Has Anyone Ever Read the Entire Bible, and if So, How Can they Still Believe it Though it Contradicts?

I’ve read the entire Bible. There are no contradictions in its teachings.

Some people will read the Bible every year. Reading 5 chapters a day, you can read the entire Bible in one year. And some people have read the entire Bible 1000 times. Another person I saw online memorized every verse. Some people have read the Bible in one sitting.

Me… I’ve read War and Peace twice, I’ve read 50 classics in their entirety, some of them twice, I’ve read hundreds of excerpts from books, hundreds of poems and essays and short stories and news articles and encyclopedia entries, and I’ve probably read the Bible twice the amount of all of it.

So, I’ve also studied a little bit of math. And I’ve found the Quadratic Equation is a nice analogy. You can have two answers in a Quadratic equation. And they can be the complete opposite of one another. You can even have an equality, like sqrt(5-x)=5-x^2… rack your brain to figure that one out, but there’s two true answers. And to our human conception, it seems like it should be impossible. Why would there be two answers, and why would a complete contradiction of terms, equate? God’s a lot smarter than us, that’s why the Bible seems to contradict, when it doesn’t…

So, it can be hard to understand. But, generally, that’s just because God is God, and He’s brilliant, and communicated a Law and Testament to humanity that we needed to comprehend the moral scope of the universe.

Some people ask, “Why didn’t God give us science?” Well, to use science to any benefit, you need Law. As amoral ape beasts with unlimited technology is dangerous and that’s why He scattered us during the Tower of Babel, so we need God’s intelligence to teach us how to behave. And some people say, “Gotcha” on complicated issues such as slavery or genocide, but you look into human behavior, you look into the meaning of scripture… you start to see the pieces fall together.

To answer that in the simplest terms, the 1 + 1 = 2 answer, although it can have more complicated and nuanced explanations, the Bible, the Old Testament, is judgment against sin. So all sin it puts under condemnation and suffering and torment, as is said by Paul, and that law will be used as a casebook to judge the world for its sin. Whereby, Grace, the New Testament in Christ’s blood, saves us from that law. And even gives us license to disobey it for the sake of love. Not to say that we get to do what’s unlawful, but rather, what is in love we do for the sake of love, and not ritual; as the Pharisees by example had a lot of ritual but no love, so the law was changed under the priesthood of Christ Jesus. Like, for instance, Paul sending back Onesimus to Philemon, which was unlawful. The Law explicitly says not to return an escaped slave to their master, but Paul returned Onesimus to Philemon, with express intent to free Onesimus, but also to reunite them and make communion of saints.