Hear me out before the "hellfire and brimstone" crap starts. If a person weeded out the perversion and mindless violence, then did away with all the "books" that were written in the 2nd and 3rd centuries to try to make Jesus out to be something he was not, the bible could be a perfectly good book. As near as I can tell, after dismissing the bigoted garbage added in later, the teachings of Jesus were very good advice for anyone. Leave off the pseudo-history and stick with what we actually know to be true. Forget the made up prophesies, and stick with the good moral points. Kidnapping little girls, raping females, murdering babies, slaughtering helpless farmers, stealing anything that wasn't nailed down, selling your children as slaves and constantly worrying about other men's organs isn't useful nor divine, so why bother to keep such horrible crap in it?
2007-09-18 09:45:55 · 13 answers · asked by Enigma®Ragnarökin' 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
How about just thrown in the trash?
2007-09-18 09:52:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
The bible has been edited before and it will be edited again. There are some problems with editing however. Look at all of the different groups of christians who claim to be the one true group. All of them will have different views of how to edit the bible. In fact, there will be different groups within each lot that have different views of editing. The editing will lead to even more fragmentation of the christians. Some would want to keep it the same, some would want to do as you, and there would be some who want to make it even wackier. You know there would be fighting over this. Perhaps even violence. I can see your point of view. The bible does give christians a bad name. I have heard many an atheist who left christianity after they read the bible and saw that is was far from a god inspired work.
2007-09-18 16:53:26 · answer #2 · answered by A.Mercer 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Bible has always been edited from the day the Evangelists started writing it. It is also edited every day by some religious book writer/priest/prophet or whatever the writer may call him/her self.
Did you know there is a very strong religious Jewish group in Israel that wants to apologize to the Egyptians for the things that God did to them at the time of Moses? They say that Gods' killing of the innocent 'first born' was unjust.
2007-09-18 17:01:40 · answer #3 · answered by Fek 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it should. That ''its wrong to be gay'' stuff just doesnt fly. Its not like the WHOLE population will go to hell anyway lol People are so ignorant sometimes. They preach that God loves everyone then tell gay people that God hates them and if they dont change they'll go to Hell. Oh the bible, the bible, the bible. Thats the only thing about it that I can think of right now that needs changed! Its clearly bs. God loves and understands everyone even when we cant love and understand each other. MAN wrote the bible, we shouldnt attempt to pull God into our circle of negativity!
2007-09-18 16:59:44 · answer #4 · answered by Fearfully & wonderfully made 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, the Bible should not be edited. Read Revelation 22, verses 18 & 19.
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2007-09-18 21:57:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It already has been edited. Just read the book Misquoting Jesus.
2007-09-18 16:49:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
It's already been heavily editted several times throughout history, so why not change it again?
2007-09-18 16:51:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's been edited throughout time, even by those who considered themselves the most fundamentalist.
2007-09-18 16:49:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
why edit the word of god in first place? i don't get it...maybe cause im not a Christian?
2007-09-18 16:55:52 · answer #9 · answered by crazykiaray23 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What would one more edit hurt?
2007-09-18 16:52:06 · answer #10 · answered by t_rex_is_mad 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋