Book full of contradictions and a large, full-time clergy to tell us what we should and should not do?
2007-04-11 14:28:29 · 9 answers · asked by Immayomama 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
the bible does not contradict itself that is just mainstream libralism bashing christians and their beliefs try reading the bible for yourself and not all clergy is the same a pastor is their to help his congregation in understanding but you should also read for yourself because some interpret the bible differently kjv is the best version in my opinion
2007-04-11 14:34:55 · answer #1 · answered by megamom 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very interesting.
Try www.blueletterbible.org for looking at the "Book full of contradictions". It was written by 40 different writers.
Have you ever heard of the law? Why do you think they have judges? I'm not saying that the average bear couldn't read the law for themselves but, in practice, you might be looking at having God's favour or the Devil's to get it to go your way in a court case. There are so many parts to it. The Bible's not even half as jargon-filled. There's a lot of crop growing and fishing going on. The law wouldn't have a hope in hell of getting as literary as the Bible does when it has something to say about morality.
Anyway, back to the question.
'ets da'ath towb ra'
is the expression for the "tree of the knowledge of good and bad"
Myabe there's a cross-over in meaning between a tree and a mast and a cross because of the workings of the cross-beams (branches). Jesus used the analogy of fruit to describe the work of good people. Matthew 7:18 says: 'A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.'
There's something about hands. I'm still not completely buying the crucifixion story until I get more info on first century customs. Laws frequently seem to be there half the time to scare people silly. The Romans apparently had one where rapists' gonads were crushed with a stone. There are some archaic examples (possibly not so vicious, but sometimes more arbitrary) around in everybody's law. Same with Jewish stoning. This punishment would be impossible for a guilty people (say that they were if one person was copping the blame) because hypnosis induces right arm catalepsy. Maybe it was really more about picking the co-conspirators out of the stoners, but it wasn't said in so many words so as to catch them in their self-righteousness.
Anyway, hands are what undo wicked people. Isaiah 3:11, not long after mentioning "parading their sin like Sodom" says that the wicked "will be paid back for what their hands have done." According to Genesis 9:2, the animals have been given into human "hands." The angels have hands too, according to Matthew 4:6. In Matthew 15:2, Jesus' disciples were criticised for having unwashed hands. Considering the types of things that hypocrites get up to, I think their imaginations are running overtime in regards to what could be on other people's.
Do we take Jesus' comment at Matthew 16:21 literally? The hands of the elders, chief priests and the teachers of the law don't seem to be very much a part of the official account of Jesus' death. Was it really a totally different procedure that was involved?
da'ath for knowledge appears only in relation to this particular tree. Considering that I think that Satan and Adam were gay gazing, I definitely think the Bible is talking about sexual abuse, more than physical. Good is used also in relation to the light that God made, without which we would not exist.
Perhaps not eating of the tree meant innocent experimentation for Adam and Eve, as children in various cultures apparently do. Why did Satan offer the fruit? Because he wanted good AND evil to exist.
2007-04-11 21:50:45 · answer #2 · answered by Christian person 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adam and Eve did not receive knowledge of the difference between good and evil, but the received knowledge Of good and Of evil. This way they knew all kinds of actions they could take. The most despicable as well as the highest.
2007-04-11 21:33:20 · answer #3 · answered by Thomas M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In my opinion...
Genesis tells of the fall of man due to our nature. And the rest of the Bible, in short, is about God's efforts to reestablish that relationship with us, only, finally, made possible by Christ, who was fully God, and fully man, and the ONLY one who could possibly bridge the gap between perfect, holy God, and fallen man.
And we need a book and a church magesterium because God is a lot more complicated than many people choose to believe.
2007-04-11 21:35:46 · answer #4 · answered by Matt 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The encouragement to do good and eschew evil will always be needful, because mankind has been given free will to do exactly the opposite.
2007-04-11 21:36:57 · answer #5 · answered by Bobby Jim 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The "book" you refer to is the HOLY BIBLE. It does not contain one single contradiction.
2007-04-11 21:35:11 · answer #6 · answered by LG 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There was no fall of man. There was no original sin. Rather it was original enlightenment.
2007-04-11 21:31:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
apparently we did not learn our lesson.
2007-04-11 21:31:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We don't.
2007-04-11 21:33:00 · answer #9 · answered by Lynnemarie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋