Contradictions
Amos
Old Testament · questions that cite Amos.
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These marks echo where critical scholarship tends to land on each question — not GEBible’s own ruling.
Seen as a contradiction
Genuinely disputed
Seen as reconciled
Leans toward reconciliation
Scholarly consensus: Leans toward reconciliation
The tension: Ecclesiastes 7:20 flatly denies there is any just man on earth who does good and does not sin.
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Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction
Scholarly consensus: Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction
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…
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Genuinely disputed among scholars
Scholarly consensus: Genuinely disputed among scholars
The tension: The Hebrew Bible gives God several different "names" and in some cases insists that a particular one is THE name.
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Usually considered reconciled
Scholarly consensus: Usually considered reconciled
The tension: The Bible's stance on alcohol is not a spectrum — it is a pile of mutually inconsistent positions.
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Genuinely disputed among scholars
Scholarly consensus: Genuinely disputed among scholars
The tension: Isaiah 45:7, Lamentations 3:38, Amos 3:6, and a stack of prophetic passages including Jeremiah 4:6, 18:11 and 2 Kings 6:33 explicitly attribute the creation or…
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Genuinely disputed among scholars
Scholarly consensus: Genuinely disputed among scholars
The tension: Hosea 13:16 has Yahweh announce that Samaria's pregnant women "shall be ripped up" as judgment — divine sanction on the act.
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