rluvsb

How do you decide which parts of the Bible to believe?

Matt the Medic

How do you?

Aegeri

How do you? Would you demand a woman that spoke in Church be thrown out? Why not? How did you determine that?

rluvsb

I read it in context. You mentioned slavery, which was a historical truth and continues today. If you are a slave you should do your best to serve your master. That doesn ot mean that people should take slaves.

Where in the Bible are demons held responsible for diseases? I am not familiar with that idea. I do know that God understands germ theory based on the laws for cleanliness given in Leviticus and Deuteronomy.

Should we be able to choose to ignore the laws in our government that don't fit science?

rluvsb

Can you give me that reference? I understand that God intends men to be the leaders of the church, not that they may not speak.

Matt the Medic

Slaves should do their best to serve their master?

So when slaves in 19th Century U.S. tried to revolt or break free to the North they were sinning? Was the underground railroad inherently evil?

Should wives under abusive husbands just suck it up and deal with it and be the best wife they can be?

Matt the Medic

First Corinthians, 14:34-35

rluvsb

God provided a way for the Israelites to escape their bondage in Egypt through Moses, just as he did in the US under the leadership of peolpe like Martin Luther King Jr.

God does not intend for people to suffer, it is because of the choices of others and their sin that people suffer under oppression. You do not repay sin with sin. If the husband waas loving his wife as Christ loved the Church (he gave his life for it) there wouldn't be the abuse in the first place. When the husband is trained by our society that he is just having primal urges that are remnants of his ape ancestry, it does not surprise me that he acts like an animal. If you ask "Where is God when bad things happen?", the answer is we have kicked him out of our schools and our government and our laws and our society.

Matt the Medic

You realize slaves were freed a hundred years before Martin Luther King, Jr., and that the 'glorious way' god gave to free the slaves was one of the bloodiest wars of all time?

Our modern schools and government are responsible for the prior 10,000 years of bad stuff happening? Good to know.

Where was god when he purposely created his creation to be damned, except for a few, by himself to hell? Out to lunch?

RBH

Closed for splitting.

RBH
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