Busting Holy Kool-Aid's Bible Contradictions

This is my first video response to Holy Kool-Aid's two-part series on Bible contradictions. In this video, I will be discussing three Old Testament contradictions and exploring the Christian doctrine of biblical inspiration.

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[NotDrJeff]

Correction. I think it's Ezekiel 19:5-9 at 04:51, not Exodus.

[NickNui]

The second he said "God hates censuses, gay people, and fig trees, " I knew he didn't even try to understand scripture.

[Silver_is_disappointed_in_you]

You and IP are the reasons why I converted to orthodoxy thank you very much ! 🙏

[JulianGentry]

You beat me to the punch on this one... bible contradictions are some of my favorite topics. Glad to see it covered!

[Thorshammerwin]

Hey man, I've been going through my first real doubts in my faith since I converted 4ish years ago. Your channel along with others has answered so many of my questions as well as strengthened my faith. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart for what you do

[OrthodoxInquiry]

Finding your YouTube channel was a big part of why I kept my faith regarding the Bible, so thanks Erik!

[ryanparris]

Awesome videos brother. One of my favorite quotes on textual criticism (paraphrasing, on the reliability of NT specifically) is from Dam Wallace: ‘The situation is as if we have a 100 piece jigsaw puzzle, but we have 110 pieces’

[TheChurchofBreadandCheese]

Just prior to entering a monastery, I was shown a lot of biblical criticism...it really harmed my faith and it felt quite painful..I left the monastery and fell away for a bit (still having belief somewhat but barely holding on) so thanks for these videos.

[legodavid]

1:25 The story about God's punishment for the census of David is certainly a perplexing one for us today, but keep in mind, there is still a lot we don't quite understand about the Old Testament cultural context. Notice how in the story, David is immediately "conscience-striken" and repents upon hearing about it, even going as far as saying that he has done "a very foolish thing". So while God's reason for being so angry is not entirely clear, it is very clear that David knew in his heart that he did something wrong, and willingly accepted God's punishment.
Why exactly the census was so bad in God's eyes, we don't know, but our best guess would be that it was because of pride. David probably counted all the armies in order to pride himself with the might of his military force.
So while this passage is indeed bizare for us today, we shouldn't jump to making hasty conclusions about God, based on an event that we frankly don't understand very well.

[dylanschweitzer]

So glad someone is finally doing Holy Kool aid, I've been waiting for someone to respond to his videos.

[voymasa]

In regards to "inerrancy" what I was taught growing up is that scripture *as it was originally given* (i.e. the original manuscripts) were inerrant. Translators and scribes make errors. Thankfully, we have enough manuscripts and scraps to confidently think we at least have the intended revelation, but we can't say with confidence that a contemporary manuscript or translation is necessarily inerrant.

[LightoverDarkMinistry]

Well said brother. I've spent too much time telling skeptics and atheists, "stop only listening to Holy Kooliad, take in other content with opposing views." Definitely recommending this.

[capitalm]

Holy Kool Aid and his ilk like to trot out answered contradictions with new graphics and pretend like it's a slam dunk. He needs to calm down and go outside.

[Derek_Baumgartner]

Knowing of memes you tend to post, here's one that came to mind after watching:
"If there are 40, 000 Christian denominations, name 100!"
"Church of Christ!"
"That's on me, I set the bar too low."

If Holy Kool-Aid keeps hammering the 'denomination' button, it may do well to emphasize the different meanings of 'denomination' as done in that study you mentioned vs. the more common understanding of a 'religious denomination'. Up to you, of course. :)

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Thanks for these vids!

[yurineri]

Great video dude, I can't wait for the next part :)

[johnryan]

Great video! It is amazing how it ends up actually confirming what it is trying to debunk.👍

[williambillycraig]

Holy Kool-Aid does an excellent job exposing the cult-like KJV-only churches. From what I know of HK, this seems to be the type of Church he came from before his conversion to Athisim. It seems HK left one polar position for another, sadly neither of these sides is sound in logic or reason on this topic, .Testify skillfully points this out in this response, well done.

[pleaseenteraname]

I like how holy Kool-Aid show us clips of the supposed answers to these contradictions, they are very surface level and pretty much a low hanging fruit, he doesn’t show videos of people like Walter Kaiser, or Gleason archer answering these discrepancies instead he goes to low hanging fruit. I’m not accusing him of being dishonest I’m just saying.

[litigioussociety]

I think most people would agree that inerrancy only applies to the original manuscript. Later copies or translations being infallible is called something like divine preservation, which other than King James only people is not something I see claimed by Christians. Whether Matthew made historical mistakes when writing his gospel is an issue of inerrancy, which some Christians believe is possible others do not, but Holy Kool-aid here wasn't mentioning that anyway.

[immaculata_marian]

As a Catholic, the one polemic that I find myself correcting my fellow Catholics on is the claim that "there are 30, 000 different denominations." In reality, there are only maybe a handful of Christian denominations that have substantial doctrinal differences. I still think that's too many, but it's still not as wild as 30, 000