The tension: The Hebrew Bible repeatedly narrates theophanies in which God is seen face-to-face — by Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, seventy elders, Manoah, Micaiah, Job, Isa…
The tension: 1 Kings 8:12 and 2 Chronicles 6:1 declare that Yahweh said he would dwell in thick darkness, with Psalms 18:11 and 97:2 echoing the imagery.
The tension: 1 Timothy 2:3-4 and 2 Peter 3:9 say God wants every human saved; Proverbs 16:4, John 12:40, Romans 9:18-22, and 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12 portray a deity who cre…
The tension: Matthew 4:10 quotes Deuteronomy 6:13 and tells Satan that one should worship and serve God *only* — and Matthew 23:10 says no one but Christ should be called *…
The tension: Matthew 6:5-6 explicitly forbids public prayer: do not be like the hypocrites who pray in synagogues and street corners to be seen — go into your inner room (*…
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: Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount and parallel Lukan material tells his followers to take no thought for tomorrow, to give to everyone who asks, to lend without…
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…
