Who owns the earth?
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This Bible contradiction is from the Skeptic's Annotated Bible.

Verses

God

Genesis 14:19 View context

And he blessed him, and said, Blessed [be] Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:


Exodus 9:29 View context

And Moses said unto him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands unto the LORD; [and] the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that thou mayest know how that the earth [is] the LORD'S.


Exodus 19:5 View context

Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth [is] mine:


Deuteronomy 10:14 View context

Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens [is] the LORD'S thy God, the earth [also], with all that therein [is].


1 Chronicles 29:11 View context

Thine, O LORD, [is] the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all [that is] in the heaven and in the earth [is thine]; thine [is] the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all.


Psalm 24:1 View context

The earth [is] the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.


Psalm 50:12 View context

If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world [is] mine, and the fulness thereof.


Psalm 89:11 View context

The heavens [are] thine, the earth also [is] thine: [as for] the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.


1 Corinthians 10:26 View context

For the earth [is] the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.

Satan

Matthew 4:8-9 View context

Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;

And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.


Luke 4:5-6 View context

And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.

Humans

Psalm 115:16 View context

The heaven, [even] the heavens, [are] the LORD'S: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.

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