I CAN`T IMAGINE a journey of a thousand miles beginning with a thousand-mile step. When you say a single step, it is a very small beginning compared to the length of a journey that Lao Tzu is trying to tell or impress in this quotation.
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Home Programs Are they Contradictory? I John 2:7 and I John 2:8

No program of this kind has challenged the intelligent thinking man and skeptics who quickly dismiss the Bible as a source of truth, and claims that the Bible is inaccurate and self-contradictory.

But the seemingly contradictory verses that Bro. Willy Santiago posed will surely trickle down as to who is the rightful preacher and pastor gifted with the mastery of the Word of God in the Bible. Who will stand to answer the seemingly paradoxical verse? That is the challenge of this segment to everyone!
 
Are they Contradictory?

et us continue with the examination that we are making of the verses of the Bible to find out if it contains contradictions. Let us read, at once, what I John 2:7 says—

“Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.”

This particular verse tells us that St. John was addressing the early brethren in the church. He said, “Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.”

It appears that St. John did not write the early Christians any new commandment.

But in I John 2:8, he said—

“Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.”

Here, in this verse, St. John said, “Again a new commandment I write unto you.” But bear in mind that in I John 2:7 he said, he was not writing a new commandment but an old commandment.

Do they contradict? Did he write them a new commandment, or did he not?

Let us ask for answers and explanations from our preachers . . . pastors . . . ministers … and from those who claim to be apostles and evangelists. They might know the answer. If they couldn’t give you any answer, let us ask Brother Eli Soriano.