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There is way too much emphasis on what the Bible means to me or you, personally. I don't read it to hear what I want to hear; I read it to hear what God has to say. So I'm not interested in sugar coating the truth. I am not interested in flat out ignoring verses in the Bible because I've found some personal reason to think that I should.

I've been pointing out what I see as obvious contradictions. Even if I marry one day and find the idea of submitting to another human being absolutely insufferable, that DOES NOT give me the freedom to reinterpret the Bible in some other way. It doesn't matter what I personally think God should have to say on the matter of a woman's place in the world. It only matters what God actually says about it.

When God says He created man and he became a living soul when God breathed life into him, and that He then put this man to sleep and created a woman from his rib, and then someone here goes on to say "well maybe what God really did was create man through evolution", then we have a serious problem. If you don't believe the whole Bible, you're just picking and choosing what you want to believe, making up your own religion as you go.

Lovethyneighbor, teens4christ 29 Comments [7/28/2007 11:57:45 PM]
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#271285
Ms. Demenor

The bible is not what God said but what fellow humans think he said, misinterpretation and mistranslations notwithstanding.

7/29/2007 12:12:15 AM
#271286
Lunalelle

Everyone brings something different to the Bible. That's what you brought. WHATEVER you see in the verses, that doesn't guarantee that someone else is going to interpret it the same way. How do you KNOW that yours is the right way? Are you just always conveniently right? Who are you to presume to know the Will of God as set down in a different language thousands of years ago?

Believe me, you're as picky and choosy as the person who you're talking to. EVERYONE picks and chooses. You choose to take things literally, others choose metaphor, others choose application in the present world in comparison to then... Who really presumes to KNOW?

7/29/2007 12:17:26 AM
#271287
Lunalelle

I hate capslock, but I'm too lazy for italics at the moment.

7/29/2007 12:18:01 AM
#271289
Old Viking

Actually, dear, I reject it in its entirety as primitive hogwash.

7/29/2007 12:20:37 AM
#271291
Detrs

The scary thing is, I think she really wouldn't "reinterpret" the bible even if her husband were beating her.

7/29/2007 12:31:56 AM
#271297
agentCDE

If you take the Bible literally, it just becomes an even bigger pile of shit. Sorry.

7/29/2007 1:18:22 AM
#271299
D-OveRMinD

That's funny...Christians have been reinterpreting and making up their own religion for years. Why are there so many denominations? I bet you read the King James VERSION of the Bible don't you?

7/29/2007 2:10:02 AM
#271310
Viva

If you don't believe the whole Bible, you're just picking and choosing what you want to believe, making up your own religion as you go.

Actually, that's one of my reasons to dislike christianity, it's all hogwash anyway.

But it's amusing to hear a fundie say it.

7/29/2007 2:27:26 AM
#271315
Bert

Just read that back to yourself.

7/29/2007 2:35:14 AM
#271332
Deriamis

"If you don't believe the whole Bible, you're just picking and choosing what you want to believe, making up your own religion as you go."

Um. So, you stone your neighbor when he wears his business suit to work, right? Oh - and what about the fact that he cuts the hair at his temples short?

Mirror mirror on the wall...

7/29/2007 3:59:49 AM
#271348
Joules

Isn't this the same person who believes that pain-relief in childbirth is sinful? She's going to have a wonderful life, isn't she?

Silly little twat.


7/29/2007 5:10:05 AM
#271350
Donald Dehavilhand

Can anybody tell me where this other Teens4Christ has come from? Is it for people who aren't quite insane enough for the Randy version?

7/29/2007 5:33:45 AM
#271351
Frank

How do these people deal with biblical contradictions? Do they even read their precious bible?

7/29/2007 5:34:11 AM
#271382
anevilmeme

This really is fundieism in a nutshell. The whole bible must be true. For fundies if any part of the bible is false then the whole thing is false. Which explains why they leave the bounds of reality trying to explain how bats really are fowls, how pi really does equal 3, how the earth really is the center of the universe, etc. The best defense fundies have is to not read the whole bible which most don't, and that makes them even funnier.

7/29/2007 6:44:36 AM
#271419
akg41470

Then this is good reason not believe the Bible at ALL, don't you think?

7/29/2007 8:28:25 AM
#271427
Gadren

Isn't it amazing that God's thoughts just happen to coincide with yours? That you hate the kind of people he hates?

7/29/2007 8:49:20 AM
#271480
Eric

I've had questions about the Bible and I tried to ask God/Jehovah/Yahweh, but I never received an answer so I concluded that he/she/it/they doesn't exist.

7/29/2007 10:38:03 AM
#271486
Tomby Stone

Someone already brought this up but it's an important issue. If you really do take the entire Bible literally and think it should be followed to the letter, why aren't you out killing gays or at least petitioning to make homosexuality legally punishable by death ???
Not to mention all of the other little bits of one's personal business that God seems to want us to kill people for.

7/29/2007 10:46:03 AM
#271500
flipper

Congratulations, your last sentence describes the basic contradiction that causes this site to exist. While fundies accuse everyone else of this, they are the world's worst offenders with their cherry-picking verses to fit their agenda(kill the gays, ignore the kill the shell-fish eaters, football players, near-sighted, pork-eaters, and Sunday workers in the surrounding verses). "Rapture" and "saved" are interpretations of scripture, not literal. Your religion is called Christian, so why do you always quote Paul as though he were God's chosen son and ignore Jesus? Why do you demean women(like Paul), when Jesus picked a female (Mary Magdalene) to be the first one to see him risen and spread the Gospel?

7/29/2007 11:36:36 AM
#271516
Papabear

"I am not interested in flat out ignoring verses in the Bible because I've found some personal reason to think that I should."

One of the many problems with the Bible is that one HAS to ignore some of the passages. Many passages flatly contradict other passages. The best a Christian can hope for is to be happily hypocritical.

7/29/2007 12:11:57 PM
#271529
Osiris

Randy's going to have a fit about this.

7/29/2007 12:33:42 PM
#271549
Raven Blackhawk

I don't read it to hear what I want to hear; I read it to hear what God has to say.


Um, it still means that you hear what you want to hear. You haven't proven that gawd exists.

Even if I marry one day and find the idea of submitting to another human being absolutely insufferable, that DOES NOT give me the freedom to reinterpret the Bible in some other way.


Of course not. You'll bow down and do as you're told like a good little christian slave wife.

If you don't believe the whole Bible, you're just picking and choosing what you want to believe, making up your own religion as you go.


Yeah, it's funny that you should say something like that....

7/29/2007 1:26:40 PM
#271553
Puck

To refute what your elders told you, the bible is not an instruction manual. Get serious.

7/29/2007 1:39:02 PM
#271557
Red_Sun_Rising

"making up your own religion as you go"

its more fun that way!

7/29/2007 1:50:22 PM
#271567
Bryan65

Every religions and follower cherry picks the Bible. Fundies are the worst. They use the Bible to justify hatred and bigotry. That's why it needs to be kept in a historical context.

Or what the latest interpretation of the book.

There are two different ways Adam and Eve were created, according to Genesis. Which version do you believe?

This is the problem with religion. It's given a voice to brainless robots like you.

7/29/2007 2:25:50 PM
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