My desire is to honestly deal with the Scripture he puts forth and see if it is what it appeared to him to be. All reference will be from his book The Knowledge of the Truth . We will deal with Olson's Scripture references under four heads. Sometimes, in fact many times, God has placed two seemly contradictory things in Scripture. These are called paradoxes.
Paradoxes seem to be contradictions but are actrually keys to a higher knowledge.
They are used by God to expand our minds out of the mental boxes we create. But I believe it is not a contradiction, but a paradox. Now the standard view is to write these off as anthropomorphic. There are two kinds of knowledge, intellectual and experiential. I can have the intellectual knowledge of what Maine may look like.