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Is every word of God pure? · Apolog

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Is every word of God pure?

The praise of God's pure words is contrasted with coarse biblical imagery. That comparison depends on equating purity with polite vocabulary and every quoted speaker with God.

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.

Purity of divine speech does not mean polite vocabulary, and some graphic quotations belong to hostile human speakers.

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

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God's words are described as pure and refined

The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

Psalms 12:6

Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)

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Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.

Psalms 119:140

Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)

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Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.

Proverbs 30:5

Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)

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Biblical passages contain graphic sexual and excremental language

But Rab–shakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?

2 Kings 18:27

Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)

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But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?

Isaiah 36:12

Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)

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For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

Ezekiel 23:20

Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)

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Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the Lord’s right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory.

Habakkuk 2:16

Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)

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Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.

Malachi 2:3

Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)

Read the full chapter:Malachi 2

Understanding the contradiction

Psalms 12:6 compares God's words with repeatedly refined silver, while Proverbs 30:5 calls every divine word pure. The comparison suggests trustworthiness or freedom from corruption, but does not explicitly define purity as avoiding bodily vocabulary. Psalms 119:140 likewise praises the word's purity without a list of prohibited expressions.

2 Kings 18:27 and Isaiah 36:12 quote Rabshakeh's siege threat about consuming excrement and urine. Those are a hostile human speaker's words within the narrative, not automatically statements spoken by God. Ezekiel 23:20 uses explicit sexual comparison, and Habakkuk 2:16 and Malachi 2:3 use bodily shame and filth as threatening images. These examples establish that the Bible contains graphic and degrading rhetoric. They do not logically refute a claim of truthful or morally uncorrupted divine speech merely because the vocabulary is coarse. The strongest critical question concerns the moral content of divine humiliation and threats, while the proposed verbal contradiction relies on an unstated definition of 'pure.'

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contradictionPsalmsProverbs2 KingsIsaiahEzekielHabakkukMalachi

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