Weird Verses (Jesus, moral, reject, genesis, mission)

[Aasimar]

I just figured I'd throw this to see if anyone else ever has this. There are times when I come across a passage in a religious book, bible, koran, whatever, that is just plain weird. Either kinda gross, oddly phrased, whatever. Not necessarily evil themed or attacking the religion itself, just.... odd.

For example:

Ezekiel 23:19-20

Yet she increased her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth when she engaged in prostitution in the land of Egypt. She lusted after their genitals – as large as those of donkeys, and their seminal emission was as strong as that of stallions.

.... Like I don't even know how to take that verse.

Anyone else know any really odd versus? Any religious book is fair game, this isn't intended to be a debate thread.

[ChristineES]

You could read Song of Solomon (or Song of Songs, as they don't believe any longer that it was written by Solomon). There are some who say that this book is not inspired and should not even be a part of the bible.

Here are a couple of examples:

Son 7:1 How beautiful are thy feet in sandals, O prince's daughter! Thy rounded thighs are like jewels, The work of the hands of a skilful workman.
Son 7:2 Thy body is like a round goblet, Wherein no mingled wine is wanting: Thy waist is like a heap of wheat Set about with lilies.
Son 7:3 Thy two breasts are like two fawns That are twins of a roe.

[MidnightBlue]

Malachi 2.3: Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.

Genesis 31.33-34: Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel's furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found them not. And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched but found not the images.

Judge 9.52-54: And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire. And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all to break his skull. Then he called hastily unto the young man his armourbearer, and said unto him, Draw thy sword, and slay me, that men say not of me, A woman slew him. And his young man thrust him through, and he died.

Proverbs 20.30: The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.

[angellous_evangellous]

Originally Posted by Aasimar

Anyone else know any really odd versus? Any religious book is fair game, this isn't intended to be a debate thread.

Funny that you mention Ezekiel 23.19-20. See my discussion Bible T-Shirt

[angellous_evangellous]

Originally Posted by Aasimar

.... Like I don't even know how to take that verse.

Hyperbole - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[9-10ths_Penguin]

1 Timothy 1:20 has always struck me as odd (given with verses 18 & 19 for context - emphasis mine):

18Timothy, my son, I give you this instruction in keeping with the prophecies once made about you, so that by following them you may fight the good fight, 19holding on to faith and a good conscience. Some have rejected these and so have shipwrecked their faith. 20Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan to be taught not to blaspheme.

[angellous_evangellous]

Originally Posted by 9-10ths_Penguin

1 Timothy 1:20 has always struck me as odd (given with verses 18 & 19 for context - emphasis mine):

That has a parallel in 1 Cor 5.

1It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that does not occur even among pagans: A man has his father's wife. 2And you are proud! Shouldn't you rather have been filled with grief and have put out of your fellowship the man who did this? 3Even though I am not physically present, I am with you in spirit. And I have already passed judgment on the one who did this, just as if I were present. 4When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus and I am with you in spirit, and the power of our Lord Jesus is present, 5hand this man over to Satan, so that the sinful nature[a] may be destroyed and his spirit saved on the day of the Lord.

[Flamingsword]

All these SCRIPTURES HAVE DEEP MEANING TO THOSE WHO (have ears that hear & eyes that see)
Live by everyword that proceeds out of the mouth of GOD! ALL of them!

[Odion]

Woo! Resurrected thread!

Song of Solomon 2:3 strikes me as dodgy.
3 Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest
is my lover among the young men.
I delight to sit in his shade,
and his fruit is sweet to my taste.


(emphasis added for what I perceive as extra-dodgy-ness)