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The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast

How to Evaluate Alleged Bible “Contradictions”

The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast

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Christianworldview, Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality, Christianapologetics, Forensicfaith, Colsoncenterforchristianworldview, Christian, Christianity, Evidenceforchristianity, Faithandreason, Godscrimescene, Coldcasechristianity, Apologetics, Society & Culture

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Broadcast, J. Warner describes several important principles to consider when evaluating alleged Bible “contradictions”. J. Warner uses the example of the sign over Jesus’ cross to demonstrate how these simple investigative principles can be employed to determine if Biblical passages are truly contradictory.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Cold Case Christianity broadcast, the only Christian case making program hosted by a Cold Case Homicide Detective.

0:07.6

Jay Warner Wallace has been investigating cold case murders in Los Angeles County for over a decade.

0:12.7

His work has been featured on Fox News, Court TV, and Dateline.

0:17.0

For more information about Jim's work and the case for Christianity, please visit coldcase

0:21.7

Christianity.com.

0:23.3

Now, here's your host, Jay Warner Wallace.

0:27.5

Welcome back to Cold Case Christianity.

0:29.4

I'm Jay Warner Wallace.

0:30.7

Now, this week, we're going to tackle something that I think a lot of us, if you've been

0:35.0

a Christian for any period of time at all, you probably had questions related to the alleged contradictions or variations or conflicts that you might

0:45.7

see in the New Testament or in the Old Testament, places where one passage of scripture say

0:50.9

out of the Gospel of Mark, when describing the same event that's described by the Gospel of Luke or John or Matthew,

0:57.0

appears to be somewhat different. And how do you navigate these alleged contradictions?

1:02.0

A lot of times these are offered by critics or skeptics of Christianity as evidence that these are unreliable texts,

1:09.0

that they are not reporting something the same way,

1:12.6

so therefore they ought to be, how do we know what's true?

1:14.6

How do you know what's true when you've got two accounts of the same event in Scripture

1:18.6

that seem to be even significantly different?

1:20.6

Well, we're going to talk about that in today's broadcast, just how we might navigate,

1:26.6

how do you deal with alleged Bible contradictions?

1:30.3

And there's a couple ways we could approach this. I've written about this extensively at coldcase

1:35.0

Christianity.com. As a matter of fact, I want to point you to an article called 10 principles

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