ContradictionsReading order 304Bible context 1 min read
Will everyone see the majesty of God?
Isaiah includes everyone in one promise of divine revelation but describes the wicked as failing to behold divine majesty elsewhere.
- Textual conflict
- Weak tension
- The alleged conflict needs substantial assumptions, such as treating an omission as a denial or figurative language as literal.
- Importance
- Foundational
- A central claim about origins, salvation, divine justice, or religious authority.
Universal sight of glory and a wicked person's failure to behold majesty are not explicitly the same occasion or kind of recognition.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
All humanity will see the revealed glory of God
And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Isaiah 40:5
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:Isaiah 40
The wicked will not behold God's majesty
Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the Lord.
Isaiah 26:10
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:Isaiah 26