Earlier today someone posted a link...
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/contra/by_name.html
that shows a bunch of places where the Bible contradicts itself.
What do people who believe in the bible have to say about that?
I mean, god is supposed to be perfect, right? So how can the bible be imperfect?
And even though he used men to right the bible, why would he use imperfect men, or why would he let them make mistakes when writing the bible?
Also, will I go to hell because I'm bisexual?
I mean, Christians are always saying that when Jesus came down he relieved us of a bunch of rules... and that we are no longer bound by the rules of the Old Testament.
So why do Christians always use the Leviticus verse about men will not lie with men like they do with women? I mean, either you can use all of them or none of them, you can't pick and choose.
Something tells me this religion is faulty.
2007-09-21 15:58:14 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Chloe, why don't you enlighten me?
After all, didn't Jesus and Judas have a 'thing' going?
2007-09-21 16:11:48 · update #1
The bible is not to be taken literally, it is somebody's interpretations, some people believe it says something entirely different than others think. I do believe homosexuality is a sin that can be forgiven, as with any sin, if you truly repent.......######
2007-09-21 16:05:20 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 6⤋
What you are saying is what people have been saying for 2000 years.It is always funny when someone thinks they are the first to come up with it.Almost everyone of those so called "contradictions" are easily explained away but there's so damn many I'd be here all day.Here's the deal.
God knows man is fallable.Man wrote the bible (although they didn't know it was the Bible at the time)but what God did do is impress upon their brains the things he wanted included.If they made a mistake here and there it was on things that don't have a dog gone thing to do with Salvation,or the way to salvation,God or His plan and nature.Those are all little incidentals that don't mean much.
Sorry,but things like homosexuality are condemned in the Old(Leviticus) and the New Testament(Romans 1).It is a sin like any other and can be forgiven if stopped.
You will not go to Hell for any other reason than denying Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.If you do that and study His word dilligently,He will ,through the Holy Spirit, begin to change you the way He wants.Just like a potter making a clay jar or pot.But you have to let him and not harden your heart.So many people have had genuine conversions and still struggled with whatever their particular sin was.Some,were delivered instantly.It ain't an exact science.What is exact is He loves you and wants the best for you ,whether you accept it or not.
2007-09-21 16:17:50 · answer #2 · answered by AngelsFan 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hahaha. You might also notice that Jesus and God are not alike at all. I think there's one verse in the NT where JC says he upholds every 'jot and tittle' of the OT but says he's come to change everything. Basically, I've found that the NT borrows heavily from Greek philosophy/religion while the OT is a combo of stories passed down through the generations about Hebrew/Israelite tribes.
In the OT, there's a controversy about the relationship between King David and a really close male 'friend' of his.
Edit: I don't think there is anything, one way or the other, about homosexuality in the NT.
And, the basic philosophy contradicts itself. There is only God, in the beginning. He is perfect-right there, the fact that he creates anything, much less evil, contradicts perfect. That Satan is given credit for what's done in Job, that's ultimately Gods doing. Same with the Holocaust, same with Hell. 'I the Lord create peace and make evil. I do all these things' Isaiah 45:7
I swear, Christians take things 'out of context' ALL the time.
2007-09-21 16:14:40 · answer #3 · answered by strpenta 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You are just like my youngest niece (2years old) asking so much funny and cute qtns.
Ok.. let me try
Qtn 1: God is supposed to be perfect, right? So how can the bible be imperfect?
Ans: God never wrote the bible is Jesus's apostles wrote it.
Qtn 2: And even though he used men to right the bible, why would he use imperfect men, or why would he let them make mistakes when writing the bible?
Ans: So far is there any perfect men on earth is perfect??? The Lord has always choose small man to do great thing just like Moses and Noah.
Qtn 3: Also, will I go to hell because I'm bisexual?
Ans: if you know that is wrong and you still doing it, do you deserve to go hell???? Just like you know that murder will lead you to jail and you still kill that whosoever... do you deserve to be lock up in jail?
Think abt it dude.
2007-09-21 16:17:48 · answer #4 · answered by †ѕαи∂y† 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
See kid, Jesus never said that the bible was inherent because the bible wasn't around when he was alive. It was called the Tanakh. Jesus said that everything in the Tanakh is inherent. The new testament came after Jesus. And the new testament books that were put into the bible 300 years after Jesus died were by a Jew hating, sun worshiping man by the name of Roman Emperor Constantine.
And the vast majority of those "contradictions" are not contradictions at all. They are in fact "misquotes." See, alot of the New Testament writers were gentiles and didn't know the Jewish texts very well. But their hearts were in the right place.
The old testament laws have not gone away. The punishment has if you have accepted messiah, but not the laws.
I would be more than happy to help you figure out some answers to your questions. IM me on yahoo messenger: neoncamo
2007-09-21 16:07:10 · answer #5 · answered by Tripper 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
The Bible may have contradictions, but the Word of God is consistent throughout. The meaning of what He is teaching is what is important. Most of the "errors" in the Bible are mistranslations. This is simply human error. The problem I see a lot is that people blame God for everything. This is man't fault, not God's. The Bibles of different languages (thus different translations) have shown consistency amongst its meaning. Therefore, your criticism only stands as proof of persecution against the religion and faith in God. The meaning behind the text has not changed.
2007-09-21 16:11:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
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2016-10-19 09:08:43 · answer #7 · answered by neher 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You know its just like everything else in life there will always be skeptics when Jesus returns there will be people who say it isn't Him. People have faith in everything else but not in God. Everyday you get you eat, drink, go to work, come home, and do it all over again day after day. Every day you BELIEVE(have faith) that the next day will pretty much be like the one before, so tell me why there have to be skeptics. Another thing... you refer to Leviticus and say you are bisexual and that men will not lie with men like they do women isn't that an oxymoron on your part?? I think it is you that needs to make up your mind, or just look in the mirror before you expect so much from others. No one was born perfect we are ALL sinners born with a free will. It is up to you what you do with your free will. God could have created us like robots we would all be programmed to do exactly as he wanted now wouldn't that be selfish?????
2007-09-21 16:21:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
if you understand scripture properly, there are NO contradictions whatsoever.
only if you misinterpret, do you find contradictions.
God is perfect. man did NOT right the Bible. man is not suppose to add or take away anything from scripture. this is declared in the OT & the NT.
being abnormal sexually ... that is, bi- or homo-, is a sin.
it states that in the NT as well. it is an abomination. in the book of revelation it says none of the abominable will enter the kingdom of God.
that takes care of that sin!
no, we are NEVER to pick & choose w/ scripture. it all pertains even if people don't want to follow it or believe it.
like scripture says ... just b/c some don't believe, does that make it ineffectual??
it then answers ... NO! more precisely, it states, "God forbid."
2007-09-21 16:08:36 · answer #9 · answered by t d 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
love the 'skeptics'!
It is based upon the contradictions of the paganism grafted on to Christianity from the 2nd century onwards.
All the claims within the 'skeptics' are easily overturned by anyone with a brain, a Strong's Exhaustive Concordance, and a 1611 King James Version.
I have reviewed the 'skeptics' annotated' and found it nothing shy of ignorant and at times hilarious in it's assumptions!
That people will fall for this pile of crap says a lot about the deliberate gullibility of people who are looking for an excuse to dismiss the possibility of responsibility to a creator!
I would like to say I could laugh at those who are thus deceived, but I really must defer to the scriptures where we are instructed to remain indifferent to those who have taken a stand against the truth and are thus perishing.
2007-09-21 16:11:03 · answer #10 · answered by Tim 47 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Well put, and in addition to this, why would he bother to create the perfect book only to let a bunch of idiots mistranslate and edit it and so on? Surely he could have prevented all this too.
And how are we supposed to know which bits are right and which bits are wrong?
Christianity today must therefore be just as flawed as the bible.
2007-09-21 16:14:31 · answer #11 · answered by Partisan Cheese 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋