Explain this bible bashers! (BIBLE ALLOWS SEX SLAVES)

Mon Mar 14, 2011 4:12 am » by **Confidential**

redwoodrick wrote:
go to hell
haha jk, hells not real anyway

In hell the say "Go to Jersey!"

By the way... what is that a picture off? It looks ever so familier.. i clearly remember seeing something alike in a dream.

Mon Mar 14, 2011 4:19 am » by **Boondox681**

the bible says a lot of shit.
'god' will never be found in any book.

Sat Mar 19, 2011 3:09 am » by **Pestcontrol**

I am not a bible basher but i do know that thousands of years ago and in a lot of different cultures including the mayons, that to be a slave was an honour, the strange thing was that if they had no use for you they let you go free, in them times it was a definate advantage to be old and ugly.

our defination of slave means something different it is like (Death) back in those times it meant seperation from God.

Sat Mar 19, 2011 3:21 am » by **Samuelthemule**

boondox681 wrote:the bible says a lot of shit.
'god' will never be found in any book.

the akashic records / nature = the living books of life

Sat Mar 19, 2011 3:28 am » by **Soapbox**

War and violence in the Old Testament

Truly a paradox! Here we want to kill terrorists, kidnappers and other violent men, while we accuse God of being belligerent on the basis of the narratives in the Old Testament! We ask why God has not done away with the devil, and we ask why God takes life. I would venture the assertion that it is we who accept violence, not God. We need to correct the impression that many have received from God's dealings in the Old Testament.

God desires above all people to live, and he repeats very clearly. "For I have not pleased that anyone should die, saith the Lord. So repent ye, and ye shall live, "Ezekiel 6:32 p.m..

"Say to them: As I live, saith the Lord: I have no pleasure in the wicked dead, but that the wicked turn from their ways and live. Repent, convert from their evil ways! Why will ye die, O house of Israel? "Ezekiel 33:11.

Yes, you read that right. Even the wicked, he offers his life. But this is where the problem occurs. If the wicked remain wicked, he lives not in its deepest sense. He is living death. Evil is suicide.Den who persists in his evil, choose death. God wants to destroy evil, but never one that doeth evil. When he eventually must pay with his life, it is because he has identified himself with sin.

Take Jonah and Nineveh as an illustration of this. Jonah was sent to Nineveh to preach the city's imminent destruction. But because the people turned from their evil, the city was spared. It was precisely the destruction and death, God wanted to avoid. Jonah, however was so incensed that his prophecy was not fulfilled, that he had destroyed the city if he had had the power to it. God wants to save lives, while humans will take lives.

Another example is Cain, a violent husband and brother's killer. There is no doubt about what we would have done with him, but God gave him the chance to live. He wanted to win him his kingdom.

A third example is Absalom. His violent death is sort of a parable. He also had killed his brother and rebelled against his father, King David. He had even taken his father's concubines to make it clear that he was king of Israel. He burned all bridges behind him. He is a symbol of the hardened sinner. David stands as a picture of our heavenly father. Notice his words to his commander about his son: "Go gently with the young man - with Absalom!" 2 Samuel 18:5. When he found him dead, he broke completely together. "My son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! Oh, that I had died in your place! Absalom, my son, my son! "2 Samuel 6:33 p.m..

God griefed just as much over each of the first born in Egypt, and each of the Canaanites who were killed during the conquest of Canaan.

Let's go back to the problem of the massacres as God commanded in the Old Testament. We have mentioned God and his attitude to man. First, these accounts would not have shocked us nearly as much if not God himself had given orders to these hostilities. What bothers us is not so much the idea of punishment as the way the punishment was implemented on. Think of Ananias and Sapphira! There is no one protesting that they collapsed and died because of their greed. But if God had used Peter as a vehicle and caused him to kill them with swords, we would have heard an outcry without equal.

It is important to remember that Israel in the Old Testament appears to be God's instrument to bring both salvation and punishment of the world. In order to consummate the punishment of the people of Canaan did they simply use the funds at the time was available, and which was accepted (if not loved) of all nations. We might think that the sword was brutal and cruel, but something better had they not.

There is also another thing we must remember. If the Bible had bothered to count up the Canaanites sin registry, the situation would immediately be another. These were people who sacrificed people, yes, even young children to their gods. As part of fertility worship they filled their temples with men and women who had the task to prostitution in order to win favor with the gods. Both culturally and morally, they had come close to a record low. The New Testament makes it clear that the kind of people can not make claims on life, if they did before. The difference is the bar that the Canaanites had his sentence at the time, while our day Canaanites have to wait until judgement Day. But the result is the same.

We continue with David and Goliath. No protest against the young David did an end of a burly giant of 2 meters and 90, and with a shield, weighing 57 kg, and a spear like a tree trunk. Was it wrong for David to reward his spotting of Israel's God with a deadly stone in the forehead? No complaints over Goliath. With his vast strength he stands as a symbol of evil who claim omnipotence.

The war in Canaan was not much different. We forget all too easy to report that the ten spies for Israel's leaders took the time they stood on the border of Canaan. "But the people who live in the country, is strong. The cities are fortified and very large. There, we also Anak children ... There we saw the giants, children of Anak giants. Against them we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and it seemed also that we were. "4M 1:28 p.m., 33

In light of this we can better understand the importance of this conquest. It was a challenge to Israels faith. They were asked to do the impossible. They had to walk the path of faith. For Israel it was a battle against Goliath. It was not primarily a moral question. Nor can it automatically be transferred to our own time. A minority against the majority may indeed seem impossible, but in the case of Israel it was God himself who ordered them to destroy this impossibility. For the vanquished people to "jump the grass", victory stand as a striking testimony to the power of God.

Peace