Contradictions and Paradoxes in Acts 11:21

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Acts 11:21 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Acts 11:21. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Luke, God was helping the people, so many of them started to believe in Him and decided to follow His teachings. This means God was with them and made their hearts ready to believe.

Acts 11:21: And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number believed, and turned unto the Lord.

Contradiction with Proverbs 3:5

Trusting in the Lord with all your heart contrasts with relying on personal decisions, while Acts 11:21 indicates reliance on God’s hand guiding events.

Proverbs 3:5: Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

Contradiction with Jeremiah 17:5

Cursed is the man that trusts in man contradicts the truth that the hand of the Lord is with people, bringing about successful outcomes.

Jeremiah 17:5: Thus saith the LORD; Cursed [be] the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.

Contradiction with 1 Corinthians 2:4-5

Paul emphasizes faith not in man’s wisdom but in God’s power, differing from Acts 11:21 where belief is linked directly with the presence of God’s hand.

1 Corinthians 2:4-5: And my speech and my preaching [was] not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: [enticing: or, persuasible]

Contradiction with Ezekiel 33:11

God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked, which seems contrary to a verse discussing successes of a different kind with the Lord’s hand being with them.

Ezekiel 33:11: Say unto them, [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

Contradiction with Numbers 14:8-9

If the Lord delights in us, then He will bring us into this land, contradicts Acts 11:21’s implication of success as the Lord’s hand was with them, rather than guarantee based on divine delight.

Numbers 14:8-9: If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
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