Wrested Scriptures

Alleged Contradictions and Inaccuracies

Inspiration
Partial
Contradictions
& Inaccuracies

  Preliminary
  Exodus 6:3
  Exodus 33:11,20
  1 Samuel 15:35
  1 Kings 15:14
  2 Kings 18:5
  2 Kings 24:6
  Matthew 2:1
  Matthew 17:1
  Matthew 19:16
  Matthew 20:29
  Matthew 27:6,7
  Matthew 27:37
  Matthew 28:7
  Mark 2:26
  Mark 16:7,8
  John 2:13-16
  James 1:13

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Exodus 6:3
"And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, {Ail Shaddai} but by my new name Jehovah {Yahweh} was I not known to them."

Problem:
There is an apparent contradiction between what God says to Moses in this passage and Abraham's use of the divine name in Gen. 14:22. (The divine name, Yahweh, occurs 165 times in Genesis.)

Solution:
  1. It is not said that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob did not use the divine name, but that they did not know it. Pharaoh said, "Who is the LORD, {Yahweh} that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go." (Exod. 5:2). Pharaoh came to know the power of the name when the Egyptians said, "Let us flee from the fact of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians." (Exod. 14:25). Yahweh had declared: "The Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD {Yahweh} when I stretch forth mine hand upon Egypt . . . " (Exod. 7:5 cf. also 8:10, 22; 14:18).

  2. The apparent contradiction is resolved once it is seen that Ail Shaddai was the name by which God was known to the patriarchs and although "Yahweh" was in use, the import of the name was not known in the way in which God was about to manifest Himself to Israel.