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There was a time when I would get so jacked up about supposed contradictions in Scripture.

Whenever I would run up against an alleged inconsistency in the Bible (and there are plenty of websites that gleefully catalog them), my faith in biblical inerrancy would get challenged, and I’d feel less confident in Scripture being 100% true. So, I armed myself with resources like Norman Geisler’s When Critics Ask , Walt Kaiser’s Hard Sayings of the Bible , and Gleason Archer’s The Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties , all of which do a great job of harmonizing supposed discrepancies in the Bible.

However, what helped me more was understanding the truth that nowhere in Scripture will you find glaring, black-and-white major divergences, such as one book stating Jes

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