Is marriage a good thing? View all View original

This Bible contradiction is from the Skeptic's Annotated Bible.

Verses

Yes

Genesis 2:18 View context

And the LORD God said, [It is] not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

Proverbs 18:22 View context

[Whoso] findeth a wife findeth a good [thing], and obtaineth favour of the LORD.

Ecclesiastes 9:9 View context

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that [is] thy portion in [this] life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.

Matthew 19:5 View context

And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

1 Timothy 4:1-3 View context

Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

Forbidding to marry, [and commanding] to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

Titus 1:6-7 View context

If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.

For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;

Hebrews 13:4 View context

Marriage [is] honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

No

1 Corinthians 7:1 View context

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: [It is] good for a man not to touch a woman.