Please to explain - The "for" and "against" contradiction

Let us posit three kinds of people as they relate to their attitudes about Jesus....

Group One: Committed to him.
Group Two: Against him.
Group Three: Apathetic about him.

Now, let us consider these two statements attributed in the Bible to Jesus...

Statement One: Luke 12:30 "He who is not with Me is against Me; and he who does not gather with Me scatters."
Statement Two: Mark 9:40 "For he who is not against us is for us."

As the excellent blog Debunking Christianity points out, statement one puts the apathetic group in with the "against him" group. Statement two, however, puts the apathetic group in with the "committed" group.

If you are a Christian, I ask you not to attempt to find a way around this logical contradiction, but to do something a lot harder: Look at it objectively and ask yourself it it is not, in fact, a clear demonstration of the human rather than divine origin of the Bible.

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