Dr. Richard Pratt on the Claim that the Bible Contradicts Itself

1) "The unbeliever has not examined the Bible and other resource materials enough to know that he has not simply misunderstood a passage which he thinks is contradictory. It is often the case that non-Christians call passages contradictory when just a little reflection shows them to be quite harmonious.

2) The unbeliever cannot examine the Bible and other resource materials enough to know that he has exhausted all the possible explanations of his so-called contradiction.

3) Until he can say with absolute certainty that there are contradictions in the Bible he cannot reject biblical authority on this basis." (Richard Pratt, Every Thought Captive, pg. 113

The thing I like about this response is that it is simple, honest, and addresses the skeptic right where he is at. Rather than allowing them to dictate terms out of their relative ignorance, points 1 & 2 demonstrate that according to their own standard of knowledge, they are overreaching. And indeed, some of the "Bible contradictions" I have been confronted with before, betray that very ignorance.