Is there any source apart from the Bible that states?

Question

That homosexuality is a sin,
That abortion is murder,
That evolution is false,
That christianity is the one true religion,
That women are meant to be submissive to men,
and That it is okay to discriminate and condemn?

I disagree with all the above things, but I am just wondering.

I know some of these things never appear in the bible, but christians say they are wrong anyway, it is a tongue-in-cheek question.

Answer 1

Here's some bible verses that might help with some of your questions:

On homosexuality:
Leviticus 18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Leviticus 18:29 For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.
Leviticus 20:13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them
Romans 1:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

On abortion:
Notice that in Jeremiah 1:5 we are told that God KNEW Jeremiah:"Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations."
To further confirm the fact that God views the unborn child as a person, please consider Exodus 21:22-23:

"If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,"
If the woman has a premature birth and the child lives ("no mischief follows"), then there's no death penalty. However, if the child dies (or the woman dies) God says the death penalty applies: "thou shalt give life for life." Why would God require the death penalty if He didn't consider the unborn child to be a human being?

On evolution:
Genesis 1:1-28 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

On christianity-one true religion:
John 21:18-19
I tell you the truth. When you were young, you tied your own belt and went where you wanted. But when you are old, you will put out your hands and another person will tie you. That person will lead you where you don't want to go." (Jesus said this to show how Peter would die to give glory to God.) Then Jesus said to Peter, "Follow me!" (ERV)
tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. You should not be surprised at my saying, "You must be born again." John 3:5-7
The Spirit gives life. The flesh counts for nothing. The words I speak to you are spirit and they are life.
John 6:63
whoever hears my Word and believes in the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned. They have crossed over from death to life. John 5:24
My Father's will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life and I will raise them up at the last day. John 6:40
I have come that you might have life and have it more abundantly. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. John 10:10-11
I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life.
John 8:12



Why was the woman created?
1 Corinthians 11:8-9 For man does not originate from woman, but woman from man; for also, man was not created for the benefit of the woman, but woman for the benefit of the man.

How far should a woman go to subject herself to her husband?
Ephesians 5:24 Moreover, in the exact same manner as the Church is in subjection to Christ, so also the wives to their husbands, in everything.

Should a Christian woman consider herself the property of her husband?
1 Peter 3:1,2,6 Likewise, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands, so that, even if some refuse to believe and obey the word of God, they will be won over without a word, because of the behavior of the wives, when they observe your spiritually pure, chaste and modest behavior, along with reverence. Just as Sarah submissively obeyed Abraham calling him, “Lord, who owns me”; whose spiritual child you became when you began doing what was right and were absolutely not afraid of any terror.

After doing all that is commanded in the Bible, should a woman expect some gratitude?
Luke 17:10 So also you, whenever you might do all the things which you have been ordered, say, “We are useless and worthless bondslaves; we have done what we were bound by obligation to do.”


and on discrimination and condemn:
We are not to do either, Jesus said to judge, we will be judge also. moses wife was black, and his sister was punished for discriminating her.

Answer 2

Well, having seen a quote in some brochure from a church group, I know that the bible (I don't capitolize it, so excuse me) states something about "men who copulate with men" or somesuch and that they would be among those taken away by the Apocalypse... but I'm not 100% on that. Interesting that being lesbian (the word being derived from the name of an island in greek mythology where women "loved each other") is not mentioned as far as I know. This standard is also present in many other religions. Some exceptions I know of are in Indian (as in India) culture where coupling with eunuchs was common with men (ref. Kama Sutra), and in old Japanese culture, where "love between warriors" was actually seen as being more pure than when women were involved.
Also, according to the pope (er... one of them), abortion is not murder until the child begins to move. Traditionally, it has been said that the child's soul is born when the mother feels it move for the first time, so in many cases, it really couldn't be called murder.

I digress, though. In essence, the "above things" are simply a compilation of ideas that come from resistance to change. Until recently, homosexuality was not spoken of in most Western cultures, and denied. Abortion is a relatively new practice, and evolution a relatively new idea. Christianity boxed itself in by denying the validity of all other religions, and if you look at the early history of the religion, especially the involvement with the Roman Empire, you can see how it managed to spread so much despite all it's less-than-humanely-moral standards. Women are seen as submissive merely because of their physical nature as the recievers of all things (and they simply keel over with delight when presented with such manliness, no?), and finally, descrimination and condemnation are parts of human nature that are meant to be defensive but have been overly encouraged by the adamance of many religions when it comes to acknowledging other religions.

None of these issues are unique to christianity, nor do they originate solely from the bible. I should say that you come close to condemnation yourself, so always be aware of the wider scope before you focus on something like that.

Sorry about being long-winded, and any errors I made regarding the bible (I have not read it in several years) or any of the religions or cultures(I belong in none of them). ^_^

Answer 3

Other religions have similar beliefs....life is sacred in Buddhism, Islam and nature based religions. Do your own thing, evolution beliefs, me-ism are rooted in the Satanic Bible and the New Age. Women in Christianity only submit to men that are first submitted to God. Jeremiah 1 God acknowledges the person in the womb. Life in the Blood Genesis 9:4-5, Innocent Blood, Deuteronomy 19:10,13 Jesus Matthew18:6 on the harm of children. Job is a scientific summary and Genesis 1 the classification of Species.

Answer 4

Yes. There are other sources. I cannot identify the sources but can give you a view from a Muslim point of view:
1. Homosexuality is a misuse of qualities and tools that Allah provided. It is abnormal and un-natural and how would you say when you describe the scene of action.. Abominable? However, Islam does not mean to run them out of town but help them and persuade them to change the mentality. It is not in the mutated genes as some may say.
2. When the fetus has reached a status when it is a tiny functioning human and would have become a grown up human if not aborted then you tell me what it is?
3. It depends how you define evolution and what other process you exclude. If you mean we evolved but gradual mutation from single cells, then that is not believable. Even those who pushed evolution in the first place presented it only as a possible theory and not a demonstrated fact. So this by itself is another faith as the faith has been defined in so many questions; such as faith is something you can accept and believe in it but which cannot be demonstrated or proved practically.
However, why is it beyond the power of Almighty Allah to use evolution process and continue giving human new vegetation, flowers, fruits with different taste and so on by evolution. Have you heard about open pollination and what the results are?
(4) There is one and only One God and he sent messengers to teach submission to his will by obeying the teaching brought by the messengers. In Islam the attention is on the message and not on the messenger though they are considered god chosen human to convey the message. Muslims believe that all those who followed Jesus as he taught are Muslims (which by association to Jesus (pbuh) are called Christians). Muslims believe that many exclusions and inclusions took place later which makes part of the testament not reliable. This is not the place for verbose details but look here and you will see what I mean:
http://essenes.net/CouncilOfNicea.html#The%20Doctrine%20of%20Arius
(5) No human is inferior to another human in front of Allah except one makes oneself inferior by his own misdeed or wickedness. So, women are not considered inferior to men or submissive to men as it implies here. Their biological difference put different responsibility on them and both are expected to do their duties. In case of marriage both are expected to respect the bond for the sake of family (children) tranquility.
(6) No, it is not OK to discriminate and condemn in the sense it is asked. However, it is OK to discriminate between good and bad.

Answer 5

Very few of those things are actually stated in the Bible, and none of them are stated directly.

Abortions as they are now did not exist in biblical times. There were instantaneous abortions at that, considering that's just another word for miscarriage.

The Bible never says that evolution is false, it doesn't mention evolution at all.

Answer 6

The Bible does not say those things directly but speaks slightly of them in which certain members of the Christian faith assume that these things are ultimate sins and are not acceptable, when God merely wants the world to be at peace.
Jesus was Jewish, why would a messiah not be part of the "true" religion?

Answer 7

Josephus had reported James the brother of Jesus who grew to become into the risen Christ, he grew to become into reported in his e book "The Antiquities" as he grew to become into recounting how the intense priest Ananias took great thing pertaining to to the demise of the Roman Governor Festus (who grew to become into additionally reported interior the hot testomony) He had even written an excellent lengthier section approximately Jesus that's stated as the "Testimonium Flavianum". at present there's a ideas-blowing consensus among the Jewish and the Christian pupils that the passage as an entire is genuine. Then there is Tacitus; a Roman historian of the 1st century and he besides no longer in uncomplicated terms mentions the Christians yet why and who they observed this "Christus". Tacitus gave important testimony on the Christ and the Christians because of the fact he grew to become into completely unsympathetic witness to the fulfillment and unfold fo Christianity in keeping with a historic discern --- Jesus --- who grew to become into crucified below Pontius Pilate. it is important that Tacitus reported that an great multitude held so strongly to their ideals that they have been prepared to die quite than recant. Then there is Piny the extra youthful. He too hated the Christians and his record of the Christ and their followers corroborates with the records of the hot testomony as does the books via Flavious Josephus and Tacitus. there's a heck of a great number of alternative corroborations from different lands and archaeologicall digs yet a e book would be written right here approximately all of that. i could propose you make investments some money and time into some books via Jim Bishop, Ray Stedman, Lee Strobel and an unknown Detroit lawyer named "Constance E. Cumbey". 2 of her books could be "a deliberate Deception" & "The Hidden disadvantages of the Rainbow". There are a slew of books on Biblical Archeology that do corroborate with the hot testaments. seek for them besides. God bless and take care.

Answer 8

I wouldn't be able to cite it, but I have feeling the Qur'an lists all of those things except Christianity being the one true religion, which it is.

Answer 9

Some brief history as to some efforts made throughout history:

*** it-1 p. 551 Crime and Punishment ***

Babylonian. Hammurabi’s code (so called, but not a code as defined by lawyers today), admittedly based on earlier legislation, is a collection of decisions or “casebooks” on clay tablets, copied later (perhaps in a different style of writing) on a stele placed in the temple of Marduk in Babylon. Copies were probably placed in other cities. This stele, carried later to Susa by a conqueror, was discovered there in 1902.

Was Hammurabi’s code an “ancestor” of the Mosaic Law?

Unlike the Mosaic Law, it does not seek to establish principles. Rather, its object appears to be to help the judges to decide certain cases by giving them precedents or altering previous decisions to show what ought to be done in future cases. For example, it does not set forth a sanction for murder, because there was already a recognized punishment for that, and doubtless for other common crimes. Hammurabi was not attempting to cover the whole scope of law. Each of the rules of the “code” starts off with the formula: ‘If a man does thus and so.’ Because it relates to specific instances, rather than laying down principles, it merely tells what judgment must be given to fit a certain simple set of facts. It is based mainly on laws already in existence, merely particularizing to fit certain difficult situations current in Babylonian civilization at the time.

In no way does Hammurabi’s code prove to be an ancestor of the Mosaic Law. For example, there existed in Hammurabi’s code a “sympathetic” punishment. One of the rules states: “If [a builder] has caused the son of the owner of the house to die [because the house is faulty and collapses], one shall put to death the son of that builder.” God’s law through Moses, to the contrary, stated: “Fathers should not be put to death on account of children, and children should not be put to death on account of fathers.” (De 24:16) The penalty for theft of valuables was generally not restitution, as in the Mosaic Law, but death. In certain cases of theft, restitution up to 30-fold was required. If the man was unable to pay, he was to be put to death. Nebuchadnezzar employed dismemberment, also he used punishment by fire, as in the case of the three young Hebrew men whom he threw alive into a superheated furnace.—Da 2:5; 3:19, 21, 29; Jer 29:22.


*** g90 6/8 p. 6 Changing Values With the Passing of History ***


The diversity of moral standards persisted throughout history, with alternating periods of tolerance and of stricter ethical rules. Homosexuality, vigorously condemned in the Middle Ages, was more or less tolerated during the Renaissance in Europe. In Switzerland, when Calvin settled in Geneva during the Reformation, he inaugurated a period of uncompromising moral rigor. On the other hand, some 200 years later, the French Revolution legalized the formerly rejected values. It came out in support of a new “moral freedom” and made it easier to obtain a divorce.

The Bible indeed is unique in the requirements of morality that have lasted since its beginning writings by the Bible biographer, and auto-biographer, Moses about 1513 bce.

Answer 10

I didn't know the Bible adressed evolution or abortion...can you provide a direct reference?