As we celebrate international bible day lets take a look at some controverasial passage from the bible
This is the top 10 list in full:

No. 1: St Paul’s advice about whether women are allowed to teach men in church:
“I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent.” (1 Timothy 2:12)

No. 2: In this verse, Samuel, one of the early leaders of Israel, orders genocide against a neighbouring people:
“This is what the Lord Almighty says... ‘Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’” (1 Samuel 15:3)

No. 3: A command of Moses:
“Do not allow a sorceress to live.” (Exodus 22:18)

No. 4: The ending of Psalm 137, a psalm which was made into a disco calypso hit by Boney M, is often omitted from readings in
church: “Happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us – he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.” (Psalm 137:9)

No. 5: Another blood-curdling tale from the Book of Judges, where an Israelite man is trapped in a house by a hostile crowd, and
sends out his concubine to placate them: “So the man took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her and
abused her throughout the night, and at dawn they let her go. At daybreak the woman went back to the house where her master was staying, fell down at the door
and lay there until daylight. When her master got up in the morning and opened the door of the house and stepped out to continue
on his way, there lay his concubine, fallen in the doorway of the house, with her hands
on the threshold. He said to her, ‘Get up; let’s go.’ But there was no answer. Then the man put her on his donkey and set out for home.” (Judges 19:25-28)

No. 6: St Paul condemns homosexuality in the opening chapter of the Book of Romans:
“In the same way also the men, giving up natural intercourse with women, were consumed with passion for one another.
Men committed shameless acts with men and received in their own persons the due penalty for their error.” (Romans 1:27)

No. 7: In this story from the Book of Judges, an Israelite leader, Jephthah, makes a rash vow to God, which has to be carried out:
“And Jephthah made a vow to the Lord, and said, ‘If you will give the Ammonites into my hand, then whoever comes out of the doors
of my house to meet me, when I return victorious from the Ammonites, shall be the Lord’s, to be offered up by me as a burnt-
offering.’ Then Jephthah came to his home at Mizpah; and there was his daughter coming out to meet him with timbrels and
with dancing. She was his only child; he had no son or daughter except her. When he saw her, he tore his clothes, and said, ‘Alas,
my daughter! You have brought me very low; you have become the cause of great trouble to me. For I have opened my mouth
to the Lord, and I cannot take back my vow.’” (Judges 11:30-1, 34-5)

No. 8: The Lord is speaking to Abraham in this story where God commands him to sacrifice his son:
‘Take your son, your only son Isaac, whomyou love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt-offering on one
of the mountains that I shall show
you.’ (Genesis 22:2)

No. 9: “Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.” (Ephesians 5:22)

No. 10: “Slaves, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the cruel.” (1Peter 2:18)

SOURCE> www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/6120373/Top-10-worst-Bible-passages.html

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Only a FOOL and witless fautfinder (1 Corinthians 1:18-21) will term those verses CONTROVERSIAL.

Every single bit of information passed in those passages are 'Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin'.

KardinalZik:
Only a FOOL and witless fautfinder (1 Corinthians 1:18-21) will term those verses CONTROVERSIAL.

Every single bit of information passed in those passages are 'Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin'.

uuhh hope all is well

GOD REMAINS GOD IRRESPECTIVE OF WHAT U THINK OR SAY.....
HIS WAYS ARE NOT MAN'S WAYS...

WHATEVER YOU DONT UNDERSTAND, YOU HV A MOUTH, SIMPLY GO IN PRAYERS AND ASKS YOUR CREATOR TO GIVE YOU UNDERSTANDING.....

ITS ONLY WAT HE ALLOWS YOU TO UNDERSTAND THAT YOU WILL UNDERSTAND...

HIS WAYS ARE PAST FINDING OUT....

Samsimple:
No. 10: “Slaves, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the cruel.” (1Peter 2:18)

cc. lalasticlala mynd44 fleewpeed

hmm the spirit of the lord is indeed powerful

Fleewpeed:
hmm the spirit of the lord is indeed powerful

what do u mean

Samsimple:
what do u mean

he is almighty