(West Bredenhof – Abounding Grace) Atheists and agnostics love to discredit God’s Word by trotting out Bible contradictions. You can easily find lists of them online. We shouldn’t be afraid of these “contradictions.” The vast majority of them have simple explanations which easily defang them. Let’s briefly look at one of these alleged contradictions. It involves these two passages:
Philippians 3:12, “Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.”
Hebrews 10:14, “For by a single offering he [Christ] has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.”
Do you see the issue?
In Philippians 3:12, Paul writes that he is not yet perfect. But Hebrews 10:14 says that all Christians have already been made perfect. So which is it?