Love is not jealous or boastful. Exodus 34:14 and 20:5
I the Lord your God am a jealous God ... for the Lord, Whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. Exodus 34:14 and 20:5
Love] is not arrogant or rude ... it is not irritable or resentful. Joshua 24:13,14; Ecclesiasticus 5:6; and Ezekial 18:3-4
He is a jealous God, He will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins. If you forsake the Lord, then He will turn and do you hurt, and consume you... To him belong both mercy and anger, and sinners feel the weight of his retribution ... All life belongs to me; the father's life and the son's life, both alike belong to me. The man who has sinned, he is the one who shall die. Joshua 24:13,14; Ecclesiasticus 5:6; and Ezekial 18:3-4
2007-08-07 21:54:29 · 27 answers · asked by Tabbyfur aka patchy puss 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If someone slaps you on the right cheek, turn and offer him your left. If a man wants to sue you for your shirt, let him have your coat as well. Matt 5:38 / Exodus 21:12 23-25; Leviticus 20:9 24:19;
Whoever strikes another man and kills him must be put to death... When anyone reviles his father and his mother, he must be put to death. Since he has reviled his father and his mother, let his blood be on his own head...But when injury ensues, you are to give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn... If anyone injures and disfigures a fellow-country man, it must be done to him as he has done... You must show no mercy... Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones Matt 5:38 / Exodus 21:12 23-25; Leviticus 20:9 24:19;
And now, O Father, glorify Thou Me with the own self glory I had with Thee before the world was John 17:5 / Isaiah 42:8
I am Yahweh that is my nameand my glory to another I will not give
2007-08-07 21:59:14 · update #1
You've just scratched the surface.
2007-08-07 21:58:12 · answer #1 · answered by stonecutter 5 · 14⤊ 3⤋
Missing Links?
2007-08-08 05:14:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What it may be important to understand.... if for no other reason than to give the poor, stupid christians the benefit of the doubt....... is that the bible was written in multiple languages as a great many books in separate places by separate people. It has been copied, edited and translated in separate parts and only gradually brought together over time.
Not only that, but to this day there are countless different translations of its contents, sometimes with drastically different meanings.
That probably accounts for a great many of the contradictions contained therein.
Of course it also indicates in no uncertain terms that anyone trying to take "the bible" (which one isn't specified) word for word is completely off their nut.... as modern interpretations of the bible are many generations short of reliable.
But don't be supposing it is merely down to individual carelessness on the part of the authors....
2007-08-08 05:08:58 · answer #3 · answered by Lucid Interloper 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
The Bible must be understood as a whole, not the sum of its parts. It is the record of how one people, the Jews, saw their place in the world as followers of one God and His chosen people. To be fair, it is also the record of how they often failed miserably in their service of that one God. But the Bible also reflects their belief that God had intervened in human history and was not merely some distant, abstract entity.
The Christian religion inherited this legacy and developed it in a different direction. Christians believed that God was the God of all humanity, not only of the Chosen People.
It is more helpful to understand the Bible as an ongoing story of a struggle to make sense of God, than to pick it apart and look for contradictions. These so-called contradictions are reflections of a changing understanding. This development is not necessarily linear, and vestiges of older beliefs remain among newer ways of thinking.
2007-08-08 06:00:55 · answer #4 · answered by Civis Romanus 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
You are reading all of this from the Old Testament, which is a long time before Jesus Christ came to save us all from sin. In the Old Testament, God had to punish those who sinned against HIM. God's undying love was proven to us in the New Testament when he sent HIS Only Son Jesus Christ to the cross at calvary to pay the price for the sins of mankind.
2007-08-08 12:28:24 · answer #5 · answered by Linda M 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Vivian A - adultery can only be committed by someone who is married. Mary was not married at the time the Angel Gabriel said she would bear a son, and his name would be Jesus
Contradictions are only in the eye of the beholder!
God's 'jealousy' is not the same as man's.
2007-08-08 06:29:14 · answer #6 · answered by Plato 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
If you'd read the whole Bible from beginning to end , you would understand the individual circumstances of these sayings . Nothing can be understood when it's taken in bits and pieces . Not whom is saying them ,or to whom they are directed ,or to what they are about . I also thought the Bible had confusing and contradicting texts . Then I read it . It is very straight forward . Using the NIV for ease of modern English and the Internet to look up all the places and words I didn't know , made it all very clear . It deserves to be read the way one would read any other book .
2007-08-08 05:20:47 · answer #7 · answered by opinionated 4 · 4⤊ 3⤋
After thousands of years it's a fact now that THE BIBLE has been CORRUPTED. It's sad that many people think it's the complete word of God, and fail to see into the thousands of contradictions caused by human error (and ALOT of that from Paul claiming to be an apostle and turning christians away from the real teachings of Jesus Christ). Like christians today actually believe that all they have to do to be ''saved'' is to accept jesus christ as their saviour, and that's apparantly the only religious duty that they owe Jesus or God.
2007-08-08 06:03:58 · answer #8 · answered by B 4 · 0⤊ 4⤋
I am a Christian Orthodox and I agree with you.
To be honest I haven't read all the Bible and I definitely haven't read the Catholic Bible.
But...the Bible is open to interpretation, contradictions and questions.
I believe sometimes the religion is used to control our life... and that is not a good thing.
I can't believe blindly in everything a priest might tell me about Bible or church me even if I believe in God....
Why I believe??
Because many things (good things) happened to me when I didn't expect them, I escaped through a miracle from a huge accident...etc.
We all believe in something....some of us believe in God...some of us in humans.
So...if you are a Christian I think is good to doubt yourself or the religion...you are human.
If not, I wish you all the best in finding the answers you want....
2007-08-08 05:19:54 · answer #9 · answered by AlinutaUK 3 · 2⤊ 4⤋
No such thing as a few contradictions from the bible,Or any so
called book on the myth of religion.
2007-08-08 04:58:58 · answer #10 · answered by angler 6 · 5⤊ 3⤋
you are right it does sem to be full of contradctions
but in essence God is like a parent he fulfills us and draws us to do good in life and should be what we include in our day to day life
2007-08-08 05:57:44 · answer #11 · answered by ~*tigger*~ ** 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋