May a eunuch enter the congregation of the Lord? View all View original

This Bible contradiction is from the Skeptic's Annotated Bible.

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Yes

Matthew 19:12 View context

For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from [their] mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive [it], let him receive [it].

Isaiah 56:3-5 View context

Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I [am] a dry tree.

For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose [the things] that please me, and take hold of my covenant;

Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.

No

Deuteronomy 23:1 View context

He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.