Counterexamples to the Bible

There are no Counterexamples to the Bible. This is in contrast with:

• Counterexamples to Evolution (60 and growing)
• Counterexamples to Relativity (28 and growing)
• Counterexamples to an Old Earth (25 and growing)

Opponents of the teachings of the Bible have tried mightily to prove statements in it to be false, but every attempt has failed. Here is a growing list of disproved counterexamples:

• that the wall of Jericho described in the Bible never existed and that people did not live there as described in the Old Testament; 19th century archaeologists could not find evidence of that civilization in the biblical time period.

Disproof: archaeologist John Garstang discovered an intricate (collapsed) wall of Jericho during digging in 1930-36.

• that Pontius Pilate, described in the Bible as a Judean Roman Prefect who ordered the Crucifixion of Jesus, never held that powerful position.

Disproof: archeologists excavating an ancient amphitheater in Palestine discovered in 1961 a massive limestone having the inscription, "Pontius Pilate, Prefect of Judea."

• that theories of modern physics proved there was no creation, and thus the Genesis account could not possibly be correct.

Disproof: the Catholic priest Georges-Henri Lemaitre proved, against the resistance of anti-Bible scientists, that modern theories of physics themselves required the occurrence of a singular creation; this was first ridiculed with the term Big Bang but then later accepted by the atheists.

• that the pool of Siloam described in John 9:7, where Jesus restored sight to a blind man and told him to wash the mud from his eyes, and the pool of Bethesda with five covered colonnades, also described in John, did not exist because no one had previously found them.

Disproof: the pool of Bethesda was discovered in 1957-62, just as described in the Gospel of John with the five covered colonnades, and the pool of Siloam was also discovered, in 2004.

• that a census could not have occurred around 6 B.C., shortly after Jesus's birth, as described in the Gospel of Luke.

Disproof: In 1912, W.M. Ramsey discovered a fragment proving that a new seat of government was established in Syria, which included Palestine, between 10 and 7 B.C., which would have necessitated one or more censuses shortly thereafter. There is additional evidence of a census in Palestine at this time in the writings of Tertullian.

• that genetics disproves the 30th chapter of Genesis

Disproof: There is no inconsistency.

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• that there are extreme inconsistencies in the lineage of Jesus, as given by the Apostles Matthew and Luke in their respective gospels. Also, the prophecy that

Jesus would be descended from David was unfulfilled because of his so-called virgin birth. Lineages could only be traced through male parents in ancient Judea and Jesus did not have one.

• that we have a non-existant prophecy in verse 23 (as seen above). Of course, Isaiah was speaking of events of his time, not of the future, as evidenced in Isaiah 9:6 with the use of, “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given…” Not withstanding, the verse presented is transcribed incorrectly anayway. It was translated from the Greek text, and there the word “parthenos” is used, which does mean a virgin. However, the word in the original Hebrew, from which the Greek was taken, did not mean “virgin.” The word there is “almah,” which means simply a young woman. In the later Greek translation, the error was corrected, the proper Greek equivalent “neanis” being substituted. But it suited the purpose of the Church to leave in its “virgin” Greek, and so it has come down to us.

See also

• Biblical scientific foreknowledge