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Cafeteria Christianity: Why Do You Cherrypick The Bible? by Zikdik(m): 12:26pm On Nov 21, 2014 |
Seems to me that Christians conveniently ignore that parts of the Bible they don't like. They say things like "oh, that's not to be taken literally" or "what that REALLY means is". They always water-down or ignore or interpret away the parts of the Bible they wish didn't exist. Every Christian reading this, imagine you are living in pre-Jesus times. That means all the laws in Leviticus are in full effect and no one has died for your sins yet. You must, according to the Old Testament: -stone a woman to death for having premarital sex (Leviticus 20:9) -stone a man to death for having gay sex (Leviticus 20:13) Translation: "You had sex in a manner that I don't approve of. Therefore you must die. And by the way, you will be killed in a painful, brutal, sadistic manner. You will suffer greatly for the crime of giving yourself and someone else pleasure." Really? Is that absolutely necessary? Most modern translations of the Bible replace "stoned to death" with "put to death" but the original text says "stoned to death". Have any of you seen a person get killed that way? It's absolutely horrible. If the person is lucky, they'll catch a large stone to the head shortly after the stoning begins and they'll be knocked out. Sadly, this doesn't happen most of the time and death is slow and brutal. They cover the woman in a white sheet and bury her up to her waist. As the stoning progresses, large red spots begin to appear all over the white sheet where the impacts from the stones have made cuts or wounds, until eventually the person collapses due to shock or blood loss. How insane and cruel is that? And why would God, who supposedly loves us, do something so sadistic and barbaric and cruel to us merely for giving each other pleasure? Seriously, what is the big deal? Why is premarital sexual pleasure SO WRONG and SO EVIL and SO IMMORAL that it warrants a horribly painful death sentence? Don't you think that's a bit extreme and over-the-top? We usually associate that type of punishment with radical, militant, crazy religious nut-cases like the suicide bombers. Is it because of STDs? Or pregnancy? If so, why did God create viruses and STD bacteria in the first place? What good are they? And as for pregnancy, why didn't God just design the human female in such a way that she would get pregnant only if she has sex and also *wants* to get pregnant. God could have made women capable of opening or closing their fallopian tubes at will. No unintended pregnancies...ever! And it would really cut down on over-population and mass starvation. But no... God gives both genders a healthy sex drive and then tells us we're gonna get butchered if we act on it. That's like dangling a glass of lemonade in front of a very thirsty person and saying "Here.. take it and look at it. But if you drink it, I'll stab you to death." I mean... what's the point of doing that? It's insane and just down-right sadistic. So to the Christians in the audience... would you really stone these "sinful" people to death? Hey, God ordered it! You better obey... right? And Jesus hasn't shown up yet to wash away our sins. In pre-Jesus times, the Old Testament was God's law and you had better obey it. So would you really kill two consenting adults for the "crime" of having unapproved sex? |
Re: Cafeteria Christianity: Why Do You Cherrypick The Bible? by thorpido(m): 1:11pm On Nov 21, 2014 |
The bible says,'.... in all thy getting get UNDERSTANDING(Prov.4) If you don't have THE understanding in the first place,the scriptures will confuse you. |
Re: Cafeteria Christianity: Why Do You Cherrypick The Bible? by Nobody: 11:37am On Dec 23, 2014 |
thorpido: Did this dude read the entire post before commenting Jeez! I hate silly posts, seriously! |
Re: Cafeteria Christianity: Why Do You Cherrypick The Bible? by thorpido(m): 11:57am On Dec 23, 2014 |
Reiyvinn:Again I say,THE UNDERSTANDING.If you don't have it,everything looks silly. |
Re: Cafeteria Christianity: Why Do You Cherrypick The Bible? by Nobody: 12:01pm On Dec 23, 2014 |
thorpido ....mtchew! instead of you to take your time to read through the entire post to see how off-the-mark you are, you're here re-advertising your sheer idiocy. Anyway, I mean no offense O 'Christ-like' One. Enjoy yourself |
Re: Cafeteria Christianity: Why Do You Cherrypick The Bible? by thorpido(m): 12:06pm On Dec 23, 2014 |
Reiyvinn:I understand there are many like you on this forum,so I won't take offence. The thread is easy enough to understand.It speaks about cherry-picking scriptures.I quoted a scripture saying there is an understanding that comes with scriptures.You come here saying stuff showing you obviously didn't understand that scripture. I take no offence.I understand. *modified Reiyvinn,I just checked your profile and I see you have a thread condemning people's insulting habits. Yet your comments here are full of it.Hypocritical much! No wonder. |
Re: Cafeteria Christianity: Why Do You Cherrypick The Bible? by asalimpo(m): 12:10pm On Dec 23, 2014 |
Non-Christians trying to discredit the bible. Op, if you saw sin the way God sees it you'll mete out laws as harsh as He did before the era of grace besides the bible says those seemngly harsh commands were given because of the hardness of men's hearts. E.g God doesnt want divorce, but permissively grants it if there legitimate grounds for it, such as confirmed adultery. God didnt want the woman caught in adultery to b stoned , a higher way was for her to b forgiven,but the jews then,much like the muslims of today, wanted somethng harder less merciful more pitiless and they gat it. Much like the islamists of today, feel righteous for amputating a man's hand for stealing. Tell them about mercy and theyll stone u to death. |
Re: Cafeteria Christianity: Why Do You Cherrypick The Bible? by Zikdik(m): 12:44pm On Dec 23, 2014 |
asalimpo:So, god created hard hearted Jews and gives cruel laws to suit their emotional standards? Wow! |
Re: Cafeteria Christianity: Why Do You Cherrypick The Bible? by Nobody: 1:56pm On Dec 23, 2014 |
thorpido: LOL and that's EXACTLY the point I was making. I really don't know why Christians do that nonsense. You read 2 - 3 lines out of a lengthy post and assume you've gotten all the point(s) the OP has to offer and when you come up with a response, it's so repulsive as filth. What happened to where Zikdik ASKED the audience what they'd do if they lived during the Pre-Jesuit era where the Jewish Law was still very much binding on worshipers of Yahweh and what they'd do if they caught two Homos or Adulterers in the act? Or the part he described the gruesome practice of the 'stone to death' judicial act? Of course, you didn't read to that part. You were obviously stuck with those 2 - 3 liner assimilation to get there and thus your response was obviously oblivious to that. Now that's very silly. *modified *Laughs in Chinese* Go and re-read my response to your comment and when you're done, come back and tell me if I insult your person or addressed the nature of the comment which is exactly what I said it is: silly. |
Re: Cafeteria Christianity: Why Do You Cherrypick The Bible? by thorpido(m): 4:50pm On Dec 23, 2014 |
Reiyvinn:No point having a lengthy conversation with you.Anyone who is wise and of understanding can decipher. Reiyvinn: Reiyvinn:You're obviously not a wise person and of short-term memory. |
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