Do the people who claim to follow the Bible, ignore passages which are politically or morally inconvenient?

Answer 1

How about eating shellfish? God really does hate shrimp. Fig Newton eaters will burn in hell too. Poly Cotton blends are from the devil!

"a lot of politics and moral views have passed by in those many years"
Sounds like an apologist in the making.

Answer 2

All bible-followers ignore passages which are politically or morally inconvenient!

Answer 3

Of course they do

Or they find another passage that counters the one they don't want to follow.

Shall we take a common passage as an example.

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Now, that opens the door to all sorts of segregation and, in fact, Religion for a long while excluded women, put them on one side of the church and even forbid them to speak ("Women should not speak in church" that's from Paul in either Corinithans or Romans).

Blacks were put in the balcony.

Hitler took this to extremes with his master race concept. Blue-eyed blondes can only be with blue-eyed blondes

Of course, homosexuals can also point at this one and justify their existance

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See how easy it is to use the Bible to your advantage.

But that's if you live scripture by scripture instead of integrating the book to reach a medium.

Still, nonetheless, Jesus said that except for adultery divorce is not allowed, yet even Protestant minsters get divorced for silly reasons.

The whole Catholic religion uses "confession" and "pennace" to get away with everything short of murder.

Forgive me father for I was weak and had sex with a girl I know who isn't my wife.

OK, do 20 stations at the Cross and you are forgiven.

There there is that religion that beleives "once saved always saved" so, essenetially, you can go out and do whatever you want. For, YOU ARE SAVED!

Thank goodness in the End there is God and a book of life and while I may not be in that book, many people may be in for the shock of their lives when the end of times come and so many of them want it to come now!

Answer 4

I claim to follow the Bible, what passages are you talking about? The writing of theBible was finished 2000 years ago a lot of politics and moral views have passed by in those many years.

Answer 5

Of course some do. Various forms of hypocrisy can be found everywhere. Just because some do doesn't mean all do. The Bible must be taken in its context and actually studied, which is why many who follow it still feel comfortable cutting their hair above their ears or eating shell fish.

This is not hypocrisy. It's understanding.

Answer 6

here I thought I was pretty good at seeing where I was letting my Lord down... I have trouble with that "be perfect as your Father in Heaven is perfect " thing in Mathew 5. I know I have a long way to go to be the man that He created me to be. So I am not sure what part of the Bible you see that I am needing to have convict me next. Would you be a doll and show me my current failures then I can work on correcting those issues along with the other 2 million areas I am aware of... Jim

Answer 7

No. They are there but we don't "claim to follow the Bible". We Christians do. If you really care, you shouldn't ask this question in the first place.

Answer 8

just because you think they are politically or morally inconvenient doesnt mean we see them that way. V'ahavta l'reacha kamocha.

Answer 9

Yes

Example: How many condemn homos using Leviticus....but ignore the fact that we also should not cut the hair above our ears. Then they say something written by Paul in the new testement. Paul, biggest criminal ever!

Answer 10

No, but we know that some passages must be taken in cultural and historical context. We also know that there are passages to be taken literally and there are passages that are metaphors, similes, etc.. .