2007-02-26 07:30:08 · 13 answers · asked by josie 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I so totally agree. If christians would just read their bible, they might have a valid argument against the vast majority of non-believers who've read it many times over.
2007-02-26 07:40:43 · answer #1 · answered by Kallan 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think its funny how people just assume that no one has read the bible.
'Out of context' has become the universal excuse for not understanding what the bible actually says.
If people find some quote that actually IS taken out of context, they need to supply the surrounding verses, not just say "oh, that;s out of context".
2007-02-26 15:45:56 · answer #2 · answered by Sun: supporting gay rights 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
Especially those who quote from the Torah (or, as some would call it, the Old Testament).
Many of those people pick-and-choose verse to suit their views and arguments.
It is so interesting that many will liberally quote the Ten Commandments but discard the remaining 603 commandments (Mitzvot), unless of course, they want to point out the evils of homosexuality or some other law, to suit their point.
Funny that those same people will eat treif foods (pork, shellfish) and they worship Jesus (a Jewish guy who followed all 613 Mitzvot, worshiped from Friday to Saturday - the Jewish Sabbath, and quoted Torah).
2007-02-26 15:42:07 · answer #3 · answered by docscholl 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Bible is always out of context unless you happen to live in the middle-East a few thousand years ago.
2007-02-26 15:37:43 · answer #4 · answered by CHEESUS GROYST 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Okay. I've read the Bible. Tell me how this could possibly be taken out of context:
1 Corinthians 34-35:
34Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law.
35And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
How am I taking this out of context if I think that this says for a woman to shut her mouth in church?
2007-02-26 15:35:23 · answer #5 · answered by Maverick 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
How do you know that they haven't read the bible? You just don't like how they twisted the bible differently from the way you twisted it. That doesn't make you right.
2007-02-26 15:39:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Obviously they HAVE read it, else they could not quote it.
Taking a quote "out of context" is a common response when you don't like what the quote says.
Try putting it IN context, but back it up, don't just make the empty claim.
For example.... Luke 14:26 Jesus demands his disciples HATE their entire family. Often when I mention this verse, christians tell me it's out of context, yet they can't put it IN context without changing the word "hate" to "love"
Well, I gotta tell ya, if love can mean hate, then Up can mean Down, and Back can mean Front, and words have lost all meaning, the book is totally meaningless drivel... burn it.
2007-02-26 15:35:02 · answer #7 · answered by slipknotraver 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Can you prove context? I hear a lot of people say its out of context, but never explain the context it is suppose to be in. I usually don't refer to any bibical phrase. If there is a god I would think it would have us believe through actions not words in a book written by man.
2007-02-26 15:35:11 · answer #8 · answered by Magus 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
How do you know they have not read the bible first? Just because they do not agree with you is not reason to believe that they have not read it.
2007-02-26 15:33:56 · answer #9 · answered by A.Mercer 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I feel people take it out of context and should read it first as well. As to who is taking it out of context may be a point of disagreement between us.
2007-02-26 15:37:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋