Contradictions and Paradoxes in Genesis 35:3

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Genesis 35:3 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Genesis 35:3. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Moses, this verse tells us that Jacob wanted to go to a special place called Bethel to thank God. He wanted to make something called an altar to show that God helped him when he was scared and stayed with him wherever he went.

Genesis 35:3: And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.

Contradiction with Exodus 20:4

This verse prohibits making idols, which could imply not revering physical spaces such as altars, contrasting with Jacob's focus on a physical location in Genesis 35:3.

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 Matthew 6:6

Jesus teaches to pray in private, which contrasts with the public act of building an altar and worshiping as described in Genesis 35:3.

Matthew 6:6: But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

Contradiction with Acts 7:48

Stephen states that God does not dwell in temples made with hands, challenging the idea of building altars like Jacob does in Genesis 35:3.

Acts 7:48: Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,
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