"But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."
God says that if Adam eats from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, then the day that he does so, he will die. But later Adam eats the forbidden fruit (3:6) and yet lives for another 930 years (5:5). 2:17
It was talking about Spiritual Death. Had he died at that moment, he'd have died in his sins and gone to hell (Spiritual death.) There is evidence he was saved during his life though, so he got spiritual life back.
As a punishment for killing Abel, God says Cain will be "a fugitive and a vagabond." Yet in just a few verses (4:16-17) Cain will settle down, marry, have a son, and build a city. This is not the activity one would expect from a fugitive and a vagabond. 4:12
Well, he BUILT that city. Probably because he wasn't welcome anywhere else.
God promises Abram and his descendants all of the land of Canaan. But both history and the bible (Acts 7:5 and Heb.11:13) show that God's promise to Abram was not fulfilled. 13:15, 15:18, 17:8, 28:13-14
I'm fairly certain that was a promise conditional on obedience.
How long was the Egyptian captivity? This verse says 400 years, but Ex.12:40 and Gal.3:17 say 430 years. 15:13
400 was a large generalization, 430 was more exact.
"In the fourth generation they [Abraham's descendants] shall come hither again." But, if we count Abraham, then their return occurred after seven generations: Abraham, Isaac (Gen.21:1-3), Jacob (Gen.25:19-26), Levi (Gen.35:22-23), Kohath (Ex.6:16), Amramn (Ex.6:18), and Moses (Ex.6:20). 15:16
Levi was the first you should count, because it was talking about AFTER the enslavement IIRC.
God promises Abram's descendants the land of Canaan from the Nile to the Euphrates. But according to Acts 7:5 and Heb.11:13 God's promise to Abram was not fulfilled. 15:18
Again, they weren't obedient.
God promises to make Isaac's descendents as numerous as "the stars of heaven", which, of course, never happened. The Jews have always been, and will always be, a small minority. 26:4
He specifically said "Count the stars in the sky if you can. As you can't count the stars, so you can't count the descendants I will give you." There are only about 3,000 stars in sight, and more Jews than that. Though this promise may have been another conditional one.
God renames Jacob twice (32:28, 35:10 ). God says that Jacob will henceforth be called Israel, but the Bible continues to call him Jacob anyway (47:28-29). And even God himself calls him Jacob in 46:2. 32:28, 35:10
I think Jacob was his name, but Israel was also his name. Or maybe because he knew we'd think of him as Jacob. And because Israel was the name of his house, maybe not him himself.
I will go through some of the more interesting ones, but I just realized how many there were here. If I miss a few that you think are particularly interesting, let me know, because I don't feel like refuting the entire list.
God promises to cast out many nations including the Canaanites and the Jebusites. But he was unable to fulfill his promise. 33:2
Again conditional on obedience.
False prophets are to be (you guessed it) executed. How do you know who is a false prophet? By whether or not their predictions come true. (Watch out Jehovah's Witnesses!) 18:20
The law was particularly for Ancient Israel, because of its status as the Holy and Chosen nation. Though Numbers implies that the punishment of death may have been symbolic anyway. I don't think America should punish false prophets.
Joshua tells the Israelites that God will "without fail" drive out the Canaanites and the Jebusites. But later, the Bible tells us that he could not drive them out. 3:10
While Joshua was a Godly man, his speech isn't God's, and it isn't written as Scripture, but his voice. Thus all you can assume is that he said this, not that he was right. And again, the promise was conditional anyway.
"Thy kingdom shall be established for ever."
God says that Davids's kingdom will last forever. It didn't of course. It was entirely destroyed about 400 years after Solomon's death, never to be rebuilt. 7:13, 16
Its a still future event. Christ is the Son of David (Well, literally descendant of David) and he will rule for all eternity. You may not accept that, but that's our interpretation.
God puts a "lying spirit" in the mouth of his prophets. 22:22
False Prophets of Pagan gods. How is this a contradiction?
Paul tells the Corinthians to be good until "the day of our Lord Jesus Christ." (He expected Jesus to return within their lifetimes.) 1:7-8
Paul believed this, he never claimed to know for sure.
James quotes a scripture that says, "The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy." But there is no such verse in the Bible. 4:5
He may have quoted the Apocrypha or some other work (No, that does not make them Scripture, just makes that one verse accurate.)
All of the Revelation stuff, and probably all the other prophecies that "Contradict themselves" are still future events.
Sorry I skipped a lot, but I couldn't be bothered to do all of them. If you have one or two that you are particularly interested in my answer to, quote them or give me the number and I'll respond
@Miles Teg- That one's out of my league. Sorry, but I really don't know. I bet Classical_hero can, and I'm sure he will eventually.
fine. Did you look at the full list?
