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God: qualities attributed to Him (c): Isaiah 7:20

Isaiah 7:20 says the Lord will shave with a hired razor, the king of Assyria, taking the hair of the head and feet and the beard. It is…
God: qualities attributed to Him (b): Isaiah 42:13

A God who roars. Isaiah 42:13 has the LORD cry out and shout aloud like a man of war, and Jeremiah 25:30 says he will roar from on…
God: qualities attributed to Him (a): Isaiah 5:26

Under the heading of qualities that do not befit God, the first is that he whistles. Isaiah 5:26 has him whistle for a nation from the ends of…
David: 2 Samuel 11:4

David is called a man after God’s own heart, yet 2 Samuel 11:4 says he sent for Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah, and lay with her. The argument…
Contradictions (h): 2 Chronicles 6:36

2 Chronicles 6:36 says there is no one who does not sin. 1 John 3:9 says that no one born of God makes a practice of sinning. The…
Contradictions (g): John 18:9

In John 18:9 Jesus is made to say that he lost none of those given to him. In John 17:12 he says he guarded them and that none…
Contradictions (f): John 3:13

John 3:13 says that no one has gone up into heaven except the one who came down. Against this the Old Testament tells of Elijah, who in 2…
Contradictions (e): 1 Samuel 28:6

Did Saul ask the LORD for guidance? 1 Samuel 28:6 says he inquired of the LORD and was not answered, so he went to a medium. 1 Chronicles…
Contradictions (d): 2 Chronicles 9:25

Solomon’s stalls for horses number 4,000 in 2 Chronicles 9:25 but 40,000 in 1 Kings 4:26, a tenfold gap between two accounts of the same king. And Solomon…
Contradictions (c): 1 Kings 7:26

The bronze sea in Solomon’s temple holds two thousand baths in 1 Kings 7:26 but three thousand in 2 Chronicles 4:5. Its thickness was a handbreadth, and its…