ContradictionsReading order 302Bible context 2 min read
What's new?
Ecclesiastes denies novelty under the sun, while other passages announce new divine actions, a new world, and personal transformation.
- 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.
Poetic denial of novelty and promises of renewal use new across different scopes, so a literal universal-event collision is uncertain.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
Nothing new occurs under the sun
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 1:9
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:Ecclesiastes 1
God promises new creation and transformed lives
Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
Isaiah 43:19
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:Isaiah 43