Alleged Bible Contradictions Answered

"If those who raise objection to his high view of Scripture speak of contradictions that are found in it, he should ask them to show him the foundation in reality on which their philosophy of logic rests. If they answer that logic is logic and has nothing to do with reality, he can ignore what they say. If they say that the law of contradiction is not merely a formal law but determines what is possible or impossible in reality, he can show that only the truth of Christianity furnishes a foundation for the laws of logic. On any non-Christian basis, logic, to be effective in relation to reality, must reduce this reality to blank identity. The philosophy of Parmenides illustrates this fact. Logic that does not rest upon the presupposition of the creation of the laws of reality in general and of human thought in particular is a pure form without content. To talk about the law of contradiction without asking with respect to the metaphysical foundation upon which it rests is to talk in the air."

Dr. Cornelius Van Til, The Doctrine of Scripture pg.62