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hum? Maybe the Catholic Bible is different than the King James Bible, because there is nothing in the KJB that I would be embarrassed to read out loud.
Do you mean Leviticus Chapter 20 verse 13?
Is this week open season on Catholics? I mean it. I was recently banned from a so called christian dating site after they were Catholic bashing me and I kinda lost my temper. I reported the bashers but that site is ran by protestants so you know I don’t stand a chance in ____. I no sooner post this and our bible is bashed by some other jerk.
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Before everyone piles on the jokes, this could be the Next Gen version of “Erasmus and the Binding of the Will.”
I have been looking for that extremely erudite thread but seemed to have lost it. I provided a few modest posts to that thread but would love to reclaim it.
Let me stake out my territory here: I may not be a Catholic anymore but Catholicism has and should never be “cafeteria style.” If you want to broadly interpret the Bible to meet your individual circumstance — have at it. You just aren’t a Catholic: you are a Protestant.
Admit it, leave the Church and move along. Take Birth Control? You’re a Protestant. Lust in your heart? Lutheran (OK, that’s a joke).
You get the point.
I have always believed that Catholics BELIEVE in an IMMUTABLE set of standards. It doesn’t mean you are a bad person for not hewing (I left).
But if you believe that Catholicism is the Church upon which Peter founded Jesus’ church, you don’t get to pick and choose. And that includes Papal Infallibly.
The Bible will never be embarrassing — it is uplifting. The choices we make may very well decide the choices God makes when we pass on.
Salvation: I lost track of the other RCC folk but I am sure you have some great input on this important topic.
I was presenting the story of the the patriarch Joseph in a chapter by chapter Bible Study Blog. Suddenly, in the middle of the edifying Story of Joseph, there was a totally weird story about Judah and Tamar. I was embarrassed by the story and skipped over it to continue with the Joseph Story.
Later, when I hosted a series on the Book of Ruth, the story of Tamar was referenced. She is also mentioned in Matthew’s genealogy of Jesus. Ruth is also mentioned in the Matthew genealogy, and she was a descendant of Moab, who was born of a disgusting, incestuous liaison between Lot and his two daughters.
So, as embarrassing as these two stories were upon a first reading, further reflection and study indicates that these stories are essential to the history of the Amazing Redemptive Power of the Grace of God.
And it is a further Confirmation of the Divine inspiration of the Bible, as a People who were writing a history of themselves from their own perspective would not have included these incidents. (they are just TOO “Embarrassing!)
Just my humble opinion from a personal experience! Next time I do a study on Joseph, I will not leave Tamar out of the narrative.
I should not have left her out the first time! :-)
Each of us interprets the Bible based on our own knowledge and experiences. There isn't a part of the Bible that is embarrassing to me and certainly none I would be ashamed to read out loud. Perhaps your knowledge and life experiences are different than mine.
Embarassing? No. Never.
Occasionally PG-13, you might say that, particularly if you understand the meaning of what you’re reading.
It’s a part of life and is therfore dealt with, sometimes in a very matter-of-fact way, sometimes quite beautifully and poetically.
If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules. (This is a serious rule. The besieged entity’s very credibility and reputation is at stake, because if activists catch it lying or not living up to its commitments, they can continue to chip away at the damage.)
~ Saul Alinsky, "Rules for Radicals".
I have to disagree with the use of the word “embarrassing.” There is nothing embarrassing in the Bible.
Some passages are more significant than others. Some passages are more in need of interpretation. Some of the Hebrew laws, such as dietary laws, are no longer applicable to Christians (as discussed by the Apostles in the Book of Acts), but still are of interest.
But I can’t think of any embarrassing passages. Yes, passages that need to be explained and understood—but not innately embarrassing.
Were the Bible not divine, it would be about the perfection of humanity.
Hmm, if one is embarrassed by the Bible, from where is the embarrassment coming? Does the Word of God teach a set of moral principles that lead to embarrassment as a proper reaction to parts of that same Word? That’s a contradiction that cannot stand. So, from where does this embarrassment come? Or is that even the right term for it? Maybe the question is simply one of context. Maybe the whoredoms and such in Ezekiel 16, for example, aren’t quite right for the 1st grade Sunday School class, but are perfectly appropriate and necessary for adults to study. Not everything is “for the children”.
The only thing embarrassing about reading the Bible is when it convicts us of the sin in our lives.
The Bible is the Word. The Word is God. We are actually carrying on a conversation with Jesus as we read the Bible.
Numbers 31 ?
Nothing in my Bible that I’m am embarrassed about or would not read out loud.
There is nothing in the word of God that I would be embarrassed to read aloud or to talk about. That statement does not at all reflect my feelings.
I like best the curious part where the entire army of Judah, even with the power and will of God on their side, were unable to defeat a force of Caananite rednecks driving iron chariots.
Yee haw, Duke boys.
Typical.
However, the author makes a very good point. How many of us would shy away from Malachi:
Mal 2:15 Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth.
Mal 2:16 "For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the LORD, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the LORD of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless."