cubits in circumference, implying a value o… | Argument page → |
| Contradictions | needs review John 19:7 vs simon the sirene | Argument page → |
| Contradictions | The earliest and best manuscripts of Mark's Gospel (e.g., Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Vaticanus) end at 16:8, with the women fleeing the empty t… | Argument page → |
| Contradictions | Luke 1:6 describes Zechariah and Elizabeth, John the Baptist's parents, as 'righteous in the sight of God, observing all the Lord's commands… | Argument page → |
| Unjust God | Several stories are cited as if they were biblical/canonical Christian teaching: Peter deliberately keeps his own daughter paralyzed to prev… | Argument page → |
| God the liar | Genesis 2:17 has God warn Adam, 'in the day that you eat of it you shall die.' Adam and Eve ate the fruit and did not die that day; they wen… | Argument page → |
| God the liar | Matthew 16:28: Jesus tells his disciples 'there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his… | Argument page → |
| God the liar | 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 says the lawless one comes 'with all wicked deception for those who are perishing... For this reason God sends them a… | Argument page → |
| Permanence of the OT law | "So now, Israel, give heed to the statutes and ordinances that I am teaching you to observe... You must neither add anything to what I comma… | Argument page → |
| Permanence of the OT law | "The grass withers; the flower fades but the word of our God will stand forever" (Isaiah 40:8), cited to show the entire Mosaic law-code is… | Argument page → |
| Salvation | "He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be damned." (Mark 16:16) | Argument page → |
| Salvation | "But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me." (Luke 19:27) | Argument page → |