Yep. Definitely 'unsavory' bits in the bible.
If they showed everything and depicted it realistically, it would be adults only TV.
From Church readings today.
"It happened that seven brothers with their mother were arrested and tortured with whips and scourges by the king...
...We are ready to die rather than transgress the laws of our ancestors.
At that the king [Antiochus], in a fury, gave orders to have pans and caldrons heated. These were quickly heated, and he gave the order to cut out the..."
From 2 Maccabees, chapter 7
"...Now as for those enemies of mine who did not want me as their king, bring them here and slay them before me."
Luke 19:27
If they showed everything and depicted it realistically, it would be adults only TV.
From Church readings today.
"It happened that seven brothers with their mother were arrested and tortured with whips and scourges by the king...
...We are ready to die rather than transgress the laws of our ancestors.
At that the king [Antiochus], in a fury, gave orders to have pans and caldrons heated. These were quickly heated, and he gave the order to cut out the..."
From 2 Maccabees, chapter 7
"...Now as for those enemies of mine who did not want me as their king, bring them here and slay them before me."
Luke 19:27
