The Bible writes off the monthly menstrual cycle of a female as something evil and sinful. In this day and age, we know that it is necessary part of female health and there is nothing evil or sinful about it. One would think that God would have also known about this. To me, this suggests that the bible was written by men with no understanding of human health and couldn't be the written word of God. What do you think?
2007-12-31 06:22:17 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Suggest...?
It's more like ..I KNOW.. !!
The people who wrote all the C R A P of the Bible were just out of touch with reality -- they were bigoted and power hungry and selfish.
2007-12-31 09:27:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
We must not be reading from the same book. The Bible I read doesn't condemn women for having a natural menstrual cycles anymore than it does a man for standing while urinating. Have you so quickly forgotten that God created humans and their bodily functions? But, you could make ANY assumption if a passage is taken grotesquely out of context and imaginations are allowed to run wild. The Bible says simply that it is unclean, not sinful or shameful. This is about simple hygiene.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=3&chapter=15&version=31
2007-12-31 07:20:39 · answer #2 · answered by F'sho 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The laws regarding the female menstrual cycle can be found in the Old Testament Book of Leviticus which laid down for the ancient Israelite community God's laws for their everyday life.
The prevalent cultural belief at that time (and remember, God is realistic in what He has to work with!) believed that a person's life-force was in the blood. Therefore, if a woman is bleeding, she is pouring out, wasting, life-force. The laws did not say that the cycle is evil and sinful, but unclean. Now, remember also, this was an ancient people without indoor plumbing. If you read other parts of Leviticus, God also gives the instruction to wash hands before eating. So when the laws in Leviticus say a woman is unclean during her cycle, and anything she sits on is unclean, God was trying to keep His chosen people alive through proper hygiene. (Remember, also, there was no Kotex or tampons back then!)
God knew infinitely more than what can be found in Leviticus but He knew that if He went into the details which we can understand today, the people then would not be able to understand. So God spoke to them in a way they could understand.
2007-12-31 06:37:25 · answer #3 · answered by GemmaRose 2 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Your understanding of this is a common misperception about what it says, according to my Jewish friends. Women were not evil during this time, the blood was supposed to be kept away from clothes, other people, etc. (Remember they didn't have all the wonderful sanitizing and feminine hygiene products we do today.) Also, a man was not supposed to ask his wife for intercourse during this time, so she didn't have to satisfy sexual demands at a time when she might not have felt like it. It gave her the ability to say "no" to her husband. And she was supposed to cleanse herself after her period, but ritual cleansing was a part of everything in Judaism.
2007-12-31 06:35:47 · answer #4 · answered by ? 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
you wrote:
"the bible was written by men with no understanding of human health and couldn't be the written word of God"
i think:
your correct
2007-12-31 06:29:56 · answer #5 · answered by Sharon P 2 · 4⤊ 5⤋
Yes, it is one of the many things that doesn't make sense in the bible.
2007-12-31 06:27:41 · answer #6 · answered by Karen G 3 · 6⤊ 3⤋
The Bible never says its sinful. It does call it unclean.
It has been proven that if a woman follows the Old Testament custom of avoiding intercourse during specified times of the month, she is much less likely to get yeast infections and other irritating things like that.
So maybe God has more knowledge of human health than you do.
2007-12-31 06:27:35 · answer #7 · answered by Thrice Blessed 6 · 6⤊ 8⤋
Sexist men at that.
2007-12-31 06:27:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
Maybe the blood is associated with the devil women do get pretty mean, and "devilish" on the period...it's pretty painful at times.
2007-12-31 06:26:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 6⤋
We all know that the Bible was written by human men. Even if some of us can't accept that fact.
2007-12-31 06:26:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 0⤋