Contradictions

Jude

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New Testament · questions that cite Jude.

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• Scholarly consensus: Usually considered reconciled

  Was Enoch the sixth or the seventh from Adam?

  The tension: Count Adam as position one and the Genesis 5 genealogy puts Enoch at position seven.

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• Scholarly consensus: Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction

  Do angels have sex?

  The tension: Genesis 6:2-4 and Jude 6-7 describe angelic beings (the 'sons of God') having sex with human women and producing Nephilim.

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• Scholarly consensus: Leans toward reconciliation

  Is it wrong to have sex outside of marriage?

  The tension: The Torah (Exod 20:14, Deut 5:18) and the New Testament (Acts 15:20, 1 Cor 5:1, 6:13, 6:18, 10:8, 2 Cor 12:21, Gal 5:19-21, Eph 5:3, Col 3:5-6, 1 Thess 4:3, He…

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• Scholarly consensus: Genuinely disputed among scholars

  Do humans have free will?

  The tension: The Bible holds together two streams: Deuteronomy 30:19 and Joshua 24:15 frame human destiny as a real moral choice ("choose life," "choose you this day"), whi…

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• Scholarly consensus: Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction

  Is the devil tied up or free to roam?

  The tension: 2 Peter 2:4 says the rebellious angels were cast into hell and bound in chains of darkness, and Jude 6 repeats that the angels who left their proper estate are…

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• Scholarly consensus: Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction

  Does hell exist?

  The tension: The Bible offers four mutually incompatible afterlife schemes.

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• Scholarly consensus: Usually considered reconciled

  What was Sodom's sin?

  The tension: The Bible names at least six different sins as the reason Sodom was destroyed: same-sex intercourse (Leviticus 18:22 read into Ezekiel 16:50), inhospitality (M…

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