The bible has been the #1 book of topic
with all kinds of controversy. It is a holy book and has several versions and a
lot of verses that have become outdated over time. In my own personal opinion
this book is nothing holy or pure. I like to suggest that some crazed man who
could hear voices in his head wrote a book and called it the voice of a higher
power. We still have people like this now, they claim they can hear the voice
of God telling them to do things, well how do we know that the man who wrote
the bible didn’t have the same thing happening to him? The bible says a lot of
things that don’t make sense and are a bit crazy if you truly think about it.
People only believed in this book and supported God because they needed
something to believe in and hold onto. In this Blog linked here: http://ezinearticles.com/?Discover-How-to-Prove-the-Bible-False&id=1598924
the author makes some good points to prove the bible false and unreliable.
These are some quotes:
“I would point to the certain wordings that would imply that Mary the mother of Jesus was unfaithful to Joseph to whom she was betrothed,…” “the author of Matthew, saying that the Holy Ghost impregnated her, and the writer of the book of Luke thought a ghost was too unbelievable, so he said that "an angel came in unto her" by the name of Gabriel (who was really some man staying overnight).”“If I wanted to demonstrate to you that the Bible cannot be a reliable book because it is full of immorality, all I would have to do is quote the many socially degrading stories of injustice, genocide, war crimes, assassination, murder, hatred, deceit, lust, incest, drunkenness, and a host of other crimes that would be unacceptable to society today, and point to how those who committed such things were accepted by God and found favor in his eyes.”
On the other hand, you could argue that
back then those views in the bible where relevant and made sense. That the man
who wrote the bible couldn’t possibly have just made it up all on his own. They
say that the holy book is just and righteous, and that it could only have been
the word of God speaking to a prophet. They would claim too many coincidences
have happened from the book and reality. The link here has a lot of reasons why
so many people believe in the bible and that it’s the Word of God. http://www.allabouttruth.org/who-wrote-the-bible.htm
Some of the quotes are:
“The Bible is God’s letter to humanity collected into 66 books written by 40 divinely inspired writers. These writers come from all walks of life and spans over a period of 1,500 years or more.”“Written over more than 1,500 years by vastly different writers, yet every book in the Bible is consistent in its message. These 66 books talk about history, prophecy, poetry, and theology.”“The Bible also validates its divine authorship through fulfilled prophecies. An astonishing 668 prophecies have been fulfilled and none have ever been proven false (three are unconfirmed).”
Both sides have good points and a strong
passion for why they believe what they do. Now if this truly is the word of
God, then according to the bible, women would be nothing but slaves to their
husbands, and if we had sex with anyone before marriage or other then our
CHOSEN husband we would be considered whores. Here are some verses from the
bible itself that today’s society would find horribly wrong.
“1 Timothy 2:12, "I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, she must be silent."”
“1 Samuel 15:3: "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.'
Promoting Genocide in the bible for those who oppose your views. …
maybe Hitler was just doing as God told him to?
“Exodus 22:18: "Do not allow a sorceress to live."
Sorry,
according to the bible, anyone who practices Witchcraft must die.
“Romans 1:27 "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."
Here is the infamous verse that condemns gays.
“Ephesians 5:22, "Wives, submit to you husbands as to the Lord"; and similar advice for slaves in 1 Peter 2:18: "Slaves, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the cruel."
And here is the bible saying Women should be
slaves to their husbands, and that slavery is a normal thing and that the
slaves should respect the ones who beat them.
So these are from the Holy book that speaks Gods word? This is the
almighty, forgiving and loving God that Religions speak of? He says to murder
anyone who opposes him, that wives must be slaves to their husbands, Witches
are evil and must die, a man cannot love another man, and that slavery is ok.
Yeah, that’s the kind of God I want to love and obey….. yeah no. In today’s society most of these and many
other verses in the Bible have been seen as awful and not just. However, there
are a few verses that seem to have stuck with us over the years. These verses
are the ones that claim a man cannot lay with another man and that getting
tattoos is a sin, also that a woman who has sex before marriage is a whore? The
last one isn’t as enforced as the other two, but why is it that the Church
seems to think its ok to pick and choose what verses stay and what don’t? Why
is it that it’s not ok to be gay but it’s now ok to masturbate? Why is it now
ok for women to be in the workplace and to not be a house slave to their
husbands? Why is slavery looked down upon now when the bible says it’s fine to
have slaves? Who gave us the right to pick and choose what verses of Gods
teaching where relevant? This is what makes me question these religions. I don’t
think they truly believe in the entire bible, I think they just use it as a
weapon for their own fears, to be able to say “Look! It says it’s against Gods laws!” Even though they themselves
could and probably are breaking other laws of God. Priestesses are not supposed to be allowed in
churches, and how about the whole killing anyone who opposes God or killing for
vengeance?
I will admit some of the good verses of the bible are more common sense
than anything but these ones are not fully enforced by the church either. Have
you noticed that the only verses they share or try to make known are the bad
ones? The bible is full of lust, drinking, killing (murder) revenge, slavery and ignorance. The people who have figured this out are now
known as Realists or Atheists and are shunned by the church and are supposedly
going to Hell. I don’t believe there is a true one and only GOD but I do think there is a higher
power at work. I don’t believe this higher power would want us to kill in its
name or be unhappy with our lives just to go to a magical place called Heaven.
I’m going to end this blog with that, and post some links to sources I
used below. Please comment and tell me your thoughts on the Bible and Gods
Word. Do you think its ok for us to pick and choose what verses we listen to
and what we don’t? Do you think the bible is just a sham or a holy book?
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