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Please think before answer and answer only for the Question I asked. I don’t need interpretations and telling me about stars and sex and reasons why Moon is the light and so on. Please read the full Question.
""" Geneses"" after Eve eat teh fruit.
And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: """
So from this we know we are like GOD (‘s) know what evil and good is. We have same knowledge as GOD of what is bad and what is good.
Our own understandings of bad and good are no different from God’s understanding.
Before you going to answer this I want to note that I am not interesting in the reasons.
I will agree with you that All God’s reasons are so beautiful that I can’t even breathe.

2006-07-17 09:49:06 · 13 answers · asked by PicassoInActions 3 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

Sending all kinds of decease’s to Egyptians to kill all babies is a good or bad? Again please don’t give me the reasons, I know every Christian will justify all kinds of murders and rapes and killing as long as it in bible. I am just asking if it’s good or bad according to the knowledge that we got from eaten the fruit.

2006-07-17 09:49:12 · update #1

"If a betrothed virgin is raped in the city and doesn't cry out loud enough, then "the men of the city shall stone her to death." (Deuteronomy)”
The question is!! To stone to death raped female because she did not cry out loud is a good thing or bad thing?
I am not asking why I am asking if its good or bad.

2006-07-17 09:50:21 · update #2

AMasing that all Christian answers came to reasoning why. If they can't read and understand the question why even bother? WHy give answers to what they want and not to what was asked.
Some ppl again attacking my spelling as argument. Well i speak at least 3 languages fluent unlike some. And my mispells are inspired by god and If primitive humans who thinks my spelling is bad is just because they are too primitive to see the absolute truth about spelling.
My hand was magicly and miracly driven by Jesus and i spell exactly the way he wanted me. But if some1 else will decide to answer the question please answer what is asked and what is suitable to you.
Therefore Jesus exist since he guide my hande to type all of this.

2006-07-17 10:14:45 · update #3

"Eating the fruit was bad. God knew evil from a theoretical point of view, but man gained an experimental knowledge of evil. Your premise that man's "understandings of bad and good are no different form God's understanding" is false.
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My understanding comes from Genses. You can quote many others from later passages but the creation still comes first.
Interpreting facts they way you like is one thing but knolwedge of good and bad still same as gods. GOD said it him self in Genses. You can dance as much as you like it but it can't be taken out of the bible.

2006-07-17 10:35:36 · update #4

13 answers

Eating the fruit was bad. God knew evil from a theoretical point of view, but man gained an experimental knowledge of evil. Your premise that man's "understandings of bad and good are no different form God's understanding" is false.

Isa 55:7-9
(7) Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
(8) For my thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither [are] your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
(9) For [as] the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

You are asking a question that can not be answered to your satisfaction. From human reasoning, these events would seem to be bad, but to God they are good. Humans do not think like God.

Your ability to speak three languages doesn't mean that you have a better understanding of the word of God than anyone else; and your misspellings only indicate that you don't know as much as you think that you do.

As I said, you will not be satisfied with any answer that you get. You are looking for someone to say that God is evil, but that will not happen. Human thinking is not the same as God's way of thinking. Your logic and reasoning are faulty, and will lead you to a wrong conclusion.

2006-07-17 10:18:40 · answer #1 · answered by Marty 4 · 1 0

Well, I could answer your version of the questions -- obviously you and me (and God) would think it was bad to "kill babies" and "kill raped women."

But that's not what's in the Bible.

If you read the text more carefully, you'll see the scenarios are different than you have described them.

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Take the "raped woman being stoned," for example. The surrounding verses AND the actual reading of the verse show a much different scenario than your summary.

Any Jew that was betrothed was considered to already be married -- thus, any sexual infidelity was actually adultery (and not just some version of premarital sex), and the penalty for adultery was stoning.

There are at least two situations described here (Deut. 22:23-27), and they are meant to be viewed in comparison to each other.

One of them is, "If a betrothed woman is raped in the countryside by the man, then he shall be stoned" -- the assumption is that the woman has told the truth, that she was unwillingly forced to have sex, and that even if she screamed for help, there was no one to hear or help her. Thus, she is judged innocent. [That's a real gift in favor of the woman -- they automatically assume she tried to get away, and so only the man is punished!]

The other scenario is the one that you changed.

If a man sleeps with [I don't see the word "rape" here, btw] a betrothed woman while in a town full of people, and the woman does not yell for help, then the law is making a reasonable assumption that the woman did not want to be helped (because of the tight living conditions in a town, the assumption is that she would have been heard, had she cried out) and thus was willingly committing adultery.

And the penalty for adultery was death. Unlike your description, the woman was not innocent, and she was not raped.

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I'm out of time, but the scenario you described about the Egyptians was not the same scenario as the text actually describes.

Having reading through all of your other comments, I'll be honest that I do not understand your intentions here.

And sure, I think people should deal with your questions rather than attack your spelling... but there's an AWFUL lots of spelling errors (among other things) here, and your reaction leaves me again wondering what the point of all this might be. But whatever...

As far as Genesis goes, our understanding of good and evil is the same as God's is -- just as you've said -- except for the fact that we're short-sighted and fallible, whereas God is not.

I think, because of that, it's better to approach an interpretation of a particular passage with real care... and especially not mispresenting it to suit our own purposes.

2006-07-17 17:19:25 · answer #2 · answered by Jennywocky 6 · 0 0

The Egyptians had already don'e it once to the Jews, and were about to do it again. This is possibly the most just plague God could ever come up with since it punished the Egyptians with the same consequence as their crime. God, being morally perfect, has the right to judge sin whenever and however he chooses. If he does it at a time that has a good effect as well, all the better.

If the woman don't cry out loud, she is a willing participant, and thus guilty of adultery, which under levitical law, has the same punishment.

What is bad is the way you massacred the grammar in those bible verses.

2006-07-17 16:59:27 · answer #3 · answered by acaykath 3 · 0 0

Yes, we know the difference between good and evil, thank you Adam and Eve! But we will never have the knowledge that God has, we have only a tiny bit of what He has.

Killing all the eldest children in Egypt, I don't like it, but it happened, its fact. Guess Pharoh should have let the slaves go, huh?

Lastly, if a woman is raped, she cries out, its when shes simply having sex with her boyfriend that she doesn't, so if the didn't cry out, she wasn't raped. A lot gets lost in translation.

2006-07-17 16:59:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

The babie thing in Egypt was a punishment, also known as bad. And, I'm thinking rape and pre-marital sex were called the same thing, seeing as rape is used a couple of times atleast where based on context pre-marital sex should have been used. So, if a woman was having sex before mariage and wanted it, she would be punished, also known as a bad thing.

So, yes, punishment = bad. Seeing as like begots like.

2006-07-17 16:57:33 · answer #5 · answered by Cullin D 2 · 0 0

We know that protecting ourselves against an evil enemy is good. Slavery is evil, disease is evil. We are not told about every evil that caused some events in the Bible. Sometimes faith is required to know that what God commands is good always.

2006-07-17 16:59:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

When man ate of the fruit he came to know the difference of good and evil -- He became imperfect, man's knowledge of good and evil is imperfect. God's knowledge of good and evil is perfect and just.

2006-07-17 17:00:20 · answer #7 · answered by Nancy 6 · 0 0

You are a very troubled person. Your mind does not work rationally. Two wrongs have never made a right. Also you have not the ability to read with comprehension. You need help.

2006-07-17 16:57:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

When you get it into context-I will answer you. You can not cherry-pick Mosaic law, give it "your interpretation, and expect the kinds of answers you are asking for.

2006-07-17 16:57:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

To stone anyone to death is bad.

2006-07-17 17:00:56 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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