Someone in another question had this to say about the bible:
"Cover to cover - God shows His love for us
I have read it word for word..."
If they had read it word for word and still thinks it shows god's love for humans they weren't paying much attention. What about that little part where he favors one family and utterly murders every single living thing on the planet?!
People say that you can find true morality in the bible. If it is in fact moral to murder those that you love, they may have a point. Otherwise all i can say about the bible is the majority of what it displays is utterly reprehensible.
2006-12-29 14:53:16 · 16 answers · asked by ChooseRealityPLEASE 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Their morality seems to be on the level of a small child's.
Daddy knows everything. Daddy is greatest. My Daddy is always right. Daddy can do anything. Daddy isn't afraid of anything. I want to grow up and be just like my Daddy. Daddy loves his kids the most. If you are mean to me or trepass in our yard, my Daddy will beat you up. If you do naughty things, you get a whipping. If you're good, you get presents. There are monsters living under my bed, but they're scared of Daddy. He won't let them get me. Girls are icky. Sex is really gross (but I like seeing the new babies.)
Even severly abused children will defend their parents, saying they love them, and they deserved the punishment for breaking the parents' rules no matter unjust the rules or the punishment was.
2006-12-29 15:38:19 · answer #1 · answered by February Rain 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
What about where Jesus is walking through the desert and is hungry, so he walks up to a fig tree to look for a fig to eat. It is out of season though, and there are no figs. So Jesus curses the fig tree and makes it whither and die.
Does this seem like something the son of god would do, kill an innocent tree just because it had no fruit when he was hungry?
I know, some will say that Jesus did this to show that anything can be done with enough faith. But kill a poor innocent tree? Why would Jesus be willing to harm a living thing, just to show what can be done with faith? Why couldn't he have just made the tree come out of the ground and replant itself a hundred yards away. That would have been a pretty cool trick and it wouldn't have made an innocent living thing wither and die.
2006-12-29 15:14:46 · answer #2 · answered by tychobrahe 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
The Bible is mostly crock anyways. Why should I take the word of a bunch of guys stories that were hand picked by ancient leaders with the purpose of controlling the public?
How do we know that all of these "visions" aren't just opium hallucinations (pretty popular back then)? What makes people pick these few writings out of the millions or billions over history?
Why do most Christians use some inane babble regurgitated from their preacher's mouth as defense to any question of their faith?
2006-12-29 15:38:14 · answer #3 · answered by willyc 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
a lot of people misread the Bible, and the leaders they look to for guidance on it, give them screwed up information that leads them on the wrong track. with all of the new versions that take whole verses out of the Bible, I'm not surprised sooooo many people have misconceptions.
2006-12-29 14:59:11 · answer #4 · answered by im_not_who_i_was 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Where are your parents? Why didn't they teach you about God? I guess you think suffering consequences like a spanking for kicking your sibling's teeth out would mean your parents hated you??? Boundaries. God invented them. They prove His love for us. Maybe your folks let you by with murder. God won't. People often get their views of God so mixed up because they didn't have Godly parents and sometimes rebel when they are blessed to have Godly parents.
There's good and evil. God and satan. Don't blame God for evil. He is in control of it all and that's what your gripe is. You want to be in control of your world. Sorry, but the only choice you get is to trust God to do what's best for you or rebel against His will. I like knowing that I can trust God because He is in control. He really does know what He's doing since He made each of us. Until I suffered domestic abuse for years, I took the Bible somewhat for granted. I thought God was not protecting me. Now I understand it better than ever before. If you want to understand God, believe in Him. Then, you will comprehend through heart-felt experience His great love for us. He did give His only begotten Son to die for our sins, Jesus.
2006-12-29 15:40:17 · answer #5 · answered by Lovin' Mary's Lamb 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Yeah it is sad that you do not know God. Some judge God first then they miss the whole spiritual understanding and they fall short. The Bible sifts some out and it seems kind of cruel but when you judge God before you know him it sort of cuts you out. There is an amazing Truth there but first we seek God then we receive faith and then through this faith we receive revelation and come to know God but many are called and few are chosen this is because some do not seek God and some look for an evil God. Some believe a lie rather than seek the truth. It is time to come to God in the way we should seek him. If God created your idea of righteousness he must surely be righteous how would your righteousness exceed the one who created it? Understanding that we are sinners and we are not worthy and that God himself paid the penalty of death for us.... Then we began to make ourselves ready to seek the truth and we seek for truth and we will find it. Know this God is rightous and we are not at all righteous.
2006-12-29 15:08:01 · answer #6 · answered by djmantx 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
To tackle your question about why Noah was saved and the rest of the world killed, think of it this way. If everyone at that time were wicked what chance would any new children being born have to learn righteousness? It was a loving Father that realized he had to start with a righteous stock to be able to give future generations a fighting chance at learning how to be righteous. Noah and his family were the only people willing to follow the Lord after hundreds of years of preaching by Noah. If you are only taught how to be wicked you will never be able to choose for yourself. If you are taught righteousness, wickedness will always present itself, then you can make your own choice.
2006-12-29 15:04:09 · answer #7 · answered by chkrboy 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
It does show His love for us. It also shows that He is a just God that cannot allow sin to go on forever. We all deserve death for our sin. God sometimes ends the life of those who will not repent so that He can limit the hurt they cause. Sometimes He doesn't. He is patient not wanting any to perish but all to come to repentance.
God's ways are so much higher than our ways. We cannot know why He chose to stop who He did, and why He continues to wait for us. Some were no more evil than we are. But He has a right to step down when He wants and be patient when He wants. Who are we, His creation to judge Him?
2006-12-29 15:09:35 · answer #8 · answered by Bre 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Satan blinds people to the truth. When God destroyed these people. He knew that they would never turn to Him. He couldn't let evil keep going on the earth. He is a just and Holy God. God hates sin, but loves the sinner. When you keep evil around it destroys more lives every day. God knows every ones heart, and He is the judge to everyone.
2006-12-29 14:59:45 · answer #9 · answered by salvation 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
The bible was written by people of a certain time and place and cultre, inspired by their understanding of spiritual matters in that time and place. Unfortunately, one of religion's main purposes is to ensure group cohesion. It's not really so interested in getting along with neighboring gruops. That's why, for example, "Thou Shalt Not Kill" seems to apply only to the ancient Isrealites among themselves, did not apply to what Isrealites did to Caanites.
Human consciousness is evolving, and we are beginning to realise that there is only one race, the human race, and that any religion worth carrying over into the next millenium had better extend ethical principles and behavior to all humans and all of creation, not just those who look like us.
2006-12-29 14:59:00 · answer #10 · answered by Joni DaNerd 6 · 1⤊ 4⤋