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God: further contradictions (d): Psalms 100:5

Psalm 100:5 says God’s steadfast love endures forever. In 1 Samuel 15:3 Saul is commanded to strike Amalek and devote everything to destruction, sparing neither man nor woman,…
God: further contradictions (c): Numbers 23:19

Numbers 23:19 says God is not a man that he should change his mind. Yet 1 Samuel 15:35 says the LORD regretted that he had made Saul king,…
God: further contradictions (b): Psalms 30:5

Psalm 30:5 says God’s anger lasts only a moment, while Numbers 32:13 says his anger kept Israel wandering in the wilderness for forty years until the generation that…
God: further contradictions (a): Mark 10:27

The Gospels have Jesus say that with God all things are possible, in Mark 10:27 and Matthew 19:26. Judges 1:19 reports that the LORD was with Judah, and…
God: confusion and evil: 1 Corinthians 14:33

1 Corinthians 14:33 says God is not a God of confusion. The argument sets against it Isaiah 45:7, where God says he forms light, creates darkness, makes well-being…
God: seeing God: John 1:18

The Bible says in John 1:18 and 1 Timothy 6:16 that no one has seen God or can see him, and Exodus 33:20 says no man can see…
God with a small “g”: 2 Corinthians 4:4

Hebrew, Greek and Arabic do not have separate capital and lowercase letters in the way English does, so whether a word is printed God or god is a…
God: qualities attributed to Him (f): 1 Samuel 6:19

1 Samuel 6:19 says the LORD struck down some of the men of Beth-shemesh because they looked upon the ark, and the people mourned the great blow. The…
God: qualities attributed to Him (e): 2 Samuel 22:11

2 Samuel 22:11 says he rode on a cherub and flew. The picture of God riding a creature is another entry in the list of descriptions the argument…
God: qualities attributed to Him (d): Jeremiah 15:6

A God who repents. In Genesis 6:6 the LORD regretted that he had made man and was grieved, and in Jeremiah 15:6 he says he is weary of…