Spiderman
Veteran Member
Scripture does have some very wise Noble things like: "turn the other cheek and love your enemies", just what an evil bloodthirsty regime would need to conquer the world.
Napoleon could have been the emperor of the entire Earth, if everybody would just turn the other cheek , and love him, like Jesus commanded.
Is there any scripture verses that you think are nonsense? It has to be in the new testament, the old testament, or the deuterocanonicals.
If you don't think any of the scripture is nonsense, is there anything in there you disagree with, or that you find is closer to being nonsense than the rest, anything that stands out?
I would say Noah cursing the descendants of ham, simply really bothers me. Slavery really bothers me. Hard work, forced labor, being owned, is just terrible. Hard work without pay is just atrocious! That even the New Testament promotes slavery is just out of control!
And condemning all the descendants of somebody because of a very minor offense their father did, is just terrible! And it came from like the holiest man on Earth at the time. I just, words do not describe, how terrible that sounds to me!
When God told Eve that because she ate some stupid piece of fruit, , that we all have to die as a result, and women have to go through all kinds of childbirth pains multiplied, and dying while they give birth, because Eve listenes to a talking snake, and ate a piece of fruit, it just strikes me as being extremely cruel, extremely atrocious, extremely narcissistic, extremely tyrannical, and I would rather cease to exist , than spend an eternity worshiping a God who would do such a thing!
but if you don't think any scripture verses are nonsense, would you say you have one that is your least favorite?
I personally believe that God wanted Adam and Eve to fall, cuz he tempted them with forbidden fruit, he allowed a serpent (that he created ) into the garden to tempt them, he didn't show up as their knight in shining armor to protect them, and he allowed them to be so unintelligent they would listen to a talking snake, then punished and essentially murdered everybody, including you and i, because of their disobedience!
If such a story is true.
I simply can barely stomach such cruelty, inhumane treatment of creatures you claim to love and be a father of, and I think it's extremely sad that we have a creator that would actually do that, if indeed it's true!
Napoleon could have been the emperor of the entire Earth, if everybody would just turn the other cheek , and love him, like Jesus commanded.
Is there any scripture verses that you think are nonsense? It has to be in the new testament, the old testament, or the deuterocanonicals.
If you don't think any of the scripture is nonsense, is there anything in there you disagree with, or that you find is closer to being nonsense than the rest, anything that stands out?
I would say Noah cursing the descendants of ham, simply really bothers me. Slavery really bothers me. Hard work, forced labor, being owned, is just terrible. Hard work without pay is just atrocious! That even the New Testament promotes slavery is just out of control!
And condemning all the descendants of somebody because of a very minor offense their father did, is just terrible! And it came from like the holiest man on Earth at the time. I just, words do not describe, how terrible that sounds to me!
When God told Eve that because she ate some stupid piece of fruit, , that we all have to die as a result, and women have to go through all kinds of childbirth pains multiplied, and dying while they give birth, because Eve listenes to a talking snake, and ate a piece of fruit, it just strikes me as being extremely cruel, extremely atrocious, extremely narcissistic, extremely tyrannical, and I would rather cease to exist , than spend an eternity worshiping a God who would do such a thing!
but if you don't think any scripture verses are nonsense, would you say you have one that is your least favorite?
I personally believe that God wanted Adam and Eve to fall, cuz he tempted them with forbidden fruit, he allowed a serpent (that he created ) into the garden to tempt them, he didn't show up as their knight in shining armor to protect them, and he allowed them to be so unintelligent they would listen to a talking snake, then punished and essentially murdered everybody, including you and i, because of their disobedience!
If such a story is true.
I simply can barely stomach such cruelty, inhumane treatment of creatures you claim to love and be a father of, and I think it's extremely sad that we have a creator that would actually do that, if indeed it's true!