Contradictions and Paradoxes in Romans 6:2

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Romans 6:2 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Romans 6:2. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Paul, if we are friends with Jesus, it's like we have left behind all the bad things we used to do. So, we shouldn't go back to doing those bad things again.

Romans 6:2: God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

Contradiction with 1 John 1:8

This verse states that if we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us, which contradicts Romans 6:2 that implies believers are dead to sin.

1 John 1:8: If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Contradiction with Ecclesiastes 7:20

This verse notes that there is not a just man on earth who does good and sins not, contradicting the notion in Romans 6:2 that believers can live apart from sin.

Ecclesiastes 7:20: For [there is] not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

Contradiction with 1 Kings 8:46

States that there is no one who does not sin, which contradicts the idea in Romans 6:2 that believers are dead to sin.

1 Kings 8:46: If they sin against thee, (for [there is] no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;

Contradiction with James 3:2

Indicates that we all offend in many things, contradicting Romans 6:2's implication that believers no longer live in sin.

James 3:2: For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same [is] a perfect man, [and] able also to bridle the whole body.
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