Tag: God: further contradictions

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 Judah took the hill country, but could not drive out the people of the plain because they had chariots of iron. The argument asks how an almighty God is stopped by iron chariots.

And the LORD was with Judah, and he took possession of the hill country, but he could not drive out the inhabitants of the plain because they had chariots of iron.

Judges 1:19

Source: see Credits and references (no. 14, p. 10).

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 did evil had died out. The point put is that a moment and forty years cannot both describe the same anger.

For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.

Psalms 30:5

And the LORD’s anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the LORD was gone.

Numbers 32:13

Source: see Credits and references (no. 14, p. 10).

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, and Exodus 32:14 says he relented from the disaster he had spoken of. The argument treats these as a direct clash about whether God ever changes course.

God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?

Numbers 23:19

And Samuel did not see Saul again until the day of his death, but Samuel grieved over Saul. And the LORD regretted that he had made Saul king over Israel.

1 Samuel 15:35

And the LORD relented from the disaster that he had spoken of bringing on his people.

Exodus 32:14

Source: see Credits and references (no. 14, p. 10).

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, child nor infant, nor even the animals. The argument asks how that command fits with a love that never ends.

For the LORD is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.

Psalms 100:5

Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”

1 Samuel 15:3

Source: see Credits and references (no. 14, p. 10).

1 Timothy 6:16 says God lives in unapproachable light, while Solomon says in 1 Kings 8:12 that the LORD has said he would dwell in thick darkness. The argument puts light and thick darkness side by side as contradictory descriptions of where God dwells.

Then Solomon said, “The LORD has said that he would dwell in thick darkness.

1 Kings 8:12

Source: see Credits and references (no. 14, p. 10).

James 1:13 says God tempts no one. Genesis 22:1 says God tested Abraham by commanding him to offer his son. The argument notes that the two passages use different words, test and tempt, but treats the test of Abraham as the very thing James says God does not do.

After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”

Genesis 22:1

Source: see Credits and references (no. 14, p. 10).