Old Testament /New Testament .Could it be that?

Question

A lot of embellishment was added to Gods commands by the men who wrote the Bible (about punishment) . The Bible itself tells us to watch out for that sort of thing . isnt Gods punishment being denied eternal life ?

( This is a follow on from my last question )

Sorry if i wasn`t clear .
By punishment i meant things like stoning for blasphemy

Answer 1

Yes, God's punishment is denying eternal life in heaven. However, one will still have eternal death in hell "where your worm never dieth". I think you are referring to the other part of the punishment, which is eternal separation from God. As far as the Bible embellishing commands about punishment, I don't think it has.

There are some areas that are symbolic and not to be taken literally, such as a good portion of The Book of Revelations. However, the punishment of hell is all that is needed to understand the fate of those who deny God, and his Christ.

Answer 2

The laws of the Torah ("old" testament) were much like the laws of today. The sentence of "stoning" was carried out only after a trial by jury. However, in Torah law, for a maximum sentence of stoning, two eye witnesses were required who had also advised the accused *before* the crime that he was about to commit a crime! The laws of the Torah were much less harsh than laws of today. The maximum punishments were seldom, if ever, carried out!

You might not know that the USA also has a death penalty on the books in many States. Those penalties have been carried out much more often than the penalties in the Bible. And some seem to think of the USA as being a Christian nation (kind and loving), not a Jewish nation.
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Answer 3

Every word of the 66 books of the Bible are God-breathed and are wholly inspired, infallible and authoritative. I recommend that you read it and pray to God to open your eyes to the truth.

EDITED: The Old Testament has a number of civil crimes which had the punishment of stoning. These laws were particular to Israel and ended at 70 A.D. They were rightly carried out prior to that time. Some people mistakenly believe that Jesus disagreed with these laws because He did not stone the women that supposedly was caught in adultery in John 8. However that is not a correct interpretation of the passage. When Jesus made the statement "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her" was merely following the requirements from the Old Testament civil law found in Deut 17:7.

Answer 4

I haven't read your last question because I'm only here about 20 minutes a day -- intermittently.

Actually, I think the embellishment you speak of (while certainly there in varying degrees) is a function of the translations from the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Chaldea and their interrelation to the processes of translation, transliteration, as well as colloquialisms, idioms, and other figures of speech contained within the Bible.

I also think that the punishments of God are tiered; i.e., we may be chastised for earthly transgressions long before the white throne judgment and eternity -- or lack thereof !

As a student of Biblical prophecy as well as Biblical numerics and Biblical mathematics I can assure you that the aspects of supernatural codex contained within the Holy Bible are far beyond the mere embellishment of man in general and that any 'bad translations' (and there are many) or other misrepresentation of scripture have been (and will continue to be) evaluated over and over -- and the minutia thereof teased to a thin thread and placed under the microscope of all who have eyes to see and ears to hear.

Answer 5

How do you know a lot of embellishment was added to Gods commands by the men who wrote the Bible? What evidence led you to form that conclusion?

As for the Council of Nicea, I can't quite see a connection between it and the preservation of the Bible.

The First Council of Nicea in 325AD is well documented and it was called to counter the heresy of Arianism. The Nicene Creed expressed the basic tenets of the Christian faith and comes straight from scripture with no embellishment or additions.

It's interesting that there is no mention of: Holy Water, praying to Saints, praying to Mary, the rosary, indulgences, purgatory and penances which we associate with the RC church today, so those things must have been added on much later.

The second Council of Nicea in 787 was, I believe, all about the subject of Icons.

Answer 6

The writers of the bible books, knew the God they served. I have heard this argument so many times, its sounds good, but in fact it is a joke. I base this on a very easy to find piece of evidence. In the 40's the dead sea scrolls where found in I think Jordan these had been buried in clay pots/jars for about 2000 years. when the took the book of Isaiah, it was word for word, as we read it today. In over 2000 years the manuscripts had not changed. Now what we call verses were put in, as well as words that did not exist "it" is one but the "body" of the script was exact. Nothing added, nothing taken away. That is the power of A mighty God.

Answer 7

What proof do you have that anything in the Bible was a direct command from some God? The Bible was written by ignorant and illiterate peasants. It is so full of inconsistancies and hypocricies, if their is a God and she inspired anything in this book, than she is a far shot from perfect.

Answer 8

lol, hold on there. so first the biblical writers made all kinds of embellishments to the biblical commands, and then they tell you to beware of their embellishments?

i hope that makes more sense to you than it does to me.

Answer 9

I don't think that God will be punished. You might wish to re-think your use of English in further questions.

Answer 10

How about the much more logical idea that it is ALL human embelishment and NO input from god, given that he doesn't actually exist in the first place? Just use Occam's razor!