Daily Bible Verse

Can Biggestbtc really think antislavery statements = trolling for controversy. :smiley: Or even demonstrating that someone who pretends to endorse slavery would not tolerate enslavement. That = trolling for controversy. Here in the unicyclist community, you’ll find no meaningful controversy about slavery.

Mike,

Not sure I understand. First you say “it is to be presumed that each person who posts one posts one that suits his or her purposes in posting.” So I’m to presume your quotes suit your purpose, which serves to support your view that there are bad things in the Bible.

If your point is that there is bad stuff in the Bible, really, you could have picked much worse examples. After all, how truly bad is it to curse the fig tree? Casting demons into a herd of innocent pigs and then drive them over the cliff. I mean, c’mon Mike, you may not eat pork, but you might enjoy a hamburger. Is that any worse? You never waste food?

Raising one individual from the dead can hardly be framed as bad. It’s not as good as ending world hunger, but bad it is not.

And providing inspiration for countless heavy metal songs, if you really think that’s bad, you may be older than your years.

Your point is that there is plenty of bad stuff in the Bible, but there’s also bad stuff in Homer, Shakespeare, and indeed any other serious writings by intelligent people. There’s one Shakespeare play where they kill the sons and bake them into pies they feed the parents, then tell them about it!! Norse and Saxon myths, and even the works of Tolkien, contain plenty of bad stuff too. Even Winnie the Pooh disturbs the bees and steals their honey. Now that’s BAD!

Billy

The Bible is not in the same category. People live their lives (for good or bad) according to the Bible.

Edit: darn, I promised myself I wasn’t going to participate in the off-topic debate portion of this thread.

Agreed. The bible has good and bad things in it, and it just seems wrong to merely look at everything and follow it without thought. It’s much better to properly analyze the works you read, and see if you agree or disagree, rather than look at the source and figure from the start “oh this is right”, or “oh this is wrong”. Asking one to have complete and utter faith in something is like asking for someone to be completely brainless and ignorant. Asking one to look at a work and then see what kind of wisdom he can pull out of it as well as analyze were the author may have been wrong seems like a much more just and rational thing to do.

Where can I buy a copy of this version!?

wow, and that folks is why the 80’s were such scary times.
speaking of the 80’s

I think the worst thing I’ve heard about in the bible is Noah’s ark (you can probably tell I haven’t heard all that much from it). That’s just a terrible story. It suggests that it’s Ok to kill almost every last living thing on the planet, as long as you leave just enough to reproduce. Am I the only one that sees the lack of logic in that? God was thinking, “hey, all humans are bad, except Noah and his family. Although I have all the power in the world, and I could simply kill only the ones that are bad (or better yet, throw experiences at them that will teach them to be good), I think it would be much much more simple to destroy almost all existence in general. That seems like a good idea”. What do people learn from this story? Only that it’s ok to just do the simplest thing and just not give a shit about others, assuming you are in authority. I guess it also teaches you not to be bad if you do not have authority, because if you are bad then those in authority will just destroy you and everyone around you. The bible does have some good ideas, but it just seems to me that utter faith in it is irresponsible.

I thought people lived their lives according to the Golden Rule, or the Ten Commandments.

The Bible is too big and confusing to live your life by it. What does Noah’s arc tell me about how to live?

Noah’s arc? Now that’s thrown me a curve ball.

Billy, I am not going to perpetuate the off-topic debating of religion in this Daily Bible Verse thread. I am simply awaiting the next Bible verse or Stryper video.

short and sweet today

Romans 8:31 What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Good verse. This one applies to this thread as we have seen people saying that God is cruel, etc., but if God is for you, you got it going good.

I guess I’ll follow your example, although I almost replied to Fule. But I’ll just leave it there.

I lieu of a Stryper video, today I want to share a website I discovered.

http://christwire.org/

I was a little confused about this website and researching it led me to the discovery of Poe’s Law. http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/Poe’s_Law which basically says that parody of fundamentalism is difficult to discern from actual fundamentalism.

Maybe that’s what I love about Stryper. At a glance, its a little hard to tell which they are.

Satan? Dave?

For our case, as unicyclists, gravity always seems to be against us.

The Truth about Stryper.

:thinking:

:smiley:

Ah, but gravity is the force that makes unicycling possible. Imagine trying to ride without it!

Someday that will be a lot more accessible, at which time Earth-based sports will become obsolete (at least for gravity-free areas). New sports will have to be developed, or adopted to the new environment.

That’s always the question though. How does one know if God is for them?

“God is for us” because we can share in the intense love depicted by the stories of the life and ministry of Jesus Christ.

If God has predestined you, if he has called you, if he has justified you and glorified you, he is on your side.
If you have repented sincerely of the wrongs you have committed against Him and are living how He would have you to live, then you would know that God is for you.

Or if you don’t like my answer, can ask it at Yahoo! Answers.

There are three things that you need to remember when interpreting a passage:

  1. Context
  2. Context
  3. Context

Read the whole of Romans 8 and you will get a better idea of what vs. 31 is talking about.

Psalm 37:1-6

   1 Do not fret because of evil men
   or be envious of those who do wrong; 2 for like the grass they will soon wither, like green plants they will soon die away.3 Trust in the LORD and do good; dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture. 4 Delight yourself in the LORD

and he will give you the desires of your heart. 5 Commit your way to the LORD;
trust in him and he will do this: 6 He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn,
the justice of your cause like the noonday sun.

What if God disappeared?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkCuc34hvD4