Why there are contradictions in Gospels ?
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You are a very smart person, just like I was when I was young.  I also saw that the bible was the words of men about God.  And much was true, even wonderful and enlightening, especially the words of Christ.\n\nBut I found similar discrepancies.\n\nIf something happens and several different people tell about it, you will never get the exact same story.  Focus on the agreement, there is truth...\n\nAs for the full details..  How would you like to hear from the angels and other eye-witnesses?\n\nHave you found or looked at this source yet?\n\nhttp://www.urantia.org/papers/toc.html\n\nTake a close look at the authors of the various papers.\n\nGod works in the world today just as in olden times and is generous about sharing the truth.\n\nI also have a blog, written by such a person as yourself, though I am now much older.\n\nIt is a final thing that I am giving to the world.  My last words have to be the best ones I can share, wouldn't you think so?\n\nhttp://www.360.yahoo.com/ki_te_moana\ngo to first blog entry\n\nhttp://www.spaces.msn.com/up-escalator\ngo to the first blog entry\n\nThere are pointers starting there that will NEVER run out for the remainder of your life, even for all eternity.\n\nIf the seeing lead the seeing shall they not all make continual progress into greater light and life?\n\n(we all know about the blind and the ditch)
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The Bible has changed quite a bit over time and by different people.  It would be easy to switch one or two words around and get a completely different meaning.\nI would suggest you try looking at different Bibles and see the differences.  Maybe an older version might not have had that in it.\nThat line sounds to me like Jesus was justifying the Crusade, which I highly doubt he would have.
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No, there are no contradictions in the Bible. \nIn Isaiah 7:14, Immanuel means "God is with his people"\nIn Matthew 1:25 Jesus fulfills that name because he is God and was born in Israel. God is with his people- Jesus fulfilled it.
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As I am Jewish, I find a lot of contradictions in Christians. And narrow minded ideals, which is also a contradiction, as Jesus taught the exact OPPOSITE of that sort of behaviour. So forgive me, but you goyim just confuse the hell out of me.
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It contradicts nothing,The Bible is a instructional book,This story\nwas to teach US God is first in all things.
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No. But then i dont believe in anything Christian either. \n\nThe Gospel of Judas shows that the gospels were written not about historical facts, but from the theology of the authors. If a gospel author believed something, he wrote a story to 'prove' what he believed. The author of the gospel of Judas believed Judas was doing the will of Jesus, so he wrote a story to 'prove' it. The same is true with the other gospels in the Christians' New Testament.
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yeah, go to dictionary.com and look up 'contradiction'
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An oxymoron or a contradiction
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Another inherent contradiction found in all religions. \n\nP.S. - this answer gets me to Level 4.  Woo Hoo!
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More proof that the Bible is contradictory.
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I'm not a Christian but I have read the bible (I was bored). \nThe Bible is full of contradictions like thou shalt not kill, an eye for an eye, turn the other cheek, etc. \nI know one story in there mentions when King Herod ordered the murder of every first born son (or child, I can't remember)because he was trying to kill Baby Jesus. Maybe this had something to do with it?
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Some have exploited these statements to argue their point that the Bible is unreliable or untruthful.\n\nBut, in a court judges WILL NOT BELIEVE statements by witnesses that are TOO PERFECT--without any minor inconcistencies. The judge's conclusion would always be that these statements--even under cross examination--were made up, or were too good to be true.\n\nIn reading contracts and law--w/c by the way the Bible is--we look for other provisions of these documents to really understand the whole thing.\n\nHere is a simplistic example:\n\nStatement (1): "Mike is fat".\nStatement (2): "Mike is thin".\nStatement (3): "When Mike was a kid he got sick with polio which severely affected his feet".\n\nIf you read only statements 1, and 2 you will conclude that these are really contradictory--or inconsistent--statements. But Statement (3) gives a clarification.\n\nSo, the correct conclusion considering Statement no. 3 is: "Mike is a fat man with thin legs". Agree, or disagree?\n\nNow let's go back to the 2 examples in question. Godshew(?) was correct. The case about God's warning to Adam, and his age could be reconciled. According to the apostle Peter's statement--a clarificatory one--1,000 years is just like 1 day to God. So, when Adam died at the age of 930, he died within one day in God's own time frame. \n\nAgain, Jesus did not contradict himself when he said that he and the father are one; and that the father is greater than he is. The apostle John was the one who wrote these statements and so he is the one in the better position to explain this (just like a witness in court). In John 17:20-22 he explains that the father, the son--including the disciples--are one in purpose, one in work, one in mind. \n\nFurther, if you will read John 10:25-33--and NOT just isolate John 10:30--then you will immediately notice that Jesus did not claim to be of equal power, or might, than his father. He and the Father are one in deeds (or works). Ps. read the account carefully.\n\nYou know what the problem is? some try to suit Biblical verses according to their beliefs--just like the ungodly trinity--and not suit their beliefs to what the Bible says.\n\nThis in turn is exploited by those eager to insist that the Bible is really unreliable.\n\nHope this helped a lot of people examine their Bibles closely.
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Matt 8:1-4 with Mark 1:40-44 and Luke 5:12-14\n\nMatt 8:5-13 with Luke 7:1-10\n\nMatt 8:14-16 with Mark 1:29-34 and Luke 4:38-41\n\nMatt 8:23-27 with Mark 4:36-41 and Luke 8:22-25\n\nMatt 8:28-34 with Mark 5:1-17 and Luke 8:26-37\n\nMatt 9:2-8 with Mark 2:3-12 and Luke 5:18-26\n\nAnd so forth.  I could give you more if you'd like, but that's a good start.  I would highly recommend the following book if you want to read a good harmony of the four gospels:  http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/080105642X/sr=8-1/qid=1151672321/ref=sr_1_1/002-7382174-0458408?ie=UTF8\n\nHope that helps!\n\nPS-I was assuming you were wanting examples of parallel accounts of the miracles of Jesus in the synoptic gospels.  You can read what others wrote if you want to know what the synoptic gospels are and why they are similar.
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nope. there are quite a few false "gospels" that different sects like the gnostics wrote that are not in accordance with the rest of the Bible. its interesting historically and teaches us more about these sects, but it doesnt mean that it was ever part of maintstream Christianity or that its true. the gospel of judas sounds like pretty typical gnostic stuff- the flesh is bad, the spirit is good, judas was helping Jesus get rid of the bad flesh, only certain special people get special knowledge... nothing particularly new, just dealing with judas.
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You answered your own question.  God would never contradict Himself, therefore, the book could not have come from Him.\n\nIt is a good rule to compare things said to be of God with the Bible.  If they don't agree 100% with the Bible, then they are not from God.
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:]\nThe copy of the Gospel of Judas was in Egyptian, therefore a copy from the original language (Greek). It is a single manuscript copied about 300AD, the only other knowledge that we have of its existence is that one of the Church fathers spoke against the veracity of a book by the same claimed author in 160 AD.\nIt's amazing to me that the same people who doubt the New Testament (24000 ancient manuscripts) would jump to accept this.\nWe know that Judas died in about 33 ad and would probably not have had enough time or the mental and emotional stability to write anything like a new gospel in the short time he lived after the events (included in that gospel) regarding the death of  Christ.\nWhat we have is a single manuscript, in the wrong language, dating to more than 250 years after the death of the claimed   author. a denial of it veracity and tons of scriptural evidence against it, and the integrity of it's alleged author\nsome prefer to suspect that the holy spirit made a significant error of omission in assembling the word that Jesus had promised would be sure and would pass away even if heaven and earth did.\nNo I relegate it to the same shelf of malarkey as i do the other gospels (Thomas, Phillip, Barnabas, Mary and any others )
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It is rarly debated among the well informed scientific and historical community about the existance of Jesus because it is an issue that has been resolved and mutualy agreed upon that he did infact exhist. There are many debates about what he did, but his existance remains virtually unquestioned.