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There are no contradictions in the Bible.  Those who make these claims are confused, uninformed, or else deceptive.  Sometimes, it is a little of each.  Perhaps they don't know what a contradiction is.

A contradiction says, "At the same time and in the same relationship, two mutually exclusive propositions are both true."   That is a contradiction.  However, the Bible does not have any such thing.  A contradiction says: "at the same time and in the same relationship, both A and not A are true."  The law of non-contradiction says that it is impossible to have this: "at the same time and in the same relationship, both A and not A are true."

There is a kind of logic that is being taught in the colleges and universities, "both and logic," that does teach contradiction.  No one can live by this type of logic.  When you step off the curb, look both ways; it's either you or the bus; it cannot be both.  The Bible presents no such logic as "both and" logic.  The Bible has no examples of contradiction.

You can go out onto the Internet or look at many books or sit in many university classrooms where examples will be given, and claims will be made that there are contradictions in the Bible.  Often, these claims of examples of so called contradictions will seem, on the surface, to be valid claims.  When you look more closely, though, you will find that they are not contradictions.  Often, they are not at the same time, so they are not contradictions.  In other cases, they are not in the same relationship, so they are not contradictions.  At still other times, they are not really mutually exclusive, as in the case of free will and predestination.  The Bible has many examples that prove the God is almighty, and a person who assumes that God is not almighty or who puts a limit on God will have trouble understanding these examples.  That does not make these examples contradictions.

So, there are no contradictions in the Bible.  There are just people who want to do what they want to do.  People who do not want to obey God will make up any excuse.