Contradictions and Paradoxes in Isaiah 43:8

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Isaiah 43:8 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Isaiah 43:8. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Isaiah, God wants people who can't see or hear well to come to Him, because He knows they can learn to see and hear in a different way with their hearts. This means He wants everyone to know Him and understand His love, even if it's hard at first.

Isaiah 43:8: Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.

Contradiction with Proverbs 20:12

This verse states that the hearing ear and the seeing eye are made by the Lord, suggesting that hearing and seeing are God-given abilities, contradicting the idea that people may be blind or deaf by God's will as indicated in Isaiah 43:8.

Proverbs 20:12: The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.

Contradiction with Matthew 13:16

This verse indicates that those who have eyes and ears are blessed, implying a positive assertion of those sensory abilities, which contrasts with the depiction of blindness and deafness in Isaiah 43:8.

Matthew 13:16: But blessed [are] your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.

Contradiction with John 9:39

Here, Jesus mentions bringing judgment to give sight to the blind and make those who see blind, portraying the ability to see as judgment-based, contradicting the notion in Isaiah 43:8 of inherent blindness.

John 9:39: And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.
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