ContradictionsReading order 461Bible context 2 min read
Should we believe in unseen things?
Texts praise belief without sight, while Colossians criticizes a particular religious claim involving unseen things rather than banning all such belief.
- Textual conflict
- Weak contradiction
- The supplied passages do not establish incompatible claims. Different events, meanings, or conditions may account for the difference.
- Importance
- Major
- A major event or claim with wider implications.
Praising faith without sight does not require approving the specific angel worship and pretensions condemned in Colossians.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
Faith and hope commend confidence beyond what is seen
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Hebrews 11:1
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:Hebrews 11
While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
2 Corinthians 4:18
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:2 Corinthians 4