Perhaps rather than
fearing apparent contradictions, we should celebrate them, knowing that they serve as affirmation that God speaks to all kinds of people in all kinds of ways.
Not exact matches
This is why St. Paul can urge, without any
apparent sense of
contradiction: «Work out your own salvation with
fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work his good pleasure» (Philippians 2:12 - 13).
The shriller, nastier and more ad - hominem his attackers become, the more
apparent it is that they are trying to drown out what must be most obvious in their own minds — that they have bought into a cult of belief far removed from science and reality, so full of confirmation bias and
contradiction that the only way to maintain its momentum is to constantly stoke it with
fear and hyperbole.