are christians believe in some of the Bible and disbelieve others?

Question

when the Bible says:
"And he brought out the people that were in it, and cut them with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes..." (I Chronicles 20:3)

and

"And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the lord was kindled against Israel. And the lord said unto Moses, 'Take all the heads of the people and hang them up before the lord against the sun, that the fierce anger of the lord may be turned away from Israel.'" (Numbers 25:3-4)

u ignore it, and don't even want to mention it.

and you take the things that fit ur believe.

and when Jesus said:
"O Israel the lord our God is one God"

"why calling me good. and there is no good but God"

"My God, my God, why haven't you forsaken me"

1st commandment: you shall not take other gods before Me.

you ignore it and confess ur self with the idea of trinity. why do u deny the truth and believe in the words of monks and men? your God is only one. Not three, not human shape, not images or idols.

Answer 1

Either it is all literal or it is all symbolic. Let's make up our minds.

Answer 2

I am a Christian and firmly believe that the Bible is entirely a book of myths. What is says is utterly unimportant to the faith and to me.

The Bible speaks out directly about a lot of things. It says that the world has corners (Isaiah 11:12) and that it sets on pillars (I Samuel 2:8). It says that God accepted a human sacrifice -- he may have prevented Isaac's, but he allowed a general to sacrifice his own daughter without even a murmur, the text giving tacit support to the idea that having given his word, the man had to kill his child. (Judges 11:30-39). It clearly maintains that genocide is often commanded by God (Joshua 10:40-42 and I Samuel 15: 2, 3 and 8) and that, after killing all the adults in a race, taking the female children as sex slaves is permissible (Numbers 31: 17-18).

The God revealed by the Bible is not only both a liar who doesn't know the natural laws of his own world, and a monster, as shown above -- but he has no real regard, even for his own people, whom he forces into cannibalism (Leviticus 26: 27-29) when he is mad at them; or his priests, whose faces he wipes with dung (Malachi 2:1-3).
This monstrosity suggests killing kids who eat or drink too much (Deuteronomy 21: 18-21), and says that if he is angry with parents he will kill their children (Leviticus 26:22) and blame things upon children whose great-great-great grandfather committed the things being blamed on the kids (Exodus 20: 5).

Putting it in a word, biblegod is a monstrosity, a horrific demiurge of evil. Something that even he admits ( Isaiah 45:7 ) [Furthermore, the word used in Hebrew for evil, the word ra' is widely conceded to mean a number of different things: It can mean "wickedness," "mischief," "bad," "trouble," "hurt," "sore," "affliction," "ill," "adversity," "harm," "grievous," and "sad." So no matter what particular interpretation is given of this word -- it has profoundly negative implications. The idea that god is sovereign over the affairs of man makes this even worse, because no matter what interpretation it has, it indicates that biblegod deliberately does harm.]; evil about which he sometimes changes his mind (Exodus 32:14). What a font of unchanging morality -- that almighty God can decide to kill an entire people, and then be talked out of it by a human servant... Furthermore, it is obvious, if God can change his mind, then even if the Bible were not full of errors and horrors, you could not trust that God had not changed his mind on any other issue in it.

So, yes, I suppose if one wants to take as truth a book that says that beetles have four legs instead of six (Leviticus 11: 21-23) and that rabbits chew their cud [which they do NOT] (Deuteronomy 14:7) and if you are willing to, having accepted it as truth, overlook the fact that biblegod routinely changed his mind (I can show you other instances if you wish) then yeah, I suppose its words would matter and you could "prove" what you are saying.

I on the other hand, while a Christian (as in Christ follower) am NOT a literalism, and do not think that a book of bronze age myths owing heavily to the Sumerian and Egyptian myths in the Old Testament and to a collection of pagan faiths, particularly Mithraism in the New Testament matters at all.

Regards,

Reynolds Jones
Schenectady, NY
http://www.rebuff.org

Answer 3

you have to understand the original language to get the full meaning.
The first verse you quoted is talking about King David conquering this people and splitting them up and ruling them, and treating them well.
http://www.blueletterbible.org/tmp_dir/c/1151082093-1171.html#3

The second verse you mentioned.
The people of Israel where worshiping in other gods. And God warned them about this so they were killed, so as to meet God in person.

The third quote:
God is good. He is trying to teach them that they should worship God and pray in his mane.

The quote: "My God, my God, why haven't you forsaken me",
Jesus was teaching, even here. He was quoting Psalm 22.
Psalm 22 was describing what was going to happen at the Crucifixion before it happened.


I hope this helps...

Answer 4

I've said it before and I'll say it again. If your standard "moderate" Christian would actually read and understand the bible that is the basis of his religion, he would leave his church immediately.

Unfortunately, it's the atheists that actually study the bible. The Christians just listen to their preacher quote selections from it.

Answer 5

the Bible have been mixed with truth and false. there are still some truth in the Bible. but the Bible within today is not 100% accurate anymore.

Answer 6

That's universally true of everyone, Christian or other religion or no religion at all. I can guarantee you're a hypocrite as well. All human beings see what they want to see and believe what they want to believe when it's convenient for them. Human nature.

Answer 7

god - bothering lunatics just obey the parts they like and disregrad the rest. Take gay priests and gay marriage as an example. NO! I am not a homophobe (never been afraid of my house) but you can't be gay and christian.

Answer 8

Selective scripturization & brain compartmentalization.

Answer 9

the bible was written by men, not god. end of story

Answer 10

Your question doesn't make a bit of sense.