@SWORD of GOD,
SWORD of GOD;55138 wrote: Is the Bible the Word of God? Why is the Bible full of Contradictions?
The Bible is the Word of God. There are "apparent contradictions" because man reads the Bible in a literal and worldly way, and does not interpret into the spiritual sense as he should. The Bible is about the Lord and the church, not about the affairs of empires, world leaders, day to day ecclesiastical affairs, wars, governments, etc.
As a good example of this, man can usually not draw conclusion and common ground between the ten commandments and the two "new" commandments in the New Testaments to Love God with all your heart, and the neighbor as yourself.
This is because the ten commandments, being a summary of God's Law or Word, is written in a style of prohibitions. Man is not supposed to do certain things.
Firstly (in the line of Love to the Lord) the ten commandments dictate that we worship only the one Lord, and that we worship no other God and make no idols, and these commandments correspond directly to "loving God with all your heart." Secondly (in the line of loving the neighbor) the ten commandments also dictate that we not damage the neighbor, by not stealing, murdering, and by not coveting what the neighbor has and not lusting after the neighbor's wife, and these commandments dictate loving the neighbor.
So that, the Word (or Truth) can be written in different styles either in a harsh and prohibitive way, or by a kind and loving way. Also, the Word (or Truth) can be written in stories or metaphor, or in plain language.
The Truth therefore, as it is attuned to different peoples of different time, looks different. It looks so different, that most cannot draw the conclusions mentioned in my example above, that the ten commandments, and the "new" commandments to love the Lord and the neighbor, are really the same truths, only written differently.
More to the Truth being written differently:
"The books of the Word are all those which have the internal sense; but those books which have not the internal sense, are not the Word. The books of the Word, in the Old Testament, are the five Books of Moses, the Book of Joshua, the Book of Judges, the two Books of Samuel, the two Books of Kings, the Psalms of David, the Prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi: and in the New Testament, the four Evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John; and the Apocalypse. The rest have not the internal sense" (Arcana Coelestia n. 10325 or Heavenly Doctrine n. 266).
"As regards the Word particularly, it has existed in every age, though not the Word we possess at the present day. Another Word existed in the Most Ancient Church before the Flood, and yet another Word in the Ancient Church after the Flood. Then came the Word written through Moses and the Prophets in the Jewish Church, and finally the Word written through the Evangelists in the new Church. The reason why the Word has existed in every age is that by means of the Word there is a communication between heaven and earth, and also that the Word deals with goodness and truth, by which a person is enabled to live in eternal happiness. In the internal sense therefore the Lord alone is the subject, for all goodness and truth are derived from Him" (Arcana Coelestia n. 2895).