Biblical Contradictions: Question#1

[Aqueous Id]

Texts don't infer (nor imply) anything - people do.

Which is why it is so revealing to check one's intentions, esp. when it comes to reading and critiquing scriptures.

The question asks whether it's a contradiction. The negative are using an argument that formulates an explanation that rephrases the original cite.

When such efforts are made to preserve the literal meaning (or revised semi-metaphorical recasting of phraseology to preserve it), the focus shifts away from doctrine and belief, and toward a ritualized behavior commonly associated with fundamentalism, namely, to effectively enshrine literalism as if it were the fourth person in a Holy Tetrarchy.

It should be sufficiently revealing, just by checking fundamentalist textual analysis, that the intention is to preserve literalism.

 

[Aqueous Id]

Christians,

Please explain the following:

"With God all things are possible" - Matthew 19:26

"And the Lord was with Judah; and he drove out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron." - Judges 1:19

So, with God all things are NOT possible...?

The other explanation is that it's one of many literary clues found all throughout the Bible, which reveal seams where various threads of documentation were spliced together, or sections were redacted, or any of a dozen or more anomalies completely ignored by the literalist, who regards this kind analysis as an attack on belief, and therefore to be vilified.

Because anyone who ever wants to get to the bottom of the contradictions in the Bible will eventually need to understand the criticism, which is at best a scientific treatment of the document(s) -- a necessary guide for translation, without which you might as well assign any meaning you want to any of the text, because without the correct translation, all you can hope for is gibberish.

 

[Aqueous Id]

Matthew was a false prophet according to Knowledge91, I just debunked the bible. I really believe this.

And this is gibberish of the 3rd kind.

 

[HectorDecimal]

Try reading it in context:

"17And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they slew the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. And the name of the city was called Hormah. 18Also Judah took Gaza with the coast thereof, and Askelon with the coast thereof, and Ekron with the coast thereof. 19And the LORD was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron. " -Judges 1:17-19​

"he" is obviously a reference to Judah, as the context is all about what Judah did, not god directly.

This would have been part of my answer also, still, because the OP included the statement "So... with God ALL things are NOT possible?"

I'd add this:

Sometimes God says "No." We pray for something. God usually gives exactly what we pray for. Sometimes He gives us what we really need. Other times He simply won't do it. Other times, fo rinstance if we ask God for strength, He sends us a lot of hard work.

Yes. With God (and sometimes even without Him) all things are possible. Some things are not LIKELY though. One of my Methodist ministers told me, probably 30 years ago, "With God you can move a mountain, but you have to bring your own shovel."

Maybe all those iron chariots, which likely were more akin to tanks, were in a field of marijuana and by the time Judah got there they were all so stoned they couldn't mess with it. I'd tend to think those guys in the tanks would be handy little farmers to have around...

 

[garbonzo]

So in effect god is powerless to do anything, to help, because of his own rule, of not being nosey.

And Judah failed because god said.
"hi Judah you have a battle tomorrow, But I cant tell you whether you will win or lose"

"but god I'm doing this because you wish it, If I lose I don't do your bidding"

"yes bummer ain't it, I'm powerless to do anything either way, (my ruling) I.E. making sure you win or helping you win."

"So god your a bit of a Bas***d then, you can help but you won't"

"er er well yes, if you put it like that."

So my post 15 is correct, god is powerless either way.

Someone should create that into a comic. I was laughing my ass off, lol.

But the point remains. God wouldn't have to look into the future in order to see the outcome of war. He is Almighty and can make you win for sure. The reason why Judah couldn't defeat the chariots was because God didn't want them to drive out the inhabitants, yet. Evangelicals will say.

 

[wynn]

So in effect god is powerless to do anything, to help, because of his own rule, of not being nosey.

And Judah failed because god said.
"hi Judah you have a battle tomorrow, But I cant tell you whether you will win or lose"

"but god I'm doing this because you wish it, If I lose I don't do your bidding"

"yes bummer ain't it, I'm powerless to do anything either way, (my ruling) I.E. making sure you win or helping you win."

"So god your a bit of a Bas***d then, you can help but you won't"

"er er well yes, if you put it like that."

So my post 15 is correct, god is powerless either way.

Ha! This is ten ways wrong, at least!