Why do people who are into the bible try to act all prim and proper all the time,when there is so much sex and

Question

violence in the bible ?

Not to mention the pedophilia also.

NO KIDDING ! In no way,shape,form,or,fashion am I saying,Hey everybody,follow all the sex and violence. I'm just wondering why all these "holier than thou" people seem to ignore that.

I knew I was going to get some quotes.

Answer 1

Not everyone acts all prim. There are genuine people out there who are deeply into the Bible. I actually find that offensive for you to say because I am deeply into the Bible.

Second, there are a lot of things in the Bible that were violence. How good is a book that only has no peaks and valleys? How good would a suspense book be without the suspense?

The Bible has everything that novels lack. Yes, the Bible talks about rape, but why is that in there. It is in there for the women to be careful when isolated with a man you are not married to. In other words, do no expose yourself to danger.

The account of David having relations with Bathsheba, having her husband Uriah killed, among other things. Remember, Jehovah God disciplined David. The illegitimate child was killed and David suffered other adversities because of this act. The principle here is that there were consequences for committing fornication.

There are consequences today for engaging in what David engaged in. For instance, heartache on the families involved, regret, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, shame, guilt and now two families that now has an unclean record of chasteness.

Moroever, the Bible was written by men, inspired by Jehovah God. If the scriptures were written by angels (who are perfect), how could we learn from their principles if all of their ways are righteous and our ways are flawed? The Bible would be of no use to us if this was the case. Hence, the scriptures was written by imperfect men, who went through the same trials (physically, emotionally, spiritually), whether self-inflicted or not. Through God's Inspired Word, we learn how these imperfect men and women endured through their trials so we can do the same when faced with ours. What a blessing that is?

Take Care.

Answer 2

1. Not everyone who's 'into the Bible' plays the prim-and-proper game. Some are actually real people.
2. Does the fact that there is sex and violence in the Bible mean that people who read it should do the same thing? There are other examples of life there as well...
3. I never heard that reading the Bible was any guarantee of a lack of hypocrisy.

Answer 3

First of all we don't all act prim and proper...even though I agree that some do and I hate that, too. Even though there are those things in the Bible, they are there to teach us lessons. It doesn't mean you follow those things...those are the things the Bible tells us not to do. If you know the 10 commandments, that's the basic law of the Bible. There are many parables and other stories of violence and sex in the Bible but if you notice, those are the people and places that are destroyed for their immoral lifestyles...think of Sodom & Gomorah.

Answer 4

You may have noticed the sex and violence in the Bible is NOT spoken of in positive terms.
It is mentioned because the Bible deals with real life.
Mentioning something does not mean approving.

Answer 5

Depends who you speak to. Some persons suppose that I am bent on ripping the material of society asunder, others suppose that I am complex. Me, I suspect I am rather prim & right inside the high-quality of my capacity to take action.

Answer 6

What people in the Bible are you talking about? I don't remember ANYONE acting "prim and proper." Self-righteous, but not prim or proper.

Answer 7

Not to mention the incest that they seem to enjoy a bit too much!

Answer 8

everybody has secrets. often, those who seem to have the fewest dark secrets end up having the most...and the worst.
we're all human.

Answer 9

You obviously have no clue to what you are talking about and are taking things out of context as many do. Just as the flood wiped out entire families because they wouldn't listen to Noah, so it goes with the time in which we live.

Any of the wars that were waged were waged against pagans like the Canannites or those other tribes mentioned here:

"After that Joshua said: “By this YOU will know that a living God is in YOUR midst, and that he will without fail drive away from before YOU the Ca′naan·ites and the Hit′tites and the Hi′vites and the Per′iz·zites and the Gir′ga·shites and the Am′or·ites and the Jeb′u·sites." Joshua 3:10

Lets look at the Cananites for a second:

The Canaanites had a long history of wickedness. They descended from Canaan, the grandson of Noah, through Ham. (Gen. 9:18) And apparently Canaan had a definitely corrupt trait, perhaps of a lustful nature, that was manifested by some abuse in connection with his grandfather Noah. Canaan’s father Ham, though having knowledge of this act, either failed to prevent it or to take disciplinary action against the offender. So Canaan received a divine curse. (Gen. 9:20-25) By means of his foreknowledge God could see the bad results in which this evil characteristic would eventually culminate among Canaan’s descendants.

Even by Abraham’s time one segment of the Canaanite population, those residing in the neighboring cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, were so given over to indulgence in loose, immoral conduct in defiance of every law, that God reduced their cities and their whole populations to ashes. Abraham had pleaded in their behalf, but not even ten righteous persons could be found in the cities.—Gen. 18:20–19:29; 9:19; 2 Pet. 2:6-8.

Also indicative of the badness of the Canaanites is the effect upon Isaac and Rebekah that their son Esau’s marriage to Canaanite wives had. The Bible says that these wives were a “source of bitterness of spirit to Isaac and Rebekah” to the extent that Rebekah had ‘come to abhor her life because of them.’—Gen. 26:34, 35; 27:46.

Therefore, Jehovah God purposed to set a limit upon the Canaanite badness, during which time it would become obvious to any honest observer that they were deserving of destruction. That period paralleled the time during which God was preparing a people for his name from among Abraham’s descendants. Note how Jehovah informed Abraham about the future movements of his posterity: “In the fourth generation they will return here, because the error of the Amorites [apparently the strongest Canaanite tribe] has not yet come to completion.”—Gen. 15:16.

Thus Jehovah had been long-suffering. He had been undeservedly kind to those corrupt and wicked tribes of Canaan, permitting them to squat in a fruitful land, a “land flowing with milk and honey,” and pollute it with all of their abominations. Now the day of reckoning approached. They had refused to reform. They must take the consequences.

WICKEDNESS REACHES ULTIMATE

But were the Canaanites really that wicked to merit extermination? Did the women and children also have to be wiped out? Was it in harmony with God’s justice and love to subject those people to such complete destruction?

The Bible reveals that the Canaanites were indeed that wicked. After commanding the Israelites to avoid incest, fornication and other such practices, God commanded: “You must not allow the devoting of any of your offspring to Molech. . . . And you must not lie down with a male the same as you lie down with a woman. It is a detestable thing. And you must not give your emission to any beast to become unclean by it, and a woman should not stand before a beast to have connection with it. It is a violation of what is natural. For all these detestable things the men of the land who were before you have done, so that the land is unclean.” (Lev. 18:2-23, 27) Yes, child sacrifice, incest, sodomy and bestiality were the way of life of the Canaanites! In addition, they practiced magic, divination, sorcery and other things detestable to God.—Deut. 18:9-12.

The Canaanite religion was extraordinarily base and degraded, their “sacred poles” evidently being sex emblems and many of the rites of their “high places” involving gross sexual excesses and depravity. No wonder God ordered their extermination! If even the women and children were allowed to remain, they would entice the Israelites to practice immoral, false worship.—Ex. 23:24; 34:12-17; Num. 33:52; Deut. 7:3-5; 20:16-18.

From secular sources, particularly the ancient documents discovered in 1929 at Ras Shamra (ancient Ugarit) on the Syrian coast, much has been learned about the gross immorality of Canaanite worship. Baal is presented as the most prominent of the gods, and Astarte or “Ashtoreth” as a prominent goddess, even as the Bible record shows to have been the case.—Judg. 2:12, 13; 6:25-32; 10:6; 1 Sam. 7:3, 4.

A god of fertility, Baal is described as going through recurrent cycles of dying and reviving, corresponding with the seasonal cycles of growth and decay or dormancy of the vegetation on earth. Thus, Baal’s coming to life again to be enthroned and mated with his wife, considered to be Ashtoreth, was celebrated with licentious fertility rites at the autumnal new year. Worshipers gave themselves up to drunkenness and sexual orgies of unrestrained debauchery, believing that their sexual intercourse helped to bring about the full awakening and mating of Baal with his wife.

Although Ashtoreth was represented principally as a fertility goddess, she also symbolized the qualities of violence and war. Thus Professor John B. Noss in his book Man’s Religions, notes of her: “She sometimes took sword in hand, sprang naked upon a horse, and rode forth to bloody slaughter.” Among the Philistine inhabitants of Canaan, Ashtoreth was apparently a goddess of war, since the armor of defeated King Saul was placed in the temple of the Ashtoreth images.—1 Sam. 31:10.

Archaeological finds have pointed to the gross immorality associated with the worship of Ashtoreth. Halley’s Bible Handbook, 1964 printing, page 161, says of such finds: “Also, in this ‘High Place,’ under the rubbish, Macalister found enormous quantities of images and plaques of Ashtoreth with rudely exaggerated sex organs, designed to foster sensual feelings.

“So, Canaanites worshipped, by immoral indulgence, as a religious rite, in the presence of their gods; and then, by murdering their first-born children, as a sacrifice to these same gods.”

How despicable! Can any person properly find fault with God for ordering the extermination of such immoral, wicked people?

Unger’s Bible Dictionary, page 912, observes: “Canaanite religion with its orgiastic nature worship, the cult of fertility in the form of serpent symbols, sensuous nudity and gross mythology are revealed in their stark reality in these texts [discovered at Ras Shamra]. No longer can critics accuse the God of Israel of injustice in ordering the extermination of these debilitating cults.”

And really that was on a small scale as all wickedness will be removed from the Earth quite soon now.