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Is it true that Christians can’t sin? Can God repent? Was Goliath indeed killed by David? These and more questions considered as Contradictions within an Islamic approach of the Bible (IslamicEra.com).<\/span> 91. Who brought Joseph to Egypt?<\/span><\/strong> The Ishmaelites bought Joseph and then took Joseph to Egypt (Genesis 37:28) 92. Does God change his mind?<\/span><\/strong> 'To repent' has<\/strong> two meanings<\/strong>: 2. to feel great sorrow for evil<\/strong> things one has done.<\/em> 93. The Bible says that for each miracle Moses and Aaron demonstrated, the magicians did the same by their secret arts. Then comes the following feat:<\/span><\/strong> The magicians did the same (Exodus 7:22). This is impossible, since there would have been no water left to convert into blood. 94. Who killed Goliath?<\/span><\/strong> Elhanan (2 Samuel 21:19). 95. Who killed Saul?<\/span><\/strong> An Amalekite slew him (2 Samuel 1:1-16). 96. Does every man sin?<\/span><\/strong> No. True Christians cannot possibly sin, because they are the children of God. Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God (1 John 5:1). We should be called children of God; and so we are (1 John 3:1). He who loves is born of God (1 John 4:7). No one born of God commits sin; for Gods nature abides in him, and he cannot sin because he is born of God (1 John 3:9). But, then again, Yes! If we say we have no sin we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us (1 John 1:8). The verb ‘to sin’ has two meanings:<\/strong>
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\n\tKJV "Then there passed by Midianites<\/span> merchantmen; and they [Joseph’s brothers] drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites <\/span>for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt." (Genesis 37:28)<\/em>
\n\tIt is clear that the term Midianites refers to people from the region Midian and Ishmaelites refer to people of the tribe of Ishmael.
\n\tKJV "And the Midianites<\/span> sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, and captain of the guard." (Genesis 37:36)<\/em><\/p>\n
\n\tPartly right<\/em><\/strong>. <\/em><\/strong>It were the Ishmaelites from the region Midian.<\/em>
\n\tThe Midianites had sold him in Egypt (Genesis 37:36)
\n\tPartly right<\/em><\/strong>. Ishmaelites are also named Midianites here as they were from the region Midian (Genesis 37:28).<\/em>
\n\tJoseph said to his brothers I am your brother, Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt (Genesis 45:4)
\n\tRight<\/em><\/strong>. Joseph’s brothers sold<\/span> him to the Midianites with the intention that he be taken to<\/span> Egypt by the Midianites.<\/em>
\n\tNo Bible Contradiction<\/span>
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\n\tYes. The word of the Lord came to Samuel: I repent that I have made Saul King… (1 Samuel 15:10 to 11)
\n\tNo. God will not lie or repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent (1 Samuel 15:29)
\n\tYes. And the Lord repented that he had made Saul King over Israel (1 Samuel 15:35).
\n\tNotice that the above three quotes are all from the same chapter of the same book!<\/span> In addition, the Bible shows that God repented on several other occasions:
\n\t– i. The Lord was sorry that he made man (Genesis 6:6)
\n\tI am sorry that I have made them (Genesis 6:7)
\n\t– ii. And the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do to his people (Exodus 32:14).
\n\t– iii. (Lots of other such references).<\/p>\n
\n\t1. to feel great sorrow for something one has done;<\/em>
\n\tYes<\/em><\/strong>, seeing how people make a mess of it, God can feel great sorrow for what He has done (1 Samuel 15:10-11,35).<\/em>
\n\tTake Note. This is not a matter of personal (God's) guilt, but of personal (God's) pain.<\/p>\n
\n\tNo<\/em><\/strong>, God can’t feel sorrow for evil things He has done, as He doesn’t do evil things. Therefore He never takes back his once spoken word (1 Samuel 15:29); rejecting Saul as a king was not a broken promise, but a pronouncement that after Saul's death no son would succeed him.<\/em>
\n\tTake Note. This is indeed a matter of personal (human) guilt.
\n\tNo Bible Contradiction <\/span>
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\n\tMoses and Aaron converted all the available water into blood (Exodus 7:20-21)
\n\tNo;<\/em><\/strong> they only turned the water in the river into blood, as the people dug in the ground for water.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n\tNo<\/em><\/strong>; ‘did the same’, the similarity is the faculty to turn water into blood. The magicians could show that in another place.<\/em>
\n\tNo Bible Contradiction<\/span>
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\n\tDavid (1 Samuel 17:23, 50-51).
\n\tRight<\/em><\/strong>. David was the first to kill a “Goliath of Gath” and he did it with a sling and a stone and with the sword of Goliath.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n\tRight<\/em><\/strong>. Elhanan also slew a “Goliath of Gath”. That was the champion’s title given to the mightiest soldier of Gath. For that reason the addition “of Gath” is always given with this name.<\/em>
\n\tSee the article: Did David beat Goliath? <\/a>
\n\tNo Bible Contradiction<\/span>
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\n\tSaul took his own sword and fell upon it…. Thus Saul died… (1 Samuel 31:4-6).
\n\tRight.<\/em><\/strong> He committed suicide.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n\tWrong<\/em><\/strong>. The Amalekite obviously lied about the matter.<\/em>
\n\t(Advice: Do your homework before you speak.)
\n\tNo Bible Contradiction<\/span>
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\n\tYes. There is no man who does not sin (1 Kings 8:46; see also 2 Chronicles 6:36; Proverbs 20:9; Ecclesiastes 7:20; and 1 John 1:8-10).
\n\tRight so<\/em><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n\tVery wrong<\/span><\/em><\/strong>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n
\n\t1. do wrong to others and to ourselves. Christians and non-Christians sin in this way. However, – due to the inward living Christ in the heart of a Christian – the Spirit of God leads the Christian to confession, forgiveness and a process of change to become a better person (1 John 1:8-9). <\/em>
\n\t2. separate from God. This is not possible for a Christian, as the inward living Christ doesn’t leave the heart of a believer (1 John 3:9). He may ‘sleep in the boat’ while the storm is ongoing, but He will do his work as soon as He is awakened (Luke 8:24).<\/em>
\n\tNo Bible Contradiction<\/span>
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