If 99% of Americans believe in the ten commandments, how can the Bible be repulsive? Let's take the fourth commandment as an example. It says:
Remember the sabbath day, and keep it holy. For six days you shall labour and do all your work. But the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work—you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the alien resident in your towns. [Exodus 20: 8-9]
This, supposedly, is the word of God, the almighty ruler of the universe.
Now think about this. Wal-mart is open on the Sabbath. And so is Target. Best buy is open on the Sabbath. And so is Circuit City. Home Depot is open on the Sabbath. And so is Lowes. In fact, millions of businesses in America have employees working on the Sabbath. Even Christian Family Bookstores has employees working on the Sabbath.
What should we do with all of these people who are breaking the fourth commandment?
In the Bible's book of exodus - the same book that contains the ten commandments – the Bible tells us what to do with everyone who breaks the fourth commandment. Exodus 31 verse 15 tells us exactly what to do:
For six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day must be put to death.
That's right. The Bible commands the death penalty for anyone who works on the Sabbath, and we should obey. Right? This means we have to kill tens of millions of Americans.
Should we line these tens of millions of Americans up and shoot them?
Should we put them in giant gas chambers?
2007-09-19 21:20:58 · 30 answers · asked by Sassyshiba 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If you do not follow it anymore then why is it in the bible.. and why does the bible say that the laws of the lord are perfect and never change??? SHoot me now!
2007-09-19 21:30:39 · update #1
please, give me a break
2007-09-19 21:24:01 · answer #1 · answered by Brian F 3 · 4⤊ 2⤋
uhhh. God gave that commandment to a different group of people, not to "us" per se. If you are Jewish, then yes, it is your commandment to follow.
I know this because the Sabbath day is Saturday.... not Sunday. Sunday is when the Christians go to church. Christ said he was "Lord of the Sabbath".
Keep quoting the bible though. I want to keep my weekends off. Think how bad it would be if it wasn't there at all?
2007-09-19 22:05:40 · answer #2 · answered by TK421 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you read the Bible like you should, Jesus came to be crucified for our sins, we are not bind-ed to the law of the old testament but to the new. With the death or Jesus we were set free. But in the new testament, it states that you should not work on sabbath day, if you do you lose out on all the blessings and it does not state you should be killed. May you ask a question like that again, get your facts right. For those who mislead another not to believe will burn in hell.
2007-09-19 21:41:57 · answer #3 · answered by confussie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, this is the USA. Where religious freedom is more important than christian rules.
So, if we want to follow christian rules that exactly, like putting those who break the sabbath to death, we need to live in a country where religious law is political law.
But we don't: we live in America. Where the right to practice spirituality in any way we feel is right is the way it is: and thats how it should be.
So no. We shouldn't put those who work on the sabbath to death, because we live in a country where it's not right to impose our religious beliefs on others. So those who break our laws should not be subjected to our laws.
2007-09-19 21:27:12 · answer #4 · answered by xgasxchamberx 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
1. Sunday is not the sabbath. God never required the death of anyone for working on a (regular) Sunday. 2. This is in relation to the "old" covenant, to which Christians are not a legal party. 3. That old covenant ended nearly 2000 years ago. .
2016-05-19 00:48:57 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just look at the answers of these idiots; by using their own judgment to determine which parts of the bible are to be taken literally, they are accepting that the bible cannot be the inerrant word of God. So god f*cked up when he inspired the people who wrote the bible. And they still worship a God who f*cked up and wrote the dumbest book in the history of mankind.
2007-09-19 21:53:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ha, ha. The world has changed tremendously since the bible was written. We need police officers, firemen, doctors,etc. 24 hrs a day 7 days a week. If those people didn't work Sunday's we would have a lot of people die unnecessarily.
2007-09-19 21:26:14 · answer #7 · answered by uknowme 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
some people have no choice but to work on Sunday....if they don't they will get fired....God gives you a job to do and you must do it with good faith, if your schedule falls on Sunday God should punish whoever made up this schedule in the first place, i'm pretty sure the employee doesn't really make the schedule up so someone else is to blame for this, and what if all stores are closed on Sunday, where will people that go to church eat at before and after they go to church, i think people that eat out or pump gas in their car promote people to work on Sunday because those chuch goers give them money in order for them to work, see how reality is, you the churchgoer doing sin on sunday by forcing someone to work on Sunday
2007-09-19 21:27:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put me out of my misery! I work weekends and I like it. I went to Mass this evening at the home of a friend. We do this regularly because of our busy lives. The priest is a personal friend. We kept this, The Lord's Day Holy. But then, everyday is His! He not so anal as in your ramblings. Blah Blah Blah! Get real.
2007-09-19 21:28:35 · answer #9 · answered by InSeattle 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The last day of the week, the 7th day, Sabboth Day has always been Saturday, but for some reason, people celebrate Jesus and worship him on Sunday.
I remember reading about when and why it changed to Sunday, but I don't remember the answer.
2007-09-19 21:27:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of those inconvenient bits of the bible that even the christian fundies are reluctant to follow....
... How ironic.
So... the real question is: How many excuses for NOT putting sunday-workers to death can they come up with?
2007-09-19 21:27:12 · answer #11 · answered by Lucid Interrogator 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋