Christians & Morality: Does your selectiveness when dealing with biblical verses reflect your morality?

Answer 1

Wow, great question! Yes, I believe it does and you have hit upon an interesting concept.

Answer 2

If you ask a Muslim if it is moral to marry a 9 year old they'll say the same types of things about that as some of the Christians are saying about slavery. I think they're all overlooking a very important point though. The idea of what is right, moral, true or any other thing that we deem good and proper at any point in time is subject to change, and hopefully for the better. So no, it is not moral, as I define "moral" to own another human being. It used to be common and so much so that the holy books of some faiths tell you to make sure your slave doesn't die right away when you beat them. It used to be common to marry off female children very young, before some cultures would even consider them eligible to leave their family home, but it was common then. The idea of either thing now is absolutely abhorrent to any thinking person. We, as a species, have grown and evolved in a lot of ways and one of those ways is in how we view others and their rights to exist in peace. There are always going to be some who are a bit behind the rest of us in this area, true, but for the most part those of us in civilized countries have come to the conclusion that marrying children is not the best idea, nor is slavery. Yet both still occur in some places. Those places are simply further behind in their moral development. They haven't learned things like empathy and compassion at all. Even some who claim to be moral barely have any compassion for others themselves. Basically, a lot of humans suck. What I would love to see is a bit of honesty from the bible and quran followers. Instead of getting defensive and saying that such things were acceptable at the time and therefore they were OK with their idea of god, they should answer openly and honestly that the people who wrote their books were not perfect and that their ideas about the nature of the divine have changed in modern times making such practices unacceptable. It's called "spiritual and moral growth" and there's nothing wrong with it - which makes me wonder why so many Christians and Muslims act like there is indeed something very wrong with it that they must obfuscate the base issue. They simply are not in compliance with their holy books in this area - nor should they be. They need to own that and be proud of that, not try to justify the atrocities of the past. Those atrocities don't belong to them anyway, so they should quit acting like they must defend them and pretend it was in any way, shape or form "good". That is merely the apologetics version of intellectual dishonesty.

Answer 3

The bible to me is not about verses but the whole book is holy and I can never select only what suits me because when getting tested you have to quote the bible in order for the demons to flee and it's advisable to quote the scriptures when going thru trials and tribulations or when you just want to praise God. Off course there are those verses that touch a person personally so the person memorises them. The whole bible is about morals and principles.

Answer 4

Interpretation is often confused with selectiveness. One group interprets a scripture to mean somthing and the next group, somthing totally different. For example, some groups beleive that they are not under the Mosaic law and some belive they still are. Then when different Christians apply the bible differently in their lives, others veiw them as being selective and not what the situation really is: they interpret the bible differently. This of couse is not to be cofused with hipocrisy which is rampant in today's christianity, saying one thing and then doing another.

Answer 5

Christians never cease to amaze me with this rather narrowminded and problem causing point of view. Does not your own bible start with "In the beginning there was the word and the word was all". "The word" is ALL of the bible; not merely the parts that support your own point of view. This has led to various "versions" of the bible (when someone tells a "version" of the truth it is NOT the WHOLE truth so beware), and alot of subdivisions-to include the mulim, jewish, catholic, protestant, baptist and mormon ones to name a few.
You can not beleive in the bible--but not the part that says "the sabboth is the SEVENTH (Saturday) day", or "worship not graven images" while on your knees to the virgin Mary, or "judge not" as you declare any one not of your faith is a sinner and going to hell, or believe in angels and not demons and magic even though both are mentioned as real in the Good Book, and lastly you all think you know the end is coming-when even Jesus said he didn't know ("like a thief in the night"). So many more...

Just look in your heart and stop picking and choosing versions and passages by which to live. You judeo christions spend way to much time making God in YOUR image instead of accepting Him in HIS!

Answer 6

I guess it could. I mean if they choose to ignore certain verses that would keep from being more or less moral then yes it would effect your morality.

Also if they are being selective and manipulative with Scripture this is immoral practice and not good Biblical interpretation.

I am a Christian and I am not selective with my Scripture.

Answer 7

The term Christian is a very broad term. A Christian is someone who believes Jesus to be their Savior. Catholic is a religion Protestant is a religion, Anglican, Evangelism, Mormon, ectectect. All these refer to religions which in essence celebrate Christmas.

I am 'Christian', but I am not selective with biblical versus since I am not known to quote the Bible, I do not know any quotes with out opening the book to find one.

In fact, it is not every denomination of Christianity who goes door to door, or who walks around quoting the Bible. Did you know that 'Christians' also pretend not to be home when their doorbell rings and someone is there to talk about their religion (Christian or not)?

Answer 8

I think that everyone has their own values based on the culture and family they grew up in and they interpret their religion in a way that supports those values. Even if they follow every verse, there are many ways to interpret each verse.

Answer 9

So whats wrong with the 10 commandments. Its not my morality, its God's.

Answer 10

Perhaps you should increase your own understanding of all of the biblical verses.
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