Question about the bible?

Question

I watched a show last night called "sex in the bible." it was all about (shocking) sex that was mentioned in the bible. people in those times did some unreal things. My question is this...why did they put those stories in the bible if they were nothing but sin? isn't the bible supposed to teach us good? and if the people that did these things were so holy, did they go to heaven or hell after doing what they did (example would be the 2 daughters who laid with their father and had children by him). if we are taught that we are not forgiven for certain things (10 commandments), then why were biblical people forgiven?

Answer 1

The Bible wants to show you good and bad - how to act, and how not to act, and show you that God's love is so deep, that even if you screw it all up just as badly as some of these folks did by example, and even though we humans may not be able to really forgive the behavior, He can. And does. God will forgive *all* sins. You need only admit you messed up and ask that He accept your repentance. (And of course *mean* it. It does require that you genuinely know you did a bad thing.) He's not expecting perfection. He's asking that we do our best and acknowledge when we miss the mark - be it a near miss or completely off the chart.

And, sweetie, I have no idea who told you "we are not forgiven for certain things" but he/she left you utterly misinformed..

Answer 2

Which commandement is Thou Shalt Not Get They Father Drunk and Induce Him To HAve Sex With you.

I mean let's get something clear. God mad man naked and saw nothing wrong with it. It is MAN that saw it as wrong.

Technically, christians should walk around naked and get back to the ways God intended man to be, but they keep reliving the sin and the sin was all those FIG LEAVES.

That was the symptom of the sin.

As for the Bible it covers both Good and Bad and it's up to you to separate it.

The Bible also has a lot of preaching by man not by God.

God gave 10 simple rules

Jesus gave a few more

Jesus told us how to avoid some problems, by, for example, getting married so we don't live a life of indicriminant sex.

Indiscriminant sex, according to the sciences, is the #1 cause of STD.

There was this 10 year period between 1964 and 1974 when between the pill and penicillin a lot of people thought we could surive world orgies with no problems. Then along comes the incruables and the demise of penicillin as an effective tool and stroke from the pill in women over 30.

Funny that you can't just give people a month's woth of Penicillin or E Mycin or Tetrex and irradicate Gonhorreah ahd Syphlis in the world. In theory that should be possible.

Answer 3

The belief that the Bible was specifically written as a handbook for humans is a relatively late-breaking theory that, frankly, simply isn't borne out by the facts.

When the various authors wrote their documents that were later incorporated into a single document (aka, the Bible), they were writing about things that were important to them in their time and that meant something to their audience. The Judah jews wrote about history from an Aaronid perspective while the jews of Israel wrote the same stories with a Mosaic-twist. John of Revelations wrote about the Romans in 1st or 2nd century CE. Interpreting their works today with the assumption that it was meant for us in our time to read is the single leading factor in misinterpretations like the one you mentioned: "Isn't the Bible supposed to teach us good?".

Like any archaelogical document, it is counterproductive to treat the entire Bible as timeless. Understanding who wrote the different parts of the Bible and why they wrote what they wrote is much more revealing than depending on personal inpsiriation and, when we see the real meaning in the works and not the meaning we're looking for, the true timelessness of the authors' works comes out.

Dr. Richard Friedman's "Who Wrote The Bible?" is an excellent non-antitheistic look at the writers of some books of the Old Testament. You may enjoy it as it doesn't have the stereotypical "religion is a bunch of bunk!" antitheism that you may encounter in the popular biblical critques, but also doesn't blindly follow off-the-shelf religious dogma, either.

Good luck in your search for truth!

Answer 4

Where did you watch this? ...on liberal PBS who hates christianity? Yes the 2 daughters slept with their father. It's a recordation of a sin and their children were cursed. God didn't support such a thing. Adam and Eve is the model God gave. If humanity screws up and makes mistakes and it is recorded in the Bible, don't think that God supports it. Not everything in the Bible is a rule God made....most of the Old Testament is a story of man's failure and God's forgiveness. Even the famous Old Testament saints messed up when it came to sex. Even King David had another womans husband sent to the front lines of a battle to be killed so he could have this man's wife for himself. He eventually repented of that and his repenting of that sin is recorded. Solomon had many wives and yet in the end said "All is vanity" and told men to keep the wife of their youth. He realized the folly of that lifestyle. Certainly God didn't agree with him having so many wives and in the end both these great men of God saw their mistakes. Please don't take christian doctrine from television. Sweetheart, those in television hate christianity and don't understand what the bible means. Do your own study and learn through the Holy Spirit what the Bible means.

Answer 5

First, sex is not dirty or unGodly unless it is used in the wrong way. Sex was put here to be between husband and wife and was to be a beautiful thing, but like every thing else man took it and made something dirty out of it. If you will read on you will find out what happen to these people. Their wrong doing did not go unpunished, just as sin will not go unpunished today. Many people wonder why thing happen to them. If we only search our hearts we will find things in there that should not be and until we get them out we will continue to suffer. As for your question of heaven or hell, there is only one sin that will send a person to hell and that is, Blashemy of the Holy Spirit. However not only are we punished for our sins here on earth we lose rewards in heaven.

Answer 6

The Bible is a historical text as well as a relgious book. Just because some people mentioned in the Bible did certain things doesn't mean they were sinless. The only sinless people were Mary and Jesus. The other people mentioned in the Bible were just oridinary people like you and I. They just happened to be living at the time and place where the Bible was recorded.

Answer 7

You're referring to the old testament... the first five books of the bible. Abraham made a covenant with God, to keep an accurate record of the Jeweish people and their history. In effect to keep an honest, factual history of God's chosen people. Therefore, everything that happened had to be recorded as it actually happened, no false tales, only the facts, whether they were good, bad or indifferent.

And No, the bible isn't there to teach us good. Where did you get that fallacious notion? And, don't worry, God loves us all, and forgives us all, regardless of our sins, and regardless of our religion, or lack of one.

Answer 8

there is only one sin that is unforgivable, and that is rejection of God and Jesus as his son.
the reason that those stories are in the bible is to show us that even the best people in the bible had the same problems as we do and can be forgiven.
as for the daughters of Lot, both sons that were the result of those unions became the beginning of nations.
the first became the beginnings of Moab and the Moabites, the second became the beginnings of Ammon and the Ammonites.

Answer 9

First off, the Bible is a collection of books written by various people, over a stretch of a few thousand years. They are books that tell it like it is and was. That is one of the evidences for its authenticity. It doesn't cover up the failings of its saints or pretend to present people as perfect. The Bible does teach us God's standard of righteousness, but also reveals our totally depraved nature outside of God. Salvation is not based on our "good" works, but solely upon the grace of God. He determines through election who will be saved, and who will not. Christ's work on the cross was totally sufficient to pay for the sins of His people, past, present and future.

Answer 10

The reason that stories about sin are written in the Bible is that God wants to demonstrate to us that there are consequences for sin. It does not mean that those who sinned in the bible were condemned to Hell.
The requirement for salvation has always been faith. The object of one's faith for salvation has always been God. The psalmist wrote, "Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him" (Psalm 2:12). Genesis 15:6 tells us that Abraham believed God and that was enough for God to account it to him for righteousness (see also Romans 4:3-8).