Contradictions and Paradoxes in Isaiah 41:29

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Isaiah 41:29 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Isaiah 41:29. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Isaiah, the people are trusting in things that are not real or helpful, like statues that can't do anything. He says these things are empty and only cause confusion.

Isaiah 41:29: Behold, they [are] all vanity; their works [are] nothing: their molten images [are] wind and confusion.

Contradiction with Jeremiah 10:5

Jeremiah 10:5 contrasts with Isaiah 41:29 by describing idols as immobile and powerless, not capable of doing good or evil.

Jeremiah 10:5: They [are] upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also [is it] in them to do good.

Contradiction with Psalm 115:4-5

Psalm 115:4-5 highlights the lifelessness and inability of idols to perform any action, contradicting the notion in Isaiah 41:29 that they could possess divinity or power.

Psalm 115:4-5: Their idols [are] silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

Contradiction with Habakkuk 2:18

Habakkuk 2:18 questions the value of idols carved by humans and criticizes the trust placed in them, which contrasts with Isaiah 41:29's depiction of idols as widely regarded but ultimately untruthful.

Habakkuk 2:18: What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols? [maker of...: Heb. fashioner of his fashion]

Contradiction with 1 Corinthians 8:4

1 Corinthians 8:4 asserts that an idol is nothing in the world, directly opposing the attribution of any form of reality or capability to idols as potentially misleading in Isaiah 41:29.

1 Corinthians 8:4: As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol [is] nothing in the world, and that [there is] none other God but one.
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