Tuesday, December 04, 2018

Are the Gospels self-contradictory?

https://www.crossway.org/articles/do-the-gospels-contradict-themselves/

2 comments:

  1. I think the title is somewhat click-baity. Williams seems to be saying that these are actually paradoxes--merely apparent contradictions--that Jesus actually uttered (if one puts different parts of his teaching side by side) and that a Gospel author like John may have deliberately included them in order to make his readers sit up and take notice.

    I think the presentation of "deliberately including contradictions" (which has been picked up on by Sean McDowell) is a little unfortunate rhetorically because it could be interpreted and used in a way that Williams doesn't intend it.

    I'm also not sure that John did that deliberately--selecting different sayings of Jesus uttered in different settings partly because, put together, they create a paradox. It's rather conjectural.

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  2. I mean the title of the article you're linking, not your title. Sean McDowell's similar post also has a rather click-baity title.

    https://seanmcdowell.org/blog/do-gospel-writers-intentionally-include-contradictions

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