Where in the bible does it say...?
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It doesn't, but it does say god commanded all the children in certain cities to be killed and that daughters could be traded for goods and/or services.  The bible is definitely the best moral bank ever...
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Not sure the scriptures say anything about this. If someone tells you that they can, ask them where in the bible it talks about it. Have them verify it and explain it to ya. Don't just take someone's word for it.
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The Old Testament for-warns us of up coming events and how it all came to be. Its like going to the end of the story and reading the last page...we need the old with the new to better understand and to encourage our faith.
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I would warn anyone who says that it should be literal.\n\nWe don't sell our daughters into slavery (or at least we shouldn't - those on the Jerry Springer Show might)\n\nAlso, Jesus says "If your right eye offends you, and causes you to sin, pluck it out, for it is better to enter the Kingdom of Heaven blind than not at all".  Do you really think that he meant that literally?   If so, then Christians would be a bunch of blind people (he says a similar thing about your arms and tongue).\n\nThere are parts that are literal, and parts that are figurative.  Best judgement will generally tell you which is which.
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I did a bunch of searches on google and on bartleby.com (an excellent reference site that has an entire section on verse). the closest thing I could find was this passage from the bible: \n\nNUMBER:1316\nQUOTATION:Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.\nATTRIBUTION:Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Matthew, 6:19-21.\n \nDo you remember where you saw or heard the poem? That might help a bit.
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Yes. The Bible tells it.
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:}\nThat's true , the bible teaches all have sinned and fallen short of the kingdom of g-d
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In the new testament, Jesus himself says that the laws of the old testament are still binding to Christians.\n\n“For truly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass the law until all is accomplished.  Whoever then relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who does them and teaches them shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.”  (Matthew 5:18-19)
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Ah ...the soft-shoe routine you can get from people who believe in the "inerrant" Bible - when a text clearly states something so awful that it must be re-re-reinterpreted.\n\nSo .. a word from our sponsor:\nIsiah 45:7 "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and CREATE EVIL: I the LORD do all these things."\n\nAnd now let's hear the various (laughable) renditions of what "evil" means "in this context," or "the actual Hebrew means something totally different." - obviously it couldn't just mean "evil," .... could it? \n\nThere is no one answer to your question. Current theology, in a vain attempt at sidestepping the mystical trend that produced the citation above, holds that God did NOT do what He says He did, or that it's a "mystery to be revealed in the end to us all."
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Tell people they can cherry-pick whatever they want out of the bible. They seem to do that anyway, but if you tell that this is OK, you'll reel in millions of people who are looking for a free-ride to heaven! :)
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Colossians 1:9\npray and ask..
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"Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee." Exodus c20 v12\n\nDo what your mom tells you. LOL
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go to biblegateway.com
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"...can it be backed up with scripture?"\n\nCertainly not; it's not Scriptural.  It's a pseudo-religious phrasing of an old conservative attitude.
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How about taking that quotation a bit further- includsing the verses that come afterwards...\n\n"18. I will set up a prophet for them from among their brothers like you, and I will put My words into his mouth, and he will speak to them all that I command him.\n19. And it will be, that whoever does not hearken to My words that he speaks in My name, I will exact [it] of him.\n20. But the prophet who intentionally speaks a word in My name, which I did not command him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.\n21. Now if you say to yourself, "How will we know the word that the Lord did not speak?"\n22. If the prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, and the thing does not occur and does not come about, that is the thing the Lord did not speak. The prophet has spoken it wantonly; you shall not be afraid of him."\n\nand let us not forget from Deuteronomy, Chapter 13\n\n"1. Everything I command you that you shall be careful to do it. You shall neither add to it, nor subtract from it.\n2. If there will arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of a dream, and he gives you a sign or a wonder,\n3. and the sign or the wonder of which he spoke to you happens, [and he] says, "Let us go after other gods which you have not known, and let us worship them,"\n4. you shall not heed the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of a dream; for the Lord, your God, is testing you, to know whether you really love the Lord, your God, with all your heart and with all your soul."\n\nYep- no prohpet can change the law of God- it is eternal and even somebody doing miraclkes is just a test- and one you pass by ignoring them!
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It is said in the bible....as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he"....and it is also written that out of the abundance of the heart...the mouth will speak...how's that for something to chew on? God always imparts his wisdom to us thru his word, the Bible and thru our prayer time w/ Him...but, you're on the right track!
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"All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to the dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth" (Ecclesiastes 3:20-21).\n\n"then the dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God who gave it" (Ecclesiastes 12:7).