Author:
Wade A. Tisthammer
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Date Posted: 05/27/04 3:20pm
In reply to:
Duane
's message, "Really?" on 05/25/04 11:22am
>Jason:
>
>>Dear Forum Members and Readers,
>>
>>I pray you are well, today.
>
>Thanks.
>
>>Have you found an error in the Bible? Have you heard
>>an argument against the Bible's inerrancy that you
>>could not answer?
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>Exactly what kind of errors do you mean? Say, for
>example, in one part the bible says, "Duane ate 33
>cheeseburgers," and then in a different part, clearly
>talking about the same event says, "Duane ate 44
>cheeseburgers." (of course, neither I, nor
>cheeseburgers are in the bible - I only use this as an
>example of the type of error I'm talking about)
>
>I mean, this sounds like it could be attributed to a
>typo, or maybe miscommunication as the story was
>handed down, etc. My point is, do you consider this
>type of inconsistency acceptable? Or would there be
>an explanation required to show that there aren't two
>contradictory facts?
>
>Here's one:
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>2 Kings 8:26 says "Two and twenty years old was
>Ahaziah when he began to reign...", but 2 Chronicles
>22:2 says "Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he
>began to reign..."
>
>See what I mean?
Yes. While I'm not a believer in Biblical inerrancy, I think I should point out that a number of Syraic and Septuagint manuscripts actually have 22, not 42.
But in all fairness, this could reasonably be considered as a legitimate contradiction. What probably happened is that the copyist for 2 Chronicles mistakenly wrote the numeral letter for 40 instead of the one for 20 (since both of the Hebrew letters look pretty similar to each other). The age of 42 would actually make the king older than his father. In all probability the original manuscript of 2 Chronicles had 22. Still, because of the copyist error all the surviving Hebrew manuscripts now have 42. Could this be considered a legitimate contradiction? You be the judge.
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