Ok all you religous bible thumbers heres one for you .......When God says Thou Shall Not Kill in the ten commandments how do we know that he isnt talking about all living creatures? From humans down to the one cell ameoba. Even the bacteria and virusis that make us sick(they are living organisms)So when you take antibiotics you are commiting a murder. I do not personally take the bible to heart Man wrote the bible not God but I get a kick out of the people that come on here and pick and choose what they want of the bible and ignore the parts they dont understand or dont make sense.Like that Noah and the flood thing how did we get so many people after the earth got wiped out by the flood? And do not tell me that Noah and his little group of a family repopulated the earth cause that goes against common sense.
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What I find funny is the ones who get so into their religion that they kill because someone wasn't a good person in God's eyes. \n\nBack to the thing you were talking about. I agree man wrote it and now we use it as a tool to our advantage. I guess killing a cow is just as bad as killing your cousin if you look at it like that.\n\nWhich brings me to the imbread thing. If there was Adam and Eve, then they had sons, didnt the sons have to have kids with their mom to reporoduce? So the people who wrote the bible were pretty imbread too (by now we've had time to spread out a bit). I'm suprised they could write. The word of god speaking to them was probably just one of the many mental disorders brought on my imbreading.
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Whats scary is I'm an agnostic and I know the answer to this.\n\nThe Bible, which as you know is not the word of God but a story, explains about the flood of Noah. The first 10 generations had these long life spans, Noah lived to be 600 he was the 10th. After the flood the creation scientists believe that life spans started getting shorter. This is also their explanation why the Earth can be 6000 years old and has fossills that appear to be millions of years old, because during the flood there was rapid decay.  They also believe no creature died before the sin of Adam.  It is because we learn the creation science and compare it to our own understanding of chemistry, anthropology, astronomy, physics, biology, and history, that we reject this creation science view, but put it in its proper context, that it is a mythology.\n\nSo to answer the question, your life span is shorter according to the judeo christian mythology because of the flood during the days of Noah.
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First off I don't believe the Bible was the first book man saw since books were printed. As far as the dead sea scrolls many Christians and Jews believe them of course as they should because they are some of the oldest known writings in their religion. There are many other books and manuscripts written for other religions. As for as God stop telling man what to write down for him. Maybe it was because man just couldn't get it right. Maybe that's why he wrote the ten commandments himself. Then man went and lost the damn ark so we no longer have that. The ten commandments we have now is just something man wrote down for God. We don't know if man got it right or not since they lost the Ark with Gods written ten commandments inside. It's only fair to tell you I am an Atheist but a Christian Atheist of course. Kisses Betty
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I asked this same question and the answers were hilarious. You are dealing with an irrational brainwashed mass of idiots. The bible was stolen from Pagans, Romans, Greeks, all kinds of people. And, used to cause more death and destruction than all wars combined (heck, most wars were caused by christians)
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The bible may say an eye for an eye. But one of the 10 commandments is Thou shalt not kill. No exceptions!
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Proof that our "friend" is a hypocrite and a mental case, see above.\n\nI ask myself every time I read the Bible, what does this mean FOR me.
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First off it was a local flood. So not every specie was in that area. They could have been infants. \n\nNoah’s deluge. To understand you have to start with Gen.6:1.\nGen.6:1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, \nThe word “men” is Heb. (ha-adham) means “the man Adam” or his progeny. The word “them” is referring to Adam and Eve. The scripture is talking about Adam and Eve’s clan and not mankind. Mankind a subject for another time. \nGen.6:2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. \nThe term “sons of God” means angels or fallen angels. The word “men” again means Adam and Eve’s progeny or clan. Satan was trying to corrupt God’s plan. That is, from umbilical cord to umbilical cord would come Christ. This is why Eve is called “the mother of all living”.\nGen.6:9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God. \nThe word “perfect” Heb. (tamin) means “without blemish as to breed or pedigree”.\nGen.6:17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die. \nThe word “earth” Heb. (erets) means “land”, not the whole earth. Besides God says, “to destroy all flesh” in Adam’s clan.\nGen.7:24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days. \nGen.8:11 And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. \nIf the entire globe had been under water 150 days, where did this olive leaf (pluckt off) come from.\nGen 9:11  And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. \nRemember what God said in Gen.6:17, “to destroy all flesh”. Here God makes a covenant with Noah and his sons. Neither shall all flesh be cut off any more. Neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. Two floods. One for flesh, Noah’s deluge. One to destroy the earth back in Gen.1:2. The global flood is a subject for another time.\nSome consider the plateau of Pamir to be the original Eden. This probably was the homeland of Adam's descendants up until the time of the Flood. Today it’s known as the Tarim Basin or Eastern Turkestan. This region is surrounded by a ridge of very high mountains forming a gigantic basin in the midst of them. It measures 1,000 miles long and is about 350 miles wide.  \nUssher’s Chronology says 2348 B.C., Davidson says November 2345 B.C. to November 2344 B.C. for Noah’s deluge.\nRecords of the Sumerians in Mesopotamia., their King Lists date to about 3350 B.C., and show an ongoing civilization well through the period of the flood. Egypt felt nothing of the deluge, they had an uninterrupted succession of Dynasties. China's civilization during the Yao Dynasty (between 2400 B.C. – 2200 B.C.) with no record of a cataclysmic interruption. \nSo Noah’s deluge was a local flood. But there was a global flood in Gen.1:2. Study II Pet.3:5-7,  Jer.4:23-27.\nPsa.104:6 Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains. Psa.104:7 At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away. \nGen 1:6  And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
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It also says to stone people to death, kill them, slavery, all kinds of nasty things.  See the following link.  Yet people CHOSE to pull the one about homosexuality out and use it to be intolerant.  Here are some examples with the verses...\n\nGenesis\n\n"God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." He purposefully designed a system that ensures the suffering and death of all his creatures, parasite and host, predator and prey. 1:31 \n\nGod likes Abel's dead animals better than Cain's fruits and vegetables. Why? Well, no reason is given, but it probably has something to do with the amount of pain, blood, and gore involved. 4:3-5 \n\nBecause God liked Abel's animal sacrifice more than Cain's vegetables, Cain kills his brother Abel in a fit of religious jealousy. 4:8 \n\nGod is angry. He decides to destroy all humans, beasts, creeping things, fowls, and "all flesh wherein there is breath of life." He plans to drown them all. 6:7, 17 \n\nGod repeats his intention to kill "every living substance ... from off the face of the earth." But why does God kill all the innocent animals? What had they done to deserve his wrath? It seems God never gets his fill of tormenting animals. 7:4 \n\nGod drowns everything that breathes air. From newborn babies to koala bears -- all creatures great and small, the Lord God drowned them all. 7:21-23 \n\nNoah kills the "clean beasts" and burns their dead bodies for God. According to 7:8 this would have caused the extinction of all "clean" animals since only two of each were taken onto the ark. "And the Lord smelled a sweet savor."  8:20 \n\nTo free Lot from captivity, Abram sends an army of slaves to pursue and smite his captors. 14:14-15 \n\nGod tells Abram to kill some animals for him. The needless slaughter makes God feel better. 15:9-10 \n\nHagar conceives, making Sarai jealous. Abram tells Sarai to do to Hagar whatever she wants. "And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled." 16:6 \n\nLot refuses to give up his angels to the perverted mob, offering his two "virgin daughters" instead. He tells the bunch of angel rapers to "do unto them [his daughters] as is good in your eyes." This is the same man that is called "just" and "righteous" in 2 Pet.2:7-8. 19:7-8 \n\nGod kills everyone (men, women, children, infants, newborns) in Sodom and Gomorrah by raining "fire and brimstone from the Lord out of heaven." Well, almost everyone -- he spares the "just and righteous" Lot and his family. 19:24 \n\nLot's nameless wife looks back, and God turns her into a pillar of salt. 19:26 \n\nGod threatens to kill Abimelech and his people for believing Abe's lie. 20:3-7 Gen.16:5-6) and tells Abraham to 'cast out this bondwoman and her son." God commands Abraham to "hearken unto her voice." So Abraham abandons Hagar and Ishmael, casting them out into the wilderness to die. 21:10-14 \n\nGod orders Abraham to kill Isaac as a burnt offering. Abraham shows his love for God by his willingness to murder his son. But finally, just before Isaac's throat is slit, God provides a goat to kill instead. 22:2-13 \n\nAbraham shows his willingness to kill his son for God. Only any evil God would ask a father to do that; only a bad father would be willing to do it. 22:10 \n\nDinah, the daughter of Jacob, is "defiled" by a man who seems to love her dearly. Her brothers trick all of the men of the town and kill them (after first having them all circumcised), and then take their wives and children captive. 34:1-31 \n\nThe sons of Jacob trick Shechem into getting circumcised. Then they murder him, his sons, and all the males of the city, while taking their wives captive. 34:24-29 \n\n"The terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them." 35:5 \n\n"And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight o
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GodShew don't mess yourself with the OT and NT, you keep on jumbling things together as is with your 30 plus open questions until today. When Jesus came to this earth, animal sacrifices stopped, because Jesus became the living sacrifice. But it is true that the OT God demands sacrifice in the OT times as long as the one who makes the sacrifices delights in "good" and not partakers of evil. \n\nFor example in Isaiah 1\nIt displeased the OT God, when Soddom and Gomorrah were commiting sexual immorality and a lot of evil and they stil have the *guts* to sacrifice unto the Lord, the Lord is not a respecter of persons but He demands that when we come to His presence we should present Him a clean heart.\n\nThus, the Lord Jesus Christ when He came, removed the animal sacrifices. When the Jews rejected Jesus, salvation came unto the Gentiles and it was preached that by the Blood of Jesus, "grace" became available to all who believe in His Name unto the ends of the earth. Jesus did not do away with the Law, He is the fulfillment of it. Since all testament require a kind of signature in the end, with Jesus' blood He signed it for the propitiation of sins. Because the Law condemns the sinner and makes known his sins while, with Jesus blood grace follows because all who believes in Him will no longer be condemend because Jesus took away all sins at the victory in the cross.\n\nBasically, I noticed all your questions, you seem to make general condictions about the OT and NT, because you're missing the point. Try to understand the New Covenant of the Blood of Jesus Christ better before assuming that God contradicts Himself as is in most of your questions.\n\nIf you reject the New Covenant which was fulfilled by the Blood of Jesus. Then all you will ever come up are contradicting questions about the Bible all your life. The Jews cannot comprehended it, because the Lord has made their ears shut and their eyes blind, that to seeing they cannot see and hearing they cannot hear. I hope you are not one of them.\n\nGRACE wasn't available in abundance not yet before Jesus died for us...is when the Spirit of GRACE followed.\n\nAbout Noah and the clean and unclean animals, please don't mess it up. Clean and unclean animals are for the good of Noah's family. Unclean food is not for good to man. God requires that His children will be clean, even staying away from unclean foods, because the Body is the Temple of the Holy Spirit. On the other hand, God required animal sacrifices back then in the days of Noah and Moses and the rest of OT but not anymore until Jesus was sacrificed. There's a distinction.  \n\nMay God show you truth and give you understanding.
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I appreciate that you are asking this question to make people think... but it's my opinion that it is a hopeless cause.  People that believe in the Noah's Ark story are already ignoring vast amounts of common sense.\n\nHow could anyone build a boat big enough to house all the species that we know exists and be sea-worthy?  How did certain animals end up on some continents, but not others?  How did animals migrate to Australia?  Where did they get their food on the ark?  How did all the vegetation survive the drowning?  The questions go on and on, and there are few (if any) reasonable answers to explain them.\n\nGood luck in your efforts to make people use a little common-sense.
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If you read all of the verses that you quoted, you would've found your answer there.  FYI- the babies/children (all people who have not reached the age of accountability) were safe - they went to heaven.\n\nGod sent the flood because of the fallen angels that left heaven and came to earth to have children with the daughters of Adam and Eve. The offspring of this union were the Nephilim or giants (Genesis 6:1-4 and Jude v6). This was an attempt by Satan to pollute the blood line of Adam and Eve which is the same blood line that Jesus Christ came from (Luke 3:23-38).\n\nADDED on March 1st - Ok.  If you studied your Bible you would know the answer to your question.  Yes,God is a loving God. The Bible also says that He is a God of wrath.  God is a jealous God.  God made man in His image - where do you think man got all of this from?  Why are you angry?  Because God gets angry with us when we openly sin and show complete disregard for Him. God can do whatever and not have to answer to anyone - but, everything that He does has a beautiful and perfect purpose.  Since we humans have a finite sense of time (everything really), we can't grasp His wonderful plan. " Those who reject Him receive the punishment they deserve (John 3:18,36). Those who believe are receiving far more. No one, though, is being punished beyond what they deserve. So, this is fair. I invite you to read the parable found in Matthew chapter 20, verses 1-16.  In our minds, that is not fair. It is an example, though, of God being gracious to some and fair to everyone."
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That list of all the Bible parts listed as "the thinking of God" is the most ignorant thing I've ever heard.\nBible is full of contradictions. \nThe Ancient Testament says also that killing in the name of God is right.\nIs good also to have sex with your daughter or your son.\n\nChrist never said anything of that. We are Cristians.\n\nYou should study some antropology before telling other people that they're living in sin. In ancient times it was a shame to give away your sperma without having a child.\n\nLove is never a sin. Sex connected to love is never a sin. Sex is not a sin.\nVIOLENCE is sin!
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good point.  you've discovered another fatal flaw in the bible.\n\ngod knows the future and the past.  he already knows how everything turns out.  he already knows who exercises free will, who doesn't, and how they exercise it.  he already knows the outcome.\n\nthere is no need for any of this.  he already knows the future and how we all turn out.\n\nit also begs the question...why would a god put things into motion, when he knows the future, an knows he would have to flood the entire earth, killing everyone?  he already knew that was the future, he knew he'd have to do that.  so why set things in motion when you know you eventually have to kill all your children?\n\nand why inspire a bible, so ridiculous and poorly written that, after over 2000 years, less than 30% of the people on earth believe it?\n\nchristianity is total and utter nonsense, and is based on so many fatal flaws in its own theory, myth and certainly fatal flaws in basic logic, i'm surprised people are really ignorant enough to follow it.
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lemmie check with noah and see what the ten commandments had to say...\nlol.. good one, dpundt_99!
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What most people forgot . . . is what about Noah . . . and his sons?  If you believe in the bible . . . then you believe god destroyed the world with a flood . . . (the flood was proven scientifically, but who done it or was it natural . . . it focused more on natural reasons.)\n\nBut back to the only survivors . . . they had incest with each other too . . . because the only human survivors was Noah . . . his sons and their wives.  Who did their children propagate with in order to extend the human lineage.\n\nThis from an unbeliever  . . .  human society . . . streams with incest and polygamy . . .
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Not only that but God told Joshua to go into a certain city, I believe it was Jericho and kill everyone, and not to leave anyone alive. Sounds more like Bin Laden than a loving God. The Old Testament God has been painted to look rather savage and bloodthirsty. I consider the fact that the Bible was written not by God but by humans with agendas and ambitions.
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ok, im not a a genius, but i do read the bible daily..everyone gets something different out if the verses they read, just so it can touch them..thats whats so wonderful about it..secondly, he was talking about the evil right before he floods the earth..god cannot look upon sin..thats why jesus came and died on the cross for us and he washed away our sins..god was talking about sodomy and stealing and lying and sex and all the sins he could not look upon, he was upset that he made man and they turned around and disrespected him the way they did..i would be too you know..thats just what i believe