ContradictionsReading order 474Bible context 1 min read
Should we look for signs in the heavens?
Luke predicts alarming signs from heaven, while Jeremiah discourages alarm at heavenly signs. Prediction and instruction are not the same kind of claim.
- Textual conflict
- Weak contradiction
- The supplied passages do not establish incompatible claims. Different events, meanings, or conditions may account for the difference.
- Importance
- Supporting
- A supporting event, teaching, or biographical claim.
Predicting alarming heavenly signs does not command the fear that Jeremiah tells his audience to avoid.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
Jesus predicts fearful sights and great heavenly signs
And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Luke 21:11
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:Luke 21
Jeremiah says not to be dismayed by heavenly signs
Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
Jeremiah 10:2
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:Jeremiah 10