Nonsense Bill. I can deliver passages out of context to you right and left from the Bible which on the surface are offensive. It would require some explanation of the context and spiritual principle for you to be able to support such passages, not a simple yes or no about its hatefulness. Especially where the implication is some sort of gotcha or bingo or whatever when the passage doesn't stand under every and all level of implication, which none do.
Maybe you wouldn't hesitate, I would. I am a skeptic of critics who's obvious agenda is to dishonor something held in an honorable light by others.
I consider the Bible to be 'The Good Book' and yet look what can be done, what has been done by enemies of the Bible to make it seem like an evil book of rape, murder, incest, etc. all condoned or ordered by God:
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"Now go and attack Amalek and utterly destroy all they have and do not spare them. Kill both man and women, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey."(1 Sam. 15:3) (See also: Deut.2:30-35, 7:1-2, 7:16; Josh.6:21; 1Sam.6:19; Jer.13:14) God would even go so far as to "harden the hearts or souls" of the intended victims to provoke a reason to attack them. (Exod.4:21; Deut.30:31)
"So says the Lord: 'Behold, I frame evil against you and divise against you...'"(Jer 18:11)
"No evil in this city is without God's will. "(Amos 3:6) " I make peace and I create evil. I the Lord do all these things."(Is. 45:7) "Out of the most high precedes both evil and good."(Lam. 3:38)
John 1:18 states human eyes have never seen God.
John 5: 37 states you have never heard the voice or seen the shape of God.
1Timothy 6:16 states no man has seen or can see God.
Was Jesus not God then? Did John and Timothy lie? Yes or no.
1 Samuel: 18:27 Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king's son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.
"And Moses said to them: "Have you kept all the women alive? Look, these women caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to trespass against the LORD in the incident of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD. Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known a man intimately. But keep alive for yourselves all the young GIRLS who have not known a man intimately." |
