ContradictionsReading order 92Bible context 3 min read
Can God do anything?
Universal declarations of divine ability coexist with stated impossibilities and narratives of constrained action.
- Textual conflict
- Interpretive tension
- The passages pull in different directions, but the conflict depends on how their wording, scope, or narrative context is read.
- Importance
- Foundational
- A central claim about origins, salvation, divine justice, or religious authority.
Unqualified ability to do anything meets an explicit inability to lie, though moral impossibility and lack of power need not mean the same thing.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
Nothing is impossible or too hard for God
Is any thing too hard for the Lord? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.
Genesis 18:14
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:Genesis 18
And the Lord said unto Moses, Is the Lord’s hand waxed short? thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not.
Numbers 11:23
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:Numbers 11