My response was; does the bible really contradict itself? Alternatively, is it saying the same thing in a different meaning?

In just about any book that; has been written; One- can find CONTRADICTORY writings, and I am sure that if we look hard, and long enough; we can find fault in just about any subject that is spoken; or that is written.

I personally believe that those words that seem to be contractive[ a shrinking or reducing ] is not contradictive at all, it just is said in such a manner that one could either find some valuable saying other than that which our minds is limited to, and may shed a new light on that which we have been taught from our youth up.

Traditions is Contradictive if we might say, yet we hold onto traditions and even will be willing to die for that which we have been led to think is the only way to do or say things.

Some want to go to extremes to prove that they are right; and everybody else is wrong in what they believe or say.

When we have an ALLEGORY; we know that it is something that has two meanings; yet it means the same.

I have two different sides as a coin has two sides, one is head; the other is called the tail.

We; could be caught up in thinking that one side of the coin is the only side to the coin.

However, soon there will be the other side looking us straight in the face.

We can; as many do; turn the coin back to the side that we believe that is the right side, and never admit that the coin has another side to it.

O, how foolish it would be to think that just because we; have been taught to believe- that something we have been taught, is the only side to the coin.

That is what the Law of Commandments and the Law of Mercy is all about, they both is far from each other as the east is from the west.

When we talk about the east and the west, we know that you can go forever to the east, and or you can go west forever.

When you are traveling, it depends on which way that you are going.

You can say as you are traveling east, or, west.

Joined together; these two are.

Just as the Sun, it rises in the east, and no matter where you go in the world the sunrises in the east, and it sets in the west no matter where you are at in the world.

On the other hand, you can only go north to the tip of the North Pole, and then you, if you continue on that path, you will be headed south until you reach the south pole, and then you will, if you continue on the straight course, you will be headed back north.

This is somewhat a Mystery as to how this is and why it is that way.

You can take a Magnet; it has what is; called a South Pole. It has what is; called a North Pole.

If you turn the ends of two magnets together; if those ends are; both North Poles; the magnets will REPEL EACH OTHER.

On the other hand, if you take the North Pole and turn it toward the South Pole of the other Magnet then they will pull to each other.

The same is with the South Pole, when you turn it toward the North Pole of the other magnet then it will draw toward each other.

It is said when two people are so much alike, they just cannot get along with each other, and this is the way it is with the two of the same ends of a Magnet, when the two ends that are identical to each other, the repel each other.

Why is it that a Magnet does not have a west pole and an east pole?

That is a Mystery to most, and it stands to be that what we believe there is always those that believe it to be different.

That is why it is important to agree together; to be in AGREEMENT; for god to appear, or to come into the mist.

There is what is called- a TRUE NORTH, AND THERE IS WHAT IS CALLED- A MAGNETIC NORTH.

Each of these is reading that will take you north.

However, why is it not said that there is a TRUE SOUTH AND A MAGNETIC SOUTH?

There was what is; called- A MIDDLE WALL OF Partition; to this world when Jesus came.

Why is this important to understand the wall that existed, and was this wall placed there by god, or by humankind?

The latter is the correct, that is was placed there by man, for dividing those that did not or would not think that the coin has two sides.

Some, no matter how you think, will only believe that the coin has only one side, not that they do not know that it has two sides, but they simply refuse to admit that the coin has two sides.

Getting back to the Contradictory element of god when it seems that god is contradicting himself, only means that it seems that way because we refuse to see the other side of the coin.

As I said, the coin has both- the Head and the Tail side; but the coin is the same in weight, and value.

You cannot buy with it- with showing only one side.

It does not make it worth more or less just because you only choose to look at one side of the coin.

Both sides go with the coin into the market place and both are contributing factors as to the real identity of the coin itself.

In other words, ' you can't have the one without the other, and if you file or destroy either side, it devaluates the coin itself and could be scrapped or molded into another coin with the two sides.

This is how it is with the Bible, it has two sides and yet it has the same purpose and meaning, we just have to accept both sides and while it may seem different, it has the same purpose.

A toss of the coin in a ball game decides which team gets the ball first. That decision is- made to settle all arguments, so that harmony can be the purpose.

That is what god is doing when he seems to be saying two different things; he is literally causing Harmony to be the controlling factor in any given ideal.

We just have to accept the facts that one, or, the other can be right...yet on the other hand, it really does not become the focus of what is the outcome.

Just as- the game is then played after the toss of the coin, it becomes evident that one side will win, and one side will lose.

We accept it as that is what it is, not how the coin landed that determined the outcome of the game, but how hard we worked and practiced to be the best, and if we are beset by someone on the team that has not done his part, do we give up and quit? No, we try again.

That is how it is with god and mankind, god just didn't give up because he didn't get his way all the time, and he built in his plan a way to improvise and to go in a different direction.

In other words, no matter which side of the coin, we just keep playing the game, and the more the competition, the harder we try, and we may go all our life and never be the Champions, but does that make us of no value? No, it just makes us choose some other way of excelling in life.

God is not contradicting himself at all; he is just leaving it to where those that will try harder will know that it makes sense, no matter how it seems at that time.

There is a Time forever purpose under the sun, but there is a time when TIME ITSELF WILL BE NO MORE.

Does that mean that god, or we, as the creation of god, does not exist anymore?

That would be like that of the person saying...'WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN THE BIBLE CONTRADICTS ITSELF"

YOU JUST GO ANOTHER WAY, AND FIND THAT NO MATTER WHERE YOU GO OR WHERE YOU MAY HIDE, THAT GOD IS ALWAYS THERE TO REMIND YOU OF WHAT HE IS IN YOURSELF.

THE HEADS OF THE COIN MAY NEVER BE THE SIDE THAT IS UP FOR SOME, BUT KNOW FOR SURE; THAT BECAUSE IT IS NEVER UP; THERE LIES ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN THAT WHICH IS CALLED THE HEAD, IT IS ALWAYS THERE, AND IF SO, WE MAY HAVE TO TURN THE COIN OVER TO LOOK AT IT.

HOWEVER, TO THOSE THAT ACCEPT THE FACT THAT THERE IS TWO SIDES TO THE COIN, THEY DO NOT HAVE TO TURN THE COIN OVER TO KNOW THAT IT HAS ANOTHER SIDE.

THOSE THAT HAVE TO TURN THE COIN OVER, THEY ARE THE ONES THAT IS ALWAYS CAUSING DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR AND ARE ALWAYS ARGUING THAT IT IS ONLY ONE SIDE.

I BELIEVE; AND KNOW; THAT THERE IS TWO SIDES TO EVERY COIN.

I KNOW THAT GOD HAS MANY SIDES TO HIS PURPOSE IN THIS EARTH.

IF I CAN ACCEPT THE FACT THAT THE REAL PURPOSE IS NOT WHICH SIDE OF THE COIN IS UP FACING UPWARD... THAT GOD IS STILL GOD, AND WILL BE GOD NO MATTER.

HE IS THE END OF THE MATTER.

HOW WE RUN THE RACE THAT IS BEFORE US... IT IS UP TO US-

TO GET THOSE THAT IS OBSTRUCTIVE OUT OF OUR WAY.

MAKE OUR WAY AROUND THEM AND KEEP RUNNING.

 WHEN WE DO, WE WILL WIN THE PRIZE THAT IS LAID UP IN STORE FOR US.

SO FIGHT THE FIGHT OF FAITH; KEEP THE FAITH.

 GOD WILL REWARD YOU FOR YOUR EFFORTS.

NO MATTER WHO STARTS THIS RACE, OR, BEGINS THE RACE; IT IS THE ONE THAT FINISHES IT THAT WINS; THIS RACE THAT I AM REFERRING TOO.

SO RUN WELL MY FRIEND.

I WILL SEE YOU AT THE FINISH LINE.

REMEMBER THOSE AT THE FINISH LINE IS THE ONES THAT OBSERVE WHO WINS THE RACE.