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MATHEMATICAL ERRORS IN THE BIBLE
We will begin with simple addition.
MATH ERROR #1
The following is from http://www.geocities.com/paulntobin/index.html
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The passage Ezra 1:7-11 concerns the articles from the Temple which were returned to the Jews. It was mentioned, in Ezra 7:8, that the chief royal treasury made an inventory and that these are the items returned:
The total of articles returned were 2,499. Yet at the very next verse the total is given as:
Note that Ezra 1:10 does not allow other unlisted items to be assumed since the last portion already mentioned “other vessels” or other articles. Obviously a discrepancy of 2,970 exist between the given total of 5,469 and the actual total of 2,499. |
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MATH ERROR #2
Continuing on to the book of Ezra and Nehemiah we are given two long lists that should be exactly alike and should both equal 42,360. Problem is neither number even comes close to the bibles total once added. Even more1 perplexing is that if one were to add up the totals of the list in each chapter, they'll arrive at different numbers for each of the chapters, even though the list is talking of the same exact thing. This is also taken from: http://www.geocities.com/paulntobin/index.html
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Another mistake in arithmetic which, as far as I can tell, was first pointed out by the American patriot, Thomas Paine (1737-1809), in his anti-Christian book The Age of Reason,[10] comes from the books of Ezra and Nehemiah. In the second chapter of Ezra and the seventh chapter of Nehemiah, the authors gave a list of tribes and families, and the numbers of people of each, that were returning from the Babylonian exile. At the end of this list both Ezra and Nehemiah gave exactly the same total for the total number of people returning:
Thus the number is 42,360 people. The table below gives a breakdown of the list of the number of people given by Ezra and Nehemiah. Note that both Ezra's and Nehemiah's total do not come up to the figure they mentioned. In fact they even contradict one another. Ezra's total was actually 29,818 and Nehemiah's was 31,089. Both the authors can't do simple sums! Ezra missed the final total by 12,542 while Nehemiah missed it by 11,271. This discrepancy is not the only thing wrong with the two lists. The numbers of the individual families given by the two lists also contradict each other in at least 16 different places. For instance, Ezra gives the number of the sons of Arah as 775 while Nehemiah gives it as 652.
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MATH ERRORS #3 AND #4
Moving on from simple addition to counting. This also comes from :
http://www.geocities.com/paulntobin/index.html
Mistakes in CountingWe now move on to the lowest notch of arithmetic ability: that of counting. We will see that even in this, the Bible contains errors![11]
Note that there were five sons listed, yet the Chronicler counted six! [For those of you with the NIV, please read note [A] below] We find similar errors in I Chronicles 25:3, where five names were also given and again the chronicler counted six. (One begins to wander if this is a learning disorder of the chronicler) Again in I Chronicles 3: 19-20 where eight names were given and he counted five! Chronicles is not the only author who can't count, we see the same problem in the book of Joshua:
Anyone who can count will see that there are fifteen cities listed above, not fourteen. Again in Joshua 15:21-32 there were thirty-six cities actually listed but the author only counted twenty-nine! Also in Joshua 19:2-6 we have fourteen cities listed but the author said there was only thirteen. So we have seen that some of the authors of the Bible didn’t know the value of π, some didn’t know how to do simple sums and some couldn’t even count correctly! How are we to define a book as inerrant when its authors lack even these simple skills! [A] |
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MATH ERROR #5
This is either a mistake in the bible, or the greatest miracle of all time.
2 Chronicles 21:16Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that were near the Ethiopians: 17And they came up into Judah, and brake into it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was never a son left him, save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons. 18And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease. 19And it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness: so he died of sore diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers. 20Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.
2 Chronicles 22: 1And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead: for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned. 2Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.
So Jehoahaz died at the age of 40 (Began reign at 32, served for 8 years, then died at 40). His son, Ahaziah took his place when he was 42. So the son is actually two years older than the father! The NIV tries to be sneaky once again and change Ahaziah's age to 22. We know that the original manuscript also says 42, as translated by the above KJV. From http://www.lovethetruth.com/king_james_bible.htm "The King James Bible and vast majority of 'original' manuscripts are obviously wrong."
Also, from the original Hebrew text itself: (from http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt25b22.htm)
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ב בֶּן-אַרְבָּעִים וּשְׁתַּיִם שָׁנָה, אֲחַזְיָהוּ בְמָלְכוֹ, וְשָׁנָה אַחַת, מָלַךְ בִּירוּשָׁלִָם; וְשֵׁם אִמּוֹ, עֲתַלְיָהוּ בַּת-עָמְרִי. |
2 Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri. |
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