There are no contradictions in the Holy Bible. I realize this will rub some folks the wrong way, but I stand by that statement of fact. Yes, fact.

If an individual is truly born again and does not get in their own way, does not permit the noise of the world, the whisperings and lies of the Evil One to enter into things and that individual lives within the whole of Holy Scrpiture — MATURING, BEING EVER SANTIFIED, GROWING IN DISCERNMENT ONLY POSSIBLE BY THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN A FAITHFUL HEART — as the walk gets closer to God, which happens by being in His word daily, nightly, continually, the individual who is in Christ and Christ in them, truly, and thus they are in the Word, that individual will come to realize, know that there are zero contradictions in the Holy Bible — contrary to what the world, so-called experts, many pastors today [wolves in sheep’s clothing, or at the very least arrogant overly educated in decayed seminaries and Bible colleges more focused on destruction of the Word of God than in building a solid foundation of understanding of God’s Word.

No contradictions.

Zero.

Zip.

Nada.

They don’t exist.

You may vehemently disagree.

It is my hope and paryer that if that is the case presently that the Good Great Gracious God blesses you with enough breath, heartbeats, and a serious studiousness, a sincere pure heart, to invest time in Bible reading, Bible study, meditation — deeply thinking, prayerfully thinking — on what is read and studied, and as time passes, as maturity increases, when listening to God and His Word more that the world, other people, Satan in the ear entering the mind, when the heart is in eranest pursuit of God and understanding, discernment, wisdom, that the Holy Spirit will reveal and measure out depths of understanding never thiought possible.

Don’t limit God, Jesus, or the Holy Spirit.

Don’t limit the Word of God.

Don’t think as the world does, attempting to always tear down, tear apart, nitpick, find fault, deny, and listen to the noise, the lies, rather than pausing, being still, and taking the time to learn the truth — which can only be found in God’s word of no contradictions. None exists.

That may boggle the mind and go against all you think now.

Let God reveal why such thinking is amiss and allow the Holy Spirit and God’s Word to reveal with clarity, with certainty, giving assurance that there are zero contradictions in God’s Word.

Oh, the three books mentioned in the article below, Norman Geisler’s When Critics Ask, Walt Kaiser’s Hard Sayings of the Bible, and Gleason Archer’s The Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties, all do help along the way. Anything written by Norman Geisler will be of tremendous help in coming to greater and greater discernment of God’s word.

Also, Frank Turek is a reliable source.

TEST ALL spirits. JUDGE ALL THINGS. Stop misunderstanding Matthew 7:1. Stop listening to the voice of the world.

Don’t listen to the world, to others, to the dissectors, defectors, and destroyers, but construct within your spirit and soul an understanding heretofore not achieved.

Learning that there are no contradictions in the Holy Bible.

Zero.

Nada.

Zip.

None.

They aren’t there.

Endless debate and dissention exist to take time and focus off the truth and to add to the noise.

We have many voices within us — our own, others from numerous sources, Satan’s, and then God’s.

We each choose which voices win out in our daily lives, taking on their pathway. Get on the wrong path and eventually find yourself greatly distanced from peace, truth, reality, the facts — from God. It happens easily. We must be vigilant, aware, and always pay attention to not take those wrong turns and keep our focus, our hearts, and minds on the pursuit of God and knowing, knowing, and knowing, and He will provide. We need to pause, though, to be silent and still, to enter in trusting, faithful, allowing the wisdom of God to enter us and show us the way — assured in His words more than the words and lies of the world, mixers, babblers, troublemakers, dissenters, those who can never rest and find rest and understanding from God. He will provide. In still, trusting hearts and minds.

It’s called maturity. True spiritual growth. Trusting God and His word more than trusting anything else, anyone else in this world.

Read on…

Ken Pullen, Monday, April 6th, 2026

The biggest contradiction in the Bible that’s not a contradiction

By Robin Schumacher

Reprinted from The Christian Post

There was a time when I would get so jacked up about supposed contradictions in Scripture.

Whenever I would run up against an alleged inconsistency in the Bible (and there are plenty of websites that gleefully catalog them), my faith in biblical inerrancy would get challenged, and I’d feel less confident in Scripture being 100% true. So, I armed myself with resources like Norman Geisler’s When Critics Ask, Walt Kaiser’s Hard Sayings of the Bible, and Gleason Archer’s The Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties, all of which do a great job of harmonizing supposed discrepancies in the Bible.

However, what helped me more was understanding the truth that nowhere in Scripture will you find glaring, black-and-white major divergences, such as one book stating Jesus was raised from the dead and another stating He wasn’t. Small apparent contradictions (see my article, What if the Bible Has Errors for a discussion of them), like Matthew writing Peter will deny Jesus “before a rooster crows” (26:34), but Mark saying the denial will happen before “a rooster crows twice” (14:30) never challenge a single core biblical doctrine of salvation or the validity of Christianity.

And, as one person puts it, it’s not the discrepancies in the Bible that bothered him but rather the clear, undisputed, and life-changing content found in Scripture. That’s the big takeaway anyone challenging the veracity of the Bible needs to understand.

But that said, there is one big thematic battle that does seem to rage within the pages of Scripture, which has caused implicit battle lines to be drawn up between believers. It’s the issue of whether the life-saving promises of God are conditional or unconditional on us being “good” in some way; if God will bless us no matter what, or whether His blessings are contingent on us adhering to an expected set of behaviors, with hit-and-miss obedience eventually casting us outside His salvation’s reach.

The difficulty is that you see both everywhere in the Old and New Testaments, making it the biggest supposed contradiction found in the pages of the Bible.

Not either or but both and

Scripture talks about God’s grace towards us throughout its pages, but it also consistently seems to threaten both temporal and eternal consequences for disobedience. A good representative of the latter is found in the Old Testament book of Ezekiel: “The soul who sins will die. But if a man is righteous and practices justice and righteousness … he is righteous and will surely live,” declares the Lord GOD … The person who sins will die … But if the wicked man turns from all his sins which he has committed and observes all My statutes and practices justice and righteousness, he shall surely live; he shall not die. All his transgressions which he has committed will not be remembered against him; because of his righteousness which he has practiced, he will live” (Ezek. 18:4, 9, 20-22).

These and lots of other passages (yes, they’re in the New Testament also) sure seem to telegraph the idea that a person self-directs, in some sense, their salvation experience with God through their own effort, and that the Lord’s salvific gift to us is somewhat conditional on obedience. So, this begs the question of: are God’s salvation promises to us conditional or unconditional?

The answer is, yes.

It’s 100% true that Scripture says the blessings of God depend on us meeting His righteous conditions. Taken alone, they appear frightening. John MacArthur puts it like this: “Holiness knows nothing of forgiveness; the law of God, nothing of forgiveness. Holiness speaks against sin and knows nothing of excusing it. Righteousness speaks against sin and knows nothing of excusing it. The law of God speaks against sin and knows nothing of excusing it.”

That’s the conditional side of the story. But that is paired with the unconditional aspect of God’s plan and becomes the story behind all other stories in the Bible; it’s the overarching motif and plotline behind everything else.

You see the unconditional side first in Genesis 15 (vv. 9-17) when God makes His covenant with Abraham and lays out a path between dismembered animals that represented what would happen to those participating in any covenant if each didn’t hold up their side of the agreement. But then, only God passes through the pieces in the passage, indicating He alone would be torn apart if either side were unfaithful.

Being God, He would always meet His conditions for the covenant and be Abraham’s substitute if Abraham failed to meet the covenant’s standards.

You also see it in the Passover story when God sends the destroyer to Egypt to kill the firstborn son of every household. No matter how “good” or “bad” those were on the inside of the home or the degree of the sins they had committed, the destroyer would not enter the house if he saw the blood of the substitute applied to their door — the saving condition that God had set forth.

The same happens with us today when we fail like Abraham did, but stand behind the blood of Jesus, our substitute, who met all of God’s conditions, which is applied to us.

In his excellent message on the subject, Tim Keller dissolves the supposed contradiction of God’s unconditional and conditional blessings to us when he says, “On the cross, Jesus fulfilled the conditions of the law so that God could love you unconditionally.”

The reality of this leads to what Keller calls “paradoxical obedience.” We don’t obey out of the fear of damnation because of our sinful shortcomings, but rather out of overwhelming gratitude for Jesus’ sacrifice and God’s unconditional blessings that He earned for us.

This truth also leads to a strong assurance of salvation, one that isn’t threatened when we fall short of God’s unconditional standards. On that, MacArthur says: “You will never have subjective feelings of assurance unless you comprehend the objective truth of the Gospel.”

I don’t know about you, but for me, that’s 100% true in my life.

Someone who had that was Paul, which is why he wrote: “For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Rom. 8:38–39).

Notice Paul was “convinced” about his salvation. Not hopeful, wishful, or anything similar, and sure not thinking it depended on him hanging on to it the best he could.

So, again, are God’s salvation promises to us conditional or unconditional? Yes. But it’s no contradiction — it’s what the Gospel is all about.