Re: So-Called Bible "Contradictions" Explained! -
05-08-2012, 05:30 PM
The census of David. In this so-called contradiction in 2 Sam 24 God tells David to conduct a census. In 1 Chron. 21 it is Satan who tempts David into the census.
2 Samuel 24:1 And again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.
1 Chronicles 21:1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
This one is so easy to explain away. Clearly God and Satan were working together again like they did in the book of Job.
Many times God gives people up, so they'll no longer do the right thing. He leaves them as easy pickings for Satan. That is clearly what has happened here.
God didn't actually tempt David, since we know that God cannot tempt people to do evil.
James 1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
God simply withdraws His presence and that naturally causes them to be evil, since we all know that no one cannot be good without God's presence. Without God we would all be running around sodomizing everyone we see. This is evidenced by Romans 1.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Once again, DUH God haters!
Christians are superior because we possess an understanding that unbelievers lack. It is through the Power of Jesus only the converted mind is able to understand what is going on in the world; what the Communists are really up to; what Satan's intentions are. Most unbelievers do not even believe in Satan and cannot understand his tactics.
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