You’re on to something there. The Son is a “stumbling stone” for unbelievers, but that is God’s doing, since it was HE who “laid a stone in Zion”. The petulant Western mind is unbelief towards God and that WILL NEVER WORK. He opposes the proud (we’re all proud, but I’m talking about a mindset).
Scripture is not scientific as if we can figure God out. Contradictions are a facet of the stumbling stone, IMO. Faith clears up a lot, because trust in the goodness and steadfast love of God settles us in being unsettled.
“Contradictions are a facet of the stumbling stone, IMO.”
I don’t think there are any contradictions in the Bible, only contradictions produced by man’s faulty interpretation of the Bible.