Why is the bible full of contradictions?
Our modern Bible was started by Moses who wrote the first 5 books of the Old Testament, under the guidance of God, about 2,500 years ago. Throughout history, a large number of other works have been produced by prophets, biographers, and other writers and evangelists (such a Paul). All of these works were hand written. There were no printed Bibles until Gutenberg invented the first western world movable type printing press in 1454 and subsequently created the first printed Bible. So, all of the books in the Bible were hand copied, often by feeble candle light, until the fifteenth century. The Bible is actually a sub collection of thousands of works (that are still available, many of them preserved in the Vatican) that were incorporated into the “official” Bibles we see today. Many works were rejected for various reasons. Even today, the Catholic Bible differs in many ways from the various Protestant versions, most blatantly the 15 additional books in the Catholic Bible called the “Apocr