Is childbearing sinful? View all View original

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

Verses

Yes

Leviticus 12:6-7 View context

And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest:

Who shall offer it before the LORD, and make an atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This [is] the law for her that hath born a male or a female.

No

Genesis 1:28 View context

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

1 Timothy 2:15 View context

Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.