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Should we believe everything? · Apolog

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Should we believe everything?

The expansive description of love believing all things contrasts with explicit warnings against believing every word or spirit.

Textual conflict: Weak tension; The alleged conflict needs substantial assumptions, such as treating an omission as a denial or figurative language as literal.
Importance: Major; A major event or claim with wider implications.

Love's poetic description as believing all things conflicts with testing claims only if it becomes a literal instruction to accept every assertion.

An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.

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Love is described as believing all things

Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

1 Corinthians 13:7

Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)

Read the full chapter:1 Corinthians 13

People should test claims and refuse deceptive speakers

The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.

Proverbs 14:15

Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)

Read the full chapter:Proverbs 14

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When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart.

Proverbs 26:25

Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)

Read the full chapter:Proverbs 26

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

1 Thessalonians 5:21

Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)

Read the full chapter:1 Thessalonians 5

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

1 John 4:1

Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)

Read the full chapter:1 John 4

Understanding the contradiction

1 Corinthians 13:7 describes bearing, believing, hoping, and enduring all things. In its portrayal of love, the unqualified word 'all' can sound like approval of universal trust. The verse is a description of a virtue, however, rather than a separately formulated rule for evaluating every factual assertion.

Proverbs 14:15 calls believing every word naive, Proverbs 26:25 warns against an attractive but corrupt speaker, and 1 John 4:1 commands testing spirits because false prophets exist. 1 Thessalonians 5:21 likewise requires examination. If the Corinthian phrase means accepting every claim as true, these instructions directly oppose it. If it describes a trusting disposition in relationships, the statements concern different aspects of belief. The tension turns on that scope, which the short quotation does not define.

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contradiction1 CorinthiansProverbs1 Thessalonians1 John

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