Why is the supposed word of God agreed to be wrong just on certain points...
...and if we are agreed that the supposed word of God is wrong on some issues... then how do we know these holy books aren't wrong in their entirety.
2006-09-24 22:34:31 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
They are brainwashed from a young age to equate goodness to those books and when they read them it is with rose colored glasses on. They whitewash the filth and do mental gymnastics to reconcile the contradictions.
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com - to see the Bible without rose colored glasses.
http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/quran/index.htm - same for the Quran.
2006-09-24 22:38:37 · answer #1 · answered by AiW 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
On Christianity, you must understand the whole of human history in light of a cosmic plan. Human beings in their moral infancy could only understand the severity of sin (with its eternal consequences) through the severity of repercussions.
We recognize this in how we are harsher to younger children but lighten up as they grow older and mature.
Now realizing that we are incapable of meeting a perfect standard, the stage was set to make Jesus' sacrifice meaningful to human beings. Without the history of severity in the Old Testament, Jesus would have been a historical anomaly... just a guy who performed miracles and raised from the dead, but there would be no background framework to understand the importance of what he had done.
Today, Christians recognize that the early training work is over. The ceremonial laws have served their purpose and Jesus fufilled them all. About the only dictums Christians abide by now are those that carry on over into the New Testament and those that deal with the inner character of a person.
The progression of moral maturity is well reflected in many ways today, such as a near-universal disregard for pedophelia, suicide, rape, and slavery. And this in no way even suggests that the Bible was "wrong" on any of these issues, but served as a record of human progress and failings in these areas.
2006-09-25 05:44:41 · answer #2 · answered by Daniel 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Why is the supposed word of God agreed to be wrong just on certain points..."
i don't agree with this.
how do you know it is wrong on certain points. I am a muslim and i know that every point in the Quran is right. i think you are looking only to the people who are practicing the religion wrongly. study the religion itself, not the people who practice it only.
2006-09-25 05:59:01 · answer #3 · answered by kuih_doryaki_sedap 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
neither is wrong to the believer,God isnt wrong,neither are the people who interpret the bible ,torah,koran,and other scriptures of religion that do not realize the true nature of its contents. (belief is for the one individual to believe) The wrong is when we use the parts of a teaching to destroy someone elses belief unless it come from an evil(wishing to destroy)faction of a belief that gets twisted by the believer to suit an earthly purpose,(power,greed,revenge).if it does not come as a peaceful enlightening,Illuminating view than it is from Man or an evil ,and not from God
2006-09-25 05:50:48 · answer #4 · answered by stygianwolfe 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't recall Jesus ever telling us to do anything remotely violent. Christians follow Jesus first and foremost. He often warned against violence. Those who live by the sword, die by the sword.
2006-09-25 10:08:08 · answer #5 · answered by luvwinz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
With the Bible, it is not a matter of being right or wrong, but rather "read accordingly".
Just as if you were to read a biology book, and see that "survival of the fittest" implies that the strong kills the weak, do *you* go out into town, and kill off every child, every retiree, and every sick and handicapped person? No, that's silly, the reference was about what animals do, and hence, does not apply to you. Sure, you learn from the biology book, and take many things to heart, but not every reference applies to humans, or to you in particular.
So too, in the Bible, not all things apply to all people at all times.
The Bible is not an itenerary of "things to do before death". Yes, that is what the portion that deals with salvation is about, but there is so much more to the Bible than that.
The calls to war in the Old Testament are, for all intents and purposes, "history writings", and are preserved so that we may see how Israel had survived throughout time. It is not that they are not observed, but instead, they are studied, learned from, determine what went wrong where and why, who's fault it was, and to learn the greater purpose behind it.
Mind you, the OT was not written specifically to Christians, but rather, by and for the Jews.
Consider this : A call to arms during WWII, to protect the nation, does not mean "a call to arms for whatever reason appeals to the president or the people at that time".
And so it is with Christians. The call to arms against the Philistines, or God's destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, does not give license for Christians to kill or to wage war... no more than the order to drop a nuke on Hiroshima and Nagasaki gives an American the right, in this day and age, to kill Japanese. The order to fight the Canaanites was meant for *those Jews* in *that generation* only, just as the call to fight the Japanese were only meant for *those Americans* in *that generation* of soldiers, only.
Here's a good example : King David is considered, by both Christians and Jews, one of the greatest men in the Bible. Yet, he committed murder and adultery.
* Are we to emulate him in his faith in God? Yes.
* Are we to emulate him in his failures? No, but rather, we are to learn from his failures, so that we don't make the same mistakes ourselves.
Another one : God commanded Israel that they should not allow a witch to live.
* Did that mean that they killed all who practiced sorcery within their land? Yes.
* Did that mean they went out, and killed witches in neighboring lands? No (as the command is so brief, it's intent is "the area in which you live, as a people"... if it was given a more broad description [such as : 'a witch to live in any land you set your eyes upon'], it would have applied to all land they would ever pass through).
* Does that mean that we as Christians are to kill witches too? No (as the command was given to Jews, and not Christians as well, and we live under the Law of "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thou lovest thyself", and not the Mosaic Law).
I realize this might be hard to understand, but think of it this way : Just because my history book tells me George Washington led Americans to kill the British during the Revolutionary War, it does not mean the war is still ongoing today in the 21st Century. Peace treaties were signed, and relationships were forged.
The Christian's peace treaty with all nations and people begun the moment Christ was born, was signed the moment He died, and enacted the moment He was resurrected.
Oh, and one other reason, a more secular one, we aren't violent... we are not a national identity. We are not a race, nor an ethnic group, nor a nation. We have nothing to protect or defend. We are to have no homeland. It is our lot to be spread apart throughout the world (think of us like salt... if you put all the salt you need for your corn on a single kernel, then that one kernel will be extremely salty, and the rest are still bland. But if you evenly distribute the salt, then all of the corn tastes good. Or, perhaps, think of us like light... a laser beam condenses all the light waves in a single spot, making a single area so bright, that it can cut through things. But in a dark room, it does no good. A diffuse light, on the scatters the light evenly, and brightens the whole room).
It makes no sense for us to wage war on anything other than sin within ourselves as individuals and as Christians as a whole, and against death and Hell for all of mankind.
Yes, we Christians wage war. But not against our brethren, nor against mankind. We wage war against Satan, and against the ideals he enspouses. And in this kind of war, guns and bombs do no good.
2006-09-25 06:48:09 · answer #6 · answered by seraphim_pwns_u 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
bible literalists want to kill people as badly as muslim extremists, fortuneately they don't live in societies that approve of it, which is why only muslims are usually doing the terrorism, how often do you hear muslim groups condemning acts of terrorism?
2006-09-25 05:37:54 · answer #7 · answered by keepitsafe2think 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
What violent in junctures? The only violent injunctures are in the in the punctured minds of those extremists and racists!
2006-09-25 05:38:12 · answer #8 · answered by TheWillBe 3 · 2⤊ 4⤋
they make their book say whatever they want it to say to benefit themselves at the time, were you inspired by my question?
2006-09-25 05:42:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋