Can someone explain why the Bible is so inhumane?

Question

Slaves, obey your earthly masters with deep respect and fear. Serve them sincerely as you would serve Christ. (Ephesians 6:5 NLT)


"Take your son, your only son – yes, Isaac, whom you love so much – and go to the land of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will point out to you." (Genesis 22:1-18)
"These are the very ones who followed Balaam's advice and caused the people of Israel to rebel against the LORD at Mount Peor. They are the ones who caused the plague to strike the LORD's people. Now kill all the boys and all the women who have slept with a man. Only the young girls who are virgins may live; you may keep them for yourselves."-Numbers 31:7-18 NLT)
read the last line of that.

The LORD is a jealous God, filled with vengeance and wrath. He takes revenge on all who oppose him and furiously destroys his enemies! The LORD is slow to get angry, but his power is great, and he never lets the guilty go unpunished. He displays his power in the whirlwind and the storm. The billowing clouds are the dust beneath his feet. At his command the oceans and rivers dry up, the lush pastures of Bashan and Carmel fade, and the green forests of Lebanon wilt. In his presence the mountains quake, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles, and its people are destroyed. Who can stand before his fierce anger? Who can survive his burning fury? His rage blazes forth like fire, and the mountains crumble to dust in his presence. The LORD is good. When trouble comes, he is a strong refuge. And he knows everyone who trusts in him. But he sweeps away his enemies in an overwhelming flood. He pursues his foes into the darkness of night. (Nahum 1:2-8 NLT)

When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are. If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again. But he is not allowed to sell her to foreigners, since he is the one who broke the contract with her. And if the slave girl's owner arranges for her to marry his son, he may no longer treat her as a slave girl, but he must treat her as his daughter. If he himself marries her and then takes another wife, he may not reduce her food or clothing or fail to sleep with her as his wife. If he fails in any of these three ways, she may leave as a free woman without making any payment. (Exodus 21:7-11 NLT)

"I will sweep away everything in all your land," says the LORD. "I will sweep away both people and animals alike. Even the birds of the air and the fish in the sea will die. I will reduce the wicked to heaps of rubble, along with the rest of humanity," says the LORD. "I will crush Judah and Jerusalem with my fist and destroy every last trace of their Baal worship. I will put an end to all the idolatrous priests, so that even the memory of them will disappear. For they go up to their roofs and bow to the sun, moon, and stars. They claim to follow the LORD, but then they worship Molech, too. So now I will destroy them! And I will destroy those who used to worship me but now no longer do. They no longer ask for the LORD's guidance or seek my blessings." (Zephaniah 1:2-6 NLT)

Hiu: I'm pretty sure slavery is vastly different than having a job.

Your GOD supports SLAVERY...Do you? I sure don't and I don't believe in BibleGod because of it.

Answer 1

I believe that some people read the bible then dont fully understand it and thats why people try to only see bad things in the word.

If you continue to read in Ephesians 6:7-9 it states:
Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the lord, not men, because you know the lord will reward everyone for whatever good he does, whether he is slave or free. And masters, treat your slaves in the same way. Do not threaten them, since you know that he who is both thier Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no favoritism with him.

There's nothin inhumane about that if you continue to read it just basically stated theres going to be an order on earth no mater what but no matter where you stand in that order whether the slave or master you both have to answer to God in the end and there isn't going to be an order when that comes.

Genesis 22:1-18
When the Lord was testing Abraham it was just a test of faith to see if he believed and feared god by giving him his only son. which in John 3:16 it states that God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whoever believes in hin shall not perish but have eternal life. So in the end God did ask abraham to sacrifice his son but didnt have him actually go through with the whole thing but God did sacrifice his only son until the very end.

And Numbers 31:7-18 it says it right there why God had Moses to do what they did. The bible states that God will give to each person according to what he has done (Psalms 62:12, Proverbs 24:12, Romans 2:6). The saying you reap what you sow (Galatians 6:7). Clearly they rebeled against the Lord and caused the plague to strike the Lords people. And you dont mess with God's people (Psalms 105:15).

(this is only from me not the bible i didn't put a scripture in for this one) All the scriputes your finding are also in the old testement back then there was no mercy and grace because Jesus hadn't died on the cross for our sins. So they had to deal with God directly and in the new testemant we have Jesus at the right hand og God pleading for us to god (christians). If you turn you back on God then thats a whole other thing completely. The bible is no inhumane if your a believer but of course you have people who don't belive and only read the bible to find fault with what it has to say. A christian with faith and believes Jesus died for our sins can read the bible and truly understand the Grace and Mercy that God has for us.

God only has good thoughts about us. When we mess up he already has a plan to perserve us after we repent to fix things. (I'm talking to saved people here).

In 2 John He gives a warning be be aware of the antichrist (anyone who doesn't acknowledge christ. Opposed to christ by being in the place of christ). Many Decievers (someone that is false someone that gives a false impression) have gone out in to the world and he just says to beware of them so that you don't lose what you have worked for.

A life in christ is long suffering but we are not ashamed because....(our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.-Romans 8:18)

Just read the bible not to find fault and you will see the truth.

Answer 2

The Catholic Encyclopedia states Bible is Skeptic and Concocted
A. THE FORMATION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT CANON (A.D. 100-220)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03274a.htm
The idea of a complete and clear-cut canon of the New Testament existing from the beginning, that is from Apostolic times, has no foundation in history. The Canon of the New Testament, like that of the Old, is the result of a development, of a process at once stimulated by disputes with doubters, both within and without the Church, and retarded by certain obscurities and natural hesitations, and which did not reach its final term until the dogmatic definition of the Tridentine Council. ("Canon of the New Testament")
There is a lot of confusion about the earliest existing texts of the Bible. The oldest extant manuscript of the Bible is believed to be the Codex Vaticanus, (preserved in the Vatican Library), which is slightly older than the Codex Sinaiticus (preserved in the British Library), both of which were transcribed in the fourth century.
As for the story of Jesus, there were at least 50 gospels written in the first and second century CE. Four of them (Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John) were included in the official canon during the fourth century CE and are found today in every Bible. All of the original copies of the gospels were lost. What we have now are handwritten copies, which are an unknown number of replications removed from the originals.
Rudolf Bultmann, a prominent 20th-century professor of New Testament studies writes about the life of Jesus:
We can now know almost nothing concerning the life and personality of Jesus, since the early Christian sources show no interest in either, are moreover fragmentary and often legendary; and other sources about Jesus do not exist. (Bultmann 8)
Example of Confliction in Bible
II Samuel 8:4 (vs) II Samuel 8:9-10 II Kings 8:26
II Samuel 6:23 Genesis 6:3 John 5:37
John 5:31 I Chronicles 18:4 I Chronicles 18:9-10
II Chronicles 22:2 II Samuel 21:8 Genesis 9:29
John 14:9 John 8:14

Answer 3

you need to read more instead of take bits and peaces of verses to fit your argument God told Abraham not to kill his son after he saw Abraham's was actually going to do it. God just wanted to see if Abraham lived up to what he told others to live up to, to see if he was a hypocrite.

About the first verse, you can be sought as a servant today at a Job, you should respect your boss and fear them because they can fire you that verse can be used today, and if you disobey your boss your fired and another reason why you should fear them is though they can fire you once they fire you it makes it harder to get another job, you serve your master, boss faithfully with respect and the bible also says that the master will like you if you do a good job at a job the boss might want to keep you. or promote you.

the last part of your argument is when the people of is real where still under the law. this happened because of Sin the law was impossible to follow, the bible says when the law and grace obide the law is no more mosses gave the law and jesus was the grace when jesus came the ot law no longer was a burden you only need to believe in jesus and believe God sent him to die 4 you.

Answer 4

Its rape of nanking... Anyway jewish holocaust is worst, cant examine them. Nanking used to be a massacure, even as the jewish holocaust used to be a holocaust. Plus nanking wasnt the one massacure the japanese had, they'd lots of intercourse camps in every single place china and korea. So you will have to ask, whats worst eastern intercourse camps or holocaust. But i might say holocaust continues to be worst becuase they attempted to eliminate a complete ethniticy as an alternative then simply killing men and women. I believe plenty of men and women individually believe killing a ethniticy off is worst then killing a number of men and women. Thats why nobody remebers that Stalin killed 20-30 million men and women. holocaust killed nine-12 million. To me there all incredibly terrible. Answering this question is like any one asking. "What equals four, two+two or 6-two?" They each identical four... each are terrible inhumane acts Actually i dont realize what one is worst. I'd believe you could must individually expierence each circumstances to absolutely verify which used to be the wrost

Answer 5

It seems like you are trying to place mankinds sins on God. I would suggest that you check out Knowledge of the Holy by A. W. Tozer http://glorifyhisname.com/sys-tmpl/koh/ so that you can get a better understanding of God's character as He has revealed it to us and then you can re-read those passages in their proper context and understand that those things which at first glance appear to put God in the wrong all have to do with God's working with imperfect and sinful human beings as his plan to redeem us from our fallen state unfolds over the centuries.

Answer 6

God is HOLY and sin is beyond appalling to Him, so He deals with it in terms that will be easy for even the sinful to be able to understand. If anyone believes that the Bible is full of inhuman consequences they should fear what God is capable of placing on this sinful world in these days.

God Bless You

Answer 7

The masses love blood, cruelty and gore. It has great entertainment value. (I'm not condoning or encouraging violence, I'm simply pointing out the obvious that these things sell.) What better way to grasp people's attention? It doesn't hurt to scare people either, to get/keep yourself in power (isn't that right, Georgey?).

Answer 8

Because despite the loving twist people put on him god's general philosophy is do what I say or I will punish you and then just for kicks I am still going to be an *** now and then

Answer 9

Because people are inhumane and the Bible is a history and reflection of people.

The thing of it is, why after 3,000+ years are we still the same.

Maybe that proves EVOLUTION ISN'T TRUE.

We haven't evolved a bit!

Answer 10

That's only a small sample of the crap in there. http://evilbible.com Thus proving it is only a fiction written by primitive idiots.