This is a rebuttal to the 29th alleged Bible contradiction

Question 29: How did Judas commit suicide?

Mr. Evans, I thought that these questions were to be posed in a form
requiring a 'yes' or 'no' reply. So, I will reformulate this question to:

Question 29: Did Judas commit suicide by hanging?

These are the verses Evans presented to make his claim.

In the 'no' category, we have

Acts 1:18.

In the 'yes' category, we have

Matthew 27:5.

Note: If I find verses to be repetitive or unnecessary, I may decide not to
quote them.

My standard prefacing comments:

God's dealing with Mankind has been chopped up into various dispensations,
starting with that of Adam, then to Noah, then to Abraham, then to Moses,
then to Jesus (who gave us the Church Age), then to the Millennial Reign
of Christ, etc. The moral constraints that God places on the people of the
earth are primarily dictated by the dispensation the individuals were born
within and their undefiled consciences.
The Bible reveals the big doctrines of God progressively over time,
such as heaven, hell, angels, devils, salvation, the Messiah, etc. As a
consequence, the verses in the back of the Bible (i.e., the Gospels on)
tend to be more authoritative than those in the beginning of the Bible.
As a corollary to this, often part of the revelation given to the prophet
will not make any sense to the prophet or even to the people of his own
generation. In my novels I refer to these verses as 'praega talleas' or
hidden gems, not capable of being appreciated or even understood until
centuries or even millenia later.
Not all verses are equally authoritative. What Jesus said trumps every
other writing in the Bible.
Not all people are equally equal. Jesus Christ is not just another man
among the billions of people. Jesus, not you or me, is God in the flesh.
In the Church Age, the true followers of Jesus, by the grace of God, are
partakers of the divine nature [2 Peter 1:4], but they are not themselves
divine. See also Galatians 5:16.
Just because a certain action or claim is recorded about someone in the
Bible, doesn't mean that God approved of it. They may even be sincere
and still get it wrong. Remember Job's friends who came to Job to
commiserate with him and later to advise him on righteousness and the
nature of God? They assumed that they were acting as the oracles of God,
but God gave them a stern rebuke for their errors. But even if God did
not approve of some claim or action, that does not mean that the Bible
specifically condemned it in the attending verses.
My favorite way to attempt to resolve controversial doctrines or claims is
to collect all verses on the matter and then consisticize them so as to reduce
the number of apparent contradictions, if there are any. Like it or not, the
Bible has to be interpreted by the Bible.
I am not a Christian apologist. It may take twenty years of hard study
to be good at Christian apologetics, and I'm too old to start education for
that now. I'm just a Christian who has had to deal with some of these
hard questions on my own.
I do not demand that the scriptures are inerrant, though they may have
been in their original forms. The reason I am not going to claim that
they are inerrant is simple practicality: I am not prepared to rigorously
defend that claim. That would take a lot of knowledge that I do not have.
So I leave that claim up to the apologists to defend as they choose to
do so.

On the No side:

16 Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled,
which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning
Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus. 17 For he was
numbered with us, and had obtained part of this ministry. 18 Now
this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling
headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed
out. -- Acts 1:16-18

On the Yes side:

4 Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood.
And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that. 5 And he cast
down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went
and hanged himself. -- Matthew 27:5

My answer

My immediate question is that if Judas fell, from where did he fall and why?
Don't we have to come up with some scenario that makes sense of this?
I think so.

It is considered fact that Adolf Hitler, at his moment of suicide, simultaneously
took a cyanide capsule and shot himself in the head -- guaranteeing that he
would die quickly. I'm supposing that the primary purpose of this dual effort
was so that he would not chance a failed suicide.

Let me offer a scenario: Having decided on suicide, Judas took with him a
rope or something similar by which he could hang himself. But where to do
it? He apparently knew of a drop-off of some considerable height. I further
suppose that there was a tree near to the ledge of the drop-off. So, he tied
one end of the rope around his kneck and the other to a limb of his chosen
tree. Then he merely jumped over the ledge, knowing that either the rope
or the fall would kill him. Apparently, the limb either broke immediately
or soon after his jump, and he fell to the ground, headlong, bursting asunder
in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.

By the way, just in case anyone is interested:

12 And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price;
and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces
of silver. 13 And the Lord said unto me, Cast it unto the potter:
a goodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty
pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the
Lord. -- Zechariah 11:12-13

And in its fulfilment:

11 For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
12 For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did
it for my burial. 13 Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel
shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this
woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her. 14 Then one of
the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, 15 And
said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you?
And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.
-- Matthew 26:11-15

Is there anyone, who just read these few verses, who is capable of imagining
a motive for Judas to betray Jesus at this point in the gospel chronology?

Question 30: Did the women who discovered Christ's empty tomb tell others?
For the time being, I will leave this question for the apologists to deal with.

Remember this: The righteous are mindful of the poor and help them; the wicked do not! (Proverbs 29:7)

You either get control of your lusts and feelings of entitlements or they will get control of you. -- Ilfinor