Is God really compassionate and loving? If yes, how do you explain this passage from the Bible?

Question

Leviticus 20:9 "Any child that curses his mother or his father shall be put to death."

Answer 1

god is sick!

Answer 2

Leviticus 20:9 KJV
(9) For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

Maybe you should quote it correctly. That would be nice.

the sins were visited on the children in old testament. So if you cursed your parents chances are your children would curse you. It is like if you dad is an alcoholic not always is it true but surprisingly it is true to a point that you will be an alcoholic. Curse is not go for your parents and neither for you and you must remember this is all under old testament law and not the new convenant.

What you do affects you. As nothing to do with God's love. God loves is still there for you. He wasn't cursing the child was.

Answer 3

The word "child" in this scripture is speaking of a son who has reached the age of adulthood. In the culture of that time, when a son reached adulthood, he was given his inheritance at the time, rather then when the parents died. (Read the story of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15 and you will see that in action).

As they lived in a farming culture, what the child normally received was the family farm, fields, and livestock.

However, the child was then obligated to care for the parents. Having given the child the farm, the parents would not longer have a source of income, food, etc.

If a child were to "curse" his parents by refusing to care for them, the parent had the right to take the child into court and sue them. If the abuse of their parents was bad enough, the child could be punished even to the point of the death penalty.

This laws has never been interpreted by the Jewish people to give a parent the right to simple murder their child for sassing them. Rather, it is part of a code regarding law suites and family obligations.

Jesus talks about this commandment in Matthew 15:4-9. He says that by this time, the Jews had come up with a way of getting around this rule. When the child would inherit, they would immediately declare that everything they had gotten was a "gift to God" (the Hebrew word was "Korban"). As soon as they did, they claimed that they were no longer obligated to care for their parents because the money was no longer the child's but God. And the religious leaders (knowing the would get the money eventually after the child died) approved of that. They were allowing the elderly to be left homeless and penniless. Jesus condemned that actions, as any decent person would.

When you understand what the law was intended for, the protection of the elderly, you see that it is an act of love.

Answer 4

A person who curses his parents and wants some dire calamity to befall them would have a hateful, murderous disposition. Although not using a weapon to kill them, at heart he desires their death. And since such a vicious spirit constitutes murder in God's sight, the Law prescribed the same penalty for thus reviling one’s parents as for actually murdering them. This should urge Christians to show love, not hatred, for fellow believers.— Matthew 5:21, 22; 1 John 3:14, 15. Hope I've helped.

Rachel B

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Answer 5

What most people don't realize is that the bible has been added to and taken from!

How can anyone question God work?

The creator is a compassionate and loving being.....If it wasn't true... me, you, or any living being would not be here to ask such question?

So Now the question I must ask you is......
Are you really a compassionate and loving person.....Once you answer that...then you will have you answer?

Answer 6

Guess what, God gets angry many times in the bible. A man that sleeps with another man shall be put to death. A man that murders another man shall be put to death. There are passages about slavery, adultery, lying, stealing etc. Did you think that God was going to let people ignore his laws?

Answer 7

Yes, God is really compassionate and loving and holy and just. The fact that you can't see how that fits with things you read about Him doesn't mean a thing -- other than that you don't understand Him at all. God gave His people laws to follow. He expected them to follow these laws. If the laws were followed, there would be no cause for punishment at all. God loved the parents, too, not just the children. Instructing the children to respect and obey their parents isn't unloving. Imposing consequences for the breaking of a law -- one that God found extremely important, regardless of how you view it -- is not an unloving thing to do. Wild permissiveness (no laws or no consequences for breaking the law -- which amounts to the same thing) would be far less loving than establishing laws and upholding them.

God instituted laws for His chosen people to live by. That they chose to take the consequence for breaking the law, rather than choosing to obey it, does not make God unloving. What in the world were you thinking?

If God had laws but didn't communicate them to us, and then punished us willy-nilly for breaking laws we never knew existed, that would be unjust and unloving. That He gave His people His laws and expected them to live by His laws is no such thing.

Answer 8

Good question. Children go thru stages of misplaced and misunderstood independence, or as most parents call it , rebellion. Putting a child to death for insolence makes about as much sense to me as killing babies for keeping parents awake all night. I see no compassion or love in this passage. Not to mention forgiveness. What happened to forgiveness from a God who offers forgiveness for sin? Doesn't add up does it?

Answer 9

What is the context of this verse?What is going on around this verse? Why is cursing ones parents such a crime here? What does Leviticus mean? Why would that verse be in that book? Are you missing the main point of the book because you can not get passed the verse? Context is everything-find out what it is, and you will understand.

Answer 10

To see through something, you must use new eyes. God does not have a multiple personality disorder.
The dream that life is here today and gone tomorrow includes evil that does not exit in God.
God created man in His image and likeness which is not dust. how could God's ideas leave Him and say, I am what I am not? verses that claim that God knows evil can not be true, since God is love and the life of man. Man's life, God, can't turn upon itself, for there is no death in Life. One must understand spiritually to see the truth of matters.

Answer 11

Who the hell keeps telling you people that god is all loving and crap? I don't remember reading that part but I do know that no leader can be too nice while still being a good leader. Any ways that's from the Old Testament, the world was a little tougher back then.