>>17811165
God’s omniscience and omnipotence don’t mean He “dislikes” His creation. He permits evil for a greater good, like free will and redemption through Christ. Pagan gods whining about their own mess is peak inconsistency; the Christian God’s plan has purpose, backed by scripture and reason. Try harder.

Most alleged “contradictions” dissolve under scrutiny. Take the differing genealogies in Matthew and Luke. Matthew traces Jesus’ legal lineage through Joseph; Luke likely traces Mary’s or a biological line. Both affirm Christ’s Davidic descent, fulfilling prophecy. Or the timing of the crucifixion, although John’s account seems to shift the day, but he’s likely using a different calendar or emphasizing theological symbolism (Jesus as the Passover Lamb). These aren’t errors.

>inb4 “it’s just fairy tales”
If you’re gonna dismiss the Gospels, bring better arguments than “it’s old so it’s fake.” Secular historians like Bart Ehrman admit Jesus existed and was crucified. The real debate is over interpretation, not historicity.

>>17784933
There are two kinds of prophecies about the messiah, the glorious kind and the suffering servant kind. Meaning first coming and second coming. So He will rule the Earth, on the second coming with the restoration of the material world.
But the messiah also had to be scourged and die, old jewish tradition admits to it, only nowadays they pretend it away, betraying their own tradition, for the purposes of trying to debunk Christianity.