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1. The contradictions. Oh the contradictions. A book inspired by God should have no contradictions but the bible is filled with them. Consider, 2 Chronicles 36:9 says, “Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign and Second Kings 24:8 declares, Jehoiachin was 18 years old when he began to reign. This is often justified by saying the time of the reign is taken from different points. The problem is both verses say he ruled for 3 months. So you cant pick different points from his reign.
2. The original ‘Good News’ gospel that Jesus preached is not in the bible and is probably lost. What is in the bible is what people wrote what they thought had happened almost a century later. Of course those original writings don’t exist but what we have is their writings hundreds of years later in Greek and we believe the original (that we no longer have) went to a century later.
3. The earliest manuscipts we have are written in Greek. Not the language Jesus spoke (aramaic or hebrew).
4. There is no one bible, so what book do we mean when we say bible. These different versions are not differences in translations, they are versions, with blocks of texts, removed or added and books added or removed.
5. Many of the books were written by anonymous authors e.g. Mark, Matthew, Luke and John, were not apostles as many believe, they were anonymous authors who were given those names.
6. There are thousands of snippets of earliest manuscripts. You would expect this to back it up, but no two are the same.
7. The earliest complete versions of the bible, (sinitacus and vaticanus) are from the 4th century and are not the same as the current bible or each other.
