Two virgin sisters would like to have children, so they get their father drunk, have sexual intersourse with him, and get pregnant. (Genesis 19:30-36)\n\nAn old king can no longer get an erection, so a beautiful young girl is put to bed with him. But alas! even she can't get a rise out of him. (1 Kings 1:1-4)\n\nA woman pretends to be a prostitute and entices her father-in-law to have intercourse with her. He does, and lo! nine months later she bears twin boys. (Genesis 38:12-30)\n\nDavid is called as begotten son of God in Psalms 2:7, then in  "2 Samuel 11:2-4" David watches a women bathe, likes what he sees, and "goes in unto her." >> IS THERE SOMETHING WRONG IN BIBLE ? \n\nThere is much more sex in the Bible than the above. No decent person would like to read "EZEKIEL 23". Yet some people call it The Good Book or The Word of God! Why ?? What does God wants to tell us all this rubbish. Shouldnt the bible be banned for the sake of morality? if "not" then Why not?
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number one best seller pornography in the world\nthey should put 17+ in the frontcover,and sell it at adult shop,so children can't buy it\nits not suited for any children under that age\nno wonder,so much child abuse,and child molestation in the name of the bible
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Someone posted a question trying to justify incest with his daughters using the OT example of Lot as an example. I spent quite a time answering this, only to find the next morning that the question had been removed. Just in case anybody else has problems with the passage, here's my answer anyway.\n\nLot and his Daughters\n\nThank you for raising this question, it's caused me to get my Bible out and read the story again for myself. If anybody is actually interested in understanding it properly, they need to go back to Genesis 11 and start from the beginning.\n\nAn old pagan called Abram is worshipping one day at the local ziggurat in Ur of the Chaldees and Yahweh comes and reveals Himself to him. The Bible doesn't tell us that Abram did anything special to earn or merit this revelation, just that God, for His own reasons, chose to reveal Himself to him. This really upset the religious locals, who followed a mixture of astrology and Babylonian mystery religions. Abram was rejecting their pantheon of Gods and going round telling people there was only one true God. Talk about upsetting the neighbours. And you should have heard the gossip!\n\nAbram leaves Ur with his father Terah, his nephew Lot and their households. They passed through the Euphrates (a type of baptism) and arrived at Harran, where they got too comfortable and stayed until Terah dies. At this point Yahweh gives Abram a kick up the backside and points him towards the Promised Land.\n\nSome time after they arrive in Caanan there is a famine, and what happens next has a direct bearing on Genesis 19 as cited.\n\nAbram, taking Sarai his wife and Lot with him, goes down into Egypt (always a type for the world). Here they encounter all the corruption of Pharaoh’s court and the fleshpots of the most advanced nation on earth. After moving back to Caanan, Lot sits round the campfire and dreams of the forbidden things he has seen. If you carefully read the start of chapter 13, you will see that when Lot separated from Abram, he looked to the east, towards Sodom, and chose that because it reminded him of Egypt and the forbidden pleasures that he had been dreaming of.\n\nFast forward now to chapter 19 and Lot has given up farming on the plains outside of Sodom and has allowed the lure of sin to draw him inside the city. Lot had abandoned his God to the extent that he was prepared to allow his daughters to marry those that God called detestable, but even so, God did not abandon him.\n\nWe know what happened next, but if you really think that God condoned the sin you have to be crazy. The offspring of those illicit unions went on to form the Moabites and the Ammonites, two of the most cursed tribes in history.\n\nThis is a classic morality tale of reaping that which you have sown and is recorded not only as historical truth, but as an admonition to all of us. Genuine queries on any of this are welcome.
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Well done.  I knew about the one in Exodus, but the others are new to me.  Thanks for pointing that out.  \n\nI'm a Bible believing Christian and I have always supported abortion.  In fact, I support abortion even when the mother doesn't want to in cases where the child will be born seriously defective.  \n\nI have gotten into many arguments with my Christian friends over this and I believe their problem is that they listen to what the preacher says and not the Bible.  For me, the Bible trumps the preacher any day.\n\nGreat job.\n\n===\nTo Williamzo: Exodus 21:22 says {para} "If two men fight and during the fight a pregnant woman is injured such that she miscarries, the man shall be FINED as the judges determine, but  if the woman also dies, then the man is put to death."  I suggest you read it again.\n\nWhat God is telling us in this verse is that an unborn baby is NOT the same thing as a human life.  If it were, the punishment would be death for that also.  Thus, God is telling us that abortion is NOT murder.\n\nBefore conception/before entering the womb - Isn't it obvious that God is talking about their spirit and not their physical body?
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Interesting but contrary to Scripture. I understand the problem you're considering and offer this as a possible solution...\n\nAdam and Eve were perfect and it took several generations before the degenerating gene pool became severe enough to forbid incest.
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It is very sad. Anyone who does a good amount of reading on ethics will know better. Christians tend to not read good books. They just accept the beliefs they were raised with and stick to them out of loyalty, fear, and familiarity. A lot of people don't like to think that what their parents taught them was wrong. A lot of people also have a very hard time dealing with mortality without a belief in a Heaven and benevolent god waiting for them. The truth is, we really just do not know what happens. There could be a deeper purpose to our being here. There could of been an intelligence behind what is. I would never say there definitely is or is not. On the same token though I can see the works or man from a mile away. The Bible wreaks of man, and all his fears. It's far too obvious that a god had nothing to do with what's in that book. I can can spot it just like I can spot the hand writing of a three year old. It's a shame others have such a hard time seeing this. I think this goes beyond their intelligence or lack thereof. It comes from a much deeper emotional issue. To lose faith in God would be akin to losing meaning to everything and that would leave them horribly broken and lost. It's too bad they can't see the other alternatives. One can lead a very spiritual life without placing belief in ridiculous claims.
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The sodom story is misread. The real trouble with the city was hospitality. His guests were going to get raped. They don't mention that having sex with men is a bad thing. (prove me wrong if i am). Besides, ive also read that in biblical texts, that sodomy is the relation between a man and a boy. Obviously thats not a good thing.
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""SHE DIDN'T SIN, she was born without sin so she could give birth to Jesus. Besides, wouldn't you (maybe not you exactly)love it if everyone worshipped your mother.""\n\nAin't it always something!?  A good christian girl with the number 69 in her name!  Just what I have always come to expect for them.\n\nBTW... 69 chick?  Mary was born without sin?  then that would make HER the Christ and not Jesus!  HER parents had sex to conceive her!!  I hope you feel liek a dumb@$$ right now since the PAGAN chick had to straighten you out on your biblical "facts".
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I am surprised by the amount of Christians that answered this question that apparently have not read their bible.  Yes it does say that in the bible, in the old testament in the laws that God gave to Moses.  Although it does give different scenarios like if the woman is raped inside the city she should be stoned to death because she should call out for help before it happens but if she is outside the city where there is no one to call for help, then she has committed no sin and should not be put to death.\n\nNo wonder people don't want to convert to Christianity when supposed Christians answer this way and apparently have not read what they claim to preach.
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''Keep in mind that there is NOTHING in this passage to suggest that the children were at any fault of anything.''\n\nactually, if you read before it, it's talking about the ''children of Jezebel''  but wait mike, didn't Jezebel like...die in the old testament?  that is correct.  well then how are THESE her children?  well, it's like ''the children of God'' or ''the children of satan.'' children in this context does not mean little ones, what it means is ''those who are following in the same teachings of'' Jezebel, who called herself a prophetess, but ate foods sacrificed to idols and enticed some of God's servants to commit adultery with her.  the church was about 40 years old now, and if you read after the verse quoted here, it talks about ''knowing the depths of satan.'' this is a pre-gnostic belief that one was free to engage  and explore the rituals/activities of satan, and participate in evil with the body without harming the spirit.
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i guess, i just dont understand why that looser never got with any females, all he ever did was hang out with guys. Thats a bit faggy if ya ask me. Also who really knows what the story is with jesus apparently stuff was lost in translation of the BIBLE over the years. Like the king james version of the bible how it was written in that version to suit the needs of king james and his need to divorce his wife. Whos to say the cult leaders are wrong?? just because protestants and catholics are so commercialized they are accepted as the correct religeons. If you think about it they are cults, its a dude standing in front of a huge audience telling people how to live their lives, and they do it, thats some crazy stuff man. well anyway yeah he was a mammas boy and a bit queer and a bastard if ya think about it cuz where was his biological dad all those years?? Joseph was just a step dad. So? and wouldnt that make mary a bad woman for having gotten pregnant premaritally? so its ok for the holy spirit to spread his seed to unmarried women but humans cant?? wow what a huge contradiction of the bible.\nSo he was a mammas boy bastard failure, cuz the world is still messed up....
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That's a good question, since so many Christians these days and for the past thousand years or two have been against it.  Maybe it just doesn't want to say that the women finally put their collective foot down and wouldn't stand for the polygamy anymore.\n\nY'know, it's kind of amusing how Christians make fun of Muslims for their 72 virgins thing, when that last verse has its own virgins-in-heaven myth.  I like it.
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Wow, \n\nI'm amazed at how people can be "So led Astray"!\n\nI have started to read the Quran that my Muslim friend gave me.\n\nIt has nothing to do with God, and everything to do with Muhammed, inventing his own fairy-tale god to suit Muhammed's purposes.\n\n\nWhy would anyone want to listen to a 54 year old man,{Muhammed}, that put his sexual organ into a 9 year old girl,{Aiesha}?\n\nThat alone disqualifies Him!
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Could be a different Bible version.\n\nToday people love modern Bibles rather than the KJV.\n\nWhen i was doing my Bible studies with 8 Bibles I quickly tossed the "Living Word" as being trash.  The translators took so many liberties with phrases in that one I couldn't deal with it.\n\nI have a friend who collects Bibles and she gives a lot of them away keeping only the ones she personally likes.\n\nBUT, to get to YOUR question, how can YOU say MEAN AND VIOLENT and then use a phrase like IS THIS RETARDED?\n\nIsn't that the pot calling the kettle black?\n\nAnd yes, religious people do play with words.  A sad fact of life.  That's why I don't belong to an organized religon.\n\nThe sad fact of life is these people tell you how to live your life and they go home, get drunk, beat their wives up and make them give them oral sex, like any good Christian should do, right!
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Read in the bible, there's scriptures that do back this up.\nYes, it's fornication. It says that your body's a holy temple that belongs to the lord.\nRead exodus 20:14, I Corinthians 6:9-11, Matthew 15:19, Romans 8:5-6, Romans 12:1-2, 1 Thessalonians 4 :3-6\nRomans 13:14, James 1:21, Galatians 5:19-21, I Corinthians 6:19-20, Ephesians 5:3, Leviticus 19:2, I Peter 1:16, James 1:27, Isaiah 51:7, I peter 2:11, James 1: 14, Matthew 5:28, Job 31:1. Hebrews 13:4, 2 Timothy 2:22, Colossians 3: 5-10, \nIsaiah 50:7\n\nLots to read. I sure hope this helps you out....\nI'm glad you're trying to raise your girls right. If you don't tell them/teach them & you know this, you'll be held accountable.  god bless\nwe're pastors & we've imparted this with my daughter since she was a baby. she's been fine & she's 18
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the funny thing is, the original text of the OLD testament didn't say anything about homosexuality being a sin either. the part that's commonly translated to say "a man should not lie with another man as he would lie with a woman, that is detestable" was originally mistranslated on PURPOSE when some homophobic church leaders got together to write the king james version...the original hebrew text translates to "a man should not lie with another man in a woman's bed, that is unclean". so basically there's no restriction on who can have sex with whom, just where they are allowed to do it.
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When you say "Whoa, parents please keep your kids away from this adult material" you have inadvertently made a valid point. The Bible isn't some kiddy book designed to delight children. It is the inspired Word of God that isn't afraid to tell the truth about every aspect of life from the glorious heights of God sending his beloved Son to pay for our sins to the depths of confronting bestiality and acts of cannibalism.\n\nThat's one reason why it's the best selling book of all time in all the world. As to the passage you've posted if you take it in context you will find that God had warned the Israelites hundreds of years before that they would end up resorting to cannibalism if they forsook Him and turned to worship false gods.\n\nHere is the prophecy God gave to Moses as a warning for them hundreds of years before this incident came to pass.\n\nDeuteronomy 28:52  "They shall besiege you in all your towns, until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout all your land. And they shall besiege you in all your towns throughout all your land, which the LORD your God has given you.  (53)  And you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you.  (54)  The man who is the most tender and refined among you will begrudge food to his brother, to the wife he embraces, and to the last of the children whom he has left,  (55)  so that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because he has nothing else left, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns.  (56)  The most tender and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because she is so delicate and tender, will begrudge to the husband she embraces, to her son and to her daughter,  (57)  her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because lacking everything she will eat them secretly, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns.  (58)  "If you are not careful to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, the LORD your God,  (59)  then the LORD will bring on you and your offspring extraordinary afflictions, afflictions severe and lasting, and sicknesses grievous and lasting.  (60)  And he will bring upon you again all the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you.  (61)  Every sickness also and every affliction that is not recorded in the book of this law, the LORD will bring upon you, until you are destroyed.  (62)  Whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, you shall be left few in number, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God.
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She is a "virgin" because the historians lied to you. It is a sad day when people believe Dan Brown's "Angels and Demons" before they believe in the traditional biblic interpretations, but the former is more logical. Hope this helps!