Comments on: The Biggest “Contradiction” in the Bible https://headhearthand.org/blog/2014/01/14/the-biggest-contradiction-in-the-bible/  Informing Minds. Moving Hearts. Directing Hands. Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 By: Gary M https://headhearthand.org/blog/2014/01/14/the-biggest-contradiction-in-the-bible/#comment-50839 Sun, 03 Oct 2021 17:42:00 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=16240#comment-50839 I am so tired of silly atheists discounting the historicity of the Bible due to a few minor discrepancies. The question is: Are there MAJOR discrepancies in the Bible. For instance, what if The Exodus Story is pure fiction? What if all the detailed Appearance Stories in the last three Gospels and Acts are fictional? That would be a problem!

https://lutherwasnotbornagaincom.wordpress.com/2021/10/02/do-bible-contradictions-matter/

]]> By: Aaron Cummings https://headhearthand.org/blog/2014/01/14/the-biggest-contradiction-in-the-bible/#comment-48669 Sat, 02 Jan 2016 18:24:00 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=16240#comment-48669 A divinely inspired text would be clearly discernible to the most uneducated of laypersons.
The fact that it needs guys with PhDs to research into it and attempt to put their spin and meaning on 100s of contradictions indicates that this “word of god” is neither divine, nor inerrant.
A deity who would choose to communicate his will to us in this manner (at the possibility of getting it all wrong and burning in hell for eternity) is either neither omnipotent, or not willing to reveal his will in a way that is clear and unimpeachable.

Instead, we have dozens of religions with 100s of denominations and interpretations of what god really wants.

ergo, logic would have it that the god of the bible does not exist and he is simply one more manifestation of a deity that reflects the imperfections of humanity and the culture from which he arose at that time (the middle east)

]]> By: John Hutchinson https://headhearthand.org/blog/2014/01/14/the-biggest-contradiction-in-the-bible/#comment-46443 Wed, 03 Sep 2014 19:57:00 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=16240#comment-46443 I must respectfully disagree with your understanding of this passage and your distinctions between that of God and that of men. This passage, more so than Hebrews 11, is actually giving a ‘philosophical’ definition and psychological dynamics of the nature of faith itself. However, much rumination on the passage is required to properly see this in its depth.

]]> By: Blog Casserole – the best and worst of the internet 2/14/2014 :: Carey Green - podcast producer, author, speaker, entrepreneur, marriage & family coach, and passionate follower of Christ. https://headhearthand.org/blog/2014/01/14/the-biggest-contradiction-in-the-bible/#comment-45024 Fri, 14 Feb 2014 18:15:30 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=16240#comment-45024 […] Have you ever wondered how it can NOT be a contradiction for Paul to say that we are saved by faith alone, yet James says t…? […]

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]]> By: The Biggest Contradiction | HeadHeartHand Blog « ajcerda https://headhearthand.org/blog/2014/01/14/the-biggest-contradiction-in-the-bible/#comment-43806 Sun, 26 Jan 2014 07:46:00 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=16240#comment-43806 […] What is the biggest contradiction in scripture? David Murray exposes what many Christians overlook. Read, The Biggest Contradiction | HeadHeartHand Blog. […]

]]> By: 6-String Salvo, January 17, 2014 | Mike Lee https://headhearthand.org/blog/2014/01/14/the-biggest-contradiction-in-the-bible/#comment-43074 Fri, 17 Jan 2014 10:32:12 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=16240#comment-43074 […] 5. What would you say is the biggest “contradiction” in the Bible?  Here’s what David Murray answers. […]

]]> By: Morgan https://headhearthand.org/blog/2014/01/14/the-biggest-contradiction-in-the-bible/#comment-42972 Wed, 15 Jan 2014 20:35:19 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=16240#comment-42972 Totally agree.

I don’t go along with the (pretty novel) conclusion that’s they’re describing different perspectives and all that.

Paul says we’re saved by grace through faith. Because we have faith, God ‘reckons’ that to us as righteousness. So what is it?

Well, James defines a saving, or living faith. Real faith. He goes to great lengths to say that a saving/living faith (contrasted with what he calls ‘dead’ faith) does some things. It’s active. Does that now earn us anything from God? Does it obligate him to do anything for us? Certainly not.

Big problems come out of our struggles with those definitions. Reformed folks (whom I respect IMMENSELY for their love of God and purity) became so afraid of the ‘W’ word that just about any physical action whatsoever can’t possibly be anywhere near when they talk about salvation. (*COUGH baptism COUGH COUGH*). The ‘formula’ essentially became faith – generally any physical action = salvation.

Low church folks like myself erroneously came up with our incredibly dangerous and anti-gospel formula of law-keeping. So faith + works = salvation. In other words, you do the best you can to earn your way to heaven, essentially by works of law, and God will ‘make up’ the rest via grace. That invites and encourages legalism. And despair.

The answer, Paul and James’s answer, is between the two. God imputes righteousness to us when we have an active, “living” faith. Because that’s the faith that Christians by definition will have when they react to Christ’s sacrifice. And yeah, there are some physical acts that seem to always accompany coversion accounts in the Bible, notably in Acts. Did anybody ‘earn’ anything at all by works? Nope.

Love y’all.

]]> By: Richard https://headhearthand.org/blog/2014/01/14/the-biggest-contradiction-in-the-bible/#comment-42965 Wed, 15 Jan 2014 18:22:39 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=16240#comment-42965 Bravo!

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