(July 5, 2015 at 11:19 pm)IanHulett Wrote:(July 5, 2015 at 11:12 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: You should have continued reading:
6I say this as a concession, not as a command.
http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/7.htm
Those verses you are quoting are a suggestion and not a requirement.
Well played. But the problem still remains that it still says we don't have authority over our own bodies but yield them to our spouse. Sounds like the verse is contradicted by the next verse. "Your spouse owns your body, not you. You must submit. Don't deprive each other because you'll be tempted by Satan. But that's just a suggestion." Makes no sense to me.
I disagree, but this specific issue isn't going to make any difference in evaluating the Bible as a whole. It is a very nasty piece of work, and no one should be following the advice in it. One might do things that happen to coincide with some command or other, but no one should do anything because it is in that terrible book.
God commanding people to stone women who do not show the signs of virginity when they are married is pretty brutal, particularly as the "signs of virginity" are not completely accurate. One would think that if an omniscient being made people, he would know that and not command that innocent women be stoned to death because they don't seem to be virgins when they are. (And if God were omnipotent, he could have made the "signs of virginity" accurate, but they are not.) But this is typical of the evil being called "god" in the Bible.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
