The tension: 1 Corinthians 8:4-8 has Paul argue that since an idol is nothing, food sacrificed to it is theologically neutral — eating it neither commends nor condemns you…
The tension: 1 Corinthians 7:14 says the unbelieving spouse is sanctified through the believing one; Acts 16:31 promises the Philippian jailer that he and his household wil…
The tension: Acts 18:26 has Priscilla (with her husband Aquila) instructing Apollos in "the way of God" — a clear example of a woman exercising teaching authority in the ea…
The tension: 1 Corinthians 7:12-14 has Paul instruct believers not to leave unbelieving spouses, and even says the unbelieving partner is sanctified by the believer.
The tension: Paul in 1 Corinthians 15:5 reports that the risen Jesus appeared "to Cephas, then to the twelve." But by the time of the resurrection, Judas Iscariot had alrea…
The tension: Paul in 1 Corinthians 2:15 says the spiritual person "judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man." Two chapters later in the same letter, 1 Corinth…
The tension: Matthew 28:19 places baptism at the center of the risen Jesus' Great Commission to the eleven — go, make disciples, baptize them in the triune name.
The tension: The contradiction sets the silencing-and-subordination passages — Genesis 3:16 (the husband rules over the wife as curse), 1 Timothy 2:12 (woman may not teach…
The tension: Colossians 3:22-23 and 1 Peter 2:18 command slaves to obey their earthly masters in all things, with fear and sincerity of heart, including "froward" (harsh) m…
