What If All the Supposed Contradictions in the Bible Are Illusions?
If they are illusions, then some people are spending way too much time passing them off as “gospel truths.” Why are the so-called contradictions mere illusions? According to Webster’s New Twentieth Century Dictionary, an illusion is “a false idea or conception; a belief or opinion not in accord with the facts.” We deal with illusions all the time. We would swear on a stack of Bibles that what we are seeing is true, only to find we were fooled. Magicians do this all the time. The classic is pulling a rabbit out of a hat. Do you know, if a lie is repeated long enough someone is going to believe it is the truth? This happens all the time when people slander other people. Another example of this is, most people think our government is a democracy when in reality it is a republic. Pulling rabbits out of hats is just for fun. It is not fun or funny any more when people are led into a destructive lifestyle by people who intentionally deceive others. To tell them you were “just joking” does no
