My question is this: creationists take the story of the bible literally and believe that the world was created by God in seven days; why therefore do they refuse to treat the rest of the bible in the same literal manner? For example, one of the ten commandments - 'thou shalt not kill': take this literally, and you should end up with a Bhuddist type belief that all life is precious and not to be wasted. As far as I know, creationists are usually also supporters of having guns etc, and go hunting and shooting (which is killing, is it not? God said thou shalt not kill, and as far as I know didn't qualify this with, 'but hey, you think hunting and killing is fun, so off you go and kill some deer') and probably wouldn't hesitate to shoot a burglar as seems to happen fairly frequently in the US, or so we are led to believe.
How can they justify these double standards??
2006-08-10 19:49:22 · 22 answers · asked by squimberley 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Please note that I am using the killing of animals just as an example - I'm not even a vegetarian myself - is for example only.
For the people who got upset re: 'self defence' my opinion is this - material possessions are never worth someone's life.
2006-08-10 23:57:25 · update #1
Hello Sqim,
I actually think that the earth was created in 6 days and is a young earth. Its interesting what you say about the commandments which i think at the moment are directing us not to kill other people and not animals. I could give you loads of quotes but I'm not sure you really want that. I am a meat eater and i think the bible shows some very important facts about Blood and its importance and in fact directs us that its OK to eat it. I would in fact as a mother protect my family with all my might, and i honestly cant say what i would do in a situation where their lives were at risk if i had a gun. I cant justify anything because i know i am faulty and that's the whole point of Jesus dieing. We are all faulty and i would say sinners who need Jesus. Others may say he is a prop for sad people and i would agree, because in a fallen world he is the only way back to God because he was both God and Man so meets every possibility for our fallen natures. Thanks for the question and for making me think lol xxx
2006-08-10 22:36:04 · answer #1 · answered by : 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A jumble of a question stapped in silly stereotypes. Creationists carry guns?? What nonsense. The bible doesn't say don't hunt for a start. And creationists aren't people who take the bible literally (not usually) - they're people who believe that the world was fundamentally created - the product of a creator - not the product of randomness and accidental, directionless eveolution. Creationism is a sophisticated school with tons of scientific evidence and hardly any of them belive the world was created in 7 days (though you can always find someone...)
-And probably wouldn't hesitate to shoot a burglar??? What is this nonsense? You're just pulling stuff out of the air. Don't make such silly generalisations. Not all Christians are pacifists. Some would kill in self-defence some would choose not to.
Thou shalt not kill is old testament. Christians follow the new testament which only says: Love God and love your neighbour. That's the whole enchilada.
2006-08-11 03:03:42 · answer #2 · answered by D Law 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Have you ever given someone or let someone see a negative look? Perhaps that negative look was because you were having a bad moment or you did not approve or was momentarily prejudiced against that person. Now did you ever think about the impact of the 'negative look'? Suppose it was the last drop in the bucket, the person was feeling so rotten that day that after your negativeness he/ she went off and killed themselves? Or suppose your negative look along with other negativeness over a ten 10 year period made the person kill himself or perhaps someone else?
Do you know the mind of God? Does God know you, does He believe in you? Are you an atheist, Christian? Agnostic? What is an atheist, Christian, agnostic, Satanist? Sometimes someone claims to be a Christian and doesn't know God at all. And sometimes someone claims to be an atheist but can not ignore God's law of love calling him/her from the deepest part of their core.
Where does love and hate come from? Did they come from the big bang? Do they run off of electricity like a refrigerator? If love and hate has their origin from within time, then who is to say what is good or bad?
2006-08-11 03:07:53 · answer #3 · answered by donutmiddel 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God committed genocide, God is an unforgiving entity, eat an apple in his garden and be thrown into the slough of despondency. If you don't live up to his expectations, he just wipes out the whole of humanity with a flood. Red sea pedestrians are taken care of, but those chasing them die? Not much forgiveness there. My religion is private, I can pray in a Buddhist Wat or near a waterfall, nobody knows I'm a spiritual person. The God I pray to has never been used to support a holy war, he has never killed and he is not omnipresent. If more people worshipped him there would be no wars, no divisions. My God has given me everything I have ever asked for, I only had to sell him my soul.
2006-08-11 03:30:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Good question...thou shalt not kill is better translated" thou shalt not murder" ...and life is precious...i am native american and white and a christian.. i have never hunted just for the "thrill" of it.. I would kill to eat and i would not kill more than was needed ... but that is my interpretation.... the burglar ??? depends on the situation, but my feeling is if this person has enough nerve to break in my house...then he has enough nerve to harm me ... which in turn would make me fear for my life which in turn would probably cause him to die.... i have no moral conflict with defending myself..
2006-08-11 02:59:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Interesting to see Xtian appologist here claiming that all the nasty stuff is in the old testiment. Jesus strongly approves of the law and the prophets. He hasn't the slightest objection to the cruelties of the Old Testament. See Mathew 5.17 etc
2006-08-11 05:38:13 · answer #6 · answered by Avondrow 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bible has scores of internal contradictions. Hence, it is impossible, even in principle, to have a self-consistent set of biblical beliefs. Thus, they can (and must) pick and choose, and since whatever they pick is in the bible, they are just fine with it.
2006-08-11 03:18:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
the problem with life is that hypocracy is bleeding all over our society. don't even try to understand creationists or religious people. why can't they just worship in complete silence? why do they have to spread their pathetic beliefs onto everyone else? we should outlaw all organized religion, make it a felony have peblic meeting about god.
2006-08-11 02:56:50 · answer #8 · answered by Bodhi 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
i don't believe hunting for fun is a good thing, but i do believe that you use what you kill. in the bible it does say that god put animals here on earth for us to use ( but not abuse!)
2006-08-11 03:39:57 · answer #9 · answered by welshwife 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not all of us believe that the seven days were literally seven twenty-four hour periods. God does not measure time in the same way that we do.
2006-08-11 03:03:33 · answer #10 · answered by ♥ Luveniar♫ 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋