Contradictions and Paradoxes in Joshua 3:14

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Joshua 3:14 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Joshua 3:14. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of the book, Joshua, this story shows that God is leading His people to a new place. The priests carry a special box called the Ark of the Covenant, which helps remind everyone that God is with them and will take care of them as they cross the river.

Joshua 3:14: And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people;

Contradiction with Job 9:8

Describes God alone as spreading out the heavens and walking on the sea, implying divine actions cannot be performed by humans, contradicting the miraculous stopping of the Jordan River by human action in Joshua 3:14.

Job 9:8: Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea. [waves: Heb. heights]

Contradiction with John 3:13

States that no man has ascended to heaven except Jesus, contradicting the idea of miraculous access to spiritual realms as might be interpreted from the crossing of the Jordan as a divine action.

John 3:13: And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, [even] the Son of man which is in heaven.

Contradiction with Hebrews 11:29

Refers specifically to the miracles of the Red Sea crossing rather than the Jordan, implying other crossings may not have occurred miraculously, a concept at odds with Joshua 3:14.

Hebrews 11:29: By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry [land]: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.
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