Supostas contradições bíblicas

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Supostas contradições bíblicas são declarações na Bíblia que parecem estar em conflito. Os ateus e anticriacionistas freqüentemente usam tais conflitos aparentes para rejeitar as afirmações dos apologistas bíblicos. Ironicamente, isso é realizado com mais frequência do que não por meio de uma postura literal de exegese, que incentiva a dispensa de importância contextual. A fabricação de erros, contradições e discrepâncias no texto bíblico torna a Bíblia imprecisa e indigna de confiança como um documento histórico.

Histórias da Criação

A criação de animais é descrita de forma diferente nos dois primeiros capítulos de Gênesis. De acordo com a forma como algumas traduções são lidas, os animais foram criados antes de Adão em Genesis 1 , e então quando Adão já está presente em Genesis 2 .

A linguagem real não é contraditória, embora o estilo da narrativa às vezes seja mal interpretado. A Bíblia fala da criação das criaturas vivas e de Adão no 6º dia Genesis 1:24-27 . No próximo capítulo, o autor reconta em detalhes a história de Adão e Eva. Deus traz os animais (que ele já criou) na frente de Adão para que ele selecione um ajudante. Adão os nomeou, mas nenhum ajudante adequado foi encontrado. Então Deus criou Eva. Genesis 2:19-22

The confusion comes in that in the retelling of Chapter 2 (commonly known as a 'flashback' in modern scriptwriting), the author first quotes God as saying "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him", and then revisits the fact that animals were created. The Hebrew word used in the original texts in this verse is the Hebrew yatsar in the wayyiqtol or waw consecutive form wayyitser, which translates correctly in context to the English pluperfect "had formed", according to Keil & Delitzsch and Leupold. More modern translations, such as the NIV, use the correct verb tense, but the myth of a contradiction is perpetuated by the existence of unrevised editions of the KJV translation of 1611, which just has the word "formed", i.e. plain past tense, as the English translation of yatsar.

Predefinição:Bible quote

The two accounts are not separate but complementary. The actual chronological creation account is from Genesis 1:1 to Genesis 2:3.

Verse 4 of chapter 2 goes into the "account of the heavens," "in the day that the LORD God made earth and heaven," or the third day of creation. After the creation account (Gen. 1:1-2:3), Moses gives some more detail about the third day: "no shrub of the field was yet in the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted," because "the LORD God had not sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground."

To recap, Predefinição:Bible ref are speaking about the third day of creation in a bit more detail. Then, at Predefinição:Bible ref, the narrative goes further into the sixth day of creation, when God created man.

First Light

Some people claim a contradiction related to the creation of light. God created light on the first day, but did not create the sun and stars until day four.

Day 1 Predefinição:Bible quote

Day 4 Predefinição:Bible quote

But humans are quite capable of creating light by various means (with fire, electrically, and chemically), and there is no reason to believe that an omnipotent God could not create light independently of the heavenly bodies. The fact that the Bible doesn't record the source of the pre-solar light is irrelevant.

Something to keep in mind when considering these passages about light is that visible light only comprises a portion of the entire wide spectrum of light, or electromagnetic energy. Light consists of photons, and we refer to infrared and ultraviolet as "light", but the spectrum extends beyond ultraviolet and infrared into X-rays, gamma rays, microwaves, radar, and so on.

People have proposed a number of possible sources of light:

1. Invention vs. Application - some interpret the activities on day one to be those of an inventor who developed the reactions to produce light. Then on day 4 that invention was applied to the creation of the solar bodies that provide light today.
2. Universe Was Filled With Light - Cosmologists working with 'Big Bang' calculations indicate that a massive presence of photons would have crossed the entirety of the universe during the initial seconds of universal expansion. This would in fact have 'lit up' the entire universe, all at once. "...and there was light."
3. Sonoluminescence - Sonoluminescence is the process by which acoustic energy is turned into light. This is done by introducing a frequency to water while an air bubble is present. The light produced actually comes from this bubble. Light could have been accomplished this way during the creation week when the earth was just a sphere of water before land appeared.
4. The Light Came From God - God is often referred to as light. And because light that comes from God would be eternal just like God, it would know no bounds of time and could travel to the ends of space instantly.

External Links

• Bible Contradictions
• Answering a List of Biblical Contradictions, A Reply to "A List of Biblical Contradictions", by James Patrick Holding, Tekton Apologetics Ministries
• 101 Cleared up Contradictions in the Bible, by Jay Smith, Alex Chowdhry, Toby Jepson, and James Schaeffer, Protestant Apologetics and Theology page
• Hallway of Questions, by Glenn M. Miller, The Christian ThinkTank
• Bible Difficulties, by Matthew J. Slick, for Christian Apologetics Research Ministry
• Isn’t the Bible Full of Errors? by Paul F. Taylor for Answers Magazine
• Six Literal Days or Six Long Time Periods: What Do the Scriptures Teach, link page compiled by Randy S. Berg, for The Age of the Earth
• Atheopathy vs Science: Refuting New Scientist's agitprop about evolution (Bible "contradictions") by Jonathan Sarfati, Creation Ministries International