I know this is only a joke but i would like to know what you think about it.
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http://www.randomjoke.com/topic/religion.php?24031
2007-04-02 05:14:42 · 17 answers · asked by Energybeing 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
That was GREAT, and highlights exactly why quoting scripture at people and relying on it for daily life is not realistic.
2007-04-02 05:20:06 · answer #1 · answered by ɹɐǝɟsuɐs Blessed Cheese Maker 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
It's funny...but true Christians know that those laws are now null and void, because of Christ. It's also interesting to note that those rules are in the old testament, something Christians and Jews share, so your question should be asked to Jewish, Christians, non-Christians...(Jews do not call themselves non-Christians!)
Anyway, it is funny! Now get off the computer before we're all stoned for idolatry.
2007-04-03 10:12:45 · answer #2 · answered by Lori B. 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Funny
2007-04-02 12:18:29 · answer #3 · answered by rosbif 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is funny, but only relevant if you lived in Old Testament times. The law was needed before Christ came to cover sin until it could be paid for with a perfect sacrifice, which was Jesus. Christ came, and by His perfect life, death and resurrection fulfilled all the requirements of the law. So now people can have direct access to God through faith.
2007-04-02 12:19:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
I don't see how any christian can take offense. These are clear verses from their bible.
As the parent of a teenager, I would have included the one about the death penalty for cursing your father or mother.
2007-04-02 12:19:41 · answer #5 · answered by Dave P 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
I think it's brilliant! The only thing that is more funny than that is when the christians try to explain it away.
It just goes to show the hypocrisy of religion/christianity. They want to follow the bible word for word, but there is so much they don't do anymore. What would their god think of them?
2007-04-02 12:21:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Clearly the writer of that "joke" does not understand that Christians are living under the New Testament commandments and NOT the Old Testament (Mosiac Law). Every verse quoted on that page is from the old and we are NOT required to follow those commandments. The writer could not provide examples from the New Testament that we are not following today.
Incidently, homosexuality is also condemned in the New Testament.
THREE SIGNIFICANT NEW TESTAMENT PASSAGES
God, through Paul, makes it clear those who practice homosexuality will not go to heaven. Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God (1 Corinthians 6:9-11). The word for "homosexuals" comes from the Greek phrase which means "men having sexual relations." For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due (Romans 1:26,27). Note the words Paul uses in this passage: "vile," "against nature," "shameful," "error." These are not words of approval. In the context, Paul is discussing the unrighteousness of the Gentiles (Romans 1:18). But we know that the law is good if one uses it lawfully, knowing this: that the law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, For fornicators, for sodomites, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and if there is any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine (1 Timothy 1:8-10). In verse 10, Paul mentions the "sodomite." This is the same Greek word that is used in 1 Corinthians 6:9 translated "homosexual."
All of these passages show us the way God views this practice. It is not approved, but condemned.
2007-04-02 12:21:39 · answer #7 · answered by TG 4 · 2⤊ 4⤋
I think it is very funny. I don't consider anti-Christian but i am also not a fundamentalists and humor is not against my religion although hateful intolerance is.
2007-04-02 12:17:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I thought that was hilarious and a good point to tell people religion is definatly not perfect
2007-04-02 12:19:42 · answer #9 · answered by Skeletonowl 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I've seen that before - and it is a perfect example of how hypocritical christianity is.
2007-04-02 12:19:29 · answer #10 · answered by Militant Agnostic 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋