There seems to be a clear contradiction between two chapters of the Old Testament. In 2 Samuel chapter 24, it says that King David paid Araunah 50 shekels of silver for his land, while in 1 Chronicles chapter 24, King David gave Araunah 600 shekels of gold. These are two very different amounts of money! The sequence of events presented in 2 Samuel 24…
King David ordered a census to be done of the people in Israel and Judah. God’s anger burned against him and decided to punish him for it. Surprisingly, God gave David three scenarios to choose from to be carried out as his punishment. Here comes the issue—it seems as though the two verses that record this conversation between the prophet Gad and David contradict…
In Acts 1, the author tells how Jesus appeared to His disciples and others over a period of 40 days after His resurrection (Acts 1:3). At the end of this period, He ascended into heaven (Acts 1:9). However, some sceptics ask us to turn back to Luke 24, where there seems to be a contradiction. The events recorded in Luke 24 appear to have…
When Darwin’s theory of evolution came out, some theologians began suggesting that God used evolution to create, calling it Evolutionary Creation or Theistic Evolution. However, the history suggested by the evolutionary theory and the history we see in the Bible are not compatible. One thing to take into account is what is said in Genesis 1:31, “Then God looked over all He had made,…
