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Question

Hello everyone and thanks for the help. well ive wanted to become closer to god and ive started reading the bible lately. ive run into a couple problems

Has anyone noticed that it says god made adam and eve at the same time and then it says he made eve out of adams rib later? it also says in the bible that you should stone to death disobident children. it also says that long hair is a sin and dishonarable. it also says you can sell your daughter into slavery. it also says you can sell your daughter into slavery.

Answer 1

Does not sound like you need any help. If you want to know God better go look in the mirror and ask yourself if it is worth the trouble. Religions all have these little unexplainable things that with politician like ease believers find multiple ways to side step. I could sit and write you a book on this subject but Voltaire already beat me to it. Ask yourself about wisdom teeth, cancer, Nazis, germs, fundamentalist, bush, and people who fly themselves into planes. Maybe you'll have second thoughts about getting closer to god. It could be that god is not all powerful and can't prevent this stuff. Or like so many believe - he is all powerful but chose not to use his power to help in which case he is an Asssss hOle. When they say that god works in mysterious ways. They are right. So mysterious in fact that he doesn't F%#*ING Exist.

Answer 2

Genesis 1: talks about the male and female created simultaneously together after the animals were created. Genesis 2 speaks about Adam created alone before the animals and then Eve followed. That was the discrepancies you should have seen and understood. The male and female of Genesis 1 were the people before Adam and Eve and they are called the "Gentiles". This Gentiles were the people whom Cain was afraid would see him once he is seen wandering outside Eden and this was also the place where he met the woman she knew and had family.
Adam was specially made (enlightened) to spread a Monotheistic God because people before used tobelieve in many Gods and super powers. Taken from the ribs would only mean that she will be his partner in that mission.
There was no other means of punishing any offender except by using stones hence most likely that the era was during the stone age.
Putting daughter into slavery or selling them for the same reason was not a taboo at that time. However, short of proper translation into English, it may not really mean as slave as we know it in this generation. Besides, women at tha time were really given a slow rate of standards before man.

Answer 3

If your question is legitmate and not baiting then you are leaving out the context and just taking pieces alone which have no meaning apart from the context. For example in the genesis account of adam and eve it is important to know that the hebrew tradition of writing included the writing of a summary first and then retelling the story in more detail. That is why the two accounts.

The other items are parts of the law amongst other things. They have to be kept in context of the specific person and time and book and the writer and the audience. I would start with reading ephesians and then phillipians and then romans in that order. Then read the gospels. When done with that, and after getting some teaching from those who are knowlegable go back and reread the old testament. The bible is not meant to be read in order. It is not chronological. It is topical. Or rather by typology.

Answer 4

Okay... first of all I'm not saying not to read the Bible but the Old Testament is very hard to understand unless you've gotten yourself familiar with the New Test. Try reading that first and read the Old Test later. What we fail to understand is that although it seems unacceptable to us some things that where acceptable then... that's the way it was and we can't do anything to change it. You'll learn that God worked with the fallen nature of man in the Old Test. just as He works with us now days. I'm sure that the people in the bible days would think the same things of us as we think of them. Be a little more open minded. Remember that the Bible is not only a spiritual book but a historical book.

Answer 5

1. Adam and Eve: The first chapter says He made them. It doesn't say He made them at the same time. Chapter 2 says how Eve came to be. No contradiction. You get home from school and say "We had a math test, and we won our football game." Does that mean that both were simultaneous?
2. It doesn't say disobedient children. It is talking about a grown child who is doing all sorts of crimes: even the parents should denounce him. (You can be sure the parents saw to it that didn't happen, if they took it seriously!)
3. It doesn't say long hair is a sin. 1 Cor. 11 is talking about women mainly. The religious temple prostitutes in Corinth had shaved heads and went unveiled. Other women wore their hair long and covered their heads. Christian women felt they shouldn't bow to tradition, so they went without head covering. Paul said they were communicating the wrong message: if they wouldn't wear a head covering, thus identifying themselves to the prostitutes, then why didn't they save their heads at the same time, to really look like the prostitutes? The question was rhetorical. They wouldn't be willing. As he gave that argument, he referred to the local custom that shorn hair was dishonourable for a woman, in the same way long hair was dishonourable for a man. It was not a question of sin.
In the Old Testament laws about slavery, they were dealing with an existing institution. The laws about slavery were meant to put limits on what they could do. What is described here is more like bond-service. They were not slaves for life like the African slaves in America. They also had certain rights. It was a way of working your way out of debt. Not ideal, but at least limits were put in order to protect bond-servants from abuse.

Answer 6

You need to understand a little about the history of the Bible. The Old Testament is a record of all the happenings before Jesus Christ was born and ministered on the earth. The New Testament was written afterward. The people of the Old Testament lived under way different laws. Jesus fulfilled the Laws of Moses when He came to earth and a higher law was given. I would suggest to start reading the New Testament first as it more applies to us now.

Answer 7

John MacArthur gave an idea for a good bible reading plan that might be a little more helpful than plowing through the entire bible front to back.

He started with 1John, the went to John, then he went to another letter like Phillipians, then to a gospel, (like Matthew), letter, gospel, letter, gospel, little book, big book, little book, big book.

He would read the letters in one sitting(one day), and the bigger books he would read in two or three sections(days).

He would try to read the old testament every year, and something from the new testament every day (even a chapter a day will promote spiritual growth).

I hope this gives you some good ideas and maybe helps.

Best to you.

-Rembrandt

Answer 8

Here are some useful terms to know that I just recently came across.
From Wikipedia.org - "Similarly, metaphors can be distinguished from other closely related rhetorical concepts such as metonymy, synecdoche, simile, allegory and parable."

I recommend www.blueletterbible.org for a parallel reading from the original languages.

I think you could read "heavens" and "earth" in Genesis 1:1 as the heliocentric and geocentric models of the general theory of relavity. The general theory of relativity has no light in at least one of these models. Light holds the universe apart/together/still looking into it. That happens in Genesis 1:3. If spacetime is conceived to be foamlike at the virtual particle level, then it can only be measured with light. If you measure foam any other way, it changes.

Satan, on the other hand, uses heat (anger over lost family ties etc.) to try to achieve enlightenment. He's still working on Genesis 1:3. The metaphor for that is a dragnet (Habakkuk 1:14, 15).

In the original language, I'm not sure if it was a rib. However, the thought of men being from the earth, and women being made from men is repeated in 1 Corinthians 11. Also, Psalms 139 talks about the woman's womb being like the earth, rather than being a place of deity, as it commonly is in pagan imagery. In the Heinemann dictionary (not a Bible dictionary, just a little old regular one), it illustrates the use of the word "son" by saying "sons of the soil." "Daughter" is illustrated by "daughters of the revolution."

Genesis 1:27 says that man was created in God's image. Then it links his creation with that of woman. But nowhere does it say that woman is in God's image.

I think you could go over these things many times and get more out of it depending on your understanding of the mythemes present in literature everywhere. Myth is there to cover over embarrassing mistakes that result from severe guilt that's being glossed over. For example, I think King Arthur's sword felt like it was in a scabbard of stone because he had right arm catalepsy from self-hypnosis. You hypnotise, according to Robert Baker, if you are socially conditioned to accept that role and you are compliant. The role is of the aggrieved victim with perhaps some small shared "guilt" in the crime that morally prevents them from getting angry. We need to be able to express anger. It's healthy.

Consider how difficult it would be for you to write scripture. It's all coming from a human standpoint of wondering whether you did the right thing by your own kids etc. It makes sense if you're prayerful, I think.

Answer 9

When reading the Bible, it is wise to differentiate between the Old Testament and the New Testament.

Generally the Old Testament is a description of the History of the Jews. It is there for the learning and edification of Christians. It gives a background of where humans came from.

The New Testament covers the reign of Jesus. You will find in these books how life is supposed to work under Jesus. His death on the cross fulfilled the Old Testament prophecies, and the Old Testament laws. We are no longer under the Law, as in the Jewish Laws, and the 10 Commandments. They are gone, kaput, fulfilled.

We are under new law. The Law of Jesus.

Jesus gave few commands that we are to follow under His reign. Some of them are:
We are to Love God with all our hearts and all our souls.
We are to Love one another as we Love ourselves.
We are to honor our parents.
We are to go and make disciples of all nations, teaching them everything Jesus taught.

These new laws are much easier to follow, and, as God said, "I will write these laws in their hearts." When you think about it, you know when you are doing something wrong. God wrote His "Law" in our hearts, so we get that instand feeling that we are wrong. Some of us have gotten very good at ignoring that little "voice" inside our minds, but it is there.

There are plenty of examples and texts in the New Testament that show us what sort of things are Sinful, and will lead us away from God. With our freedom in Christ, sometimes we forget and let the "fun" we have lead us astray, but then again, we have all the tools we need right there in the Bible to help us stay on the narrow path that leads to eternal life.

Answer 10

http://www.salvationhistory.com/online/coursesofstudy.cfm

this site is a free study course that will help you understand things more clearly. do the salvation history tract first it has 6 lessons adn they are printable,like i said it is free and you can do it at your own pace. when you first begin to read the bible you would be better of starting with the gospels in the new testament as it is more relevant to us,this is a really good course and should help you greatly though,especially with the old testament. here are some other sites that may help

www.newadvent.org
www.fisheaters.com
www.catholiceducation.org