Contradictions and Paradoxes in Exodus 35:31

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Exodus 35:31 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Exodus 35:31. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Moses, God filled a person called Bezalel with His spirit, giving him wisdom and knowledge to do all kinds of special work. This means God helped him become very good at making things.

Exodus 35:31: And he hath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship;

Contradiction with Jeremiah 10:14

This verse states all men are brutish and lack knowledge, contradicting the divine wisdom given in Exodus 35:31.

Jeremiah 10:14: Every man is brutish in [his] knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image [is] falsehood, and [there is] no breath in them. [brutish in his knowledge: or, more brutish than to know]

Contradiction with 1 Corinthians 1:20

Here, the wisdom of this world is described as foolishness with God, in contrast to the wisdom given to Bezaleel.

1 Corinthians 1:20: Where [is] the wise? where [is] the scribe? where [is] the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

Contradiction with Ecclesiastes 1:18

It says that with much wisdom comes much sorrow, opposite to the positive light in which wisdom is portrayed in Exodus 35:31.

Ecclesiastes 1:18: For in much wisdom [is] much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

Contradiction with Hosea 4:6

People are destroyed for lack of knowledge, contradicting the impartation of wisdom, understanding, and knowledge in Exodus 35:31.

Hosea 4:6: My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. [destroyed: Heb. cut off]

Contradiction with 1 Corinthians 3:18-19

These verses suggest that becoming wise by the world's standards is foolishness, in contrast to the wisdom given by God in Exodus 35:31.

1 Corinthians 3:18-19: Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
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