There is all kind of stuff in there, and yes I am talking old testement. That is part of the bible so must be tjhe word of god, right? There is murder, rape, incest and genocide all over the place. And this is the book we look to to understand the world?
2007-09-22 13:41:47 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
ive found that the stories are there for warning and example ... the same things are happening today ..
2007-09-22 13:49:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
The Bible is not so we can understand the world, but so we can understand God. God tells us in the Old Testament if you will do this, then I will do this. If man chooses to disobey God then curses will come. The Bible is not a book sugar coating the ugly world. God shows how He uses the most unusual and least acceptable people to carry out His word. I personally did not like Lot and I believe the only reason God saved Lot was because Abraham asked God to save Lot. God should have fled from those wicked people long before the two angels came along. And to offer his two young daughters to those wicked men who wanted relationships with the angels is beyond me. Also his daughters getting him drunk and having sex with their father to have children was unbelievable, but women were shamed for not have children. It was a weird world in the days of Abraham and Lot. It took Jesus coming into the world to liberate the women.
God didn't approve of what Lot did or what Lot's daughters did, but He didn't let it be sugar coated so He would look good. The Bible reflects the people of the Bible as well as the God of the Bible. The wickedness does not reflect God but it does show how God handled the wickedness of man. He destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah for it. He destroyed the world with the flood of Noah for wickedness.
We learn one thing - God doesn't put up with wickedness.
To answer your question, I read the Bible every day.
2007-09-22 14:13:52 · answer #2 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes. Think of it like this. The Old Testament is the story of the Jews, God's chosen people. Through the old testament we see the cycle of God drawing his people to him, his people turning to him for a season, then falling back into sin, and the consequences for their actions. We can absolutely learn from their story. I so many ways, its our story. Everything in the old testament points toward Jesus Christ. It points to our inability to live a righteous life. It points to the dire consequences sin has in our lives. It shows in graphic and sometimes gory detail what God must overcome through Jesus in order to reconcile us to him.
The bible is not an easy book to read. Its even harder to accept the truth it implies within our individual lives. But there is fantastic news in the story of Jesus, who lived a perfect and righteous life. When he was crucified, innocent of all sin, and rose again three days later he conquered not only physical death, but also the sin in this world. All he requires is a sincere repentance from sin, and to accept him as your savior.
The scripture, written over a period of about 2000 years, by hundreds of people, and with such harmony is amazing. I can't imagine how it could have happened if God did not have his fingerprints on it.
2007-09-22 13:59:34 · answer #3 · answered by krankincrimpers 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What, you want all sugar and spice? When God said that sin will cause real problems, don't you think it would be important to NOTE those?
Did YOU read the Bible? Did you miss the fact that murder, rape and incest are all capitol crimes? Oh, I'm sorry, you must have ignored that because of your agenda.
2007-09-22 14:02:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The bible is also a history book. The history of the nation of Israel. What happens in the course of history? Murder, rape, incest.
Not all things in the bible are condoned by God. But they are recorded, for us to learn from them.
2007-09-22 15:25:44 · answer #5 · answered by Esther 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yeah... but haven't you heard? That doesn't count anymore. Around 2,000 years ago, the crazy, compassionate, murdering, forgiving, genocidal, loving, jealous, capricious god of the Old Testament developed MPD (Multiple Personality Disorder)... and spun off a hippie-like personality who is kinda nice, and a pedophiliac ghost. The hippie seems to be in charge.. for the time being.
2007-09-22 13:56:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
YES, God's people weren't perfect and had many downfalls and recovered, look at Peter he lied on Jesus 3 times, it's all to teach us a lesson of man kind from the beginning to the end.
2007-09-22 13:52:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
We are under a new covenant.
Jesus was and is the Law.
His teachings are in the gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John).
I don't follow the teachings of any other in the bible. Jesus is the authority.
Be well.
2007-09-22 14:00:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stoning people to death for their sins and selling women into slavery are still perfectly acceptable today in many parts of the world, and you need to except the fact that Christians will restore this nation to Godliness!
2007-09-22 13:55:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have read it. Many of what the Bible says is a warning of the products of sin; the Bible is a book of instruction and history, it does not approve of everything it records.
2007-09-22 13:54:31 · answer #10 · answered by Matthew 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Have you Christians actually read the bible?
yes. and everything you were just critical of, is man's doing. showing man's fallen condition.
the Good news though is God still loves you and desires for you to have fellowship with Him and He with you. through Jesus.
so yes we aspire to be like Jesus. not content to remain in our wickedness. as you so well pointed out.
2007-09-22 13:56:32 · answer #11 · answered by lewbiv 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋