Since when is our legal system dictated by the Christian bible.?

Question

Lets just go all out then,

Leviticus 20:9 "Any child that curses his mother or his father shall be put to death."

My son better not curse me, according to God it is ok to execute him. According to some of you I could use the bible as defense for murder as well as hatred, bigotry, and ignorance that is used to justify now.

Answer 1

It's not. The only people who think that American jurisprudence is based upon the Ten Commandments are ignorant, closed-minded fundamentalist Christians who think that the Jews invented the first legal and moral code. They did not. If they did a little research, they would realize that the Golden Rule is a universally accepted law which all societies and all religions promote, and that it predates the Ten Commandments, not to mention Christianity.

Furthermore, the Constitution does not mention the words "God" or "Jesus" even once. The Declaration of Independence mentions "Nature's God" only once, and this is a reference not to a Judeo-Christian God but to an abstract, deist notion of God. The fact that so many of our founding fathers were Christian and yet chose NOT to put the word "God" into the Constitution shows that they intended to keep church and state separate in order protect the rights of ALL people, not just Christians.

Incidentally, Thomas Jefferson never said the quote about the Bible being the cornerstone of democracy. Someone claimed to have overheard him say that as a child, but the age difference between himself and Thomas Jefferson was such that he would have been too young to understand or remember any such comment from Jefferson at that time. Furthermore, it is completely inconsistent with the rest of Jefferson's writings. Although Jefferson believed Jesus existed and was a great man, he believe the Bible was a bunch of nonsense on the whole. In fact, he edited his own version of the Bible, known as the "Jefferson Bible," in which he removed everything except the words of Jesus. He even removed all references to the Holy Trinity and to other supernatural powers, retaining only Jesus' moral codes in his edited version. You can purchase a copy of it online if you're interested.

Another interesting read might be Thomas Paine's "The Age of Reason," in which he completely shreds the Bible and exposes it to be illogical nonsense. And Paine was, that's right -- you guessed it! -- one of our founding fathers and the author of "Common Sense," which greatly influenced the American revolution and the U.S. Constitution.

I wish they would teach the truth in school these days instead of catering to fundamentalists. It's ridiculous.

Answer 2

I have one word for you,"Wrong". There is so much proof about it's self The prophecies from one Testament to another. The length of time it to write and put the books together, and the fact its over 40 men who wrote it, and yet it's a very cohesive book about Gods loving plan for His people. If you were to sit down and read the bible you can see jesus in the bible from the very beginning, and how each book either tells about Him and His character, or is an example of His plans. And the Nw test. The plans come to be realize through the person of Jesus. Even if you were never to pick up the bible and go by what you hear and see around you Gods signature is everywhere, it's call the Holy Spirit(Breath of Life) without it, we would all be an object that can't move. But with the breath of God, it's amazing what wad can do.

Answer 3

we are no longer bound by the law because we have GRACE. it is still in the bible because we have been set FREE from it and so we can know what we were bound by. The passages you are referring to were laid down during a time when Israel was just born. There was no man-made law. THey came from the mouth of God. Yeah, they sound harsh. People needed a standard to live by and these principles are still relevant today. But since we have our man-made laws and Christs death on the Cross, we are subject to man's laws. AND Christ's sacrifice gives grace and pays the penalty for our sins, the same sins, mind you, that were committed 3000 years ago. It seems to me you are angry at God for some reason. You are intent on taking God's Word out of context. You make a fatal mistake when you point your finger at God...you assume He should answer to you, when it is the other way around. And, if God is so irrelavant to our legal system as you say, why are you working so hard to prove him wrong? If it's all such a load of crap, then why do you even waste your time trying to debunk it?

Answer 4

I never was.

Our laws are heavily influenced by Catholic and Proestant English Laws, that were Biblically based.

Let's take, for example, Bankruptcy, the process by which you SHED yourself of BANK OF AMERICA and their 25% interest rates.

I moved across country four years ago and I put $1,200 on my credit card and it's four years later I still have $1,500 on that credit card, mostly from the move and interest.

In every 7th year the Bible tells us, we have to fogive all debts.

That's where our Bankrputcy laws come from.

Shall we get rid of them! Shall we ATHEIST them and say NEVER SHALL A PERSON BE FORGIVEN FOR THEIR DEBTS AND THOSE DEBTS SHALL PASS TO THE SURVIVORS UPON DEATH!

Yeah, baby, let's let ALL our son's and daughters take over the CREDIT CARD debts of their parents upon death!

Answer 5

It is not, nor should it be.

I love that someone answered this question by quoting the founding fathers, who were hardly devout Christians. (Not that it's relevant one way or the other!)

Thomas Jefferson disliked the Bible so much that he rewrote it! It was Jefferson's fervent hope that people turn away from established religion and toward science. Why, it was Jefferson who penned the phrase, "separation of church and state," so I fail to see why anyone seeking to advance the opposite idea would dare to quote him in their own favor! Here are some more quotes from this great man:

"Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law."

"But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."

"Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because if there be one he must approve of the homage of reason more than that of blindfolded fear."

"Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting "Jesus Christ," so that it would read "A departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion;" the insertion was rejected by the great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mohammedan, the Hindoo and Infidel of every denomination."

"I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent."

"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between church and State."

"History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes."

"The whole history of these books [the Gospels] is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and such tricks have been played with their text, and with the texts of other books relating to them, that we have a right, from that cause, to entertain much doubt what parts of them are genuine. In the New Testament there is internal evidence that parts of it have proceeded from an extraordinary man; and that other parts are of the fabric of very inferior minds. It is as easy to separate those parts, as to pick out diamonds from dunghills."

"In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own."

"If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist? ...Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God."

"And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerve in the brain of Jupiter. But may we hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this most venerated reformer of human errors."

Answer 6

The quote Gary has by George Washington has already been proven to have been a fraud along with Washington's prayer book it was written in. Washington is believed to have been a Deist.

Answer 7

There are a lot of outlandish laws in the US. Did you know in South Dakota it is legal to shoot and kill Indians if 5 or more are on your property.

http://www.dumblaws.com/laws/united-states/south-dakota/

http://www.crazylaws.com/ Scroll down to South Dakota.

Answer 8

We will be judged for every idle word we speak. Jesus changed the eye for an eye concept in the New Testament. However, what I feel is that the world wouldn't really be such a bad place if the Bible was adhered to. That's my opinion.

Answer 9

Honey...I think you're ignorant and not the Bible. You're taking things out of context and if I try to give you a rebuttal you'll just ignore it. The Bible says Eph 6:4 Fathers, do not irritate and provoke your children to anger [do not exasperate them to resentment], but rear them [tenderly] in the training and discipline and the counsel and admonition of the Lord.

Gary's quotes are accurate. Just open a history book.
And our government should reflect the people! FYI...most of America is Christian

Answer 10

It has been tried but it is no good as a defense. You can not even kill witches, ******, children or anything now days sorry the law is all that is saving them though. God Bless sorry Betty