Quote Originally Posted by Oneironaut
Okay, how about this one? When the women arrive at Jesus' tomb, according to Luke, Mark and John, the tomb was open, but according to Matthew it was closed.




But:


Or how about these two Biblical passages, which clearly contradict each other:


So, God makes a commandment prohibiting killing, and then makes another commandment to kill your wife if she's had her cherry popped, and one to kill women who are raped in the city if they don't scream loud enough.

Regardless of whether or not this is a contradiction, this is a stinking heap of extremely barbaric misogyny.

as far as the killing, the hebrew word "you shall not KILL" means to "murder", so there is no contradiction; it's not prohibiting all killing, but murder. as far as the penalities for sin in the tribe, i can't argue that it was right for god to enact those penalties; it was to keep the tribe holy and pure, but again this is a question of personal opinion of morality.

as far as the first question, i don't think the reading is supposed to indicate that that is a 1-2 sequence of events, like:

1.they come to the tomb
2.the stone gets rolled away

i'm trying to parse "descended" (katabas) but having some trouble

this is the sort of thing where the original languages are essential, but as far as i can see, the folks coming to the tomb, and the earthquake could have very well been simultaneous