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(Which bits [of the bible] are logical and reasonable?)

100%, can you point some that are Not.

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old comment by McCulloch

You see, God created humans in his own image. They were sinless when he created them. He put them in a garden (closer to the English definition of garden than the North American), where he told them not to eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, or else they would die. A talking serpent, which the same God caused to be in the garden, convinced the humans to eat from this tree, so God killed them.
No, wait, he didn't. He kicked them out of the garden and cursed them and they died hundreds of years later. This is the Fall. Because humans did exactly what God knew that they would do and could have prevented, all of the evil in the world came to be. But don't worry, God had a plan. The humans, left on their own, became evil, being created in God's image. So God decided to fulfill the threat he made in the garden and kill them all. Well, not all of them, he decided that one family was OK. So that family built a boat to save all of the animal species in the world and God destroyed everyone else with a great universal flood. Good plan, eh? But that was not the whole plan. Eventually, humans repopulated the world. They again became evil, being made in God's image, but not quite as evil as before I think. And God chose a semi-nomadic tribe to be his chosen people to fulfill his wonderful plan. This tribe became a nation and then were wiped out as a nation and taken into captivity and then restored and then lost their independence again. God then decided to become a human in this tribe. As a human, he taught wonderful things and did miracles. He allowed himself to be taken by the humans and killed. Humans being evil could not abide allowing a God-with-us to survive. Because he died, he then could forgive humans and that somehow nullified the promise he made in the garden that humans should die. God then resurrected the dead human-God, proving that there is life after death and raised his human self back to his abode, heaven, where all who believe this story will go after they die. Great plan, eh?

old comment by The Jamo

Let's see here... I have found the following list of contradictions at this address.
Jehoiachin was 8 years old when he began his reign - 2 Chron 36:9. Jehoiachin was 18 years old when he began his reign - 2 Kings 24:8. According to Luke 2:21-39, Jesus is taken to the Jerusalem Temple eight days after he is born; the family then go up to Nazareth. In Matt 2:14-23, after being born the family flee in Egypt and stay there until Herod dies; even on returning, they avoid Judea and go up to Nazareth. Jesus baptised - John 3:22. Jesus did not baptise - John 4:2. No one has ascended into heaven before Jesus - John 3:13. Elijah ascended into heaven - 2 Kings 2:11. Jesus refuses to give signs - Matt 12:38,39, Mark 8:12, Luke 11:29. Jesus did give signs - John 3:2, 20:30, Acts 2:22. The Synoptics make it clear the last supper was the Passover meal - Matt 26:19, Mark 14:16, Luke 22:13. However in John, it was held on the day before the Passover - 13:29, and states that even after the meal the Passover had still not begun - 18:28. Moreover, even after the trial, it was the Preparation day for the Passover - 19:31. Abraham was justified by faith - Rom 4:1-5. Abraham was justified by works - James 2:22-24. Man does not die for his ancestors' sin - Deut 24:16, 2 Kings 14:6, Ezek 18:20. Man does die for his ancestors' sin - Ex 20:5, 34:6-7, 2 Sam 12:13-18, Isa 14:21, Rom 5:12,19, 1 Cor 15:22. Jesus to be buried for three days and nights - Matt 12:40. Jesus buried for one day and two nights - Mark 15:42,43, John 20:1 (These texts show the burial did not take place until Friday night and the tomb was empty before Sunday morning). Jesus was therefore not in the tomb for "three days and three nights" - whether Roman or Jewish time-reckoning is used. No one is righteous - Rom 3:10. There are righteous - James 5:16. The sin of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is unforgiveable - Matt 12:32, Mark 3:29. God forgives all sins - 1 John 1:7. No one has ever seen God - Ex 33:17,20, John 1:18, 1 Tim 6:15-16. People have seen God - Gen 32:30, Ex 24:9-10, 33:11,21- 23, Isa 6:5, Deut 5:24, Amos 9:1. God wants everyone to be saved - 1 Tim 2:3-4, 2 Pet 3:9. God does not want everyone to be saved - Prov 16:4, Mark 4:11-12, Rom 9:18, 2 Thess 2:11.

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