Contradictions and Paradoxes in Matthew 12:33

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Matthew 12:33 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Matthew 12:33. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Matthew, if you make a tree healthy, it will have good fruit, but if you make a tree bad, it will have rotten fruit. This means that people are known by the good or bad things they do.

Matthew 12:33: Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by [his] fruit.

Contradiction with Matthew 7:16

This verse suggests that people are recognized by their fruits, which aligns with rather than contradicts Matthew 12:33.

Matthew 7:16: Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

Contradiction with James 3:12

Discusses the consistency of natural production (fig tree, vine), which supports the idea presented in Matthew 12:33 instead of contradicting it.

James 3:12: Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so [can] no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
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