This is a rebuttal to the 23rd alleged Bible contradiction

Question 23: Should Christians do good works in secret?

These are the verses Evans presented to make his claim.

In the 'no' category, we have

Matthew 5:16.

Matthew 6:1.

My standard prefacing comments:

• God's dealing with Mankind has been chopped up into various dispensations,
  starting with that of Adam, then to Noah, then to Abraham, then to Moses,
  then to Jesus (who gave us the Church Age), then to the Millennial Reign
  of Christ, etc. The moral constraints that God places on the people of the
  earth are primarily dictated by the dispensation the individuals were born
  within and their undefiled consciences.
• The Bible reveals the big doctrines of God progressively over time,
  such as heaven, hell, angels, devils, salvation, the Messiah, etc. As a
  consequence, the verses in the back of the Bible (i.e., the Gospels on)
  tend to be more authoritative than those in the beginning of the Bible.
  As a corollary to this, often part of the revelation given to the prophet
  will not make any sense to the prophet or even to the people of his own
  generation. In my novels I refer to these verses as 'praega talleas' or
  hidden gems, not capable of being appreciated or even understood until
  centuries or even millenia later.
• Not all verses are equally authoritative. What Jesus said trumps every
  other writing in the Bible.
• Not all people are equally equal. Jesus Christ is not just another man
  among the billions of people. Jesus, not you or me, is God in the flesh.
  In the Church Age, the true followers of Jesus, by the grace of God, are
  partakers of the divine nature [2 Peter 1:4], but they are not themselves
  divine. See also Galatians 5:16.
• Just because a certain action or claim is recorded about someone in the
  Bible, doesn't mean that God approved of it. They may even be sincere
  and still get it wrong. Remember Job's friends who came to Job to
  commiserate with him and later to advise him on righteousness and the
  nature of God? They assumed that they were acting as the oracles of God,
  but God gave them a stern rebuke for their errors. But even if God did
  not approve of some claim or action, that does not mean that the Bible
  specifically condemned it in the attending verses.
• My favorite way to attempt to resolve controversial doctrines or claims is
  to collect all verses on the matter and then consisticize them so as to reduce
  the number of apparent contradictions, if there are any. Like it or not, the
  Bible has to be interpreted by the Bible.
• I am not a Christian apologist. It may take twenty years of hard study
  to be good at Christian apologetics, and I'm too old to start education for
  that now. I'm just a Christian who has had to deal with some of these
  hard questions on my own.
• I do not demand that the scriptures are inerrant, though they may have
  been in their original forms. The reason I am not going to claim that
  they are inerrant is simple practicality: I am not prepared to rigorously
  defend that claim. That would take a lot of knowledge that I do not have.
  So I leave that claim up to the apologists to defend as they choose to do so.

On the No side:

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works,
and glorify your Father which is in heaven. -- Matthew 5:16

On the Yes side:

Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them:
otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
-- Matthew 6:1

My answer

So, Matthew 5:16 represents the general rule, while Matthew 6:1 is the exception.

This is what Matthew 6:1 really means:

Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, for the purpose of being
seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is
in heaven.

Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them:
otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
2 Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet
before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the
streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you,
They have their reward. 3 But when thou doest alms, let not thy
left hand know what thy right hand doeth: 4 That thine alms may
be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall
reward thee openly. -- Matthew 6:1-4

There are times that you will give alms with others watching -- just do it
for God's glory, not your own. If you do it, do so because someone needs
help, not because you want to show off or get the praise of others. If you
can't get your heart right, how do you expect to get into heaven at all?

Alms giving is just one of a huge number of kind of good works.

Question 24: Is Jesus God?

Remember this: The righteous are mindful of the poor and help them; the wicked do not! (Proverbs 29:7)

You either get control of your lusts and feelings of entitlements or they will get control of you. -- Ilfinor