The Bible Against Itself (Skeptic Exclusive) | Randel Helms

If you open up the Bible and read it straight through, you will notice two things that should not be true if it had been written as a coherent whole and with a single purpose: the Bible is quite repetitious the Bible frequently seems to contradict itself Readers have often ignored these contradictions, and apologists have long tried to reconcile them. Randel Helms chooses a third course — to understand the contradictions by looking at the cultural and historical factors that produced them. As Helms explains, “The Bible is a war-zone, and its authors are the combatants. Paul said of Peter, ‘I opposed him to his face, because he was clearly in the wrong (Gal. 2:11).’” Luke obviously felt that Mark’s gospel was filled with errors and edited it freely. Not even Mark’s account of the words of the dying Christ was left unaltered... The Bible Against Itself, published by Skeptics Society, reveals: how the author of Chronicles I & II white-washed earlier historical accounts of Saul, Dav