I find it absurd that so many people love to point out the faults in the Bible. What I think is even more absurd is they actually think Jesus did bad things and wasnt perfect. Why do people love to take things out of context just to fit their own internal agenda? Are people really trying to trick themselves into actually believing that that Jesus and the Bible as a whole doesn't practice or preach peace? I feel you keep trying to justify your own personal motives for something you are bent on rejecting.
2007-02-14 12:45:45 · 17 answers · asked by Murfdigidy 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
U people are ridiculous, keep fooling yourselves saying that the Bible kills and hates, you people are so blinded by your own psychologically distorted internal motives. Like the first answer said so perfectly, its very apparant that people make whatever they believe they want the bible to be.
2007-02-14 12:54:00 · update #1
First, it's not that the bible is bad or hypocritical. It's that those who claim to represent the word are very often hypocritical. (I'm not going to say bad, because that is much more subjective.)
The rest of your statement in your question is assumptive and out of context with your question, so I won't respond to it. I recommend restating your question to focus on the issue you are asking, without dragging a bunch of unrelated opinions out to accuse people you don't know of doing something that you made up in your head.
2007-02-14 12:55:56 · answer #1 · answered by Pint 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you ever think maybe YOU are taking it out of context? There is really no other context to take God ordering the innocent children of nonbelievers to be thrown onto the rocks. Thats sick in every way.
And this whole the Bible is all about peace thing you mention, isnt it just YOUR internal agenda? Some people dont believe in the Bible, and they never will. Get over it and stop trying to change people. You know that whole Biblical turn the other cheek thing?
2007-02-14 12:54:54 · answer #2 · answered by Together 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
"The Bible as a whole." There is no "Bible as a whole." The Bible is a compilation of texts whose origins span millennia. Some of it preaches genocide (Amalekites, anyone? You can't ask about the Amalekites here anymore, YA deletes the questions). Some preaches peace.
Jesus himself taught amazing things, but also inherited his culture's religion. That's why he talked so much about hell and the suffering that would be the lot of people who didn't accept his teaching. I think you probably read the NT with rose-colored glasses.
2007-02-14 12:55:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
It's not hypocritical because christians act just like the buy-bull directs them to act; judgemental, vengeful, disconcerned, ignorant to NEW discoveries, convinced that prayer is effective, treat women as second class human beings and that Jesus (whoever that is) is coming with a SWORD when he (supposedly) returns.
Don't pretend that you give a crap about peace and love. The only thing you give a crap about is 'eternal salvation' (whatever that is).
No, the buy-bull isn't hypocritical. It is, though, very contradictory within itself.
2007-02-14 12:55:30 · answer #4 · answered by r~@~w 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are so right. We should get to following the bible to the letter and stoining people to death and killing gay folks! Because if its in the bible, its got to be good and right! After we get done with the gays, we can go after those Maine lobstermen. Shellfish are an abomination in the eyes of god!
2007-02-14 12:49:35 · answer #5 · answered by That Guy 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Jesus says that he has come to destroy families by making family members hate each other. He has "come not to send peace, but a sword. Matthew (10:34-36)
Gotta love Jesus for that, huh?
2007-02-14 12:49:51 · answer #6 · answered by gruz 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Why do you like to take the Bible out of context and pretend that it DOES practice and preach peace?
Commanding that Babies be slaughters and the infants be ripped out of mother's wombs and dashed upon the rocks isn't very pleasant.
2007-02-14 12:49:32 · answer #7 · answered by Annie 3 · 6⤊ 1⤋
How would anyone know what Jesus did?
There is no physical or written evidence suggesting that a person named Jesus of Nazarus ever existed. There are no records of Jesus’ birth or death, and there are no contemporary records of his life. In fact, there is not even a 'Nazarus' until later in history.
There is absolutely nothing at all written of, or about, Jesus by anyone who would have been alive and with Jesus at the time. No scribe, historian, or governmental official living in the region at the time mentions Jesus or anyone resembling him. There are no descriptions of what Jesus may have looked like and no first-hand record of even a single word that he ever may have spoken
No records from any state or nation in the region mentions Jesus either by name or deed. There is not one account in any historical record of large crowds of people following, or even going to see, anyone that could have been Jesus. Similarly, history records no mention of anyone in, or passing through, any village, town, city, territory, or nation state anywhere in the Middle East or Mediterranean regions who was performing miracles and demonstrating miraculous deeds, or converting and changing the faith of numbers of people, as claimed by Christian doctrine.
No mention of Jesus appears in any Roman records, including those of Pontius Pilate. There are no eyewitness accounts, records, or physical evidence of Jesus crucifixion, or the crucifixion of anyone who could have been Jesus, in Jerusalem at that time. The supposed darkness that covered the earth upon Jesus' death was not observed or noted by anyone living anywhere on earth. There is no mention of it even in Jerusalem’s own historical records from that time.
In short, there is no evidence and little reason to believe that Jesus ever lived. If there really was an historical Jesus, he left no record and no one who knew him found his life to be worth mentioning. If Jesus was crucified, no one in Jerusalem or Rome at the time appears to have noticed or cared.
2007-02-14 12:51:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
Never read the bible, huh?
Try again. It is full of murder, rape, genocide, and other evils unparalleled in human history.
Jesus may never have ordered an execution, but his father has killed more people than every megalomaniac in human history combined.
2007-02-14 12:50:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
the bible as most other literary works preaches about whatever the reader wants to.
2007-02-14 12:49:27 · answer #10 · answered by whoknows 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋