More Conflicts?! How we answer these?

[jprieto]

No need to answer each ..... but people are asking ...... and so am I

wow!


Answer: R01. In the OT Census, how many fighting men were found in Israel? 800,000 (2 Samuel 24:9) or 1,100,000 (1 Chronicles 21:5)?

Answer: R02. How many fighting men were found in Judah? 500,000 (2 Samuel 24:9) or 470,000 (1 Chronicles 21:5)?

Answer: R03. How old was Ahaziah when he began to rule over Jerusalem? 22 (2 Kings 8:26) or 42 (2 Chronicles 22:2)?

Answer: R04. How old wasJehoiachin when he became king of Jerusalem? 18 (2 Kings 24:8) or 8 (2 Chronicles 36:9)?

Answer: R05. How long did Jehoiachin rule over Jerusalem? 3 months (2 Kings 24:8) or 3 months and 10 days (2 Chronicles 36:9)?

Answer: R06. The chief of the mighty men of David lifted up his spear and killed how many men at one time? 800 (2 Samuel 23:8) or 300 (1 Chronicles 11:11)?

Answer: R07. How many pairs of clean animals did God tell Noah to take into the Ark? 2 (Genesis 6:19, 20) or 7 (Genesis 7:2)? But despite this last instruction only two pairs went into the ark (Genesis 7:8, 9).

Answer: R08. When David defeated the King of Zobah, how many horsemen did he capture? 1,700 (2 Samuel 8:4) or 7,000 (1 Chronicles 18:4)?

Answer: R09. How many stalls for horses did Solomon have? 40,000 (1 Kings 4:26) or 4,000 (2 Chronicles 9:25)?

Answer: R10. How many overseers did Solomon appoint for the work of building the temple? 3,600 (2 Chronicles 2:2) or 3,300 (1 Kings 5:16)?

Answer: R11. Solomon built a facility containing how many baths? 2,000 (1 Kings 7:26) or Over 3,000 (2 Chronicles 4:5)?

Answer: R12. Of the Israelites who were freed from the Babylonian captivity, how many were the children of Pahrath-Moab? 2,812 (Ezra 2:6) or 2,818 (Nehemiah 7:11)?

Answer: R13. How many were the children of Zattu? 945 (Ezra 2:8) or 845 (Nehemiah 7:13)?

Answer: R14. How many were the children of Azgad? 1,222 (Ezra 2:12) or 2,322 (Nehemiah 7:17)?

Answer: R15. How many were the children of Adin? 454 (Ezra 2:15) or 655 (Nehemiah 7:20)?

Answer: R16. How many were the children of Hashum? 223 (Ezra 2:19) or 328 (Nehemiah 7:22)?

Answer: R17. How many were the children of Bethel and Ai? 223 (Ezra 2:28) or 123 (Nehemiah 7:32)?

Answer: R18. Ezra 2:64 and Nehemiah 7:66 agree that the total number of the whole assembly was 42,360. Yet the numbers do not add up to anything close. The totals obtained from each book as follows: 29,818 (Ezra); 31, 089 (Nehemiah).

Answer: R19. How many singers accompanied the assembly? 200 (Ezra 2:65) 245 (Nehemiah 7:67)?

Answer: R20. When the Israelites dwelt in Shittim they committed adultery with the daughters of Moab. God struck them with a plague. How many people died in that plague? 24,000 (Numbers 25:1 and 9) or 23,000 (1 Corinthians 10:8)? How many members of the house of Jacob came to Egypt? (a) Seventy souls (Genesis 46:27). (b) Seventy-five souls (Acts 7:14).

Answer: R22. God decided that the lifespan of humans will be limited to 120 years (Genesis 6:3). Many people born after that lived longer than 120. Arpachshad lived 438 years. His son Shelah lived 433 years. His son Eber lived 464 years, etc. (Genesis 11:12-16)?

Answer: R23. How many generations were there from the Babylonian exile until Christ? Matthew says fourteen (Matthew 1:17), but a careful count of the generations reveals only thirteen (see Matthew 1:12-16).

Answer: R24. Where was Jesus at the sixth hour on the day of the crucifixion? On the cross (Mark 15:23) or in Pilate's court (John 19:14)?

 

[SolaSaint]

check Amazon.com for a book on difficult Bible passages, there are several books covering the issues. I'm sure most of the ones you mention have logical answers.

Just curious, are these questions from someone disputing the inerrancy of the bible?

 

[Scarlett O.]

Answer: R22. God decided that the lifespan of humans will be limited to 120 years (Genesis 6:3). Many people born after that lived longer than 120. Arpachshad lived 438 years. His son Shelah lived 433 years. His son Eber lived 464 years, etc. (Genesis 11:12-16)?

This one starts with a false statement. God did not decide that the lifespan of humans would be limited to 120 years in Genesis 6:3.


God was giving evil humanity 120 years before he sent the Great Flood.

Look at the context of Genesis 6.

Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them. ” But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.

It's not the individual age of individual people that was the problem. It was that humanity has become tainted and so evil that it was only going to become progressively worse unless God stopped it.

He gave them a time limit before He wiped them out. After the Great Flood, the climate changed and the atmospheric conditions that controlled the sun's radiation changes and people began to rapidly have lower life expectancies.

 

[Oldtimer]

Can you give a link to the site(s) that have this list of "conflicts"? There may already be a detailed rebuttal elsewhere. Thus, saving time and effort for all concerned.