Contradictions and Paradoxes in Romans 4:19

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Romans 4:19 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Romans 4:19. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Paul, Abraham trusted God even though he was very old and his wife Sarah was too old to have children. He believed that God could still do something amazing.

Romans 4:19: And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb:

Contradiction with Genesis 18:11

Contradicts Romans 4:19 by stating that both Abraham and Sarah were old and well-stricken in age with Sarah having passed the age of childbearing, emphasizing the impossibility of conception.

Genesis 18:11: Now Abraham and Sarah [were] old [and] well stricken in age; [and] it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

Contradiction with Hebrews 11:11

Contradicts Romans 4:19 by stating that through faith, Sarah herself received strength to conceive seed and was delivered of a child, highlighting her active faith and involvement.

Hebrews 11:11: Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.

Contradiction with Genesis 17:17

Contradicts Romans 4:19 by emphasizing Abraham’s doubt, as he laughed and questioned the possibility of having a child at the age of a hundred and Sarah being ninety.

Genesis 17:17: Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall [a child] be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
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