Can you question the Bible at all if you are a Christian?

Question

I don't believe it is OK for me to sell my children into slavery. Does that mean I can never be a Christian?

Answer 1

Sorry, it looks like you're out. You have to believe the whole bible! :)

Answer 2

I questioned a lot of the Bible when I was Christian. Then people started saying I wasn't Christian because I didn't believe in every part of the Bible. :<

Answer 3

Human beings naturally question things, especially if their reason or intellect cannot comprehend what is being presented to them. So I guess it will also be natural to question the Bible. But to believe the Bible is a matter of faith. As for me, I completely believe what the Bible says. As a Christian, I believe that the Bible is the Word of God.

Answer 4

No of course not! The bible was written by man, handed down by man for CENTURIES. It only makes sense to me man has added their own perspective. The good stuff, with the love, honor, and respect for God above ALL things is utmost. The rest like what u mentioned, and I read last week, that (old testa.) if your husband died, & his brothers didn't want you, your hand had to be cut off. The love is obvious, trust in that. And the new testa. actually says man selling is a sin.

Answer 5

yes, i believe you can. why would someone have such blind faith in something that is in a book, without some kind of experience or personal knowledge to back it up? that would be like someone telling me to read a book on depression and take the author's words to heart. there are a thousand different books on depression, with even more different views and opinions. so what makes one better than the other? you need to read up on as much as you can and decide for yourself!!! same for the Bible. and i have no idea about slavery for your kids....ya want mine? you can have them for $20/a day. (i am so joking, don't report me.)

Answer 6

Of course you can question the Bible. You must be reading the Old Testament. Read the New Testament - all the rules changed when Jesus came into the world - the old was set aside for the new.

But in answer to your question - yes it is okay to have all kinds of questions about the Bible. It means you are reading, thinking and trying to incorporate into your life.

Answer 7

I question just about everything I read in the bible. I'm a christian with an attitude.

Answer 8

I believe we must take the advice given by Paul to Timothy
"study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman which needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of truth. (2 Timothy 2:15)

God has worked in many different ways over the centuries and his instructions to those in an early part of the age is often different from that of today. Rightly dividing the word of truth means to allow God by his Spirit to show us the various times of grace in which he has worked a specific way.

For example we do not use the Old Testament time of the law as a guide to the church. The truth for the new testament church is given in the Acts and in the Epistles.

Taking things out of context will result in bad teaching and error. God had a certain way of working with Adam and Eve in the garden, before sin and after sin. However, the rules which Abel practised do not apply to me today. The sacrifice which Abel offer was a picture pointing forward to the Lamb of God. Today as a Christian I do not sacrifice a lamb for my sin, since the Lamb of God was offered once and for all.

I have found it helpful to study the Bible from a dispensational view, meaning that there are 5 or 6 pockets of time in which God worked in certain ways with his people.

1. Adam and Eve in innocence

2. Adam and Eve with conscience. We find however, that man living by his conscience did not work out as we see this era coming to an end at the flood.

3. After the flood God made a covenant with Noah, this is a time which is represented with human government. Once again man had a fresh start. This era was again a failure as we see man at the tower of Babel resulting in a dispersal on the earth. Human government did not work.

4. God by his grace calls Abraham into an era which is called the era of Promise, Abraham stepped out by faith and went to a place where God would have him. God worked with Abraham and his family in a certain way. Failure is seen once again as God's people are slaves in Eygpt.

5. God does not give up and calls his people once again via Moses. This era is one of the greatest and is a covenant which reaches to the coming of Christ and is know as the era of Lawl,

6. After the cross we find ourselves in an age when God works with us through his Spirit by his word. This era is often called the day of grace or the day of the Holy Spirit. This time is unique when God is saving the whosoeverwill, Jew and Gentile, both making up the Bride of Christ. This era when end when Christ comes for his people or the rapture.

7. This era is a time when God turns back to Israel nationally and is sometimes called the Kingdom age. This is the time when Christ will rule for a thousand years. This age will end with the great white throne judgment.

8. A new beginning--the eternal age, new heavens and a new earth, when God will be all in all.

There is much more which could be written. However, I hope that we can see that God has worked in various ways with his people over the years and the. rule is that we cannot impose past dispensations upon present time

Answer 9

Of course. What you refer to about selling your children I have no idea what you refer to. Please add a reference, it doesn't sound familiar.
What context was it written under? The Babylonian conquest? Who was speaking? God, or a prophet of God?

If you were a Christian and God told you to sell your children (never happen) then you better sell your children. Obedience is better than sacrifice.

Answer 10

Why would I want to question the bible, I do question peoples interpration of the bible, But it is not the Bible I question, just someone interpratation