Contradictions and Paradoxes in Exodus 25:17

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Exodus 25:17 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Exodus 25:17. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Moses, God asked the people to make a special golden seat called the mercy seat for a special box where God's kindness and forgiveness would be shown. This seat was to be built with exact measurements because it was very important and holy.

Exodus 25:17: And thou shalt make a mercy seat [of] pure gold: two cubits and a half [shall be] the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.

Contradiction with Exodus 20:4

Contradicts by prohibiting making of graven images, whereas Exodus 25:17 describes making a mercy seat with cherubim, which involves crafting images.

Exodus 20:4: Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness [of any thing] that [is] in heaven above, or that [is] in the earth beneath, or that [is] in the water under the earth:

Contradiction with Deuteronomy 4:16-19

Warns against creating images, contrasting with the instruction in Exodus 25:17 to craft cherubim images on the mercy seat.

Deuteronomy 4:16-19: Lest ye corrupt [yourselves], and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

Contradiction with Isaiah 46:5-6

Highlights the foolishness of creating and worshipping crafted figures, opposing the depiction of crafting cherubim in Exodus 25:17.

Isaiah 46:5-6: To whom will ye liken me, and make [me] equal, and compare me, that we may be like?

Contradiction with Acts 17:29

States that the Divine should not be thought of as crafted images, conflicting with the Exodus 25:17 command to create cherubim on the mercy seat.

Acts 17:29: Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
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