I think thats why christians are so uptight and angry.
2007-10-13 18:44:10 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Sure there is. While waiting for his competitions "god" to start a fire Elijah ask if their "god" was "taking a piss".
2007-10-13 18:48:45 · answer #1 · answered by Pal 2 · 7⤊ 1⤋
There's PLENTY of humor in the Bible! But Christians take it entirely too seriously to see it. Abraham and Sarah play a trick on two foreign rulers. God plays a practical joke on Abraham with his son Isaac. Abraham's "how to be a good Jew" is played off against Lot's "how NOT to do it". Jacob cleverly swaps Esau's inheritance for a bowl of stew. Rebeccah and Jacob fool old Isaac into giving his blessing to the wrong son. Judah and his brothers hilariously use an old family custom to get easy revenge on Schechem for taking advantage of their sister Deborah. Tamar makes an honest man out of Judah by disguising herself as someone else. And don't forget the hijinks between Joseph and his brothers. And this is just the first book! Check out some of Elijah's shenannigans in 1 and 2 Kings. Sure, he was a little rough but he could always put one over in his opponents.
2007-10-14 02:06:52 · answer #2 · answered by skepsis 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well... sometimes I think what God said to Job when Job questioned Him was kinda humorous... God replied, "So, where were YOU when I created the foundations of the universe?"
Otherwise, maybe the article from "gotquestions.org" might help.
As for Christians being uptight and angry... that is your perception, but not the truth. I hear a LOT of laughter in my church.
Have a blessed day.
2007-10-14 02:23:09 · answer #3 · answered by wyomugs 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm a Christian and I'm neither uptight nor angry......
There are some humorous things in the bible...some of the Proverbs are pretty funny "Better to live with a leaky roof than a nagging wife."
There are many books that aren't really all that funny, but are good and have positive things...but I suspect you just wanted to take a shot at Christianity and weren't really interested in an answer.
2007-10-14 01:48:06 · answer #4 · answered by jm1970 6 · 7⤊ 3⤋
JOYFUL PEOPLE AND THE BIBLE?
Psalms 100:1 Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.
100:2 Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
100:3 Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not
we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
100:4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise:
be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
100:5 For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth
to all generations.
Col.5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery,
fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 5:20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred,
variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 5:21 Envyings,
murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you
before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things
shall not inherit the kingdom of God. 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is
love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,5:23 Meekness,
temperance: against such there is no law.
Col.3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom;
teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and
spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
2007-10-14 03:00:53 · answer #5 · answered by jeni 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What about the time that God kept calling Samuel in the voice of Heli the High Priest, and Samuel kept running in the Heli's bedroom and waking him up?
See, God has a sense of humor.
2007-10-14 01:50:31 · answer #6 · answered by Robin Runesinger 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
To the contrary, there is humor in the Bible, just very little and you have to dig deep to find it using things like Naves and Strongs, but it is there.
2007-10-14 01:47:42 · answer #7 · answered by Wire Tapped 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Then you have never read the Bible. God has a great sense of humor.
He told a man in the Bible "he was like a man that pissed against the wall."
You need to know your facts.<><
2007-10-14 01:50:39 · answer #8 · answered by funnana 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Theres no humor in the dictionary, does that mean that everyone who speaks has no sense of humor? Religion isn't a joke to people who take it seriously, thats why the bible isnt funny.
2007-10-14 01:47:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 3⤋
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. --George Bernard Shaw
The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed. --Thomas Paine
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand. --Mark Twain
If you believe that exposing your children to violence is a problem, by all means keep them away from the Bible. --Rev. Charles Henderson
The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more bloody chronicle in all the literature of the world. --Henry L. Mencken
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land. -- Desmond Tutu
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation. --Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The Bible itself is intolerant, and true followers of God's word should be as well.-- Bob Jones III, president of Bob Jones University
The Christian community continues to exist because the conclusions of the critical study of the Bible are largely withheld from them. --Hans Conzelmann
The Catholics have a Pope. Protestants laugh at them, and yet the Pope is capable of intellectual advancement. In addition to this, the Pope is mortal, and the church cannot be afflicted with the same idiot forever. The Protestants have a book for their Pope. The book cannot advance. Year after year, and century after century, the book remains as ignorant as ever. --Robert Ingersoll
The New Testament authors did not customarily refer to their written record as the Word of God. That subsequent Christian tradition tends to do this while the writers themselves hesitate to do it should tell us something. Evidently they distinguished the difference between the living, infinite Word and the written record more clearly than we do. If the written record is ever called the Word, it is the Word only in a secondary, derivative or relational sense. It is not the Word in the absolute sense. --Robert D. Brinsmead
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2007-10-14 01:46:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 5⤋
I don't know about that. I think putting a curse on a fig tree is pretty humorous.
2007-10-14 01:50:24 · answer #11 · answered by tomleah_06 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋