What Justification can be found in revealing contradictions within the Bible?
Upvote:1
Here the skeptic attempts to pit Jeremiah 3:12 (a promise to Israel that God will not be angry with them forever) and Jeremiah 17:4 (a statement that God’s anger over sin had been kindled and will burn forever) against each other.
In Jer. 3 God is calling Israel to repent of their sin and turn back to him and promises that his anger will not burn against them forever if they do. In the second passage, God is referring to those who do not turn back to him and how his anger against sin will never end. Thus, the contexts reveal that what is being addressed are two totally different situations. One addresses God’s forgiveness of persons, the other God’s holy hatred of sin. They are simply not even talking about the same things and thus cannot be contradictions.
Also, worth noting is that “forever” in this case is a hyperbolic statement meant to show the seriousness of the offense.
More post
- 📝 What was first, sola scriptura or sola fide?
- 📝 How non-trinitarians explain Jacob wrestled with God
- 📝 How does the relationship compare between earthly children and spiritual children in LDS theology?
- 📝 In Catholicism, in what sense is free will restored by baptism?
- 📝 How do Jehovah’s Witnesses support their belief that only 144,000 persons can be in the New Covenant and go to heaven, there to rule with Christ Jesus
- 📝 How do we get morals?
- 📝 Is it sinful to watch TV series The Young Pope?
- 📝 Why does the Pope not issue letters on the lines of Pastorals?
- 📝 What is an overview of Christian beliefs on the current state and location of Old Testament saints?
- 📝 How is the matter of why the Son of God needed to be sacrificed explained in the Roman Catholic Church?
- 📝 Where did Aquinas find this gloss?
- 📝 Who are called Catholics in the Early Church?
- 📝 Is Political Correctness showing shame for our God?
- 📝 Is God more just than he is love? (Catholic perspective)
- 📝 Is William Barclay a respected theologian in mainstream Christianity?
- 📝 In what order were the 12 Apostles called?
- 📝 Should the Catholic rosary be recited in Latin or the vernacular language?
- 📝 What is the origin of the tradition that Thaddeus founded the Armenian Church?
- 📝 May Christians work while fasting?
- 📝 What is the Biblical basis the for Immutable Nature of God?
- 📝 How do universalists avoid tempation?
- 📝 How can Pharaoh and Abhimelech be attracted to Sarah?
- 📝 Did anyone before Jesus go to Heaven and Will They Be Raised Up On the Last Day? (John 6)
- 📝 Did Jesus use witchcraft when he said to Peter "before the rooster crows..."
- 📝 Did Jesus ever sing?
- 📝 How did Thomas More manage to save his family?
- 📝 Under what conditions can one experience the power of the Holy Ghost?
- 📝 Do the acts of the flesh reveal false Christians?
- 📝 What word describes the heresy of "Jesus is the Son of Himself"?
- 📝 According to the Catholic commentators, was Mary the original candidate for mother of God?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 What Justification can be found in revealing contradictions within the Bible?
- 📝 If we want to know what the Bible says about an issue, what methods can help us to find all the relevant scriptures?
- 📝 Under a Protestant perspective what sort of ‘sacrifices’ as a symbolic priest can a believer perform within the ‘priesthood’ of all believers?
- 📝 According to proponents of Sola Scriptura, what are examples of logical contradictions between doctrines from the Bible and LDS sacred books?
- 📝 According to Jehovah's Witnesses, what are the essential features of a true follower of Christ, and can such be found in other denominations?
- 📝 According to Latter-day Saints, what are the essential features of a true follower of Christ, and can such be found in other denominations?
- 📝 Can God be different than what the Bible says?
- 📝 What major translations of the Bible are in the Public Domain?
- 📝 What is the biblical justification for permitting female pastors?
- 📝 How can the Son not know what the Father knows?
- 📝 How can we trust the Bible after it has been translated to another language?
- 📝 What does the bible say about h*m*sexuality?
- 📝 What are the different names of God in the Bible and what do they mean?
- 📝 What are the biblical arguments that the Bible canon is closed?
- 📝 What Bible verses suggest that humans can become angels?
- 📝 In what countries is it illegal to own a Bible (the most banned book in the world)?
- 📝 What does the bible say about interracial marriages?
- 📝 What does the Bible say about Capital Punishment?
- 📝 What does the Bible say about tithing?
- 📝 What were the Nephilim, and what role did they play in the Bible beyond just being mentioned?
- 📝 What important Mormon doctrines are taught in the book of Mormon that we couldn't find in the Bible already?
- 📝 In what order should the books of the (Protestant) Bible be read?
- 📝 What is the Bible basis for the idea of a temporary holding place?
- 📝 By what mechanism could the Bible be inerrant?
- 📝 Under what conditions does the Bible support divorce?
- 📝 What does the Bible say about Science?
- 📝 What does the Bible say about "bad" words?
- 📝 What is the Biblical basis for saying that wives can divorce their physically abusive husbands?
- 📝 What is the justification for relying on faith healing over conventional medicine?
- 📝 What evidence is there to support the position that the Bible is truly the Word of God to mankind?