The Bible, the book of death?

Question

The Bible is so repulsive that it has no place in a modern, civilized society.

Example 1

The vast majority of Americans believe that God exists, that Jesus is his son, and that God himself gave us the Bible and the Ten Commandments. In fact, Supreme court Justice Antonin Scalia has said that "Ninety-nine percent of Americans believe in the ten commandments." He has also said, "What the commandments stand for is the direction of human affairs by God."

If 99% of Americans believe in the ten commandments, how can the Bible be repulsive? Let's take the fourth commandment as an example. It says:

Remember the sabbath day, and keep it holy. For six days you shall labour and do all your work. But the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work—you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the alien resident in your towns. [Exodus 20: 8-9]

This, supposedly, is the word of God, the almighty ruler of the universe.

Now think about this. Wal-mart is open on the Sabbath. And so is Target. Best buy is open on the Sabbath. And so is Circuit City. Home Depot is open on the Sabbath. And so is Lowes. In fact, millions of businesses in America have employees working on the Sabbath. Even Christian Family Bookstores has employees working on the Sabbath.

What should we do with all of these people who are breaking the fourth commandment?

In the Bible's book of exodus - the same book that contains the ten commandments – the Bible tells us what to do with everyone who breaks the fourth commandment. Exodus 31 verse 15 tells us exactly what to do:

For six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day must be put to death.

That's right. The Bible commands the death penalty for anyone who works on the Sabbath, and we should obey. Right? This means we have to kill tens of millions of Americans.

Should we line these tens of

tens of millions of Americans up and shoot them?

Should we put them in giant gas chambers?

I think we can all agree that the thought of killing millions of innocent Americans is repulsive. A book this repulsive has no place in our society.

And make no mistake about it - the bible really means what it says. It fully intends to be repulsive. In Isaiah 40 verse 8 the Bible says:

The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God will stand for ever. [Isaiah 40 verse 8]

The Bible says the same thing in 1 Peter 1 verses 24 and 25. And in Psalm 19:7 the Bible says:

The law of the Lord is perfect.

Since the laws of the Bible are perfect, they should never change.

And then there is this. In Matthew 5 verse 20 Jesus says:

For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven. - Matthew 5:20

According to Jesus, we must follow the laws of the Bible.

Do you believe that we should kill millions of innocent people because they work on the Sabbath? If not, do you want a book this repulsive to be quoted in public? Read to children? Used in our courts of law?

Example 2

The Bible wants us to kill most people in America. For example, the first commandment says, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before me." What are we supposed to do with everyone who doesn't believe in God? We are supposed to Kill them. Deuteronomy chapter 17 says that we are supposed to stone non-believers to death.

If a man or woman living among you in one of the towns the LORD gives you is found doing evil in the eyes of the LORD your God in violation of his covenant, and contrary to my command has worshiped other gods, bowing down to them or to the sun or the moon or the stars of the sky… Take the man or woman who has done this evil deed to your city gate and stone that person to death. – Deut 17:2-7

that person to death. – Deut 17:2-7

In 2 Chronicles 15:12-13:

They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. - 2 Chron 15:12-13

Deuteronomy 13:13-19:

Suppose you hear in one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you that some worthless rabble among you have led their fellow citizens astray by encouraging them to worship foreign gods. In such cases…you must attack that town and completely destroy all its inhabitants, as well as all the livestock. Then you must pile all the plunder in the middle of the street and burn it. Put the entire town to the torch as a burnt offering to the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 13:7-12:

If your own full brother, or your son or daughter, or your beloved wife, or you intimate friend, entices you secretly to serve other gods …do not yield to him or listen to him, nor look with pity upon him, to spare or shield him, but kill him. - Deut 13:7-12

What if you take the name of the lord in vain? Leviticus chapter 24 verse 16 says:

Anyone who blasphemes the name of the LORD must be put to death. The entire assembly must stone him. – Lev 24:16

The Bible is quite clear. We must kill everyone who does not believe in God. There are approximately 30 million people in America who do not believe in any God. There are tens of million more who believe in gods other than the God of the Bible. The Bible commands that we kill them all.

And keep in mind that the word of the Lord lasts forever, and the law of the lord is perfect.

Think of this as a Christian Jihad. The idea of killing tens of millions of people because they don’t believe in God is repulsive.

Example 3

If you curse your father and mother you are to be killed:

All who curse their father or mother must be put to death. - Leviticus 20:9

Example 4

If you commit adultery you are to be killed:

If a man commits adultery with another man's wife - with the wife of his neighbor - both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death. - Leviticus 20:10

Example 5

If you happen to be homosexual you are to be killed.

If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death. - Leviticus 20:13

So let’s review: God commands us to kill:

* Everyone who works on the Sabbath
* veryone who does not believe in God
* Anyone who curses father or mother
* Everyone who commits adultery
* Everyone who happens to be Homosexual

According to the Bible, we need to kill tens of millions of innocent Americans. The idea of killing this many innocent people is repulsive. The idea that people would walk around carrying a book that demands the death of tens of millions of innocent people is repulsive.

Example 6

Here’s another example of the Bible’s idiocy. Rebellious teenagers should all be killed as well. Here's what the Bible says in Deuteronomy chapter 21:

If someone has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey his father and mother, who does not heed them when they discipline him, then his father and his mother shall ... say to the elders of his town, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.’ Then all the men of the town shall stone him to death. - Deut 21

Think about how many American teenagers need to die.

Example 7

In Matthew 18 verses 7 through 9, Jesus speaks:

If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire. And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell. - Matthew 18:7-9

This verse is repulsive on three levels:

1. It is repulsive because Jesus is such an idiot here. He is completely wrong.
2. It is repulsive because it demands that people maim themselves.
3. It is repulsive because the entire concept of “hell” is repulsive.

Cutting off your hand or gouging out an eye accomplishes nothing. If you are having a problem with unproductive behaviors, what you need

to do is talk with a counselor or see a therapist. Self-amputation is absurd and repulsive. Jesus dispenses advice that is completely useless, and recklessly dangerous as well.

Example 8

The Bible’s absolute sexism is well known, and it is repulsive. Here are two examples:

Women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the Law says. If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church. - 1 Corinthians 14

And:

Let a woman learn in silence with all submissiveness. I permit no woman to teach or to have authority over men; she is to keep silent. - 1 Tim 2

We can find dozens of verses that are just as sexist. The Bible’s sexism is both ridiculous and repulsive.

Example 9

The Bible fully supports slavery. In fact, the Bible has been used in many cases, including the American civil war, as an authoritative justification of slavery. Here are three examples.

Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves. You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property. You can will them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life. - Leviticus 25:44

Also:

If a man beats his male or female slave with a rod and the slave dies as a direct result, he must be punished, but he is not to be punished if the slave gets up after a day or two, since the slave is his property. - Exodus Chapter 21:20

Also:

Bid slaves to be submissive to their masters and to give satisfaction in every respect; they are not to be refractory, nor to pilfer, but to show entire and true fidelity. - Titus 2:9

You can see that, according to the Bible:

1. Buying and selling slaves is fine.
2. Beating slaves is fine.
3. Slaves are to show entire and true fidelity.

If you are an intelligent person, you know that he entire idea of slavery is repulsive.

Example 10

The Bible is riddled with repulsion. Take, for example, this verse:

Anyone who is captured will be run through with a sword. Their little children will be dashed to death right before their eyes. - Isaiah 13

Or this:

Samaria shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword, their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open. - Hosea 13

Or this:

Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. But all the young girls who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. - Numbers 31

You get the picture. The Bible is repulsive.

You have seen ten graphic examples of repulsion in this short video. You can find hundreds of verses like these throughout the old and new testaments. You find Racism, sexism and bigotry gallore. The deaths millions of innocents are chronicled in page after page of this appalling book. There is no question that this book is repulsive. It has no place in a modern, civilized nation.

We currently use the Bible throughout American society. We do that, in large part, because most Americans have never read the bible and have no idea how disgusting it is.

* We read from this book at weddings and funerals.
* We force people to put their hands on this book in court.
* We find copies of the Bible in nearly every hotel room in America.

The Bible demands that we kill everyone who works on the Sabbath. The Bible commands us to kill teenagers who drink too much. The Bible empowers us to enslave people of other nations. The Bible commands that we oppress women and kill people who happen to be homosexual.

A book this repulsive has no place in our society. It is time for the intelligent, thoughtful people of this nation to acknowledge this simple fact and act on it.

yeah im defintely not claiming that i wrote that, it came from here: http://godisimaginary.com/video2.htm.

I'm just shocked at all quotes of death and killing in the Bible.

Answer 1

You make some very serious accusations against what I believe is God's Word. I am proud of you because, unlike most scoffers, you actually studied it. You made some common and serious mistakes though. Let me clarify some things for you.

1. The ancient Israelites were God's chosen people. After the flood, the world had one language and they united in rebellion against God. Since God knew that this unholy union was to their hurt and His, God confused their language at the Tower of Babel. There were about seventy different people groups at this time and God wanted to reach them all. Therefore, He chose Abraham's Seed (him and his kids) to evangelize the world (Genesis 12). Abraham's grandson, Jacob, had twelve kids. One of these kids, named Joseph, ended up in Egypt. The rest of his family joined him and the Israelites lived in Egypt. Some time after Joseph died, the Israelites were in bondage to the Egyptians. Meanwhile, the Canaanites are doing atrocity after atrocity in the land of Canaan. God gives the Canaanites 400 years to repent of their wickedness and they never do. So God raises up Moses to deliver Israel out of Egyptian bondage and tells the Israelites to go take the land and kill all the Canaanites. The Israelites are afraid and they do not enter the land of Canaan, except for a few rebellious ones who are destroyed by the Canaanites because God does not go before them. God is angry with the Israelites and forces them to remain in the wilderness for forty years until the rebellious generation is killed off but in His mercy, God does not destroy the entire nation of Israel. God gives the Israelites the Law, found in the first five books of the Bible, while they are in the wilderness. The Law is for the Israelites and much of it is unique to them. Their sacrificial laws were fulfilled by Jesus and therefore no longer apply to us and some of their laws were prohibiting Canaanite practices, like not seething a baby goat in its mother's milk (Deuteronomy 14:21).

2. The Sabbath day is for the Israelites; not for us strictly, but it is not a bad principle to take one day off a week to relax and replenish yourself (Colossians 2:16).

3. The first and third commandments are important because the Israelites are God's chosen people; similar to the modern-day Church. The first means that they are to love and fear the Lord far above all else, with exclusivity in their hearts toward Him. The third means that they are trusted with God's reputation and they are to keep it spotless, the best they can. It goes beyond not swearing with God's name attached to also being good citizens, employees, etc.

4. The fourth commandment is essential for society to survive. Children must obey their parents. If a child will not obey his parents, then he will not obey other authorities either. If a teenager is extremely rebellious and will not obey, there are two options: 1) throw them in jail off and on for life or 2) kill them. Ancient Israel did not have an established government like we do, so the second was the only viable option and I wouldn't oppose this coming to America today. I bet kids would behave a lot better if this were an American law. The Puritans did it; why not us? Just a thought.

5. If you break the seventh commandment, you may well get HIV or some other fatal disease anyway. Not living a monogamous life leads to all sorts of problems. Homosexuality causes these same problems and one more. You can't reproduce the population if people are gay, except by test tube babies and such, which go against nature and I don't think anyone would want to find out that they had no parents. Would you?

6. The Israelites were God's chosen people, just like the modern-day Church. In order to keep His people pure, God decreed the death penalty against evil doers. Modern America is not ancient Israel and thus, the Bible does not teach that we can kill people for all of the sins that the ancient Israelites could. In fact, it teaches exactly the opposite for most of these (I Corinthians 5:12-13). Most Christians, who model their life after Jesus Christ, would probably agree that you can kill murderers and rapists but probably no one beyond that.

7. When Jesus told us to remove our eyes or hands because they cause us to stumble, He was simply using hyperbole to illustrate that God takes holiness very seriously. The members of the early Church did not remove their eyes or hands, so you know that Jesus was talking figuratively here. I do know of one priest in the modern day who blinded himself because he did not understand these verses were exaggeration. I slightly agree with your point here.

8. Women should remain silent, because the women Paul was writing to in Corinth were Greeks. That means they were uneducated and therefore, stupid. Also, the women sat on opposite sides of the room from the men, so if they had a question about something that was preached, they had to yell across the room to ask their husband. That is distracting. I think the passage in I Timothy is there to keep order in the Church and in the home by defining the role of men and women. God does not see the leader as superior to the follower and Jesus's definition of leadership is very different from the world's definition. Paul commanded husbands to love their wives as Christ loved the Church and gave Himself for the Church (Ephesians 5:25-33). The husband should behave toward his wife as Jesus did toward us. This is extremely selfless and does not oppress women. If a man mistreats his wife, it can hinder his prayers from being answered because God so values women (I Peter 2:7).

9. Slavery is a confusing issue. I don't fully understand this one, especially the Old Testament rules on slaves, but I do know that we should interpret the Old Testament in light of the New Testament. In this country, slavery is illegal and we should obey the laws of the land (Romans 13:1-7) unless they go against God's laws, and I don't think this one does. Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglas did not think so either. Both of them were Bible believing Christians, as were many other abolitionists. POW's were allowed to be used as slaves in ancient Israel but not Israelites, at least not for life without their consent. You should read about the Year of Jubilee for more on that one in the book of Leviticus.

10. Isaiah 13, God is commanding them to destroy the Babylonians because they mistreated the Israelites, if I'm reading that correctly. It seems harsh but also shows God's heart. He gets angry when people mistreat His children.

11. Hosea 13, God is telling Samaria the evil that will befall them because they disobeyed. God can judge anyone, and any nation, any way he sees fit when they disobey Him. The guilty party can never determine justice very well. The guilty party will always cry out for grace and mercy. God makes these decisions better than we can.

12. Numbers 31, the Midianites had caused Israel to sin by sending their women to seduce the Israelite men. Because of their seduction, God sent a plague on Israel, and killed thousands of Israelites. After the people repented, God instructed Moses to take revenge on the Midianites in this fashion. You must remember that Moses parted the Red Sea and made the ground open up to swallow rebels in the first five books of the Bible. If those stories are true, then if he says God told him something, you can believe that God did tell him that thing. I do not understand God's thinking process here, but it is not wise to question someone that big and who knows so much more than we do.

13. Hitler, an avid believer in evolution, demanded the killing of millions to purify his Aryan race. Evolution teaches survival of the fittest and if it is true, then Hitler was a hero. If we get rid of the Bible, then might makes right. Communism, nazism, etc. will come next.

I hope you'll read my answer and consider it carefully. Jesus loves you and I do too, even though I disagree with you. Good question by the way.

Answer 2

First. I do follow the Sabbath.

2ND. The "put to death" laws you read were civil and religious laws given to the Jews by God to help govern the NATION of Israel. They had to remain pure and sin free. Sin is like a disease, it spreads. Those were countermeasures used to prevent the nation from becoming just like all the other pagan countries. Over time, when those laws were ignored, they did become even worse than the pagan nations they were supposed to be witnessing to.

3rd. Some people accuse God of ordering genocide. It is true that God did tell the Israelites to wipe out cities if they were truly wicked. God's discussion with Abraham gives us an idea about how wicked a city they must have been for God to decide it needed to be destroyed. Still, it does not seem very Godlike for Him to order the death of everyone in the city. But we do also know that God "does not delight in the death of the wicked." And like I said earlier, sin is a disease. Obviously those cities were the source of a lot of wickedness in that area. So the overall picture of God we get is this: He loves all of his children, even the wicked ones, but He is also just. He also must preserve the nation entrusted with sharing His truth. This means He must take actions which are not His favorite. It is not easy to understand, but we can still trust that His anger lasts a moment, but His favor lasts a lifetime.
4thly. Christians are not called to live according to the civil laws that governed the Israelites. Jesus told us that we are no longer to be an earthly kingdom. You may want to read Romans about how we are no longer under the law, but instead under grace.
Your questions are legitimate. It is easy to see why many people could think God was vengeful and mean. But taken in the context of the entire Bible we can clearly see that those actions can still fit within the character of a merciful yet just God.
If you still have any doubts that the old testament God is the same as the new testament God, just read Moses' description of God's character when He passed behind him.

Exodus 34:6-7
“The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, 7 keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”

Answer 3

You are so right with your comments. You just seemed to have lost tracks of the number killed in the disobedience to the Sabbath Law. It was only once in the Book of Number that someone was stoned to death for gathering woods on the Sabbath Day. After that, the Jews have followed the observation strictly and in fact, most of them have been complaining about removing that because they were losing their business of selling wheats for resting on Sabbath Days.
First, Sabbath Observation is only applicable to the Jews, that is why no One in America was stoned to death and the Jews cannot make that punishment here because of the American justice system. So, do not worry you're not gonna be stoned.
When people grew in number, even the high priests of the Jewish nation only declared that observation be followed with prayerful rituals either in their homes or the synagogoues and seemed to have turn laxed on the punisments for not observing it strictly. Maybe you should read the Bible completely instead of stopping at one point and make your accusations.
You said according to Justice Antonin Scalla, 99% of Americans are Christians and believe in the 10 Commandments. Out of the 10, you only picked on the Sabbath Day Commandment and you already accused the Bible as repulsive. Most Christians do not even observe that Sabbath Days and they do it on Sundays. They even make excuses that anyone can pick their own Sabbath day observations. To tell you frankly, even adultery in this place does have room for justifications and oftentimes make a great leader much popular for having a macho image. Rightist movements have more compassion on criminals who have heinously killed a victim and they rally to save the life of the criminal. Prostitutions, pornography and gambling have flourishingly developed so many great cities and even those very spiritual tribes of American Indians are now growing in such numbers with gambling casinos as their great source of income. Has the Bible been a stumbling block to those?
Accusing the Bible as repulsive is not even as sharp as your tongue because it is no longer being followed anywhere in the world to whoever disobey many laws written in the Bible. And the only thing that is being taken in the Holy book is the teachings on how one could possibly live in the righteous way as God commands. I think you came at the wrong time when you present the issue. I suggest you have to rest your case.

Answer 4

THE BIBLE IS THE TREE OF LIFE
CHRIST IS THE LIVING WORD

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The proof and evidence is all around you and everywhere, undeniable proof, and indisputable visible evidence. It is called creation and life. Unless your are blind, deaf, and senseless. You can see, smell, taste, hear, feel, and examine the evidence.
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We live on a planet teeming with life. Plant life with approximately 250,000 species, animal life with over a million species. Scientists are learning just how complex life is. So complex that it requires design. The evidence of design requires a designer. Scientists are also learning the conditions for life; just how perfect conditions here on planet Earth are to support all this life.
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The human brain, it absorbs forty megabytes per second of data while awake. That is two terabytes of data a day. At night, it sorts and stores that data through the creation of new chemical bonds and synaptic connectors.
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Sure, right, this all just happened and evolved. This sort of thinking takes considerable faith, exponentially more faith than believing in a creator.
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Answer 5

The old commandments are no longer. They were replaced by God's grace and mercy, courtesy of Jesus Christ.

Today's commandments, especially the version Scalia spoke of, are the new testament commandments, which spell out ideal behavior, yet always rely on love and grace for their ultimate fufillment.

And if we don't provide that love, then God does.

So ... things are not nearly as bad as you believe them to be.

God loves you.

God will provide.

Relax!

Answer 6

You know the Bible or how to do a search and find what you want and to make it say what you do not know that it is the old covenant and not the new covenant.......



Jeremiah 31:30-32

King James Version (KJV)




30But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.

31Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

32Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:








Hebrews 8
1Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;

2A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.

3For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.

4For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:

5Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.

6But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.

7For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.

8For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:

9Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

10For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

11And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

12For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

13In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away

Answer 7

Their is no line item veto concerning the direct instructions from God their is only "GRACE". Jesus lived perfectly and died for your breaking of Gods laws, that your are guilty of so just plead forgivness from God and accept the the sacrafice of Jesus as the one and only way to God. and that's all you can do. like it or not.

Answer 8

Hate in your heart or was this learned or taught.

If you believe that the bible is about hate and you have hate in your heart then you will see aspects of fear and hate in the bible.

Or you may research why the bible is giving examples of death, slavery, and so forth.

Answer 9

What the hell, dude? If you aren't into it as you say, you sure are spending an awful lot of time with it.

I don't begrudge people their bible if it's their comfort. It becomes a problem when they start trying to cram it down my throat.

Answer 10

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