Thoughts on the Existence of the Universe

[LittleNipper]

"Actually" christians are an embarrassing group of people with a grand arrogance in their fairy tale that they ignore the history of religion.
They claim all the other "gods" are made up, ignoring the obvious implications to their own myth.
They ignore the factual evidence that links all their fairy tales to previous fairy tales, concluding that those previous are simply poo-poo.
They ignore the real proven science that shows the history and evolution of religion throughout the world and how they came about, choosing instead to believe that a god that can create the world but is stymied by iron wheels is really a superior idea.
They laugh at the same fairy tales other religions have that are exactly the same as their own, but claim their fairy tales is right because god told them so.
But worse than all of this is the absolute absurdity that is the babble, which is so full of retarded concepts, ignorant ideas, and downright laughable plots that they appear to normal people to be complete morons.
Lastly, of course is simple simple observation and common sense. If one can grasp the shear vastness of space, realizing how utterly minute our entire galaxy is let alone our own solar system, the concept of a "god", is incredulous. But even more, that a god that would create such a magnitude would be befuddled by a womans period and actually decide that a woman should have her hand cut off for having the audacity to help save her husbands life by grabbing an attackers testicles, or even of more astonishment of such a powerful god...that to consider that tatoo's are an abomination to him, but he champions killing children and raping little girls.

No sir, you are a sick perverted pos that would consider THAT a god, and one to worship to boot. You are what makes humanity disgusting.

You can look all these issues up on the internet. There are Questions and Answers to the Bible to be found. Some of the insights might even astound you, if you are seeking understanding. However, when The United States dropped the BOMB on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 100's and 1000's of seemingly innocent lives were consumed in an instant. It was a war and what Japan was doing and what she was continuing to do was evil. If not, then the attacks on mainland China and Pearl Harbor must have been a good thing to your way of thinking.

The rapes were against the will of God but the mandate that those involved had to marry those they raped was punishment and not a reward...   

[Sargon The Grape]

You can look all these issues up on the internet.

We already have, unless you think we're pulling our conclusions out of our asses.

There are Questions and Answers to the Bible to be found. Some of the insights might even astound you, if you are seeking understanding.

Oh I know. Personally, I'm rather inclined toward this guy's take on things. And I would be remiss were I to forget The Bible Reloaded and Attack the Text.

However, when The United States dropped the BOMB on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 100's and 1000's of seemingly innocent lives were consumed in an instant. It was a war and what Japan was doing and what she was continuing to do was evil. If not, then the attacks on mainland China and Pearl Harbor must have been a good thing to your way of thinking.

The idea that your religion is the only way to view Japan's actions as being war crimes simply proves how little you understand about secular morality. Given your propensity for ignoring everything you're told, however, I won't bother trying to educate you.

The rapes were against the will of God but the mandate that those involved had to marry those they raped was punishment and not a reward...   

Right, so the punishment for raping a woman is to give you the exclusive right to fuck her now and forever. Makes perfect sense. /s

[LittleNipper]

We already have, unless you think we're pulling our conclusions out of our asses.
Oh I know. Personally, I'm rather inclined toward this guy's take on things. And I would be remiss were I to forget The Bible Reloaded and Attack the Text.
The idea that your religion is the only way to view Japan's actions as being war crimes simply proves how little you understand about secular morality. Given your propensity for ignoring everything you're told, however, I won't bother trying to educate you.
Right, so the punishment for raping a woman is to give you the exclusive right to fuck her now and forever. Makes perfect sense. /s

Deuteronomy 22:25-28  ESV   

“But if in the open country a man meets a young woman who is betrothed, and the man seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die. But you shall do nothing to the young woman; she has committed no offense punishable by death. For this case is like that of a man attacking and murdering his neighbor, because he met her in the open country, and though the betrothed young woman cried for help there was no one to rescue her. “If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found,


Deuteronomy 22:28-29  ESV   

“If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found, then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has violated her. He may not divorce her all his days.


Psalm 82:3  ESV   

Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.


2 Samuel 13:12-14  ESV 

She answered him, “No, my brother, do not violate me, for such a thing is not done in Israel; do not do this outrageous thing. As for me, where could I carry my shame? And as for you, you would be as one of the outrageous fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.” But he would not listen to her, and being stronger than she, he violated her and lay with her.


Psalm 9:9  ESV   

The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.


Deuteronomy 22:23-24  ESV   

“If there is a betrothed virgin, and a man meets her in the city and lies with her, then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones, the young woman because she did not cry for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbor's wife. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.


Isaiah 10:1-2  ESV 

Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees, and the writers who keep writing oppression, to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!


Genesis 6:11  ESV 

Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight, and the earth was filled with violence.


Habakkuk 1:3  ESV

Why do you make me see iniquity, and why do you idly look at wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise.


Galatians 5:19-21  ESV   

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.


Deuteronomy 21:10-14  ESV   

“When you go out to war against your enemies, and the Lord your God gives them into your hand and you take them captive, and you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you desire to take her to be your wife, and you bring her home to your house, she shall shave her head and pare her nails. And she shall take off the clothes in which she was captured and shall remain in your house and lament her father and her mother a full month. After that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife. But if you no longer delight in her, you shall let her go where she wants. But you shall not sell her for money, nor shall you treat her as a slave, since you have humiliated her.


Ecclesiastes 4:1  ESV   

Again I saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power, and there was no one to comfort them.


Psalm 72:4  ESV   

May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the children of the needy, and crush the oppressor!


Amos 5:12  ESV 

For I know how many are your transgressions and how great are your sinsâ€" you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe, and turn aside the needy in the gate.


Ephesians 5:25  ESV   

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,


Luke 4:18-19  ESV   

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.”


Isaiah 58:6  ESV   

“Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?


Ephesians 5:28-29  ESV 

In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church,


Isaiah 1:17  ESV   

Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.


Matthew 22:39  ESV   

And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.


Galatians 5:14  ESV   

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”


Romans 13:8-10  ESV   

Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.


2 Timothy 3:6  ESV   

For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions,


Leviticus 19:20  ESV   

“If a man lies sexually with a woman who is a slave, assigned to another man and not yet ransomed or given her freedom, a distinction shall be made. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free;


Zechariah 14:1-2  ESV   

Behold, a day is coming for the Lord, when the spoil taken from you will be divided in your midst. For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women raped. Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.


Judges 19:24  ESV   

Behold, here are my virgin daughter and his concubine. Let me bring them out now. Violate them and do with them what seems good to you, but against this man do not do this outrageous thing.”


Amos 3:3  ESV

“Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet?


Ezekiel 22:10  ESV   

In you men uncover their fathers' nakedness; in you they violate women who are unclean in their menstrual impurity.


Judges 21:10-24  ESV   

So the congregation sent 12,000 of their bravest men there and commanded them, “Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword; also the women and the little ones. This is what you shall do: every male and every woman that has lain with a male you shall devote to destruction.” And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead 400 young virgins who had not known a man by lying with him, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan. Then the whole congregation sent word to the people of Benjamin who were at the rock of Rimmon and proclaimed peace to them. And Benjamin returned at that time. And they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead, but they were not enough for them. ...


Deuteronomy 20:10-14  ESV   

“When you draw near to a city to fight against it, offer terms of peace to it. And if it responds to you peaceably and it opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall do forced labor for you and shall serve you. But if it makes no peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it. And when the Lord your God gives it into your hand, you shall put all its males to the sword, but the women and the little ones, the livestock, and everything else in the city, all its spoil, you shall take as plunder for yourselves. And you shall enjoy the spoil of your enemies, which the Lord your God has given you.


Genesis 34:7  ESV   

The sons of Jacob had come in from the field as soon as they heard of it, and the men were indignant and very angry, because he had done an outrageous thing in Israel by lying with Jacob's daughter, for such a thing must not be done.


Genesis 34:2-6  ESV   

And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he seized her and lay with her and humiliated her. And his soul was drawn to Dinah the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her. So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, “Get me this girl for my wife.” Now Jacob heard that he had defiled his daughter Dinah. But his sons were with his livestock in the field, so Jacob held his peace until they came. And Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to speak with him.


Genesis 34:1-31  ESV   

Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to see the women of the land. And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he seized her and lay with her and humiliated her. And his soul was drawn to Dinah the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her. So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, “Get me this girl for my wife.” Now Jacob heard that he had defiled his daughter Dinah. But his sons were with his livestock in the field, so Jacob held his peace until they came. ...


1 Corinthians 6:9-11  ESV   

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.


Psalm 55:23  ESV 

But you, O God, will cast them down into the pit of destruction; men of blood and treachery shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in you.


Proverbs 11:16  ESV   

A gracious woman gets honor, and violent men get riches.


Genesis 24:8  ESV   

But if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you will be free from this oath of mine; only you must not take my son back there.”


Lamentations 5:11  ESV 

Women are raped in Zion, young women in the towns of Judah.


Genesis 19:30-38  ESV   

Now Lot went up out of Zoar and lived in the hills with his two daughters, for he was afraid to live in Zoar. So he lived in a cave with his two daughters. And the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth. Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve offspring from our father.” So they made their father drink wine that night. And the firstborn went in and lay with her father. He did not know when she lay down or when she arose. The next day, the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine tonight also. Then you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve offspring from our father.” ...


Luke 17:28-30  ESV   

Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lotâ€"they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building, but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them allâ€" so will it be on the day when the Son of Man is revealed.


Leviticus 18:19  ESV 

“You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness.


Judges 19:25-27  ESV   

But the men would not listen to him. So the man seized his concubine and made her go out to them. And they knew her and abused her all night until the morning. And as the dawn began to break, they let her go. And as morning appeared, the woman came and fell down at the door of the man's house where her master was, until it was light. And her master rose up in the morning, and when he opened the doors of the house and went out to go on his way, behold, there was his concubine lying at the door of the house, with her hands on the threshold.


Exodus 22:16-17  ESV 

“If a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed and lies with her, he shall give the bride-price for her and make her his wife. If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equal to the bride-price for virgins.


1 Kings 1:1-53  ESV

Now King David was old and advanced in years. And although they covered him with clothes, he could not get warm. Therefore his servants said to him, “Let a young woman be sought for my lord the king, and let her wait on the king and be in his service. Let her lie in your arms, that my lord the king may be warm.” So they sought for a beautiful young woman throughout all the territory of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king. The young woman was very beautiful, and she was of service to the king and attended to him, but the king knew her not. Now Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, “I will be king.” And he prepared for himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him. ...


2 Samuel 16:21  ESV   

Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Go in to your father's concubines, whom he has left to keep the house, and all Israel will hear that you have made yourself a stench to your father, and the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened.”


2 Samuel 3:7-10  ESV   

Now Saul had a concubine whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah. And Ish-bosheth said to Abner, “Why have you gone in to my father's concubine?” Then Abner was very angry over the words of Ish-bosheth and said, “Am I a dog's head of Judah? To this day I keep showing steadfast love to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not given you into the hand of David. And yet you charge me today with a fault concerning a woman. God do so to Abner and more also, if I do not accomplish for David what the Lord has sworn to him, to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul and set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan to Beersheba.”


2 Samuel 13:10-21  ESV

Then Amnon said to Tamar, “Bring the food into the chamber, that I may eat from your hand.” And Tamar took the cakes she had made and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother. But when she brought them near him to eat, he took hold of her and said to her, “Come, lie with me, my sister.” She answered him, “No, my brother, do not violate me, for such a thing is not done in Israel; do not do this outrageous thing. As for me, where could I carry my shame? And as for you, you would be as one of the outrageous fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.” But he would not listen to her, and being stronger than she, he violated her and lay with her. ...

[Sargon The Grape]

Deuteronomy 22:25-28  ESV   

“But if in the open country a man meets a young woman who is betrothed, and the man seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die. But you shall do nothing to the young woman; she has committed no offense punishable by death. For this case is like that of a man attacking and murdering his neighbor, because he met her in the open country, and though the betrothed young woman cried for help there was no one to rescue her. “If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found,


Deuteronomy 22:28-29  ESV   

“If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found, then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has violated her. He may not divorce her all his days.


Psalm 82:3  ESV   

Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.


2 Samuel 13:12-14  ESV 

She answered him, “No, my brother, do not violate me, for such a thing is not done in Israel; do not do this outrageous thing. As for me, where could I carry my shame? And as for you, you would be as one of the outrageous fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.” But he would not listen to her, and being stronger than she, he violated her and lay with her.


Psalm 9:9  ESV   

The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.


Deuteronomy 22:23-24  ESV   

“If there is a betrothed virgin, and a man meets her in the city and lies with her, then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones, the young woman because she did not cry for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbor's wife. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.


Isaiah 10:1-2  ESV 

Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees, and the writers who keep writing oppression, to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!


Genesis 6:11  ESV 

Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight, and the earth was filled with violence.


Habakkuk 1:3  ESV

Why do you make me see iniquity, and why do you idly look at wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise.


Galatians 5:19-21  ESV   

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.


Deuteronomy 21:10-14  ESV   

“When you go out to war against your enemies, and the Lord your God gives them into your hand and you take them captive, and you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you desire to take her to be your wife, and you bring her home to your house, she shall shave her head and pare her nails. And she shall take off the clothes in which she was captured and shall remain in your house and lament her father and her mother a full month. After that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife. But if you no longer delight in her, you shall let her go where she wants. But you shall not sell her for money, nor shall you treat her as a slave, since you have humiliated her.


Ecclesiastes 4:1  ESV   

Again I saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power, and there was no one to comfort them.


Psalm 72:4  ESV   

May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the children of the needy, and crush the oppressor!


Amos 5:12  ESV 

For I know how many are your transgressions and how great are your sinsâ€" you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe, and turn aside the needy in the gate.


Ephesians 5:25  ESV   

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,


Luke 4:18-19  ESV   

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.”


Isaiah 58:6  ESV   

“Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?


Ephesians 5:28-29  ESV 

In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church,


Isaiah 1:17  ESV   

Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.


Matthew 22:39  ESV   

And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.


Galatians 5:14  ESV   

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”


Romans 13:8-10  ESV   

Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.


2 Timothy 3:6  ESV   

For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions,


Leviticus 19:20  ESV   

“If a man lies sexually with a woman who is a slave, assigned to another man and not yet ransomed or given her freedom, a distinction shall be made. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free;


Zechariah 14:1-2  ESV   

Behold, a day is coming for the Lord, when the spoil taken from you will be divided in your midst. For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women raped. Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.


Judges 19:24  ESV   

Behold, here are my virgin daughter and his concubine. Let me bring them out now. Violate them and do with them what seems good to you, but against this man do not do this outrageous thing.”


Amos 3:3  ESV

“Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet?


Ezekiel 22:10  ESV   

In you men uncover their fathers' nakedness; in you they violate women who are unclean in their menstrual impurity.


Judges 21:10-24  ESV   

So the congregation sent 12,000 of their bravest men there and commanded them, “Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword; also the women and the little ones. This is what you shall do: every male and every woman that has lain with a male you shall devote to destruction.” And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead 400 young virgins who had not known a man by lying with him, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan. Then the whole congregation sent word to the people of Benjamin who were at the rock of Rimmon and proclaimed peace to them. And Benjamin returned at that time. And they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead, but they were not enough for them. ...


Deuteronomy 20:10-14  ESV   

“When you draw near to a city to fight against it, offer terms of peace to it. And if it responds to you peaceably and it opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall do forced labor for you and shall serve you. But if it makes no peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it. And when the Lord your God gives it into your hand, you shall put all its males to the sword, but the women and the little ones, the livestock, and everything else in the city, all its spoil, you shall take as plunder for yourselves. And you shall enjoy the spoil of your enemies, which the Lord your God has given you.


Genesis 34:7  ESV   

The sons of Jacob had come in from the field as soon as they heard of it, and the men were indignant and very angry, because he had done an outrageous thing in Israel by lying with Jacob's daughter, for such a thing must not be done.


Genesis 34:2-6  ESV   

And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he seized her and lay with her and humiliated her. And his soul was drawn to Dinah the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her. So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, “Get me this girl for my wife.” Now Jacob heard that he had defiled his daughter Dinah. But his sons were with his livestock in the field, so Jacob held his peace until they came. And Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to speak with him.


Genesis 34:1-31  ESV   

Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to see the women of the land. And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he seized her and lay with her and humiliated her. And his soul was drawn to Dinah the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her. So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, “Get me this girl for my wife.” Now Jacob heard that he had defiled his daughter Dinah. But his sons were with his livestock in the field, so Jacob held his peace until they came. ...


1 Corinthians 6:9-11  ESV   

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.


Psalm 55:23  ESV 

But you, O God, will cast them down into the pit of destruction; men of blood and treachery shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in you.


Proverbs 11:16  ESV   

A gracious woman gets honor, and violent men get riches.


Genesis 24:8  ESV   

But if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you will be free from this oath of mine; only you must not take my son back there.”


Lamentations 5:11  ESV 

Women are raped in Zion, young women in the towns of Judah.


Genesis 19:30-38  ESV   

Now Lot went up out of Zoar and lived in the hills with his two daughters, for he was afraid to live in Zoar. So he lived in a cave with his two daughters. And the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth. Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve offspring from our father.” So they made their father drink wine that night. And the firstborn went in and lay with her father. He did not know when she lay down or when she arose. The next day, the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine tonight also. Then you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve offspring from our father.” ...


Luke 17:28-30  ESV   

Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lotâ€"they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building, but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them allâ€" so will it be on the day when the Son of Man is revealed.


Leviticus 18:19  ESV 

“You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness.


Judges 19:25-27  ESV   

But the men would not listen to him. So the man seized his concubine and made her go out to them. And they knew her and abused her all night until the morning. And as the dawn began to break, they let her go. And as morning appeared, the woman came and fell down at the door of the man's house where her master was, until it was light. And her master rose up in the morning, and when he opened the doors of the house and went out to go on his way, behold, there was his concubine lying at the door of the house, with her hands on the threshold.


Exodus 22:16-17  ESV 

“If a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed and lies with her, he shall give the bride-price for her and make her his wife. If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equal to the bride-price for virgins.


1 Kings 1:1-53  ESV

Now King David was old and advanced in years. And although they covered him with clothes, he could not get warm. Therefore his servants said to him, “Let a young woman be sought for my lord the king, and let her wait on the king and be in his service. Let her lie in your arms, that my lord the king may be warm.” So they sought for a beautiful young woman throughout all the territory of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king. The young woman was very beautiful, and she was of service to the king and attended to him, but the king knew her not. Now Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, “I will be king.” And he prepared for himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him. ...


2 Samuel 16:21  ESV   

Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Go in to your father's concubines, whom he has left to keep the house, and all Israel will hear that you have made yourself a stench to your father, and the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened.”


2 Samuel 3:7-10  ESV   

Now Saul had a concubine whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah. And Ish-bosheth said to Abner, “Why have you gone in to my father's concubine?” Then Abner was very angry over the words of Ish-bosheth and said, “Am I a dog's head of Judah? To this day I keep showing steadfast love to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not given you into the hand of David. And yet you charge me today with a fault concerning a woman. God do so to Abner and more also, if I do not accomplish for David what the Lord has sworn to him, to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul and set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan to Beersheba.”


2 Samuel 13:10-21  ESV

Then Amnon said to Tamar, “Bring the food into the chamber, that I may eat from your hand.” And Tamar took the cakes she had made and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother. But when she brought them near him to eat, he took hold of her and said to her, “Come, lie with me, my sister.” She answered him, “No, my brother, do not violate me, for such a thing is not done in Israel; do not do this outrageous thing. As for me, where could I carry my shame? And as for you, you would be as one of the outrageous fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.” But he would not listen to her, and being stronger than she, he violated her and lay with her. ...

Leviticus

19:20 And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.

Deuteronomy

22:23 If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
22:24 Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.

22:28 If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
22:29 Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.

While an exception is made for a betrothed woman that could not cry for help (i.e. out in the middle of nowhere), that hardly excuses killing her in any other circumstance where she remains quiet. Oh and the betrothed slave girl doesn't get killed, sure, but she still gets brutally whipped for something she was not free to resist; and whipping, in any case, can still lead to death by infection.

Other stories be damned, these are the laws the Bible has set forth

[leo]

Actually, there are more people today embracing paganism then ever before. Christianity is a free relationship between God and man through Christ. Paganism is embracing special personal abilities and secret knowledge. A Christian on the other hand is very open about what he believes and happy to share it with anyone. The only delusional folks I observe are those who are out to prove God is not real and offer no happy alternative. Kind of like offering an empty basket to starving individuals.

But sir you are a pagan . You worship some death Jew executed as a human sacrifice. You are in a death pagan cult. You are a idolater by the way. Worshipping humans as gods is against the Torah.

[Hakurei Reimu]

And you hate to be proven wrong, otherwise you wouldn't be trying to suggest Jesus never existed without any historic validation. I pity you, because you have no future I'd ever desire.

How have you proven Mike wrong? Your two passages have completely different tones: Mat 25:5 was one of human remorse. Judas knew he had done wrong, putting his ill-gotten gains into the collection plate and hanging himself to attone. Acts 1:18 tells a story of an unrepentant Judas being struck down with God's justice. Your harmonization completely negates the both of them and makes a narrative mess of things â€" Judas was this dude who gave to the collection plate, bought some land, hung himself, then his rotting corpse burst open. What an emotionally empty story! You can't tell what the fuck Judas was even thinking! This is supposed to be the inspired word of God? Feh! How inspiring can it be when resolving the contradictions sucks the emotional life right out of it?

[aitm]

So this moron spent most his life reading various versions of the babble until he found the ESV which essentially is the "babble for morons" and uses those verses. LOL….holy shit..what a fricking twit. Yo! Adrian, the "official" babble is still the KJV…why don't you read that? Oh yeah, it disgusts you….LOLOL yeah…we atheist are bad while you admire a god that commands that babies be murdered, little girls be raped and….oh yeah….it unlawful to eat a shrimp……what a pompous ass.

[Unbeliever]

This is certainly not true. Historically, all hospitals, all universities, all colleges, all orphanages, all soup kitchens, all schools, were not founded by atheists.  Christians do realize that GOD is the is the motivator and instigator and the inspiration behind many of our institutions to encourage growth, maturity, and investigation.

And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD?
Exo 4:11

Apparently, God makes people deaf, dumb and blind so he can later be glorified by having his minions build hospitals for them.

[LittleNipper]

Apparently, God makes people deaf, dumb and blind so he can later be glorified by having his minions build hospitals for them.

God allows these handicaps to prove that all life is sacred. Everyone is capable of having a positive influence on those round about if God is the focus.

[Baruch]

God allows these handicaps to prove that all life is sacred. Everyone is capable of having a positive influence on those round about if God is the focus.

If G-d were universally beneficent ... that would be true (the last part).  But G-d is morally neutral ... G-d assists both sinners to do sinning and saints to act all superior to the sinners.  G-d confirms this in both the OT and NT.

[LittleNipper]

If G-d were universally beneficent ... that would be true (the last part).  But G-d is morally neutral ... G-d assists both sinners to do sinning and saints to act all superior to the sinners.  G-d confirms this in both the OT and NT.

If God is without sin, perfect, the light of the world, and love ---- He cannot be neutral. All have sinned and come short of God's glory. Saints are not superior to sinners. Saints are sinner whose sins have been covered.

[Baruch]

If God is without sin, perfect, the light of the world, and love ---- He cannot be neutral. All have sinned and come short of God's glory. Saints are not superior to sinners. Saints are sinner whose sins have been covered.

You do know your religion.  But you don't know your G-d.  But I do hope you continue to get blessings ... as I hope everyone does.

[aitm]

God allows these handicaps to prove that all life is sacred. Everyone is capable of having a positive influence on those round about if God is the focus.

except for those little babbies he tells his followers to kill and the little girls he tells them to rape. Yeah,,your god is a real piece of shit. You sure like that smell, why don't you go back to the sewer you crawled out of?

[sdelsolray]

You do know your religion.  But you don't know your G-d.  But I do hope you continue to get blessings ... as I hope everyone does.

Nipper's god is a projection of himself, as he imagines himself.

[Baruch]

Nipper's god is a projection of himself, as he imagines himself.

Exactly, all of religion is a projection of self or of society ... it is a branch of psychology.