Curiosity about particular Bible verses?

Question

Please note that I am not a follower of the Bible, but I would still like this issue clarified. Also note that I am not a pervert by asking these questions, I just want to know.


1) Where in the Bible does it condemn pornography?
2) Where in the Bible does it condemn masturbation?
3) Where in the Bible does it condemn tolerance of other faiths?
4) Where in the Bible does it condemn homosexuality?
5) Where in the Bible does it condemn evolution?

For 3,4, and 5: Please state why you think these verses are literal and not metaphorical/mistranslated.

Much appreciated!

gee, thanks ben for not answering my question. I have reasons for not following the bible, but go ahead. Be that way. I don't care.

idahomike, I appreciate that but lust is such a broad category, and plus if that was condemned everybody would go to hell because everybody does it at least a little.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

They are all condemned not by bible verses but by the 10 COMMANDMENTS!! A quicky primer:

On No. 1, No.2, No. 4
Do not commit adultery, even lusting after a women in your heart breaks this commandment. So, obviously porn and masturbating is out. I never heard of anyone watching porn and masturbating doing it for the lust of one's penis. Homosexuality is also out, as sex is between a married man and woman or you commit adultery is outside of this arrangement.

On No. 3, No. 5
The first 4 commandments nullify tolerance of other faiths. You shall worship the one true G*d only. The first tells what, the other 3 tells how. Evolution shows you believe in another type of "god". Not the one and only true G*d, so it is condemned also.

On homosexuality, we all remember Sodom and Gomorrah, so do you think G*d did that because He wanted to bless this type of sexual behavior?
Know too, that those that practice such things cannot enter the Kingdom of G*d according to Paul. Do you think G*d is blessing such people by saying that?

Answer 3

1) Pornography Jesus says in Matthew 5:27"You have heard that it was said, 'Do not commit adultery.' 28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart."
According to Jesus, looking at a woman in lust after them sexually is a sin. Since that is the purpose of pornography, it would be covered by this scripture.

2) Same as number 1, since masturbation is normally an exercise in lust sexual after a person

3) Can not point you to a scripture that says to be "intolerant" of other religions. But there are dozens that the Christian faith is right and the others wrong. If stating that we believe the others are "wrong" is intolerant, then you would have to consider them intolerant. Most Christian believe that you are allowed to have your faith. But welcome the opportunity to tell you about ours. So I have not scripture that says to be "intolerant".

4) 1 Corinthians 6:9 "Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor prostitutes nor homosexuals 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God."
Sound pretty literal to me...

5) As the theory of evolution as only appeared in the last hundred years, there is no scripture condemning it. Who knows if a hundred years from now people will still believe in it... There are many scriptures that speak of man as a unique creation made directly by the hand of God. Genesis 2:7 "The LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being."

Answer 4

Go to a public library and check out a Study Bible... I recomend the Ryrie expanded edition if they have it...In The king James translation... in the back is a concordence... look up Lust( porn), The ten commandments, for Other "faiths"...Laying with other men/ Lust..you will find it in Leviticus...Evolution is not mentioned in The Bible...nor is mastrbation, but this is covered under lust also...

Answer 5

1)

Well.

Pornography is from the Greek pornaeo, meaning "anything against the will of God"

Especially lust.. So porn=against the will of God=bad.

2)

Well, who said it does? It's the lustful part that's bad. Emission is natural.

3) Tolerance doesn't mean conforming. We are called to love people regardless of thier faiths, and let the Holy Spirit convict.

4) Lol. Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Dueteronomy, Acts, Hebrews, Romans, James, Corinthians, Peter...and so on.

One good example is in Galatians 5:20-23

It talks about fruits of the Spirit vs. fruits of evil (two of which are sexual immorality and orgies)
Romans clearly specifies gay stuff.

5) It doesn't. It just says that God did it. And that's all that matters. We don't need to argue over evolution. We are not here by random chance just to please ourselves. God created us and he loves us. His fingerprints are everywhere.

Answer 6

I believe in the Trinity, but I have struggled with the concept of it. Often times, theological books will explain the trinity in a triangle God the apex and then Jesus and the Holy Spirit coming down from the Father making an equilateral triangle. But this image would mean that God the Father has more power or importance than the others, when in the end they are equal in all aspects. So it would be better to think of them linearly - each their own specific point, yet all connected. God is seen throughout the Bible, - leading Israel in the dessert through the 40 years. Jesus is prophesied about numerous times in the OT (not specifically saying his name), and the Holy spirit is seen when Jesus is baptized, and when he is talking to his disciples telling them who will lead them when he is gone - the most powerful image would be in Acts. God is three in one, but each part is separate and different, yet united. I don't just worship the the Holy Spirit, or just Jesus, I worship all of them.

Answer 7

1 and 2 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. It condemns any kind of sexual immorality many times in the bible

don't know on 3

4 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

5 It does not condemn the concept of evolution. however saying we evolved from apes is completely wrong

So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.

Answer 8

It is clear in the bible that these things are sinful. It is also clear in the bible that we all do sinful things everyday.but it does not say that all sinners go to hell. Those who aknowledge their sin and and ask for forgiveness will be saved in heaven. If you read the bible these truths will be known to you.

Answer 9

Would it make any difference in your life, because it seems to me that your being sarcastic? It would take me some time to look up the verses and type them here.

Answer 10

To me, they can all be summed up in God's Laws, or should I say the Spiritual Essence of God's Laws. It what it says in Truth and not the Letter, or Wording of the Law or what the Law says at Face Value.

For the Spiritual Essence of God's Law says if you have just a desire to do something its the same as doing it.

Points 1 & 2 are covered under Thou Shall Not Commit Adutlery. Jesus shows us the Spiritual Essence of this in Matthew 5:28; But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Point 3 is Seen in Thou Shall Not Have No Other God's Before me! This means that God your Creator commands to be the focal point of your affections. You and I are commanded, as Jesus says in Mark 12:30; And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.

What this means is that our love for father, mother, brother or
sister, in our on life, would seem figuratively, like hatred compare
to our love towards God, who gave these love-ones.

In Matthew 10:37, Jesus says; He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

What is it Jesus is saying here? He is saying… God should come first in our lives.

Which reminds me of a story I heard, from a Minister, who bought a television for his kids, to watch cartoons, after, they had finished their schoolwork. However, the next day when he got home, he opened the door, walked in, calling out… Hey kids it's daddy, I'm home!

But the house was silence, except for the sound from the TV, coming from the kid's room! They didn't even come to the door! You know what they were doing? Watching TV!

So he walked into the den, turned the television off and stood
between them and the television, and said… Kid's I purchased that television for your pleasure! But, if it comes between you and your love for me, I'll take it back!

Now some would be questioning as to why he would do this?

The answer is simple, when you think about it. Because it was the wrong "Order of Affection!" They we'er loving the gift, rather than, the "giver" of the gift.

So, if you're loving your wife, your husband, your children, your
mom, dad, even your own life, sports, or anything in your life, that
comes before God. You are loving the gift, more than the giver of
these gift.

The First Commandment is, in Essence - God's Order of Affection.

Point 4: See Romans 1:26-27; For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.

For Point 5: See Romans 1:19-20; Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath showed it unto them.

For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

And also; Hebrew 1:1-2; God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,

Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;

See also; John 1:1-3; In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

The same was in the beginning with God.

All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

These show us there is a Creator. However, we can not completely condemn evolution, a certain form of evolution, can be seen in the birth and life of animals.

However, the Big Bang Theory can be condemn by Genesis 1:1; In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Isaiah 45:12 says; I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.

Job 26:7 says; He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.

Science can not understand this. So they place the earth on Imaginary axis.

Answer 11

If you don't follow the Bible, why should we invest time in telling you things that don't matter to you? Follow the Bible. Then the answers will find you.