I base it on reading comprehension skills.
So, by so saying, you base it upon your own effort and mental capacity rather than upon God's word. Very dangerous.
How many soldiers did a Roman centurion command?
I will answer you, if you answer my question correctly, What color is my shirt? Tell me please, be specific in your answer. Thank you. it is not that difficult of a question. Yes, I am most serious.
Besides the blatantly obvious ones such as 1 Kings 7:26, and 2 Chronicles 4:5?
You think, 1 Kings 7:26 and 2 Chronicles 4:5 are in contradiction?
You do not seem to actually believe what God stated about His word then, John 10:35. God's word cannot be broken, and there are 0 contradictions in scripture. I have never seen one, in all the years of skepticism trying (and they sure do try, even unto the clinically hysterically sad).
You stated, "I base it on reading comprehension skills.", then either one of two things has happened:
[1] you either read a corrupt modern translation which absolutely butchered the two places, or
[2] your reading comprehension skills were put into play without asking God for direction, meaning you used fallen human logic, and didn't understand what you read.
Allow me to show you:
1Ki 7:26 And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.
2Ch 4:5 And the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received and held three thousand baths.
The two are speaking about differing things. If your reading comprehension skills were anything close to accurate you should be able to carefully read, asking God in prayer first upon your knees in submission to God's wisdom (rather than your own foolishness, ignorance (not knowing), pride of intellect, and skepticism) and ask Him for understanding you would have had it and not been so careless.
There is a complete difference in:
[1] 1 Ki 7:26, in that the 'sea' then, not in its fullness of capacity, 'contained two thousand baths'
[2] 2 Chr 4:5, in that the fullness of the capacity was that it "received and held three thousand baths".
1 Ki 7:26 refers to time when it was 2/3's full. 2 Chr refers to a time, when it was all the way full. You can think of it as two snapshots of a bathtub at two moments of time. One with not full, and the other with full. Are they contradictory? No. Please, do yourself a favour (really), stop reading men's commentaries which are filled with skepticism. Read God's word, and ask Him for the answer to your concerns. This so-called 'contradiction' is nothing of the sort.
I am also going to recommend a book by Peter S Ruckman (though there are some things I disagree with in it, it is still a useful resource tool),
The "ERRORS" of the King James Bible (PDF).
It is the same as Matthew, Mark and Luke's gospel of the possessed in the tombs. Matthew shows two men, and Mark and Luke speak of one of those two men. They are not in contradiction, but in harmony when all is laid out together.
I thought about spending time on writing about the numbers in the Old Testament, but if I did a full rendition, I would start my own thread.
It would be a waste of time. You have already been answered hundreds of times, in as many places by those who actually believe their Bible (KJB).
I don't "believe in" historical accounts.
Really? You have no 'belief' in an event that is simply recorded 400 yearish after the event (Alexander III death, etc by Plutarch) and no present witness, of either yourself, or another directly to that event? Tell me another lie ...
That's silly loaded language.
Not at all. Belief is required in the historical, and most especially to any event that you were not directly present for. Your statement is silly.
But the historical are filled with errors
The preserved word of God in English (KJB) has no errors in its words, as it so says, and is proven by itself having no errors. The word of the LORD is pure.
and are also written from a point of view and a purpose.
The Holy Ghost inspired every single word of the preserved word of God. You charge God with error. Beware, you are on very dangerous ground, for it is the same charge Lucifer gave, and the same charge the pharisees gave against Jesus.
This is where having developed reading comprehension skills is important.
If your present ability is any demonstration of the fullness of such 'skills', you would do better to cast all the nonsense aside and go to God upon your knees asking for true wisdom and knowledge. Paul did.
One of the most famous examples is Atlantis. A transcription error made the island way too large. The only option available was to place it in the Atlantic. Hence, how a transcription error caused and entire myth to form.
O man ... (you know all those meme's where there is a palm to the face?) This is that point of entry, however, I will spare us all from posting it.
I don't discount all historical value in the Old Testament.
Cute.
The oldest living tree I know of is is between 4,000-5,000 years old.
Based upon? Carbon, tree-ring, other? You trust that, but distrust the plain preserved words themselves? You do realize that in tree ring dating, that multiple rings per year occur, and sets of rings depending upon the climate, conditions, etc? Not exactly an exact science.
You mean you 'believe' based upon your standard rather than what God said.
flood should be somewhere around there. Some biologists claim older organisms
And some biologists claim 'aliens'. Mixed bag - 'biologists'.
but they determine the "age" of these older organisms by conjecture
You just told me 'I think'. That is conjecture based upon what you believe to be true. You are in the same boat as they are. you need to give up that position, and consider the real position. God cannot lie.
instead of something more reliable like tree rings. Pre-flood history is the more vague
Only if you disbelieve the Bible and come at it with skepticism, otherwise God told us plainly what happened, and not merely in the OT (and not just in Genesis, but in Psalms, Job, etc), but also in the NT.
Yes, you do seem to have a lot of that, and all of it based upon what 'you' think, based upon what you set as standard of criteria.
existed for much more than 5,000 years otherwise humans would have developed technology well past the Ark.
The Ark was just a giant barge. They did not need the things we use today. They had a much better memory capacity, near perfect minds, not degraded by all the thousands of years of genetic load. I will recommend a book -
Link
Read it along with the Bible, prayerfully.
