A Real and Significant Biblical Contradiction?

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That seems to fit the description, as I remember it.

Yes, and there are examples in Job and elsewhere is scripture.



Now, I'm a Christian, so this is not easy to say, but Jesus has taught me the truth will always set me free. So here goes:

It seems to me that to order someone to do something makes one culpable for that thing the one ordered does. An example: The leader of a street gang orders a hit on the leader of a rival gang. They carry out his orders and murder the rival. I'd say the gang leader is just as guilty of committing murder as the ones pulling the triggers! Don't you agree?