The Bible scripture is 100% clear and concise and the absolute Word of truth.?

Question

Deuteronomy Chapter 22
"If a man is discovered having relations with a woman who is married to another, both the man and the woman with whom he has had relations shall die.
"If within the city a man comes upon a maiden who is betrothed, and has relations with her,
you shall bring them both out to the gate of the city and there stone them to death: the girl because she did not cry out for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbor's wife.
"If, however, it is in the open fields that a man comes upon such a betrothed maiden, seizes her and has relations with her, the man alone shall die.
it was in the open fields that he came upon her, and though the betrothed maiden may have cried out for help, there was no one to come to her aid.
"If a man comes upon a maiden that is not betrothed, takes her and has relations with her, and their deed is discovered,
the man who had relations with her shall pay the girl's father fifty silver shekels

Sorry,
IS the Bible scripture 100% clear and concise and the absolute Word of truth?

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"If a man comes upon a maiden that is not betrothed, takes her and has relations with her, and their deed is discovered,
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the man who had relations with her shall pay the girl's father fifty silver shekels and take her as his wife, because he has deflowered her. Moreover, he may not divorce her as long as he lives.

Sorry,
IS the Bible scripture 100% CLEAR and CONCISE and the absolute Word of truth?

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"If a man comes upon a maiden that is not betrothed, takes her and has relations with her, and their deed is discovered,
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the man who had relations with her shall pay the girl's father fifty silver shekels and take her as his wife, because he has deflowered her. Moreover, he may not divorce her as long as he lives.

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Hmmmm, concensus says it's not clear and concise. We need websites to explain it?

Answer 1

If the glove does not fit, then you must acquit.

Answer 2

The simple answer is that it isn't. As someone who is atleast a somewhat Christian orientation I can say that a large percent of the Bible is a mythology. I don't mean mythology as in Thor, Theia and Rhea but rather in the way in which a people group attempt to make sense of their environment. I would be a futile exercise to look at other ancient documents of that time and find less brutal imagery. I think its easy to look at the Bible and compare it to humanist or post-enlightenment literature. It simply cannot not function in the same way. If you want to really see who God is look at what Jesus actually said. Not the hell, fire and brimstone translations but rather at true verbatim Greek translations that show "hell" as "Gehenna", a valley outside Jerusalem for evicted social outcasts.

I think Christians need to stop at the Old Testament for "ultimate truth" and start looking at it as a period piece, full of analogies and struggles, and the New Testament as a group of books influenced by the greatest social activist that ever breathed.

So know, the Bible is not 100% clear and concise and the absolute Word of truth. It does contain truth, but it isn't perfect. Its the ideas that are important not the specific words.

Answer 3

"If any man takes a wife and goes in to her and then turns against her, 14 and charges her with shameful deeds and publicly defames her, and says, ‘I took this woman, but when I came near her, I did not find her a virgin,’ 15 then the girl’s father and her mother shall take and bring out the evidence of the girl’s virginity to the elders of the city at the gate. 16 "And the girl’s father shall say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man for a wife, but he turned against her; 17 and behold, he has charged her with shameful deeds, saying, "I did not find your daughter a virgin." But this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity.’ And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city. 18 "So the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him, 19 and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give it to the girl’s father, because he publicly defamed a virgin of Israel. And she shall remain his wife; he cannot divorce her all his days. 20 "But if this charge is true, that the girl was not found a virgin, 21 then they shall bring out the girl to the doorway of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death because she has committed an act of folly in Israel, by playing the harlot in her father’s house; thus you shall purge the evil from among you," (Deut. 22:13).

Critics of the Bible must be careful not to impose their present day moral system upon that of an ancient culture found in Scripture and then judge Scripture as though it is inferior to their own subjective morality. The above verses were written 3000 years ago in a very different culture and location. Sexual purity was very highly valued, unlike today, and when a man would marry a woman, her virginity was critical. In ancient times a dowry was paid to the father of the bride and the rightful expectation was that the bride would be a virgin.
In the culture of the time it was the father who was charged with the covering, care, and well-being of his daughter. Her sexual purity was was representative of the fathers ability to raise her according to the laws God. Therefore, in that culture, a man's reputation, as well as the family's reputation in the community, could be adversely affected by the fornication of his daughter. If his daughter had been promised to a man to be married, and a dowry had been paid, there was every expectation from the bridegroom that she would be a virgin. If the contrary was discovered after the marriage, then the implication is that there had been a deception in which the father could be implicated, or it would mean that he was unaware of her sin and this would bring great shame the family and the community, not to mention it being a display of outright rebellion against God's law. In this case, to insure the integrity of the family, and to remove the evil of adulterous/fornication from the community, stoning was advocated.
Finally, she was not stoned for not being a virgin, but for carrying out a deception in trying to appear as one.

Answer 4

Yes! There are people cheating everywhere. Husbands and wifes, boyfriends and girlfriends, woman w/ woman, man w/man. This started the AIDS Virus. The Bible scriptures are true.

Answer 5

Yes, the Bible is accurate, but you don't understand scripture. Go to www.ttb.org and listen to a really good Bible teacher who will help you to understand scripture instead of picking verses out of context and without understanding what is the point of purity in the nation that was chosen by God.

Answer 6

Yes, it's the 100% clear and concise, absolute Word of Truth - and the Truth is (obviously!) that God endorses barbarous, primitive, bloodthirsty savagery.

"But you took that out of context!"

Oh, really? Exactly what context would you have to place verses such as these in for them NOT to appear utterly despicable to the modern mind?

"But the Good News of Jesus means that we no longer have to follow Mosaic Law."

But I thought Jesus "came not to destroy the Law, but to fulfil it"? Anyway, if that's the case, then you can't (e.g.) subpoena Leviticus to excuse your hatred of gay people anymore!

And so on for all the excuses of "religious" people with regard to the Bronze Age lunacies with which their favorite book is peppered.

Answer 7

Yes, the Bible is the absolute truth, the Word of God.

These verses you have quoted are from the Old Testament laws which Jesus Christ came to abolish. We are now living in 'the age of grace' because of Jesus Christ. If this was not 'the age of grace' these laws would still be in effect.

Bible.org will help you understand scripture.

Answer 8

Clear. Virgins are fair game unless they belong to somebody.

Answer 9

yes it is. if these verses were followed your concrn about over population would not exist.

Answer 10

Where is the Question?