Why do Christians ignore bible verses from the old testament?

Question

The ones condoning slavery, selling daughters to men that rape her, murder, stoning of fornicators, adultery, and defiant children, etc. The ones that show God in full force as a cruel, jealous, unforgiving God?

Is everything in the Old testament obsolete or are you just cherry picking what you want to believe?

Being the new testament where God is nice and fluffy?

JC, do you accept this?

"Next we headed for the land of Bashan, where King Og and his army attacked us at Edrei. But the LORD told me, 'Do not be afraid of him, for I have given you victory over Og and his army, giving you his entire land. Treat him just as you treated King Sihon of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon.' So the LORD our God handed King Og and all his people over to us, and we killed them all. We conquered all sixty of his towns, the entire Argob region in his kingdom of Bashan. These were all fortified cities with high walls and barred gates. We also took many unwalled villages at the same time. We completely destroyed the kingdom of Bashan, just as we had destroyed King Sihon of Heshbon. We destroyed all the people in every town we conquered – men, women, and children alike. But we kept all the livestock for ourselves and took plunder from all the towns." (Deuteronomy 3:1-7 NLT)

"When a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod so hard that the slave dies under his hand, he shall be punished. If, however, the slave survives for a day or two, he is not to be punished, since the slave is his own property." Exodus 21:20-21 NAB

When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are. If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again. But he is not allowed to sell her to foreigners, since he is the one who broke the contract with her. And if the slave girl's owner arranges for her to marry his son, he may no longer treat her as a slave girl, but he must treat her as his daughter. If he himself marries her and then takes another wife, he may not reduce her food or clothing or fail to sleep with her as his wife. If he fails in any of these three ways, she may leave as a free woman without making any payment. (Exodus 21:7-11 NLT)

"Thus says the Lord: 'I will bring evil upon you out of your own house. I will take your wives (plural) while you live to see it, and will give them to your neighbor. He shall lie with your wives in broad daylight. You have done this deed in secret, but I will bring it about in the presence of all Israel, and with the sun looking down.'"
Then David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the Lord." Nathan answered David: "The Lord on his part has forgiven your sin: you shall not die. But since you have utterly spurned the Lord by this deed, the child born to you must surely die." (The child dies seven days later.) 2 Samuel 12:11-14 NAB

Answer 1

A lot of Christians have never read the ENTIRE Bible, so they honestly don't realize that most of that stuff is in there - and they have NO clue that God COMMANDS his followers to kidnap, torture, and kill other people. Others simply ignore rules that they don't want to obey, even if they think everyone else should.

It is interesting when a Christian points to the OT as 'proof' that being gay is a sin, while simultaneously IGNORING the rules against eating pork or wearing mixed-fiber clothing that appear in the same book. Also curious are those who claim that the OT is no longer applicable, while trying to shove the (OT's) Ten Commandments down the throats of everyone else.

Incidentally, sending one's son to be brutally beaten and executed for something he didn't do, and setting someone else up to blame, is NOT my idea of 'nice and fluffy'. In the United States, those actions are serious FELONIES. If you think about it, the whole Jesus thing is very SICK. People have a right to believe and worship whatever they want, but the rest of us tend to have very good, MORAL reasons for not wanting anything to do with all that cannibalistic and vampirish 'eat my body, drink my blood' and conspiracy to commit murder stuff.

Answer 2

The worrying things is some Christians like those Old Testament commandments and want to bring them back

Answer 3

I don't ignore the Old Testament. In the Old Testament it tells of the coming of Jesus Christ, and in the New Testament Jesus Christ fulfilled the Old Testament.

Answer 4

The Old Testament shouldn't be ignored.
http://www.evilbible.com/do_not_ignore_ot.htm URL

Answer 5

Who told you that Christians ignore the verses from Old testament ? Till now as Catholics we still use verses of old testament in our Messes and prayers.

Answer 6

The OT is a tough thing to swallow, but everything in the OT was common during that time. Thousands of years later, by the time the NT was written, society had changed and is still changing. What was good in one generation is not good in the next or the one after that and so on. That's the best answer I can give you.

Answer 7

The Bible also told us in the Old Testament that the sin of those nations "was full and had reached to heaven" and that God used Israel as a "rod" of punishment. You too, pick and choose Scriptures, do you not? If you're going to "condemn" God then at least give a full picture of what God is "guilty" of. He was a surgeon, cutting out drastic sin in the earth before all were so contaminated by the effects of it, with its horrors, diseases and cruelty that nothing good would remain. God is God and has the right to be judge, jury and executioner. He is also mercy - and gives men plenty of time to repent (look how patient He has been with you). But once the time for repentance is over then there is judgment. It is the same in every age - judgment day comes. Shall the thing made call the maker to task for what He does? Stay right with God and you won't have to worry about the wages of sin - which is death.

Answer 8

Glad you're actually thinking about these things. No, everything in the Old Testament is not obsolete - only the liberals would say that. God does not condone any of those things. This forum is too brief to answer your charges in detail, but there are many, many web sites out there that do a more than adequate job of answering your concerns. That is, if you actually have a desire to know the truth. Most people who throw things out like this, especially with smug little comments at the end, are just looking to have their unbelief justified.

I suggest you start with a book "The case for faith" by Lee Strobel. All of your objections are ably answered. That is, again, if you care about the truth or you'd rather just be a smug atheist with your head in the sand.

Answer 9

You mean their is something called an "Old Testament"?


(Just kidding)

I think we all need to recognize that the Bible was created by a group of men who didn't include a lot of other just as valid Scriptures in its current text. The point is it is a "guideline" with stories meant to be analogy's on how to live, and never was meant to be taken as the way to live, literally. Not at all.

Answer 10

THANK YOU for bringing this up. It's so true! I started to read the Bible back in the day and I was shocked to read some of the stuff in there. There's a story of a prophet who got harrassed by some children and he asked God to help him so God sent down a bear that ate the kids. It's HORRIBLE!!! I got to 2nd Kings and I threw the Bible in my drawer and became a Buddhist.

Answer 11

anything found in one form in the old testament can be found in the new testament in another form and both suck when it comes to modern day understanding of human rights and morality. there is no nice and fluffy god anywhere Christ was for the same things as most of the old testament if you read .
death for adulterers and the lack of compassion for slaves just to mention a couple items . Jesus condemns and refers to the old testament plenty read and weep.