With regards to Jacob, what is perplexing you?
I enjoy this explanation for the contradictions from the inerrancy web site! The person making up the explanations <ggg> simply ignores the burial contradiction, and drives straight ahead in making up stuff to "explain"<ggg> the who bought what puzzle! I have seen quite a few "explanations" made up for this one! I would be interested if you wish to share any unique stories I may not have heard. I like this one for the inerrancy insistance, though!! (the analogy of Jacob as a teenager buying a car under his father's name is cute, too!)
inerrancy.org
"Q: In Gen 33:18-19 and Josh 24:32, did Jacob purchase the land at Shechem, or did Abraham purchase it as Acts 7:15-16 and Gen 23:16-20 say?
A: There are two possible answers.
Jacob and Abraham bought it: Both Joshua 24:32 and Genesis 33:18-19 say Jacob, Abraham’s grandson, was the person who purchased the land near Shechem. Regardless of whether Abraham came to witness the purchase of the land with the money he passed on to Isaac or not, one could say that the clan of Abraham purchased the land. Even today, a teenager, with his father’s consent, can buy a car in his father’s name.
Stephen might be mistaken: Since Jacob purchased the land his sons were buried on, yet Jacob himself was buried at Mamre with Abraham, Stephen might have been accidentally combined these two separate events. Even if Stephen were mistaken, the Bible would still be inerrant. The Bible simply recorded, inerrantly, what Stephen said, mistake and all."
How about you, gao seng? Does any of this perplex you?! Anything at all?? I am very perplexed by the bible; I am also very perplexed by the people who are not perplexed. Some people just never get perplexed. I suppose I ought to envy them.
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