I refer to the list of Biblical Inconsistencies that you have displayed. The Bible has no inconsistencies. God does not lie. If you would oblige me, you will reply to me at town007@hotmail.com. I would love to show you how the things that you have listed are not actually mistakes. If you do not reply, I will take this to mean that your argument is feeble and that you can not back it up.
Thank you for your time and discussion. God bless you.

-DM-

Regarding your feedback to my article <a href="http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/donald_morgan/inconsistencies.html" target="_blank">Biblical Inconsistencies</a>, it should be obvious that, to some extent at least, what is and is not an inconsistency is a matter of opinion. If you believe that the Bible is without inconsistency, then you obviously are less exacting than I am in terms of what you see as an inconsistency.

To me, it seems quite obvious that when one Bible verse says, for example, that those present with Paul at his so-called conversion heard a voice but saw no one (AC 9:7) and another verse says that they saw a light but did not hear a voice (AC 22:9), or one Bible verse says that they stood (AC 9:7) while another verse says that they fell to the ground (AC 26:14) -- there is an inconsistency involved. If you feel otherwise, so be it.

I wonder, however, if you would feel the same way about what I allege to be inconsistencies in the Book of Mormon and in the Koran, inconsistencies which Mormons and Muslims, respectively, deny, of course? My guess is that -- like me -- you would agree that those two books do indeed contain genuine inconsistencies and yet you would likely continue to allow yourself to believe that the Bible does not, justifying the application of different criteria by which the different books would be judged.

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Regarding your claim that "God" does not lie. I am inclined to agree with you, "God" does not lie; "He" does not lie because "He" -- like any other nonexistent entity -- does nothing at all.

Of course the two questions: does "God" exist and (if so) does "He" lie?, are really irrelevant, the way that I see it, to the question of whether the Bible does or does not contain inconsistencies. The fact that a god existed would not necessarily imply anything whatsoever about the presence or absence of inconsistencies in the Bible -- unless, perhaps, one were to take the fundamentalist approach and claim that the Bible is the complete, perfect, inspired, and plenary work of a perfect and omnipotent "God"; in THAT case, I would tend to agree that we should expect to find no inconsistencies in such a Bible. Of course the obvious implication here, at least to me, would be that a perfect and omnipotent "God" could have, should have, and would have done a better job of it had "He" anything to do with the writing of "His Word" (as some claim the Bible to be).

Frog bless you,
--Don--

P.S. In reply to your challenge, I'll pose one of my own: unless you respond to every response that is made to your post by our users in the Biblical Archaeology & Criticism (where I have copied your post), I will take this to mean that your argument is feeble and that you cannot back it up.

HelenM

Evidently so

Kosh

Please post a point by point reply here so that
your ministry may reach as many of us heathens
as possible.

BTW, which of the apologists will you be using
for your substance?

Muad'Dib

In order to respond, you will need to <a href="http://ii-f.ws/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=agree" target="_blank">register</a> a username here.

TollHouse

LOL! This reminds me of an episode of the Simpsons where Homer was praying to god:

Homer: In gratitude, I present you this offering of cookies and milk. If you want me to eat them for you, please give me no sign.

&lt;silence&gt;

Homer: Thy will be done.

&lt;Homer eats the cookies and milk&gt;

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Wyvern

Is anyone going to reply to the e-mail he provided and tell him that we are ready for conversion?

Kosh

Be my guest. I prefer not to give my email
to fundies....

Wyvern

Touche'

-DM-

BTW, I did e-mail him my response and told him where to reply (here, in this forum).

--Don--