Is the Bible a Christian science book? Leviticus 11:22-23 says that insects have four legs?

Question

This question is not blasphemy

Answer 1

i love blasphemy it's my favorite!

Answer 2

i might could seem into it. that's particularly attainable that it truly is in basic terms very undesirable translation. in spite of the incontrovertible fact that, whether it weren't undesirable translation, the huge form 4 in the Bible represents the seen the organic international, or the area of the 5 senses(seeing, tasting, touching, smelling, listening to) expertise. The thinking which you're going via, the two assuming and insisting that what you're examining, actually could be stupid, in spite of the very incontrovertible fact that that's particularly attainable that it is not. it may be meant as a parent of speech it is particularly out of somewhat very logical thinking. no longer via guy's medical definitions, do any bugs have 4 legs, yet there are some bugs that do have 4 legs.

Answer 3

Leviticus 11:22-23 (New International Version)

"Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket or grasshopper. But all other winged creatures that have four legs you are to detest."


It is not specifically stating insects have four feet.

Answer 4

Why are non-Christians so desperate to prove Christians wrong? Are you intimidated by us?

The quote you are referring to, may, in your bible say insects. This would be a misinterpretation.

The Bible is the most accurate science book available. While some may challenge the idea of creation:
1) the belief in evolution requires faith (as creation), because the origin of single cellular life can't be reproduced or tested for accuracy.
2) aging methods for the world are not 100% acurate and I can refute them as needed.

Answer 5

20. Any flying insect that walks on four, is an abomination for you.
21. However, among all the flying insects that walk on four [legs], you may eat [from] those that have jointed [leg like] extensions above its [regular] legs, with which they hop on the ground.
22. From this [locust] category, you may eat the following: The red locust after its species, the yellow locust after its species, the spotted gray locust after its species and the white locust after its species.

It's saying which insects are kosher and not kosher to eat.

Answer 6

It is both... Yet, it encompasses much.... Especially to him who seeks answers... He shall find more than he expected and shall be lost in the things that he does not understand.....

These things that are quoted, from the very book which tells us the things that we should not place into our mouth, because it is unclean......

There are many things in Leviticus which we were forbidden to do...... Such as touch the dead... it was forbidden.....

However, all those things which were said, we know are good or bad for our bodies.... God knows who created the human structure...... Yet, there is a Scripture which compromises some of those things.....

Colossians 2:16-17

16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.


So, if it is a need which cannot be dismissed, then it is a need which must be met....... Let no one judge you according to that which you must need to do.......


Your sister,
Ginger

Answer 7

actually it doesn't say that.

its a description, "all winged swarming things, -> which have four feet, -> are a detestable thing unto you"

Considering the comparative context of verse 20, the specifications of verse 22, and the detail of verse 23, "upon all fours" is a description of posture, not of leg-count.

and that "which have four feet" would be referring to things such as praying mantises, which, in a rudimentary descriptive manner, have 4 legs/feet and 2 arms/claws, and do NOT have the same "posture" as the things specified as permissible despite being in the "go upon all fours" category.

its actually a pretty sophisticated distinction, if one bothers to look at the text trying to understand, rather than make it sound silly.

Answer 8

Leviticus says a lot of things... but it doesn't say that.

It says (and I quote):

"22 even these of them ye may eat: the locust after its kinds, and the bald locust after its kinds, and the cricket after its kinds, and the grasshopper after its kinds.

23 But all winged swarming things, which have four feet, are a detestable thing unto you."

This is just saying that all things that have wings, four feet and swarm are detestable (to eat). It does nothing to classify insects.

This dose of reading comprehension brought to you by p37ry!

Hope this helps!

Answer 9

No, it's not a science book. However, there's a great article about that false claim here:
http://www.godandscience.org/apologetics/false.html#insects

The site is a good one, by the way, a million times better than answersingenesis.com, in my opinion.

Answer 10

I don't have a problem, per se, with the faithful. But it always boggles my mind whenever anyone insists that the Bible is whole, unassailable and literal truth. With things like that, and the ninety bajillion other falacies, how can you possibly beleive it's unvarnished fact?

Their's faith, and then theirs gullibility.

Answer 11

It doesn't say that insects have 4 legs. It says "do not eat winged creatures that have four legs".