Please explain how we can do both at the same time and not be in trouble?
2007-01-28 16:37:57 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes, Manhatten Girl! If only.... but I can dream I guess...
2007-01-28 16:43:15 · update #1
welcome to the world of biblical contradiction
2007-01-28 16:41:46 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋
This is why I do not read the bible or practice religion for that fact. I simply live the best i can. I personally believe that the bible was written by men and it has been revised and re-interpreted over the centuries. I mean if you pass a message along 30 people...at the end of the line...it would be different than the original message. How can I believe in it.... Also when I read that the old laws don't apply to today's Christians...my thought on that is..."if" these are God's laws and rules who decides that they can just be "changed". That's again why I can't believe in man made stories.
2007-01-28 16:52:44 · answer #2 · answered by aprildin 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Only he who is without sin can cast the first stone.
Are you reading the Old Testament with the 20/20 hindsight of centuries of Christian upbringing? " An eye for an eye" meant that the punishment should fit the crime. This was an important change in a society that put people to death for little or no reason.
2007-01-28 17:00:34 · answer #3 · answered by angrygramma 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all, the New Testament is the completion of the Old. It is all fulfilled in Jesus. Romans 6:23 says "The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Sin is a serious thing- it has separated us from God and has brought spiritual and physical death into the world. Before Adam and Eve sinned there was no death. This is why a lot of sins are dealt with so harshly. It is only by God's grace that we can be restored to our relationship with Him.
2007-01-28 16:58:19 · answer #4 · answered by Tim T 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What Nicholas H said (Props Nick!)
Um... I know for a fact that early man (not stone age) put together the Bible. There were actually 400,000 of them.
And they all made up ideas or somehow pieced together what seemed logical, into a leather bound handbook that we now call the Bible. Everything's made up.
God didn't make Adam and Eve, it was evolution. And did they really have names like Adam and Eve back in the day?
2007-01-28 16:51:46 · answer #5 · answered by T.VO 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jesus RESCUED the adulterous woman from stoning!!! He told her:
Neither do I condemn you, go and sin no more -John 8:11
His blood saved us from the condemnation of the law, thus we are under a New Covenant of Grace. Just because such things are in the Old Testament, doesn't mean we should do them. Jesus told us instead. Love one another -John 15:12
If you neglect to acknowledge this important change, then of course it would not make sense.
2007-01-28 16:53:28 · answer #6 · answered by great gig in the sky 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, I always liked the Noah story, at about page 3. God is so upset that his rush job of a universe building project went sour he throws a hissy fit and kills everybody and everything. Men, women, children, babies, all the animals and all the plants too. God kills them all, except Noah, with a horrible drowning death. Nice guy, real loving, just the type to follow.
2007-01-28 16:50:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
"kill" is, as oddly as it sounds, open to interpretation. I hear that the better translation would have been "murder." In any event, what did they exactly mean by kill/murder? is self defense ok? What about using antibacterial soap? You kill 99.9% of germs! Sinner!
Well, I guess they decided that capital punishment wasn't the kind of "kill" that "thou shalt not" do. Not that I'm defending capital punishment by stoning. That's just what they decided and, well, there ya have it. They didn't think it was a contradiction, I guess.
2007-01-28 16:48:20 · answer #8 · answered by nope 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
In the US we have the same law, yet it's ok to kill in the war context and capitol punishment. How can we do both and not be in trouble?
2007-01-28 18:42:49 · answer #9 · answered by IKB 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible doesn't say "Thou shall not kill" it say "thou shall not murder", which is totally different from murder. Murder is a senseless taking of innocent life. When peopled were stoned, that was the Jewish form of execution. There are no contradictions as some of people here have claimed.
2007-01-28 16:45:57 · answer #10 · answered by theo48 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The commandment is against murder.
Not all killing is murder.
Are you referring to the OT, in which the Jews were living under a theocracy. A lot of the laws of the OT do not apply to Christians today.
2007-01-28 16:44:37 · answer #11 · answered by David S 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋