people had to follow all the laws like stoning people to death for breaking the sabbath. and the big one killing homosexuals. is this really the word of a god that loves people?
also if hes perfect dont you think he wouldve done something about this original sin stuff from the beginning instead of waiting 5000 years? heh
2006-12-14 19:06:05 · 10 answers · asked by Red Eye 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
haha no need to feel sorry for me , i actually realize the bible was written by a person.
2006-12-14 19:16:50 · update #1
Correct. In fact, he also contradicted himself by saying "he who hath no sinned, may cast the first stone" when they were about to kill Mary Magdalene via.. well, stoning.
2006-12-14 19:11:21 · answer #1 · answered by Cold Fart 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well.. thats what i always wonder.. why waited for 5000 years??
Why would hated Adam and Eves so much that he CAN'T FORGIVE human and make all new born babies carry the Original sins?
Try to find the history of Bible... Bible is actually a compilation of thousands of manuscripts and from UNKNOWN writer. Thats the reasons why u will find story mixings and contradicts here and there.
Actually u can't blame God or Jesus, as through out the Old testament and Gospels... Jesus never teach or said anything about original sins in his life.
The idea of original sins comes from PAUL. He made up the stories in his letters. There is no such thing as Original Sins has ever said by ally the phophets before Jesus.
Most of the teaching that Chritians follow now adays.. was the teaching of PAUL.
Maybe u can try to list down what Jesus and Paul said.. and u will see Pauls was against Jesus all the time.
2006-12-15 04:41:30 · answer #2 · answered by sweetzy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The reason for The Law in the Old Testament was so that when Jesus came New Testament, the Jews would see the beauty of His Grace and relies that they actually need Him. The reason it took so long is that people don't always listen and do as they are told so they have to re-do until they get it. Kind of like the movie groundhog day. The Jews didn't accept Christ because they had/have a vision of Him coming down from heaven on a white horse waving sword and kicking a**. Instead He came as a baby born of a virgin, and yes I do believe that. People put God in a box and expect Him to mold Himself to our wants and needs. When that doesn't happen people get upset and turn against Him.
2006-12-15 03:44:17 · answer #3 · answered by Julia B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The OT does not portray a world of a God that loves people, because the people of the time were not able to love each other, without judment. Nor were they able to grasp the concept of a loving creator. (notice the stoning and killing going on around them).
As for the concept of a "perfect creator".....how can a creator that creates people with extraordinary minds and thoughtful intelligence, expect the person to live a free life, without being able to use their own intelligence freely.
The creator may have created everything perfectly......but it's not over yet....so we don't know how this world ends...or begins...or if it's just imagination. We just don't know.
2006-12-15 03:25:30 · answer #4 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
actually the amount of death penalty cases were few.
According to the Talmud in tractate Macos. One opinion is that if a court should execute someone more than once every seven years then it is a bloody court. According to another opinion even if its more than once in 70 years.
for someone to be killed for the above things he would need to have two witnesses that are not related to each other as well as a warning before he committed the act in question. On top of that if the testimony of the two witnesses was even slightly off they would be ruled invalid and set free.
suffice it to say the amount of people being sentenced to death was probably as common in biblical Israel as it is in the United States.
hope this helped
2006-12-15 03:11:59 · answer #5 · answered by Gamla Joe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, yeah the bible is the word of God, people think God is only a luvydovey God, it's like your parents, if you do something wrong, the you get punished- God is like the ultimate parent, and when people did stuff like that back then he punished them.
When God made the world it was perfect, and He made people (Adam and Eve) to be with Him and look after, and live in the world. Sin came about when God told adam and eve not to eat from the tree in the middle of the garden of eden (the tree of the knowlage of good and evil, He also said that if they ate from the tree they would surely die) but they did, and sin was made.
Sin is rebellion against God.
God punished them by kicking them out of the garden of eden, but He still loved them and decided not to kill them, but a sacrifice needed to be made in their place.
then they had children and so on and so on until the earth was full of people. But people after a while decided not to obey God and there was only one family out of the whole earth that obeyed Him.
So God flooded the earth and the family that was obedient to God remained, and God promised not to flood the earth again.
and the decendants of noah repopulated the earth and where supposed to spread out all over it, but they didn't and unifide to build the tower of bable, showing direct disobedience, and God scattered them all over the earth with different languages as punishment. He then chose noah's line of decendants (from his son Shem) as His own, and eventually the decendants became the israelites.
to be an israeite you were chosen by God and had to abbide by His laws (trying not ot sin) if you did sin, then you needed to make a sacrifice(the blood of a clean animal), some sins had larger consequences and an animal sacrifice wasn't enough.
God still loved people then and He does now.
people back then new they weren't allowd to do certain things and did.
the consequences of sin is death
God did do things about it back then, getting kicked out of the garden of eden, shortening people's lives, the flood, the tower of bable... but thats why Jesus came and is coming back to earth.
ps. sorry that this was so long
2006-12-15 03:33:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The law was not given to point out sin, but to point out righteousness.
The law is a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ.
No matter the cross is foolishness to those that are perishing.
2006-12-15 03:09:01 · answer #7 · answered by Pastor John 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those were the good old fun days. Then Christ came around and ruined it for us.
2006-12-15 03:11:37 · answer #8 · answered by CC Moody Trojans 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God gives us all free will, but if we want eternal life, He gives us laws. Your choice, dude
2006-12-15 03:10:00 · answer #9 · answered by <::SmOkEy::> 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I do feel so sorry for you.
2006-12-15 03:14:43 · answer #10 · answered by gwhiz1052 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋