Posted on 02/10/2016 11:13:33 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski
I completely disagree. God is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. You must not have read the Bible. Virtually every book is filled with calls of forgiveness, mercy, and grace to those who turn from sin. However, there is a penalty for sin...
The “analysis” ignores the very meaningful difference between advocating violence and reporting violence, and calls both “violence”.
Cain murdering Abel, “violence”. Joseph’s bothers throwing him in a pit, “violence”. Moses killing the Egyptian overseer, “violence”. The host of Pharaoh drowning in the Red Sea, “violence”. The seige of Jericho, “violence”. . . . Elijah slaughtering the priests of Ba’al, “violence”. The Three Holy Youths being cast into the furnace, “violence”. . . . Pilate flogging Our Lord, “violence”. Roman soldiers driving nails into Jesus’s hands and feet, “violence”. The stoning of Stephen, “violence”. . . .
See how much more “violence” there is in Christian Scripture than in the Qu’ran!!!
And yes, that is actually how “liberal” secularists really “think”.
Discussed more perhaps, but in the Bible the violence and destruction are mostly committed by bad people doing evil things.
In the Quran its Mad Mo and his army of oraks doing it with pride.
Yahweh a “genocidal deity”? How so professor?
Where does one start with this nonsense? Hermeneutics? Critical theology? Biblical theology in general? Islam rejected the critical process of greek thought at a seminal point in its history. Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, etc., the critical, historical and systematic function that that thought played in testing, weeding out, and the process of interpretation through 2000 years of critical thought.
That is why hundreds of millions of Muslims are stuck in a quagmire of how to condition the violent words of their founder. That is why so many Muslims can do nothing but rely upon the unconditioned words of Mo and practice violent Jihad. Why there is a fundamentally problematic issue concerning the separation of the mosque and state...Too much idiocy in this screed...don’t know where to begin...
I think this is the left’s attempt to denigrate ALL religion like Marx, Darwin, Freud, etc. Then the left can elevate a man to godhood (similar to Obama when he was first elected). This will be the antichrist (in place of Christ) savior they have always wanted...the Ubermensch!
So sure, the Bible shows our warts, and states emphatically that sin will be punished. What it does not do, as does the Koran, is instruct its followers to either convert, enslave, or murder those who refuse to follow their Satanic god. Joe the Programmer left that part out.
I suppose Joe the Programmer writes Global Warming programs as his day job. Also equally crap.
So sure, the Bible shows our warts, and states emphatically that sin will be punished. What it does not do, as does the Koran, is instruct its followers to either convert, enslave, or murder those who refuse to follow their Satanic god. Joe the Programmer left that part out.
I suppose Joe the Programmer writes Global Warming programs as his day job. Also equally crap.
I am amused by those who point to Leviticus and say. “Do you eat Shrimp? You will be put to death....”. Shrimp are not “shellfish”. However. Bivalves are. And if you eat too many over time you will get Hemochromatosis. You could die from Iron poisoning. Clams love the Heavy Metals....
What is it about the Bible that has terrified rulers for two thousand five hundred years!
Antiochus IV Epiphanes tried to destroy that book of “myths and fables” in 175 BC.
Three hundred years later the Caesars released the Legions of Rome to destroy that book of “myths and fables”.
Then Mohammed tried to destroy it and replace it with his own, a fight still going on today.
Throughout 2500 years of history men have stood up and faced death to protect that book of “myths and fables” so you could read it and make up your own mind.
What book will an Atheist stand up to protect? Marx? Robert Ingersoll? Origin of the Species?
So what in the Bible is still so terrifying that around the world rulers and elite flee from it as if they had touched acid?
Maybe it is not just a book of “myths and fables”. Why not read it and find out. It just might scare the Hell out of you!
Safe books of myths and fables..
The Iliad
The Odyssey
The The Aeneid
The Labors of Hercules
One Thousand and One nights
Si-Fi books
Various works of fiction
Unsafe works...
The Bible
The Bible
The Bible
Yes! I know what you are talking about. I love eating Boston Clam Chouder, Oysters, and such. Course, I pray first! ;-)
Yes! I read your post from earlier. It was very good! The graphic was good as well!
Since there is ultimately no right or wrong apart from G-d’s decrees, I don’t see a problem with Biblical violence . . . or anything else in the Bible liberals don’t like.
Sounds like a deliberately manipulative methodology designed to produce a pre-selected result. The Bible consists of 66 books - 39 in the OT and 27 in the NT - which include historical texts that recount the origin and lineage of the Hebrews, along with the legal texts that prescribe the law and punishments for breaking the law, as well as poetic texts that serve as worship songs and instruction in wisdom and morality, and prophetic texts, and instructional letters to the early church.
Most of the "mentions of savagery" in the Bible are simply recounting a violent history of conquests rather than commands or permissions to inflict violence on unbelievers.
He did order King Saul to utterly wipe out the Amalakites, killing all men, women, and children AND even all of their livestock. Saul disobeyed, sparing the lives of the king and taking the livestock alive as part of the booty of the conquest. When confronted about the animals still being alive, Saul claimed he was saving them to offer as a sacrifice and the prophet Samuel rebuked him saying "To obey is better than sacrifice..." and told him that God would take the kingdom away from Saul and give it to another.
That is just one example.
Setting the whole Satanic verses aside, it's because they are fellow travelers. Christianity, and hence Christians, stands between both ideologies and what they want; control.
Amazing.
They also did not discern between description and prescription. Much of the violence found in the Bible is part of a story, a report, a description of people using violence. The violence of the Koran is instructional - kill the Jew, kill the kafir. Typical HuffPost obfuscation.
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