Why Christians ignore a sansational scandal in the Bible?

Question

Last night I posted a controversial question based on a scandal of humongous proportions in the Bible, but hardly anybody bothered to answer... Are Christians admitting that at one time God was pleased with sexual sacrifices like the rest of the Heathen? I really covet your answers!

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AlYYcGqg_Fp7OSPa28WPajDd7BR.;_ylv=3?qid=20071201172459AAoFFWW

Check your Bible or a Bible Almanac...
The Solomon Temple was built ca. 960 BCE Josiah ruled about 600 BCE. (=over 300 years)
The tables with the 10 commandments were delivered and were hidden in the Ark of the Covenant since ca. 1450 until King Josiah "discovered" the "Book of the Law" ca. 600 BCE (=850 years.
For 850 years nobody read the Law of God! King David only dreamed about the Law of God! He never quotes any article in the Law of God! The sacrifices were no big deal... Everybody in that region would sacrifice anything to so many Gods!

I will probably repost this Q with more details... God went thru so much trouble giving out the Law and Moses hides it in the Ark of the Covenant "as a witness against Israel" It was hidden for about 900 years until King Josiah CONVENIENTLY found it! They read the Law of God publicly for the first time then! Nobody knew what the scrolls were all about! I suspect that some Jews wrote the bulk of the Old Testament in Babylon long after King Josiah died... maybe he never existed, or if he did he was made into a hero... In those days history was writen by the owner of the pen!

Moses was speaking for God
Num 31:14-18 Moses was angry with the officers of the army—the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds—who returned from the battle.
“Have you allowed all the women to live?” he asked them.
“They were the ones who followed Balaam's advice and were the means of turning the Israelites away from the Lord in what happened at Peor, so that a plague struck the Lord's people.
Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man,
but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.

God never disapproved this kind of morality at leastin this case, furthermore nothing ever takes place without the Bible God's direction!

Lam 3:37-38 (NIV) Who can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it? Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good things come?

Answer 1

I am curious as to your sources on these statements (meaning, how do you know this went on for three hundred years).... can you provide the source material for your assertions?

Thanks

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thanks for the info - as a historian, your calculation is weak, but the point really is not lost because of a question of time.

It is clear in other places that the temple was violated in other ways, including human sacrifice during the reign of Manasseh.

However, to assert God was pleased is not logically supported. Where did He say "That's a good thing"?

Answer 2

Homosexuality is a sin similar to fornication, adultery, killing or any sin that's towards God. What's there to not realise folks? Stop with all this nonsense!! "the bible stated this and that." The bible is a advisor for human existence and the religious. One factor that folks don’t say so much is what occurs to you when you die. This is a major limitation!! as a follower of God this international isn't your last vacation spot. Sin will on no account don't have any location in God’s offers. Yes nobody will have to be judging or condemning that is God's name. But as fans of Jesus we do have the accountability to rise up for the reality. Sin is soiled and lethal and there are penalties for that.

Answer 3

From a time even before these things God had promised the children of Israel that He would offend them. That is found here:

Deuteronomy 32:21
They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

That didn't happen until Jesus came and began to provide salvation even to the Gentiles. So the time span exceeded 300 years by far from the time of the promise, to the time of the fulfiment.

Today the Jews as a nation are still living in the curse pronounced by God way back in the time of Moses.

You see, God was looking at His watch, He wasn't looking at your watch. God wasn't in a hurry to fulfill His word. He had plenty of time.

So the 'scandal' you are referring to shows that you don't realize the God is the God of 'Set Times', translated as 'Feasts' in many translations. In the case that you brought up, God is patient, but when it comes time for the prophecy to be fulfilled, you might want to make sure that you are not on the wrong side of God, otherwise you will be dealt with suddenly like an oncoming flood.

Answer 4

God rose up nations of evil to take down the Israelites that brought such perversion into God's temple of worship. God wiped out the vile from among His people. These wars that happened after the reign of King David and Solomon scattered the Unity that King David had obtained. They scattered into the 12 tribes of Judaism that is mentioned in Revelation. Mockers of God also use these wars to make God out to be a bad guy for correcting and bringing punishment to His People especially after God delivered them from slavery form Egypt. In the manner that God delivered them with all the provisions God gave , gives His people no excuse for their perversion. God created and has the authority to destroy that which is wicked. I am glad my Lord will clean His own house even though It leave Him open to mocking and ridicule from unbelievers.

Answer 5

all religions have their faults.n nothings perfect. im a muslim, by the way, and i hope that this will stop christians screaming that muslims r all evil, molesters, terrorists, and so on, and that they're right about the whole world. of course, most likely they'll refuse 2 accept it.

Answer 6

I never heard it about it, but honestly I don't read the bible like I should, lol.

Answer 7

you are not allowed to covet anything!!!!!!!