Contradictions and Paradoxes in Hebrews 5:1

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Hebrews 5:1 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Hebrews 5:1. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of Hebrews, a high priest is someone chosen from the people to help them with God's special things by giving gifts and making sacrifices to take care of their sins. This means the high priest's job is to help people be close to God by saying sorry with special gifts.

Hebrews 5:1: For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things [pertaining] to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:

Contradiction with Hebrews 7:27

Hebrews 7:27 highlights that unlike other high priests, Jesus does not need to offer sacrifices daily for His own sins, contradicting Hebrews 5:1 which implies every high priest must offer sacrifices for sins.

Hebrews 7:27: Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.

Contradiction with Hebrews 9:11-12

These verses state that Christ came as a high priest of good things to come, not with the blood of goats and calves, which contradicts Hebrews 5:1 that says high priests are taken among men to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.

Hebrews 9:11-12: But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;

Contradiction with Hebrews 10:10-12

These verses explain that Jesus offered one sacrifice for sins forever, which contradicts Hebrews 5:1 insinuating the necessity for repeated offerings by high priests.

Hebrews 10:10-12: By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once [for all].

Contradiction with Romans 6:10

This verse states that Jesus, in dying, died unto sin once, contradicting Hebrews 5:1, which refers to continuous offerings by high priests.

Romans 6:10: For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.

Contradiction with Hebrews 9:28

This verse contends that Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many, contradicting the notion in Hebrews 5:1 of repeated offerings by priests for sins.

Hebrews 9:28: So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
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