Bible Question:
To all of you on this forum, My boyfriend and I have been trying to spread the good news of salvation, but we keep getting questions we can't answer. One very close friend whom we love very much just gave us this excerpt from our local newspaper. Can anyone help us provide some convincing answers? Dear Editor, Can Christians be any more clueless about the what the bible says? Sadly shallow are those who profess to believe the bible but have no idea of its many difficulties. For example, while it says that homosexuality is an abomination, it also says the penalty is death for anyone caught practicing homosexuality; (Lev 20:13). Although we witness many so-called Christians opposing homosexuality, we don't see any of them pushing its penalty of death, do we? Eating of pork and shell fish are also abominations; (Deut 14:3-10). How about the evil of rape? God says that a virgin who is raped must marry her rapist; (Deut 22:28-29). What about the holy day? The sabbath day is a memorial of creation, sanctified and hallowed by God. The bible calls for death to anyone failing to observe the sabbath commandment, (Ex 31:15) do not engage in work or personal pleasure. Why aren't bible believers following the rape rules, boycotting Bubba Gumps and Red Lobster or correctly keeping the sabbath day? From this same set of Mosaic Laws which the Ten Commandments are a part, killing is not allowed; (Deut 5:17). Bible believers say this is a moral law applicable to all of humanity, however they disagree with God when He commands the killing of a family member who tries to entice his family away from the Lord; (Deut 13:9). How about children born to unwed mothers? Do Christians realize not only are "bastards" barred from the assembly of the Lord because of their illegitimacy, their descendants as well unto ten generations are also barred; (Deut 23:2)? Do we see any rational thinking anti-homosexual Christians applying their discrimination and hatred to bastards? Do we see any ordinary Christian promoting a holy war against a dissenting family member? Do we see any level headed Christians believing everything that God has commanded? I ask bible believers, how do you justify your cherry picking practices? If you say it is God's word and believe one part, why won't you believe all of it? How can you trust any of it when you can't trust it all? The truth is human decency and compassion are what guide us in following the universal law of love. It comes from the heart, love for all and judge not anyone. Submitted for the prevention of intellectual rape, Solomon Smith. Help help, these are some important questions that we would like some help in answering our very close friend. Thank you, kamschoolgrad |
Bible Answer: If anyone lack wisdom let him ask of god. OF is the key word in this scripture. Then John writes God is love. In Genesis it reads then god blew something of himself into man. So god is love and he is in us. So yes your heart if anew and not hardened can be your sounding board for all wisdom. Some answers are hard and our hearts would refuse it. Jesus said when speaking to the apostles "I would tell you more but you would refuse it". The eating of shell fish: Jesus shortly after the cross visited Peter in a dream and said he could eat what Jesus cleaned. This seamed to be the end of the Clean and unclean foods ordinances. The rape thing: Their is a season for all things. As our hearts are all afraid of correction and punishment so has our laws been formed to fit our hope of leaniency. We all lack discipline and we don't want it to change. In duet the people had been redeamed from captivity by the great hand of the lord and they all witnessed the miracles. They were in the season of cleaning the evil out of them and it was 3 strikes your out time. (so to speak) This was neccessary to purify the remenent for the new beginning of the lords people. We also throughout the history of christians have gone through this cleaning prosses where we were not so cherry picking of the commandments. we also have gone through the cleaning process of god in it's season. Then sin multipleis it'self through 4 to 5 generations down then god cleans again. Love and blessings akh., Ps Who would be able to stand in the position to enforce these rules when we are all knee deep in the sins of this time. None are clean and the Lord will send us a judge and a prophet to run the cleaning. This is also stated in duet. When we fall away from the ststutes of the lord he WILL raise up a prophet like moses to lead us out of sin. |