Outdated or Irrelevant bible beliefs/ viewpoints, ect.

This thread is mostly one sided. I'm all for open discussions but from the looks of it, the majority of posters in this topic are just interested in bashing religion. I'm not exactly sure this is the right place to discuss something like this. The hell am I saying, clearly this isn't the right place to discuss religion.

So basically you come here with your mind made up saying that The Holy Bible is bad, and then go on and ask people to make your argument for you?

that entire book of fairy tales is outdated

2edgy4me.

Your assumption is incorrect. The Israelites were in a convent with Gos and had to obey certain restrictions to set them apart from the surrounding nations. Most of those laws seem irrelelant, and also no longer binding once Jesus made a new convenant What you and many fail to understand is the logic behind those laws. Many of those laws are to do with hygine and health. Wash your hands, dont shit were you eat, dont get too friendly with dead people. Outdated? Hardly.
As for the limits on what type of meat could be eaten is also health related. Shellfish are great for absorbing toxins from the water and could therefore cause sickness. If you do some research, you will find the animals that were forbidden usually have some health concern with eating thier meat, eg no fish that does not have scales would include the porcupine fish which is mostly poisonous.
As I said though, those laws no longer apply and you can eat what you want, whenever you want.

I don't believe in god so I don't really care about the book

I only came here to ask this:
What's the point of this post?

Go to youtube and watch the videos of Darkmatter2525. He digs up all kinds of ridiculous passages and weaves them into his satirical cartoons with high frequency.

So wait. This is for an english class debate where you need to "show that in no way is any religion 100% right or pure."

I'd love to see the course description for this class.

I'm a Deist.

Bible is a nice book, lots of good stories and most are as simple as a child could understand easily.

But ... it's existanse is irrelevant.Bible is a book that gathered writings of the last 1500 YEARS.It was even outdated when it first came out as one simple book.Also English is NOT a good language to understand Bible.Either learn Aramaic and read it with it's original writings or learn Arabic and read it's Aramaic translations.

I read Bible, Qur'an and some parts of Psalms.Bible is easier to understand but makes least sense.Qur'an is harder to understand but makes more sense.Psalms made no sense at all.

Please don't kill me , I humbly shared my opinions.I know you shouldn't share opinions on internet but OH LORD, I sinned forgive me CG.

P.S. I thought shellfish thing was in Torah, not in Bible.I'm not sure check here.

Depending on someone's personal beliefs, either all of it, none of it or somewhere in between.

SeductiveBear, you mentioned in a previous reply you are playing devil's advocate and that your actual position may surprise some of us. Since a number of people have stated their positions, would you care to tell us what your position is?

To answer your original question, I believe that there are countless things in the bible that modern society would consider ludicrous and outdated, but I also believe modern society isn't the yardstick by which we should judge the validity of the bible. As someone else pointed in another comment, "we can't possible know what aspects of our modern society are going to be labeled as barbaric in 2000 years". If our own society's social norms are constantly changing how then is what we say today any more valid than what we will say in another 50 years, or 100 years, or 2000 years? It is not; because society will change over time and what is acceptable today will be abhorant tomorrow; what is abhorant today will be acceptable tomorrow.

If you agree with that statement then consider that the bible has not changed in over 2000 years. Though some have tried to eradicate it, change it, add to it, or take away from it the bible that we have today is consistent with what we had 2000 years ago and that is because it has not become outdated or irrelevant. The claim of the bible is that it is God's own words, written by men that He chose, but nevertheless the words are completely inspired (lit. "breathed") by God: "All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work." (2 Timothy 3:16).

I understand you do not hold this, but if God is the bible's author as scripture itself claims, and if we are the intended audience, then what God has written is still relevant to us today. Even the old mosaic laws are still relevant because they allow us to see how Christ has perfectly fulfilled the law on our behalf. It is relevant because it contains everything God wants us to know about Himself, His person, His character, His will, and about ourselves in relationship to Him.

Most importantly the bible is as relevant today as it has ever been because if we take God at his word, it completely changes a person's life. Instead of believing what modern society deems is right or wrong at any given point in history, we have been given God's moral laws which are unchanging and perfect because He is unchanging and perfect. Moreover the person bound for hell (eternal punishment and separation from God) becomes a person bound for heaven (eternal peace and intimacy with God). To put it concisely, our eternal salvation comes from trusting in this: "that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures" (1 Corinthians 15:4)

Isn't this a site about videogames?

That a talking snake exist...

Thor promised an end to frost giants.Jesus promised an end to wicked people.

I don't see too many frost giants around.

Religion is a form of mental illness.

You can make a woman by taking a rib from a man so lucky everyone has 24 ribs guess its time rip them out.

• Do not create threads for political or other inflammatory topics, it will only cause trouble.

• Do not feed into inflammatory discussions.

Please don't open anything like this again.

You can go ask the experts on reddit.