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 listed as the picture of God as a barber.
In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired beyond the River—with the king of Assyria—the head and the hair of the feet, and it will sweep away the beard also.
Isaiah 7:20
Source: see Credits and references (no. 10, p. 8).
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 relenting. The argument holds that regret implies a lack of foreknowledge, which is not a quality of God.
You have rejected me, declares the LORD; you keep going backward, so I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you— I am weary of relenting.
Jeremiah 15:6
And the LORD regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.
Genesis 6:6
Source: see Credits and references (no. 10, p. 8).
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 calls unfit.
He rode on a cherub and flew; he was seen on the wings of the wind.
2 Samuel 22:11
Source: see Credits and references (no. 10, p. 8).
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 argument objects to a God who kills people merely for looking into a box.
And he struck some of the men of Beth-shemesh, because they looked upon the ark of the LORD. He struck seventy men of them, and the people mourned because the LORD had struck the people with a great blow.
1 Samuel 6:19
Source: see Credits and references (no. 10, p. 8).
Genesis 17:13-14 makes circumcision an everlasting covenant in the flesh, binding on the son born in the house and the slave bought with money, and says any uncircumcised male “shall be cut off from his people”. The argument stresses the word everlasting.
If the covenant is perpetual, the question is on what authority it was set aside, and what it means that the penalty for neglect, being cut off, is so severe.
both he who is born in your house and he who is bought with your money, shall surely be circumcised. So shall my covenant be in your flesh an everlasting covenant.
Genesis 17:13
Any uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.”
Genesis 17:14
Source: see Credits and references (no. 7, p. 7).
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 decision by the translator. The argument is that translators have used that freedom to suit their doctrine.
In 2 Corinthians 4:4 the “god of this age” who blinds unbelievers is the Devil, and in Exodus 7:1 God says he has made Moses like God to Pharaoh, so the same word is applied to a creature. Yet when John 1:1 uses the same word for the Word, the capital letter is chosen. The point is that the same Greek word is printed one way for the Devil and Moses and another way for Jesus.
And the LORD said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet.
Exodus 7:1
Source: see Credits and references (no. 11, p. 8).
Who tempted David to count the people? 2 Samuel 24:1 says the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel and he incited David. 1 Chronicles 21:1 says Satan stood against Israel and incited David. The two accounts name different agents for the same act.
Again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, “Go, number Israel and Judah.”
2 Samuel 24:1
Then Satan stood against Israel and incited David to number Israel.
1 Chronicles 21:1
Source: see Credits and references (no. 8, p. 7).
After the same battle 2 Samuel 10:18 says David killed the men of 700 chariots and 40,000 horsemen, while 1 Chronicles 19:18 says 7,000 chariots and 40,000 foot soldiers. The numbers and the kind of troops both differ.
And the Syrians fled before Israel, and David killed of the Syrians the men of 700 chariots, and 40,000 horsemen, and wounded Shobach the commander of their army, so that he died there.
2 Samuel 10:18
And the Syrians fled before Israel, and David killed of the Syrians the men of 7,000 chariots and 40,000 foot soldiers, and put to death also Shophach the commander of their army.
1 Chronicles 19:18
Source: see Credits and references (no. 8, p. 7).
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 brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held two thousand baths.
1 Kings 7:26
Its thickness was a handbreadth. And its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held 3,000 baths.
2 Chronicles 4:5
Source: see Credits and references (no. 8, p. 7).
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 had 4,000 stalls for horses and chariots, and 12,000 horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 9:25
Solomon also had 40,000 stalls of horses for his chariots, and 12,000 horsemen.
1 Kings 4:26
Source: see Credits and references (no. 8, p. 7).