Do you hold your own Scripture to the same scrutiny as you hold other religion's Scriptures?

Question

When you find something morally questionable in your own Scripture, do you say, "God knows better than me." But then when you look at someone else's Scripture and see something morally questionable, do you say, "Aha! See, this can't be from God, because it has this in it!"?

Are you consistent in the way you evaluate various Scriptures?
Be honest!

Answer 1

I hold everyone Else's scriptures under scrutiny, but not the Word of Gods

those of other faiths than mine

Answer 2

Why would I read any other than the true Word of God, the Bible? God is not the author of confusion. We have a full time job to learn the concepts and to rightly divide the Word of God in study enough to keep us busy for a lifetime and then we will still be finding new treasures in this book of Truth! There's always something I find that I didn't notice the first 50 or 100 times I read it or so. I am the one who isn't seeing the reason it is in there if I should question it. There are both good and bad examples set for us as well as simply historical accounts of the ones whom God made a covenant with and in every generation there was someone usually who would serve Him and keep His commandments and they would recieve the inheritance blessing. You see, not all Abraham's descendants could claim inheritance but some cut themselves out of the family tree so to speak along the spiritual blessing lines. No, I don't doubt God. It is a challenging mystery and God's ways are past finding out. I don't isolate any one thing but see it as a whole big picture unfolding like any great mystery. Again, I don't compare it to others. I find no fault with Jesus Christ or the Word of God or the Heavenly Father.
What you call scrutiny, I call study. The Bible is a gold mine of answers. Everything we need to know about how to live and how to find God and to please Him is contained in it's pages and anyone, even a fool,(without understanding, simple) doesn't need to get lost (err therein) using this road map to heaven.

Answer 3

You are missing a very important point. All of the cells in all of the organisms in the world are direct descendants of the common bacterial ancestor of all life on earth. That is, life does not begin for an organism because it is a continuity from the origin of life. Death of an organism, however, is quite clear since it stops the process of reproduction of that organism's genes which were originally derived from the first life forms and modified through time. Therefore, the argument about when life starts is not scientific, but it is a legal and moral argument about human behavior.

Answer 4

I am a Deist and have no scripture. When I was a Christian, I held the Christian scriptures to a higher standard and felt it important to study about the books, not just what is in them. I see a lot of criticism of Biblical scholars, mainly from people who hold the Bible to such a high degree. I would think that anyone who would consider a book to be of such importance would want to know as much about it as possible.

Answer 5

absolutely.i don't read others scriptures as such on a regular basis.usually logic is enough to see errors.example:bowing to a stone symbol,praying to a figurine,half human half elephant etc symbols or carvings or putting food to a stone really irks me.rats at karnemarta temple to turn into holy men.on the other hand the ones i have read seem to either copy from existing material and change & warp from another source.koran is a classic.catholiscism is another.i think the best quote i can offer is, the letter kills,but the spirit gives life.kjv

Answer 6

I am a Celtic Pagan and have no scriptures.

what i have are a set of human morals and beliefs that i view as right. and yes i would hold them to the same scrutiny that i hold religious scriptures to. however it is my personell conde of moral beliefs that cause me to question many scriptures.

for example i believe in live and let live.

i believe that every man is born free and should remain free to make his own choices so long as he does not violate the free will of another.

and that nobody should face persecution based on their race,religion, sexual preferance, etc.

these are not divine morals handed to me by my gods, they are my beliefs of how people should treat people. I do not need a god to tell me how to live in peace.

but i would question anyone who says that their god is the only god, or who says that their way is the only way, or that everyone else will burn in hell for (percieved sin). because these views directly conflice with my rather simple beliefs that we should all be able to live together peacfully.

Answer 7

Honestly; I have never found anything that is morally questionable in The Holy Bible. In fact, it is from The Holy Bible where true morality comes. Since there is an abundance of evidence to support the accuracy and all the teachings of the Bible, I have no need to look elsewhere for direction in morality.

Answer 8

You need to be specific to scripture references, if you're expecting a specific answer reguarding them.

What are you reading that is morally questionable? Are you misunderstanding something, or is it blatently immoral in nature?

Some scriptures can make more sense, if they are presented with other scriptures. It's all about context.

Answer 9

In my faith, I believe that the Bible is the word of God. In saying that, I also question it sometime and usually find the answers that I am looking for. As for other books of faith, it is always good to learn how others think and believe in their religion. I have found that a lot of similarities exist and some differences also. The bottom line is that we should all respect not denegrate another persons faith or the writings of that faith. It is the best way for all religious groups to learn love and tolerance for one another.

Answer 10

Yes I wrestle with passages in the Bible. I am not 100% convinced that the Bible is 100% textually perfect. I am convinced though that the message is intact with God offering salvation to whoever will receive it. He meets our needs and asks us to let Him meet the needs of others through us. He works in us to achieve the spriitual victory and through us to ease the pain on the temporal level. It's good! Come and see.