Disputes regarding the internal consistency and textual integrity of the Bible have a long history.
Classic texts that discuss questions of inconsistency from a critical secular perspective include the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus by Baruch Spinoza, the Dictionnaire philosophique of Voltaire, the Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot and The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine.[1]
- ^ Paine, Thomas. Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794–1796): the Age of Reason by Paine. Project Gutenberg. Retrieved 2010-03-16.