Contradiction with Ecclesiastes 9:5
Ephesians 5:14 speaks of awakening and receiving light, implying awareness and activity, while Ecclesiastes 9:5 states that the dead know nothing, indicating a lack of awareness or consciousness.
Ecclesiastes 9:5: For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
Contradiction with 1 Thessalonians 4:13
Ephesians 5:14 suggests awakening from sleep and gaining enlightenment, whereas 1 Thessalonians 4:13 talks about those who are asleep (dead) as having no hope in awakening, implying a permanent state.
1 Thessalonians 4:13: But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
Contradiction with Job 3:13
Ephesians 5:14 encourages rising from sleep to receive light, while Job 3:13 implies that being asleep (dead) is a state of rest and peace, contrary to awakening.
Job 3:13: For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
Contradiction with John 11:11-14
Ephesians 5:14 uses the metaphor of waking from sleep to symbolize rising and gaining light, whereas John 11:11-14 depicts sleep as literal death, thereby needing a miracle (resurrection) to awaken.
John 11:11-14: These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.
Contradiction with Ecclesiastes 12:7
Ephesians 5:14 suggests awakening leads to living in light, while Ecclesiastes 12:7 depicts the return to dust where the spirit departs, suggesting no return from this state.
Ecclesiastes 12:7: Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.