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If there are contradictions, then one of the statements must be wrong.

How do you determine what is right and what is wrong and what it is you or we are to believe is true and what not?

On what basis do you pick and choose?

I have often found when someone says the Bible is “full of contradictions”, they have rarely done anything to find out if it's true. Most often, it is an excuse to ignore God's word and what it tells us is the truth. There are numerous websites that examine every supposed contradiction ever thought up by man and they do a very good job of showing that such thinking is wrong and that God's word IS reliable and trustworthy and we CAN believe what it says.

On what basis do you pick and choose?

I for one am not qualified to answer a question that could not be answered even by the chosen apostles.

The reason I say that is because it is hard to find two people that agree on every thing and exactly agree on any thing, and we all read the same scripture.

So is it just us or were the writers of scripture merely human beings who had their own ideas and could make mistakes?

I believe the Bible is God inspired but I also believe the Apostles had their own ideas of how to build the Church and preach the Gospel.

The message of Jesus is the important thing.

We believe that Jesus is the son of God and that he was crucified and rose the third day, or if it was the second day or the fourth day matters not to me.

Some people believe we are saved by faith alone, others believe that if we have faith it will be shown by our works, I am kind of in this opinion myself and I will confess it puts me in not so good a light.

People will say that there are no contradictions, then why are there so many disagreements just because one person is reading a scripture by Paul and some one else reading a scripture written by James?

I am sure some one will tell us that we are not rightly dividing the word, but still I believe the Apostles had their way of saying things just like we do and they might or might not have agreed on every thing.

What they did agree on was the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus.

I believe if we think there is a contradiction we need to read what the Lord himself had to say about it, not what he did or told some one else but what he said to us in general.

John3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish , but have everlasting life.

John 6
38For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.

39And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.

40And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.

So regardless of what I think about faith being shown by works this is what Jesus said.

Paul told timothy to drink a little wine for the stomachs sake but does that have any thing to do with my salvation?

I don`t think so, and there are many other scriptures of the same type.

I believe the Apostles were sent to spread the gospel to the world and this is what they did and this they agreed on and the gospel are the words Jesus spoke.

So it maters not that the Apostles had a few differences, and incidentally Paul was accused of not being an Apostle at the time of his writing, not by the Apostles but probably by the people in Asia and this was spread to the Corinthian church because Paul was defending himself to them.

On what basis do you pick and choose?>>>>>

I believe if there is any doubt, the words Jesus spoke are the only ones needed.