The tension: Isaiah 40:22 describes God sitting upon the "circle of the earth," which apologists routinely cite as evidence the Bible knew the planet was spherical.
The tension: This entry pairs Ecclesiastes 1:7 — rivers running to the sea and returning to their source — with Job 38:22, where snow and hail are kept in heavenly "treasur…
The tension: Genesis 8:22, the Noahic covenant, declares that while the earth remains, "seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night sh…
The tension: Genesis 12:5 reports that Abram took his household from Haran and "they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came" — Abra…
The tension: Genesis 13:14-17 and Genesis 17:8 record God promising the land of Canaan to Abraham and his seed as an "everlasting possession" (achuzzat olam).
The tension: Psalm 89:35-37 records God's oath, sworn by his holiness, that David's seed shall endure forever and his throne be established as the sun and moon — a faithful…
The tension: John 19:7 has the Jewish authorities declaring that under their own law, Jesus deserves death — "by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of…
The tension: Genesis 9:2, embedded in the post-flood Noachic covenant, has Yahweh place the fear and dread (morakem ve-hittekem) of human beings upon every beast of the ear…
