Translation inconsistencies to ponder

[geoff]

GE 1:3-5 On the first day, God created light, then separated light and darkness. GE 1:14-19 The sun (which separates night and day) wasn't created until the fourth day.

GE 1:11-12, 26-27 Trees were created before man was created. GE 2:4-9 Man was created before trees were created.

GE 1:20-21, 26-27 Birds were created before man was created. GE 2:7, 19 Man was created before birds were created.

GE 1:24-27 Animals were created before man was created. GE 2:7, 19 Man was created before animals were created.

GE 1:26-27 Man and woman were created at the same time. GE 2:7, 21-22 Man was created first, woman sometime later.

GE 1:28 God encourages reproduction. LE 12:1-8 God requires purification rites following childbirth which, in effect, makes childbirth a sin. (Note: The period for purification following the birth of a daughter is twice that for a son.)

GE 1:31 God was pleased with his creation. GE 6:5-6 God was not pleased with his creation. (Note: That God should be displeased is inconsistent with the concept of omniscience.)

GE 2:4, 4:26, 12:8, 22:14-16, 26:25 God was already known as "the Lord" (Jahveh or Jehovah) much earlier than the time of Moses. EX 6:2-3 God was first known as "the Lord" (Jahveh or Jehovah) at the time of the Egyptian Bondage, during the life of Moses.

GE 2:17 Adam was to die the very day that he ate the forbidden fruit. GE 5:5 Adam lived 930 years.

GE 2:15-17, 3:4-6 It is wrong to want to be able to tell good from evil. HE 5:13-14 It is immature to be unable to tell good from evil.

GE 4:4-5 God prefers Abel's offering and has no regard for Cain's. 2CH 19:7, AC 10:34, RO 2:11 God shows no partiality. He treats all alike.

GE 4:9 God asks Cain where his brother Able is. PR 15:3, JE 16:17, 23:24-25, HE 4:13 God is everywhere. He sees everything. Nothing is hidden from his view.

GE 4:16 Cain went away (or out) from the presence of the Lord. JE 23:23-24 A man cannot hide from God. God fills heaven and earth.

GE 6:4 There were Nephilim (giants) before the Flood. GE 7:21 All creatures other than Noah and his clan were annihilated by the Flood. NU 13:33 There were Nephilim after the Flood.

GE 6:6. EX 32:14, NU 14:20, 1SA 15:35, 2SA 24:16 God does change his mind. NU 23:19-20, IS 15:29, JA 1:17 God does not change his mind.

GE 6:19-22, 7:8-9, 7:14-16 Two of each kind are to be taken, and are taken, aboard Noah's Ark. GE 7:2- 5 Seven pairs of some kinds are to be taken (and are taken) aboard the Ark.

GE 7:1 Noah was righteous. JB 1:1,8, JB 2:3 Job was righteous. LK 1:6 Zechariah and Elizabeth were righteous. JA 5:16 Some men are righteous, (which makes their prayers effective). 1JN 3:6-9 Christians become righteous (or else they are not really Christians). RO 3:10, 3:23, 1JN 1:8-10 No one was or is righteous.

GE 7:7 Noah and his clan enter the Ark. GE 7:13 They enter the Ark (again?).

GE 11:7-9 God sows discord. PR 6:16-19 God hates anyone who sows discord.

GE 11:9 At Babel, the Lord confused the language of the whole world. 1CO 4:33 Paul says that God is not the author of confusion.

GE 11:12 Arpachshad [Arphaxad] was the father of Shelah. LK 3:35-36 Cainan was the father of Shelah. Arpachshad was the grandfather of Shelah.

[Richard McFarland]

geoff,

Thank you for using the term "Translation Inconsistancies" rather than "contridictions." I have heard and read so many times of the Holy Bible "contridicting" itself and have researched some of these "contridictions" and have never found validity.

I apologise to all for the length of this post but for me this has been a wonderful study and time of meditation. I do not have answers, only what I feel is possible in these Translation Inconsistancies. The Holy Bible is such a wonderful book with the Word of God Himself written there for all to see and understand as the Lord wills. Consider this Holy Book took more than 5000 years to write, re-discover, translate, compile and approve and we can see where some minor inconsistancies might develop. None of these have changed the Will, Word or Way of God!

GE 1:3-5 On the first day, God created light, then separated light and darkness. GE 1:14-19 The sun (which separates night and day) wasn't created until the fourth day.

The sun does not separate night from day. The sun is day and the lessor light night. When God said "Let there be light," we must not assume the light was from the sun...

GE 1:11-12, 26-27 Trees were created before man was created. GE 2:4-9 Man was created before trees were created.

Genesis 1, a synopsis of the first 6 days of creation? Genesis 2, a more detailed account of man's creation and the creation of the Garden? God created man and woman on the 6th day after the trees were created. In the garden, God PLACED man and PLANTED trees. I see no inconsistency.

GE 1:20-21, 26-27 Birds were created before man was created. GE 2:7, 19 Man was created before birds were created.

More detail on the Genesis 1 synopsis theory? These birds were created before man was created but not yet in the Garden. Perhaps God brought them to Adam as stated in verse (Genesis 2:19) to be named?

GE 1:24-27 Animals were created before man was created. GE 2:7, 19 Man was created before animals were created.

Possibly the same situation as above?

GE 1:26-27 Man and woman were created at the same time. GE 2:7, 21-22 Man was created first, woman sometime later.

This has been an unanswered question of my own for many years. When God created man, male and female in is own image (Genesis 1:27) He said to them in 1:28, And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
The man (Adam) was created for the Garden and into his nostrils was the the Breath of Life given, Adam became the first "Living Soul." The woman "Eve" was created from Adam for Adam. When the man and woman were ejected from Paradise to till the soil themselves and began to produce children, (boys) who did these boys who became men marry? Was it into the mankind God had created before the garden and then all mankind became living souls?
This is a mystery of Faith to be revealed if ever in God's time. I like to use this to keep myself reminded that we are unable to understand all things and all things must be accepted in Faith. Questions are good up to a point, they must needs cease before they weaken our Faith.

GE 1:28 God encourages reproduction. LE 12:1-8 God requires purification rites following childbirth which, in effect, makes childbirth a sin. (Note: The period for purification following the birth of a daughter is twice that for a son.)

Childbirth is not a sin. Uncleanness is a sin. The purification rites after childbirth are from Leviticus 15, also dealing with menstruating women, masturbation (nocternal sexual dreams?) and leprosy.

GE 1:31 God was pleased with his creation. GE 6:5-6 God was not pleased with his creation. (Note: That God should be displeased is inconsistent with the concept of omniscience.)

God was pleased with His creation but not with what His creation had become. Omniscient - ADJECTIVE: Having total knowledge; knowing everything: an omniscient deity. Our all knowing God might be very displeased, especially with the foreknowledge of the future for mankind. Yet he knew also He would find many who would lovingly and willingly love Him in return.

GE 2:4, 4:26, 12:8, 22:14-16, 26:25 God was already known as "the Lord" (Jahveh or Jehovah) much earlier than the time of Moses. EX 6:2-3 God was first known as "the Lord" (Jahveh or Jehovah) at the time of the Egyptian Bondage, during the life of Moses.

Moses is considered by most Biblical Scholars and Historians as the writer of Genesis. Considering Moses as the writer then it might stand to reason he would use the name for God, “the Lord” which was given to him by God Himself.

GE 2:17 Adam was to die the very day that he ate the forbidden fruit. GE 5:5 Adam lived 930 years.

True. Adam was marked for death from when he ate of the tree. There was death that day of the animals for coats of skins for clothing for them. Death = sacrifice = atonement, forgiveness for sin. Adam's death was postponed and his sin forgiven by sacrifice.

GE 2:15-17, 3:4-6 It is wrong to want to be able to tell good from evil. HE 5:13-14 It is immature to be unable to tell good from evil.

Before man discovered the knowledge of good and evil this was true. (Genesis 2:15-17) Once we discovered the knowledge of good and evil this is even more so (Hebrews 5:13,14) so that we may see the evil and make the right choices in our lives.

GE 4:4-5 God prefers Abel's offering and has no regard for Cain's. 2CH 19:7, AC 10:34, RO 2:11 God shows no partiality. He treats all alike.

With identical offerings would God have treated Cain any different from Abel? Acts 10:33 "because thou hast done well..." Romans 2:11 For there is no respect of persons with God. (IF) (Romans 2:10) But glory, honor, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:

GE 4:9 God asks Cain where his brother Able is. PR 15:3, JE 16:17, 23:24-25, HE 4:13 God is everywhere. He sees everything. Nothing is hidden from his view.

Cain's character and honesty were being tested here. Cain comes from parents that failed God and tried to hide in the Garden from Him.

GE 4:16 Cain went away (or out) from the presence of the Lord. JE 23:23-24 A man cannot hide from God. God fills heaven and earth.

There are millions if not billions on the earth who are away or out from the presence of God this day. God knows where they might be at all times but their Spirit is not near Him and His not with them. It is away or out from the presence of God. God knows if I am in a bar drinking my life away. But I would be out of His presence.

GE 6:4 There were Nephilim (giants) before the Flood. GE 7:21 All creatures other than Noah and his clan were annihilated by the Flood. NU 13:33 There were Nephilim after the Flood.

My dad is 6 ft. tall. I am 5ft 1in. Genetics played a part in human shape and size from the birth of Cain...

GE 6:6. EX 32:14, NU 14:20, 1SA 15:35, 2SA 24:16 God does change his mind. NU 23:19-20, IS 15:29, JA 1:17 God does not change his mind.

Exodus 32:14 And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people. No change of mind. A regret of a thought. Numbers 14:20 And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word. Pardoned (forgave) at the request of Moses. 1 Samuel 15:35 ..and the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel. God was sorry for what He had done in making Saul king but this did not mean he changed His mind for a do over. 2 Samuel 24:16 ... the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. David was offered a choice of punishments by the Lord and David left the matter to the Lord. The Lord punished Israel by killing 70 thousand people before he stopped. Hardly a change of mind on the part of God. God never said he would wipe Israel out. 24:15 So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: Numbers 23:20 Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it. These are the words of Balaam. Not of God. 1 Samuel 15:29 And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent. Meaning God has no need to lie or change his mind or repent. But He has repented for our sakes many times over. James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. There is no variableness in the good gifts. What God has promised He shall deliver. God does not have to change his mind or repent of his actions but his heart is of the utmost mercy. Mankind has so many chances because of God's mercy.

GE 6:19-22, 7:8-9, 7:14-16 Two of each kind are to be taken, and are taken, aboard Noah's Ark. GE 7:2- 5 Seven pairs of some kinds are to be taken (and are taken) aboard the Ark.

Genesis7:2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. This was the order of the beasts taken into the Ark.

GE 7:1 Noah was righteous. JB 1:1,8, JB 2:3 Job was righteous. LK 1:6 Zechariah and Elizabeth were righteous. JA 5:16 Some men are righteous, (which makes their prayers effective). 1JN 3:6-9 Christians become righteous (or else they are not really Christians). RO 3:10, 3:23, 1JN 1:8-10 No one was or is righteous.

Genesis 6:8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. This made Noah righteous. Job 1:1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil. This life made Job righteous. Job 2:3 And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause. Job remained perfect and upright through tribulation. This kept Job righteous. Luke 1:6 Zechariah and Elizabeth were righteous because they walked before God “in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.”

GE 7:7 Noah and his clan enter the Ark. GE 7:13 They enter the Ark (again?).

Maybe again this chapter is written in an “Outline and Detail” style of storytelling.

GE 11:7-9 God punishes man for being high minded PR 6:16-19 God hates anyone who sows discord.

God punished man for being high so minded that man thought himself as reaching God without service, keeping commandments or worship. God hates anyone who sows discord among His brotheren because His brotheren are His people. The tower was for a name for the people and not to glorify the lord God

GE 11:9 At Babel, the Lord confused the language of the whole world. 1CO 4:33 Paul says that God is not the author of confusion.

Genesis 11:9 At Babel, the Lord confused the language of the whole world. (the LORD did there confound the language) for being high minded. 1 Corinthians 14:33nFor God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

GE 11:12 Arpachshad [Arphaxad] was the father of Shelah. LK 3:35-36 Cainan was the father of Shelah. Arpachshad was the grandfather of Shelah.

Well... somebody just got the ancestry wrong I guess...

Love in Christ,

Richard