So called contradictions.
"Please make a copy and pass it on."
" Faith witout Works is dead!"
"Be a witness"
Their is a web sight were he try's to confuse the word of God."http://members.aol.com/lstsoul6/NContradictions.html" "....with God all things are possible" Matthew 19:26
"...The lord was with Judah;
and he drove out the inhabitants of the moutain;
but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley,
because they had chariots of iron." Judges 1:19
Conquests of Judah We have here a further account af that glorious and successful campaign which Judah and Simeon made.
1. The lot of Judah was pretty well cleared of the Canaanites, yet not thoroughly. Those that dwelt in the mountain(the mountains that were round about Jerusalem) were drivenout(v.9,19) but those in the valley kept their ground against them, having chariots of iron, such as we read of,(Josh.17:16). Here the men of Judah failed, and thereby spoiled the influence which otherwise their example hithertomight have had on the rest of the tribes, who followed them in this instance of their cowardice, rather in all the other instances of their courage. They had iron chariots, and therefore it was thought not safe to attack them: but had not Israel God on their side, whose chariots are thousands of angels(Ps.68:17), before whom these iron chariots would be as stubble to the fire. Had not God expressly promised by the oracle(v.2) to give them success against the Canaanites in this very expeditions, without excepting those that had iron chariots? Yet they suffered their fears to prevail against their faith, they could not trust God under any disadvantages, and therefore durst not face the iron chariots, but meanly withdrew their forces, when with one bold stroke they might have completed their victories; and it proved of pernicious consequence. They did run well, what hindered them?(Gal.5:7).
Seeing God. "....I have seen God face to face,and my life is preserved." Gen. 32:30 "No man hath seen God at anytime".
John 1:18
Jacob wretles with an angel. Jacob gives a new name to the place; he calls it Peniel,
the face of God(v.30), because there he had seen the appearance of God, and obtained the favour of God. Observe,
the name he gives to the place preserves and perpetuates, not the honour of his valour or victory,
but only the honour of God's free grace. He does not say" In the place i wrestled with God, and prevailed;" but,
" In this place I saw God face to face, but it was God's mercey that I escaped with my life." Note, it becomes those whom God honours to take shame to themselves,
and to admire the condescensions of his grace to them. Thus david did,
after God had sent him a gracious message (2 Sam. 7:18),
Who am I, O Lord God?
The testimony of John the Baptist. Another thing we recieve from Christ is a clear revelation of God to us (v.18); He hath declared God to us,
whom no man hath seen at any time. This was the grace and truth which came by Christ, the knowlrdge of God and an acquaintance with him. Observe,
(1) The insufficieny of all other discoveries: No man hath seen God at any time. This intimates,
That the nature of God being spiritual,
he is bodily eyes,
he is a being whom no man hath seen,
nor can see,
(1 Tim. 6:16). We have therefore need to live by faith, by which we see him that is invisible,
(Heb. 11:27). (2) That revelation which God made of himself in the Old Testament was very short and imperfact,
in comparison with that which he has made by Christ: No man hath seen God at any time; that is,
what was seen and known of God before the incarnation of Christ was nothing to that which is now seen and known; life and immortality are now brought to a much clearer light than they were known; life and immortality are now brought to a much claerer light than they were then.
Steve Wilson
missouri
