RE: Great bible teachings!
May 13, 2010 at 11:12 am
(This post was last modified: May 13, 2010 at 11:14 am by John_S3V.)
(May 13, 2010 at 10:13 am)tackattack Wrote: I think my irony meter blew up.
Firstly a Christian who wholly rejects the old testament is not following a life in Christ. Jesus readily and frequently quoted old testament verses and laws, and used the stories in his parables and in answers to questions. That last verse in Matthew I believe was actually from Jesus' mouth.
It also says
I know atheists love to pretend the Bible doesn't teach us to think about the laws and justify them with our own inner morals but
So clearly just accpeting the law and doing it is folly and the blind leading the blind. The fact that Jesus quote stories from the OT doesn't mean he felt they were literally real in every case, simply that they were good moralistic references for his parables. To take them literally with no thought or without a check of what's in your heart is unreasonable and not according to the doctrine the way to use the tool we call a Bible. Obviously a lot of atheists have read the Bible at least in part and have said, "that makes no sense and is BS" and according to scripture , your questioning of the word is necessary and what most (if not all) Chrsitian should also do. [/rant/preach/quotefest]
Oh, so true! We can't just accept law, that's insane. We have to meditate and ponder it and question everything if we are to find enlightenment.
For instance, when the law teaches me that a rapist must marry his victim and pay her father some money I don't just outright accept it. I ponder it and meditate it. I often times take the bible with me to my cave out back and will ponder things for days without food.
Atheists cry, 'Oh no! That's not fair. The victim shouldn't marry the raper. That's just cruel. God and his bible must be nonsense.' But, wait. Behold, let us ponder the premise. In those times no one would want a raped woman, because she was 'unclean'. God, in his infinite wisdom does not remove humanity's repugnance of raped women. He cannot violate our free will that way! Furthermore, a woman in those times required a man if she was to survive. No woman could live on her own, because the society in those times would not accept a woman trying to live without a man. God, in his infinite wisdom deemed that it was better not to teach humanity that women were in many cases par with men and perfectly capable of sustaining themselves if only they were educated the way men were.
Therefore, he establishes a law so that the woman is provided with a means of survival despite her percieved uncleansliness. The woman may have some psychological trauma after the rape which may or may not get amplified by the fact that she is forced to live with her attacker, or the woman may also have a lover who is not phased by her uncleansliness, or the woman may even be quite adaptable and willing to live alone in the mountains, but, God in his infinite wisdom has deemed that the woman must marry the attacker. Oh, Praise Jesus!!!
Yah, God could've just beamed the rapist to another universe, yah God could've wiped the memories of the victim OR dealt with her psychological trauma, (with her consent of course). Sure, God could have made man without the desire to rape, but then my one thing my careful pondering and meditation has taught me is that God must simply be too perfect and all-knowing for me to grasp the methods with which he utilizes his wonderous powers.
Come my brethren and feast upon one another! (S)He who triumps and has eaten us all will be blessed with the knowledge of all those with whom (s)he has consumed!
