Contradictions and Paradoxes in Romans 1:23

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Romans 1:23 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Romans 1:23. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Paul, people took the greatness of God, who is perfect and never changes, and traded it for statues and images of people and animals. This made God sad because they chose to worship these things instead of Him.

Romans 1:23: And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

Contradiction with Exodus 20:4

While Romans 1:23 criticizes making images of created beings instead of worshiping God, this verse explicitly prohibits the making of any graven image or likeness of anything in heaven or earth, aligning more than contradicting with Romans 1:23.

Exodus 20:4: Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness [of any thing] that [is] in heaven above, or that [is] in the earth beneath, or that [is] in the water under the earth:

Contradiction with Isaiah 40:18

Discusses representations or likening God to something, which contradicts the idea in Romans 1:23 that portraying God as images of created beings is incorrect.

Isaiah 40:18: To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?

Contradiction with Acts 17:29

This verse implies that the divine nature shouldn't be considered as material or crafted by humans, which aligns rather than contradicts Romans 1:23 which discusses changing God's glory into images.

Acts 17:29: Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.

Contradiction with Deuteronomy 4:16-18

Warns against corrupting oneself by making images of any figure, which aligns with Romans 1:23 about exchanging God's glory for images, thus lacks contradiction.

Deuteronomy 4:16-18: Lest ye corrupt [yourselves], and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
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