There was someone here quoting from a part in the Old Testament where it said it was okay to sell your daughter into slavery.
Hello?
That was a different time. When Jesus came, He changed everything.
Yes, it USED to be okay to do that, but God had different rules because you cannot compare this day to the past. Homosexuals also had to be killed according to God's law, but this was done in unpainful way. Gays would be given alcohol (ONLY gays who were Jewish AND were caught in the act) and once they were numb, they would be pushed off a cliff. This hardly ever happened and the law was clear about the consequences, so there was no excuse.
When Jesus came, he changed the laws of the Old Testament, so the death penalty for gays and working on the sabbath, etc. were no longer necessary.
God could not change the laws BEFORE that period because Jesus hadn't come yet.
2007-12-10 09:13:28 · 38 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Do you agree?
2007-12-10 09:14:18 · update #1
So you are totally for homosexual marriage and equal rights then? If not, then why not?
2007-12-10 09:16:40 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 11⤊ 3⤋
Where did you get your information that gays were given alcohol and pushed off a cliff?
That's not true.
And Jesus himself said that the old laws were still in effect, and that he had not come to change them.
Even if it was true that it USED to be OK with God to sell your daughter into slavery, but not after Jesus came, you think that makes your God a good God?
2007-12-10 09:19:38 · answer #2 · answered by Jess H 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
So wait, because of Jesus, nothing in the Old Testament stands? So there goes the Christian argument against homosexuality.
2007-12-10 09:19:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
What I don't get is how a Christian will spout verse and chapter out of the Bible to answer a question or argue a point. However, as soon as a part of the Bible is quoted to them to show a discontinuity or a negating statement for their argument it suddenly becomes a point of allegory. If you are going to use a book to hold up your flimsy faith you can't pick what is metaphor and what is factual just to fit your argument.
2007-12-10 09:20:02 · answer #4 · answered by Marvin -Retired- 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, I do not agree.
I notice that it's ok to trot out the line about the "fool hath said in his heart, 'there is no God'" when you want to insult atheists.
And it's ok to quote Leviticus when you're calling homosexuality an "abomination".
And the Ten Commandments, of course...those get a lot of play, some folks want those all over the place, right?
In fact, I see a whole lot of scripture quotation going on, but only when said quotation supports the Christian point of view. When it's a particularly embarrassing bit of scripture, however, that becomes a different story, no longer relevant, it was written too long ago. I believe that's called "cherry-picking".
2007-12-10 09:17:50 · answer #5 · answered by Godless AM™ VT 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Christian: The Bible is the inerrant word of God.
Atheist: What about the Old Testament?
Christian: That doesn't count anymore. It was another time.
Atheist: So that part of the Bible is NOT the inerrant word of God? The entire Bible is ALWAYS meant to be the inerrant word of God. For that to change it is not the inerrant word of God. The Bible is imperfect, thus God is imperfect. God can't be imperfect so God is imaginary.
Christian: Um... uh... *stutters* Uh....
2007-12-10 09:21:22 · answer #6 · answered by Beletje_vos AM + VT 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Paul condones slavery in the New Testament.
If the Old Testament laws don't apply, why the obsession with the Ten Commandments?
2007-12-10 09:18:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
"God could not change the laws before Jesus"??? Huh?
I thought y'all believed he made the universe and everything in it.....and he couldn't make laws? He had no trouble with your commandments or ordering people to kill their own children or stone adulterers...
Hog swallow.....all of it.
And, Atheists don't argue. We know it's all a bunch of Hooey....nothing to argue about. Y'all are the argumentative bunch with your bible-babble and self-righteousness.
2007-12-10 09:22:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are not atheists simply because the Bible contains many logical fallacies, immoralities and contradictions. If it was just about the Bible, there are hundreds of other religions we could accept. It is rather about all religions. There is no proof to any other of them, no evidence at all for any god. And finally, any belief in anything supernatural just strikes us as odd and silly.
2007-12-10 09:19:18 · answer #9 · answered by Dendronbat Crocoduck 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Disagree. Atheists arguments make sense to me, and I'm not even atheist. I remember the question about the daughter selling. Whoever asked that question did not mean it seriously. They meant it as a joke.
2007-12-10 10:28:44 · answer #10 · answered by Bookworm 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"God could not change the laws BEFORE that period because Jesus hadn't come yet."
And you complain that things other people say make no sense? Atheist arguments make at least as much sense as this, generally a lot more, in fact.
2007-12-10 09:18:01 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋