True Believer
Posted by christianrasmussen1981 on 27th February 2010
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a question for the true believers?
Congressman William Jennings Bryan said "If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.". That is to say "what the bible says goes". So if that be the case how do you resolve yourself to scriptures such as…
"Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. But all the young girls who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves."
Moses-Numbers 31:17
or
"But if the thing is true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young woman, then you shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones…"
god-Deuteronomy 22:20
In the first case brutal violence and the exploitation if not rape of young girls is condoned by a biblical hero and in the second the stoning of a woman who has sex out of wedlock condoned by god.
I know…context is important but this is pretty straight forward stuff that needs to be pretty twisted around to be in context with modern morality.
I’m really curious to know how those that truly want to live by the scriptures make this work in their moral code…or is what is being suggested here just fine with you.
True Believer=the fundamentalist that doesn’t have doubts or questions or at least claims not to.
(joy of jesus)..so the bible is impossible for a non believer to understand. That seems very convenient. You get to make up the rules and those that question the rules are discarded because we simply don’t get it.
(CY) Dispensation??? What dispensation? Jesus said of the old testament….
"Until Heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass away from the law, until all is accomplished" (Matthew 5:18)
(gary b) nonsense – see my response to CY. Jesus never said you could ignore the teaching of the old testament. Quite the contrary.
He insisted the the laws be upheld.
(gary b)
I read your letter more closely now. Defending my knowledge of the bible to you is likely counter productive but I will say that anger and insults are a poor substitute for debating skills. Sorry…just felt the needed to defend myself a small amount.
I’m not sure what your take on ‘true-believers’ is, but I’ma try and answer the question as best I can.
I’m a Christian. I follow the teachings of the Christ figure in regards to how I live my life. Unfortunately, the only place I can find the teachings of the Christ figure is in the New Testament of the Bible. If there were alternative sources, I would use those, but alas, there are not. So, as far as the bible goes ~ I’m not a bibleist. If I’m looking for guidance as to what I’ma do in my life I look only to the parts that are about the Jesus character. Sure, they are all in the same book, but I’m not reading the parts that don’t apply to Christ, and thereby do not apply to my CHRISTianity.
This is just my own personal take. Apparently I’m the bane of most every other Christians existence because instead of picking and choosing the bible and claiming I do not I’m pretty forthcoming with the notion that there is only ‘one part’ I am interested in as far as lifestyle goes.
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