Murder, incest and rape.
2007-10-30 16:08:30 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You forgot SHlT.
2007-10-30 16:14:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
Some of you people really know how to twist things and make it all sound so believable..... to some..... The Bible does NOT condon rape, slavery, murder, or the way we understand incest today....... If you people would only study and ask questions about the Bible you might just learn a thing or two...... The Bible is full of stories about the things you list above , because that is what the PEOPLE were doing when they were NOT and I repeat NOT close to God and paying little if any attention to Him..... The Bible is telling the world what was going ON in the lives of the people when they TURNED FROM God..... IF you knew your Bible you would realize that there was NO written law for man to go by, that came into being AFTER the flood..... hence the flood, the reason for it !!!! There were NO kings or rulers...... there was ONLY man doing their own thing and leaving God out..... The Bible , Old Testement gives man the guidience to at least have SOME symbelence of humanism and decency... God allowed man to make their own choices, and has you can read, most made the wrong ones...... That is what those scriptures are telling you, NOT that God approved or condons the actions......... At least have the wisdom to tell the differences BEFORE making these foolish acusations and statements......... READ and STUDY and get to know what the Bible is REALLY saying....... go in peace.... God bless
2007-10-30 16:31:12 · answer #2 · answered by Annie 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Joshua, with God's approval, kills the Amalekites "with the edge of the sword." Ex: 17:13
Saul killed everyone but Agag (the king) and the best of the animals. But still God was furious with Saul for not killing everything as he had been told to do. He said, "it repenteth me that I have se Saul up to be king." Ex:15:7-26
To please God, Samuel hacks Agag in pieces "before the Lord" [I bet God enjoyed that!] – after Agag pleads with him saying, "surely the bitterness of death has past." Ex:15:32-34
God killed Er for being "evil in the sight of the Lord." Ch1: 2:3
God is angry. He decides to destroy all humans, beasts, creeping things, fowls, and "all flesh wherein there is breath of life." He plans to drown them all. Gen: 6:7, 17
God kills the king of Israel and helps Abijah kill 500,000 Israelites. 2 Chr.13:15-20
In the largest single God-assisted massacre in the bible, Asa kills one million Ethiopians. 2 Chr.14:8-13 {I don't think Hitler killed that many]
God killed the women and children of Judah and smote the men with an incurable disease of the bowels until their "bowels fell out." 2 Chr.21:14-19
Bible Medicine:
God's treatment for leprosy: Get two birds. Kill one. Dip the live bird in the blood of the dead one. Sprinkle the blood on the leper seven times, and then let the blood-soaked bird fly off. Next find a lamb and kill it. Wipe some of its blood on the patient's right ear, thumb, and big toe. Sprinkle seven times with oil and wipe some of the oil on his right ear, thumb and big toe. Repeat. Finally kill a couple doves and offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. Lev: 14:2-32
God explains the use of scapegoats. It goes like this: Get two goats. Kill one. Wipe, smear, and sprinkle the blood around seven times. Then take the other goat, give it the sins of all the people, and send it off into the wilderness. Lev: 16:6-28
God is Love
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; What is he jealous of/who? Ex: 20:5
"And when the people complained, it displeased the Lord: and the Lord heard it." He then burns the complainers alive. Num:11:1
I wanted to skip around a little. I only picked up a couple of passages. But as one has already proclaimed, I must be misreading the passages. I need to study them. And have some uneducated person tell me exactly what they mean.
2007-10-30 17:16:15 · answer #3 · answered by Tricia R 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Bible, as with all other historical books, IS filled with stories of murder, incest, etc. Because it is talking about a world full of imperfect people who sin.
But it is not endorsing or glorifying those things, it tells those stories as a lesson. As opposed to modern media and movies who tell those stories to make money.
2007-10-30 16:23:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
eve came from adam, and those two made everyone else.
if she came from his exact same genetic material. thats actually worse than incest, incest usually meaning the union of 2 members with similar genetic material.
there is a passage:
if you beat your slave and he or she dies, you shall be punished, however if after a day or two (s)he is able to get up, you are not to be punished as that human being is your money.
2007-10-30 16:13:34 · answer #5 · answered by AlCapone 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
The purpose of the Bible is to point out sin and its remedy.
What you have picked out are the results of sin. In that Bible has successfully conveyed its message.
Now you need to move on to the remedy for sin.
2007-10-30 16:19:27 · answer #6 · answered by Andy Roberts 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It's chalked full of it. So what's your point? It's the same now as it was back then. That's the history of human civilization with total disregard for the word of the Lord and is pointed out numerous times.
2007-10-30 16:13:27 · answer #7 · answered by modrealist 2 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Lot refuses to give up his angels to the perverted mob, offering his two "virgin daughters" instead. He tells the bunch of angel rapers to "do unto them [his daughters] as is good in your eyes." This is the same man that is called "just" and "righteous" in 2 Peter 2:7-8. 19:8
This is just ONE of many.
2007-10-30 16:16:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Same answer as before:
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/cruelty/long.html
2007-10-30 16:20:59 · answer #9 · answered by Simon T 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's sort of... the entire Old Testament?
2007-10-30 16:13:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋