nasty bible quotes, how do they make you feel?
Plucking out your eye is a profitable & good thing to do Matthew 5:29
Give to everyone who asks you for money Matthew 5:42
Luke 6:30-35
Give no thought for tomorrow; God will take care of you Matthew 6:25-34
Luke 12:22-31
Pray only in private, never in public Matthew 6:5-6
Jesus has come not to send peace, but a sword Matthew 10:34
Jesus has come to cause families to turn on each other Matthew 10:35-39
Jesus spurns his own family Matthew 12:47-48
Gentiles are not who Jesus wants to save Matthew 15:22-24
Jesus promises to return before all of his followers (gathered before him) "taste death" Matthew 16:28
Mark 9:1
Luke 9:27
If you are able, castrate yourself for the Kingdom of Heaven Matthew 19:12
Jesus is angered by a fruitless fig tree; kills it Matthew 21:17-19
Mark 11:14-20
Judas hangs himself (but see Acts 1:18) Matthew 27:3-5
Jesus is betrayed by / gives up on God Matthew 27:46
2007-07-23 10:21:02 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Abandon your family for the Kingdom of Heaven Mark 10:29
Believers can handle snakes & drink poisons without harm Mark 16:17-18
Sell everything you own and give it all to charity Luke 12:33
Disobedient, lazy slaves are to be beaten 'with many stripes' Luke 12:47
Jesus has come not for peace but for division Luke 12:51-52
Hate your family, your parents & your life for Jesus Luke 14:26
"But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me" [Jesus] Luke 19:27
Jesus orders his followers to steal someone else's horse for him Luke 19:30-35
Jesus encourages all to get swords Luke 22:36
A solar eclipse occurs during a full moon?? Luke 23:45
Jesus scorns and refuses his own mother Mary John 2:4
Jesus endorses cannibalism (or fellatio) John 6:53-57
All that follow Jesus are thieves and robbers John 10:8
Jesus claims that the Jews are all Gods, per scripture John 10:34
2007-07-23 10:21:51 · update #1
thanks highly flavoured, since christians do it so often, i thought i'd try it!
2007-07-23 10:24:53 · update #2
stop! what are you trying to do to me? i am a christain!!!
2007-07-23 10:32:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You seem to have found a source of Scripture that may be suspect. Many of your verses are accurate in their quotation or paraphrase, but many of the more shocking ones are misquoted or taken out of context.
ie--Plucking out your eye is a profitable and good thing to do? Gross. The actual verse reads that if your eye causes you to sin, then it is better for you to lose it, than to go to hell because of it. Ideally, I'd prefer neither hell nor blindness, but I'd have to agree that blindness is preferrable to eternal damnation.
On the other hand: Jesus coming not to provide peace but a sword? That one is true. Contrary to what many believe, Christianity is not a very "tolerant" religion in the sense that "anyone who believes whatever they want is NOT a Christian." As a result, Christ is the standard and will divide those who believe from those who do not believe.
Good questions! Each of these is an excellent discussion starter. As such, all of these would be difficult to answer in all one posting, My suggestion is to get a Bible and read...not just single verses, but entire books and chapters. You'll be surprised at how much your perspective on these verses changes when you read what the author was really talking about.
Good luck.
2007-07-23 10:36:20 · answer #2 · answered by thisisnotadream 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no proof that anyone other than individuals at various times wrote any of this stuff. What motivated them is questionable. Money ,power,politics, greed ,status, good drugs or a need to spin a yarn could all be influencing factors.
Its always interesting how all these attributions to God all image our own human failings ,IE: vengeance, jealousy,anger, servitude judgment etc. Creation is neutral imaginative and life creating, creation is beautiful and inclusive. The real essence of God is all around us, the real essence of spirit is within us, the real essence of spirit is love an unconditional love that respects everyone and everything that has been created.
2007-07-23 10:38:33 · answer #3 · answered by jasper 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How about this one:
And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.--Numbers 25:4
or
Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.--Judges 4:21
2007-07-23 10:24:13 · answer #4 · answered by The Bog Nug 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Did you just find the Skeptic's bible? It's a good one huh, otherwise people with bad memory like me wouldn't ever be able to remember where to find a certain verse!
But you have only scratched the surface! there are many, many more messed up things in the Bible!
Xtians, look it up!
http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/
2007-07-23 10:28:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I feel a bit like some parts of the Bible has really been changed.
2007-07-23 10:24:50 · answer #6 · answered by summer-night-dream 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
More:
The ENTIRE Bible, including hundreds of verses such as:
Numbers 31:17-18 "Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves."
Ezekiel 9:6 "Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women . . . "
Isaiah 13:16 "Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished."
Deuteronomy 13:15 "Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly . . . "
Leviticus 20:9 "For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death . . . "
Exodus 32:27 ". . . Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour."
Deut 21:10-12 "When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive, And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife; Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house, and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; "
Exodus 31:15 " . . . whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death."
Deut 21:21 "And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die . . . "
2007-07-23 10:23:45 · answer #7 · answered by gelfling 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
NNNOOOOO Riegan, say away from the Darkside!
Putting huge amounts of scripture is mean, I read it and I am quite frankly disturbed now.
2007-07-23 10:23:30 · answer #8 · answered by Link , Padawan of Yoda 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
One reason why I don't follow that bible... look at this, what type of person would live their life based on that?
2007-07-24 01:04:58 · answer #9 · answered by LIEUTENANT K STAR!!!! 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When Man invented his god he had to provide him with some tools of persuasion. Remember the ones who did this were illiterate and spent their days herding goats.
2007-07-23 10:28:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
All of these quotes have been taken out of context. In Patrick Henry's speech, where he said "Give me liberty or give me death," he didn't really mean for them to kill him if they didn't get liberty. Just so, give me any of these quotes and I explain them to you in the right context.
2007-07-23 10:30:07 · answer #11 · answered by ptbc 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋