I didn't write the Bible, I didn't make any of this up - I didn't cause any bears to rip some young boys to pieces - the God of the Bible did - I just want to know how such actions can be sanely jusified, that's all. And, if the truth be expressed, I'd like some of you people to stop and think about what you're condoning and understand why some of us have a problem with it.
okay, now I'm ready for the next wave of personal attacks.
Okay, n
2006-11-14 04:09:31 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
you're correct, miss brooke. i've lost several accounts - as though i can't just keep making them. more nutcase stupidity, i suppose.
2006-11-14 04:24:34 · answer #1 · answered by AVATARD 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Christianity may be indefensible, but God and Jesus need no defense, they are, plain and simple.
Science is just as indefendable when you consider that Einstein and Oppenheimer opened Pandora's box and as a result Hiroshima and Nagasaki were turned into rubble in the blink of an eye. Based upon this event, alone, science should be banned from the world before it creates an even bigger monster!
Imagine the next bomb wiping out countries in a flash!
Science also invented gas warefare, used in WW1 then banned, but used most recently by Saddam Hussein in the war between Iraq and Iran.
Now, do we ban things because a few men made a few mistakes and killed a few hundred thousand people with those mistakes?
Man is the root of all evil, not God, Jesus or Science.
Extremist belief systems, be they scientific or religious need to be carefully looked at!
And remember folks, Iran is next on the list to potentially have the bomb!
One day everyone will have it, does it frighten anyone to think that Columbian Drug Lords, Osama bid Laden, Pat Robertson, Kadaffi, the government of the Congo, the Pope or the Branch Dividian Church may one day own an A-Bomb!
You have godless science to thank for that reality!
Live with it! Armegeddon may yet come and it will be from man's hands, not God's!
God may be the saviour to those survivors who don't bear the mark of the beast.
If not, we all lose and Earth may become a brown planet with rubble and lots of nitrogen deposits where once stood people.
Just don't blame God or Jesus for that one!
2006-11-14 12:25:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I'm not sure I understand but I'll try to answer. If I'm right you wish to understand how God or the Bible can condone horrible things happening to people. If so, it is important to first understand that according to the Bible, God created all life and that man, being His crowning achievement, was given dominion and free will. Now animals are said to be lower than man but they still have their own ways of being. If a bear rips a boy to pieces, is that God's fault?
Well consider the following analogy: Ford makes a car, you buy the car, you drive the car, you run over a kill someone with the car. Question, is Ford responsible, the car, you? which. The same can be said of God.
Now, as for justifying the death of a child at the hands of a bear, it's difficult because you really can't. Some may say it was Gods will, others will say it simply is part of life. Ultimately it doesn't matter since the boy is dead either way. In the end, we each must find the answer in ourselves and make peace with that. Trying to find justification in a book or in a Deity is simply grasping at straws in order to make sense of the incomprehensible. Don't look outwardly for resolution but from within. It's the only way to make peace with yourself and, if you believe, with God as well.
2006-11-14 12:19:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Christianity IS indefensible. So much of what they beleive is based on faith only... the acceptance of what cannot be proved as truth. I dont have a problem with that, as i believe many things that cannot be proved...yet... What I do have a problem with is many Christians inability to entertain other's ideas and faiths. I dont see why a Buddhist's cherished spiritual beleifs are any less real then a Christian's cherished spiritual beleifs. Or mine, for that matter. Until theres something that deliberately tells us the real truth, I'm not perpared to take anyones word over anothers. But thats where the Bible comes in.... and the ignorance overflows. Christians are told that the Bible is God's Word, as if God himself decided to write a book one day. The Bible was written by MEN, retranslated ineptly several times, and then edited for a thousand years or so. Plus, other religions have sacred books too... the Koran, etc.
Yikes, i really went off there. Sorry. Point is, people are with you too.
2006-11-14 12:29:58 · answer #4 · answered by indilibelle 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
"I just want to know how such actions can be sanely jusified, that's all"
But we DO sanley justif them. In your last post I gave you my answer. And I dont mean WE as Christians, I mean WE as a society. Consider the woman who was let free just last week after murdering her own children. Or the fact as a society we care more about the pedophiles that victimize children, and their rights to live freely, than we do to lock em up forever and protect our own children. Look at the justice system and how skewed it is.
Once you look at our society, how odd is it to see that something in the Bible would be so far fetched as to be justified? WE, as a society justify such atrocities on a daily basis. That was merely the point of my answer to the last question.
2006-11-14 12:15:57 · answer #5 · answered by sweetie_baby 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I have never attacked you, and I have always defended the faith, if some are to proud to admit the truth or to blind to see it, then that is between them and God.
I cannot justify all that is in the Bible, but that does not make it any less true. Just like I cannot justify Ted Bundy killing like he did, but it is still true.
Can you justify some people being shorter then others? Does that make it any less a fact?
I have a problem with some things in the Bible as well. Like a murderer who has truely repented going to Heaven, but the fact is they will.
My point is just because you cannot justify something, or you disaree with is, does not make it any less true.
2006-11-14 12:36:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. The fact that you find the Bible difficult to understand is not a problem for me, nor do I feel threatened by your lack of understanding or agreement with it. That is why I don't use my energy to attack you or others who disdain the Bible. I'm not sure why some Christians feel the need to get all excited and even snotty. The snotty attitude certainly doesn't go along with being spiritually mature, but then perhaps they are young in their faith and still wrestling with some of the issues you like to raise.
2006-11-14 12:19:03 · answer #7 · answered by happygirl 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Why do you need to question a book you believe to be a fairy tale? The bible isn't some nice fluffy story of happily ever after. God is a vengeful, jealous God. He's not some push over, girly man. The bible makes that clear.
2006-11-14 12:32:16 · answer #8 · answered by ♫O Praise Him♫ 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you are receiving personal attacks from people, then they are not Christians. I am not sure what these attacks were stemming from, but it's still wrong. True Christianity is not about judging people, it's not about condoning people, it's about love and free will. God gives us His Word and we have the choice to uphold it or not. Any kind of belief can be distorted to fit one's own agenda, but that doesn't make the belief wrong, it makes the person's actions wrong. A true Christian strives to be Christ-like. Christ loved everyone. Christ forgave everyone. Christ reached out to those in need. That's how all people should be. Unfortunately, if you are a believer, you know that Satan is always there to get in the way and to tempt people away from God. That is what you are experiencing and I am very sorry for you.
2006-11-14 12:20:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
- I doesn't sound sane at all to say God causes bears to rip young boys to shreds.
- Animals are animals & people are people although we have some similarities we are definitely different.
- If God did everything for you what would be the point in living. You sound like you would be happier as a robot, try to enjoy the gift of free-will.
- What exactly are you refering to when you say that we (Christians) are condoning something?
2006-11-14 12:17:40 · answer #10 · answered by righton 3 · 2⤊ 3⤋
When you talk about the bears killing boys, you should know that in the Hebrew, the word used described a young man. There were 42 of them killed. Also, when they told him to "go on up baldhead!", they were referring to Elijah's ascension into heaven. They were telling him to go to heaven, a threat on his life.
So you now have at least 42 young men threatening his life. It's a different situation when you actually understand the Bible.
2006-11-14 12:16:55 · answer #11 · answered by STEPHEN J 4 · 3⤊ 3⤋