Quoting scripture in order to prove that the Bible is TRUE accurate and COMPLETELY honest, is like a dog returning to its own vomit for sustenance.
The Bible is true because it says so.
The Bible also has fun phrases which have been purposely seeded into it to prevent anyone from thinking for themselves. Be warned of atheists and devil worshipers who try and trick you and tell you that the word of GOD is fake. hold fast to the teachings of the scripture and never stray regardless of the logical temptations that arise. Whatever else you do. . . . DO NOT question the bible or do ANY research outside of the bible or struggle in any way to find truth on your own. . . or you will find yourself entangled by the traps of SATAN himself and forever be damned to hell. Oh lets not forget that only a truly spiritual person could understand the bible and if you have ANY DOUBTS whatsoever than you are not a God fearing true christian. . . . and your going to hell!!
This kind of mindset was not planted into christian faith by accident. but as a means to scare people and control them into never turning away from Christianity or thinking for themselves.
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Kill People Who Don't Listen to Priests
Anyone arrogant enough to reject the verdict of the judge or of the priest who represents the LORD your God must be put to death. Such evil must be purged from Israel. (Deuteronomy 17:12 NLT)
Kill Witches
You should not let a sorceress live. (Exodus 22:17 NAB)
Kill Homosexuals
"If a man lies with a male as with a women, both of them shall be put to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives." (Leviticus 20:13 NAB)
Kill Fortunetellers
A man or a woman who acts as a medium or fortuneteller shall be put to death by stoning; they have no one but themselves to blame for their death. (Leviticus 20:27 NAB)
Death for Hitting Dad
Whoever strikes his father or mother shall be put to death. (Exodus 21:15 NAB)
Death for Cursing Parents
1) If one curses his father or mother, his lamp will go out at the coming of darkness. (Proverbs 20:20 NAB)
2) All who curse their father or mother must be put to death. They are guilty of a capital offense. (Leviticus 20:9 NLT)
Death for Adultery
If a man commits adultery with another man's wife, both the man and the woman must be put to death. (Leviticus 20:10 NLT)
Death for Fornication
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Kill People Who Don't Listen to Priests
Anyone arrogant enough to reject the verdict of the judge or of the priest who represents the LORD your God must be put to death. Such evil must be purged from Israel. (Deuteronomy 17:12 NLT)
Kill Witches
You should not let a sorceress live. (Exodus 22:17 NAB)
Kill Homosexuals
"If a man lies with a male as with a women, both of them shall be put to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives." (Leviticus 20:13 NAB)
Kill Fortunetellers
A man or a woman who acts as a medium or fortuneteller shall be put to death by stoning; they have no one but themselves to blame for their death. (Leviticus 20:27 NAB)
Death for Hitting Dad
Whoever strikes his father or mother shall be put to death. (Exodus 21:15 NAB)
Death for Cursing Parents
1) If one curses his father or mother, his lamp will go out at the coming of darkness. (Proverbs 20:20 NAB)
2) All who curse their father or mother must be put to death. They are guilty of a capital offense. (Leviticus 20:9 NLT)
Death for Adultery
If a man commits adultery with another man's wife, both the man and the woman must be put to death. (Leviticus 20:10 NLT)
Death for Fornication
A priest's daughter who loses her honor by committing fornication and thereby dishonors her father also, shall be burned to death. (Leviticus 21:9 NAB)
Death to Followers of Other Religions
Whoever sacrifices to any god, except the Lord alone, shall be doomed. (Exodus 22:19 NAB)
Kill Nonbelievers
They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. (2 Chronicles 15:12-13 NAB)
Kill False Prophets
If a man still prophesies, his parents, father and mother, shall say to him, "You shall not live, because you have spoken a lie in the name of the Lord." When he prophesies, his parents, father and mother, shall thrust him through. (Zechariah 13:3 NAB)
Kill the Entire Town if One Person Worships Another God
Suppose you hear in one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you that some worthless rabble among you have led their fellow citizens astray by encouraging them to worship foreign gods. In such cases, you must examine the facts carefully. If you find it is true and can prove that such a detestable act has occurred among you, you must attack that town and completely destroy all its inhabitants, as well as all the livestock. Then you must pile all the plunder in the middle of the street and burn it. Put the entire town to the torch as a burnt offering to the LORD your God. That town must remain a ruin forever; it may never be rebuilt. Keep none of the plunder that has been set apart for destruction. Then the LORD will turn from his fierce anger and be merciful to you. He will have compassion on you and make you a great nation, just as he solemnly promised your ancestors. "The LORD your God will be merciful only if you obey him and keep all the commands I am giving you today, doing what is pleasing to him." (Deuteronomy 13:13-19 NLT)
Kill Women Who Are Not Virgins On Their Wedding Night
But if this charge is true (that she wasn't a virgin on her wedding night), and evidence of the girls virginity is not found, they shall bring the girl to the entrance of her fathers house and there her townsman shall stone her to death, because she committed a crime against Israel by her unchasteness in her father's house. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst. (Deuteronomy 22:20-21 NAB)
Kill Followers of Other Religions.
1) If your own full brother, or your son or daughter, or your beloved wife, or you intimate friend, entices you secretly to serve other gods, whom you and your fathers have not known, gods of any other nations, near at hand or far away, from one end of the earth to the other: do not yield to him or listen to him, nor look with pity upon him, to spare or shield him, but kill him. Your hand shall be the first raised to slay him; the rest of the people shall join in with you. You shall stone him to death, because he sought to lead you astray from the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery. And all Israel, hearing of this, shall fear and never do such evil as this in your midst. (Deuteronomy 13:7-12 NAB)
2) Suppose a man or woman among you, in one of your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, has done evil in the sight of the LORD your God and has violated the covenant by serving other gods or by worshiping the sun, the moon, or any of the forces of heaven, which I have strictly forbidden. When you hear about it, investigate the matter thoroughly. If it is true that this detestable thing has been done in Israel, then that man or woman must be taken to the gates of the town and stoned to death. (Deuteronomy 17:2-5 NLT)
Death for Blasphemy
One day a man who had an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father got into a fight with one of the Israelite men. During the fight, this son of an Israelite woman blasphemed the LORD's name. So the man was brought to Moses for judgment. His mother's name was Shelomith. She was the daughter of Dibri of the tribe of Dan. They put the man in custody until the LORD's will in the matter should become clear. Then the LORD said to Moses, "Take the blasphemer outside the camp, and tell all those who heard him to lay their hands on his head. Then let the entire community stone him to death. Say to the people of Israel: Those who blaspheme God will suffer the consequences of their guilt and be punished. Anyone who blasphemes the LORD's name must be stoned to death by the whole community of Israel. Any Israelite or foreigner among you who blasphemes the LORD's name will surely die. (Leviticus 24:10-16 NLT)
Kill False Prophets
1) Suppose there are prophets among you, or those who have dreams about the future, and they promise you signs or miracles, and the predicted signs or miracles take place. If the prophets then say, 'Come, let us worship the gods of foreign nations,' do not listen to them. The LORD your God is testing you to see if you love him with all your heart and soul. Serve only the LORD your God and fear him alone. Obey his commands, listen to his voice, and cling to him. The false prophets or dreamers who try to lead you astray must be put to death, for they encourage rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of slavery in the land of Egypt. Since they try to keep you from following the LORD your God, you must execute them to remove the evil from among you. (Deuteronomy 13:1-5 NLT)
2) But any prophet who claims to give a message from another god or who falsely claims to speak for me must die.' You may wonder, 'How will we know whether the prophecy is from the LORD or not?' If the prophet predicts something in the LORD's name and it does not happen, the LORD did not give the message. That prophet has spoken on his own and need not be feared. (Deuteronomy 18:20-22 NLT)
Infidels and Gays Should Die
So God let them go ahead and do whatever shameful things their hearts desired. As a result, they did vile and degrading things with each other's bodies. Instead of believing what they knew was the truth about God, they deliberately chose to believe lies. So they worshiped the things God made but not the Creator himself, who is to be praised forever. Amen. That is why God abandoned them to their shameful desires. Even the women turned against the natural way to have sex and instead indulged in sex with each other. And the men, instead of having normal sexual relationships with women, burned with lust for each other. Men did shameful things with other men and, as a result, suffered within themselves the penalty they so richly deserved. When they refused to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their evil minds and let them do things that should never be done. Their lives became full of every kind of wickedness, sin, greed, hate, envy, murder, fighting, deception, malicious behavior, and gossip. They are backstabbers, haters of God, insolent, proud, and boastful. They are forever inventing new ways of sinning and are disobedient to their parents. They refuse to understand, break their promises, and are heartless and unforgiving. They are fully aware of God's death penalty for those who do these things, yet they go right ahead and do them anyway. And, worse yet, they encourage others to do them, too. (Romans 1:24-32 NLT)
Kill Anyone who Approaches the Tabernacle
For the LORD had said to Moses, 'Exempt the tribe of Levi from the census; do not include them when you count the rest of the Israelites. You must put the Levites in charge of the Tabernacle of the Covenant, along with its furnishings and equipment. They must carry the Tabernacle and its equipment as you travel, and they must care for it and camp around it. Whenever the Tabernacle is moved, the Levites will take it down and set it up again. Anyone else who goes too near the Tabernacle will be executed.' (Numbers 1:48-51 NLT)
Kill People for Working on the Sabbath
The LORD then gave these further instructions to Moses: 'Tell the people of Israel to keep my Sabbath day, for the Sabbath is a sign of the covenant between me and you forever. It helps you to remember that I am the LORD, who makes you holy. Yes, keep the Sabbath day, for it is holy. Anyone who desecrates it must die; anyone who works on that day will be cut off from the community. Work six days only, but the seventh day must be a day of total rest. I repeat: Because the LORD considers it a holy day, anyone who works on the Sabbath must be put to death.' (Exodus 31:12-15 NLT)
Killing is at the at most... highest worst sin. 9/11? They probably went to hell for what they did in NY, even under their own religious beliefs.
look it up people. Think for yourself, and not by only what the Bible tells yeah.
Don't listen to me either, and educate yourself. ;-)
Have A Good Day. :-D
Go ahead and tell your friends you think Einstein was one of the stupidest people on earth (since he was an atheist).
Reading the Bible is a bit like reading novels in a high school literature class - to get the most out of the book, you have to study the way the words are arranged and how they interact with each other.
Take the book of Genesis, for example. Adam and Eve probably didn't actually eat an apple because a talking snake (or Satan, if you prefer) told them to and then getting kicked out . Instead, the apple and Satan are symbols - the apple for knowledge and virtue, because the apple bestowed lots of knowledge about the difference between right and wrong on anyone who ate it, and Satan for immaturity and selfishness because he tricked Adam and Eve into eating the apple and gaining all this knowledge before they were ready to learn it so that he could turn them to his own selfish plans. Right away, your view of the story probably changed drastically - instead of two hungry, naked Dr. Dolittles and an angry man who tells people to get off his lawn, we see two curious, innocent people trying to learn more things than they're capable of, and God's attempts to slow them down and help them understand what they're trying to learn.
With that said, reading the Bible doesn't make you mindless. Instead, the ...
Reading the Bible is a bit like reading novels in a high school literature class - to get the most out of the book, you have to study the way the words are arranged and how they interact with each other.
Take the book of Genesis, for example. Adam and Eve probably didn't actually eat an apple because a talking snake (or Satan, if you prefer) told them to and then getting kicked out . Instead, the apple and Satan are symbols - the apple for knowledge and virtue, because the apple bestowed lots of knowledge about the difference between right and wrong on anyone who ate it, and Satan for immaturity and selfishness because he tricked Adam and Eve into eating the apple and gaining all this knowledge before they were ready to learn it so that he could turn them to his own selfish plans. Right away, your view of the story probably changed drastically - instead of two hungry, naked Dr. Dolittles and an angry man who tells people to get off his lawn, we see two curious, innocent people trying to learn more things than they're capable of, and God's attempts to slow them down and help them understand what they're trying to learn.
With that said, reading the Bible doesn't make you mindless. Instead, the people who give it a bad name are the ones who read it once and simply puke out every word on demand instead of thinking about what the words mean and where the symbols are planted in the pages. Ask those same people to write an essay about, say, The Hunger Games, and those people will probably write a basic summary instead of explaining how the books relate to the real world, and then complain when you give them an F.
I.E. Before you go around quoting the Bible, analyze them and think about what the scriptures you're quoting actually mean.
You read any books and use what they say to form your opinions and personality. It's indoctrination from other people that makes you only read one book and believe it is true.
Yes, orthodoxy (correct belief, dogma) is highly manipulative. It has to be because it has such a strong propensity to go into The Forces of Good™ vs. The Forces of Evil™ mode and that mode is more about (belief-based) identity wars than it's about excellence of thought, word and action. That's why religious wars and "culture wars" (religious war lite) bring out the very worst in people.
But obviously, people can get into identity wars saturated with black and white thinking along other lines, such as the conservative vs. liberal binary crap in the U.S, for example.
Bottom line, it's better to teach/learn how to think well than to tell people that their world view(s) are wrong, damned, dumb or insane. You won't get far with the latter but the former has incredible almost ineffable directional force.
Get More Fantasy Greetings
Revelation 12:9 So down the great dragon was hurled, the original serpent, the one called Devil and Satan, who is misleading the entire inhabited earth; he was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him
Just more fear-mongering trash-fiction fantasy.
But, there remains no Proof/evidence of god or satan existing.
Eg: Possession is nothing demonic. It's essentially a malfunction in the brain's balancing of the Id vs Ego & Superego where the Id overhwelms things temporarily.
There's been 2 cases where they had a chance to MRI 'possessed people, and called in experts regarding some cutting edge concepts regarding the Conscious mind.
What they found was that the brain in such a state acts like a full-spectrum radio-reciever, and the person is picking up the thoughts of everyone around them for considerable distances.
Nothing psychic, just physics as the brain operates on electrical impulses and such comes with RF signatures.
The brain starts acting like TEMPEST espionage equipment as an analogy.
Combined with the Id running rampant...
Scary-time, but now understood.
now let me ask you how do you explain people walking away from car accidents, where the car is a total mess, I mean torn apart and things like car seats ripped in two. Or even some one faling of a ten story build land on their feets and walk away. with not even a scratch one them?
there is far greater thing I haven't said here.
This has been tested in computer an full-scale mock-ups--expensive as it took over 1000 vehicle crashes to verify it, the dummy-drop tests from various heights were pricey too, but yielded results sooner as clothing plays a significant factor and they could adjust towards that.
The greater thing, please?? :-)
when I was 19 and this is a personal witness or true event. I was involved in a head on with a bus the car was totalled the man along side me spent 9 months in a coma, which lead to some brain function problems later on. I was the driver the car seat was snapped in two. and I had blood running down my face. I was helped ou of the car by someone who knew me from my old school at the time. Now on the way to the hospital I was declared dead but recovered whislt on the way to the hospital as well. now while I was in the paramedic van, I seen not an out of body expirence but something very different. I was in a dark room where there was a beam of light and a voice told me to go back. while other people have spoken of things similar in the past and I know you will draw upon those accounts too, now like I said ask yourself what you really believe for this is true as I know having been there and seen this myself personaly, and there is more but I tend to keep that to myself or share with those whom I know closely.
Humanity created god, not vice versa, and we are greater than we know.
Out of body experience, yes, your consciousness was detaching from your physicality, and likely the subconcious told you to go back, being aware on a cellular level that you could survive.
god gets no credit for that.
YOU do however. :-)
There's a lot regarding the persistent quantum EM 'state' field that is Consciousness yet to be understood, but it is known and cknowledged to exist.
The universe, Life and Us...all of it is far more complex than we all suspect--and wondrous also. :-)
...and that Life is also just plain weird. :-D