* eat fruit from a tree less than five years old. [Lev. 19:23]
* cross-breed animals. [Lev. 19:19]
* grow two different plants in your garden. [Lev. 19:19]
* wear a cotton-polyester blend T-Shirt. [Lev. 19:19]
* read your horoscope. [Lev. 19:26]
* consult a psychic. [Lev. 19:31]
* cut your hair. [Lev. 19:27]
* trim your beard. [Lev. 19:27]
* are tatooed. [Lev. 19:28]
* plant crops for more than seven years. [Lev. 25:4, Ex. 23:10-13]
* bear a grudge. [Lev. 19:17]
* collect interest on a loan. [Ex. 22:24]
* insult a leader. [Ex. 22:27]
* mistreat a foreigner. [Ex. 22:21, 23:9]
* spread false rumors. [Ex. 23:1] (Sorry, Pat Robertson!)
* drive a Mercury. [Ex. 23:13] (Look it up.)
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Yep…according to Ex 23:13, I can’t even thay I’m Thor…
Now I want to see the Bible verse that says that “Hell” exists. I believe it’s one of the many inventions of the Catholic Church.
Haha, I knew about the tree fruit and the tee-shirt one already. There’s quite a few contradictions and general goofiness in that Bible. Now excuse me while I avoid lightning bolts.
Well I’ll be damned!
See you there Deej!
I will miss you guys.
Good luck with that KLAW. 🙂
Funny … Hel (with one L) was actually the place in NORSE mythology where those who died of natural causes went (as opposed to those who died in battle, who went to Valhalla). Hel was thought to be at the roots of Yggsdrasil, the world tree, and it was a place of darkness and unhappiness, presided over by this evil ice-queen b*tch, also named Hel. (and I got all that from playing Dungeon’s and Dragons).
Klaw – I’m sending you some sunglasses and suntan oil – just in case…dunno.
There is nothing in the Leviticus readings that mentions hell as being the consequence of violating any of those statutes. As far as the bible not mentioning hell—people please. According to this it is mentioned at least 65 times.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_times_is_hell_mentioned_in_the_Bible
Duuude – Our version of hell as fire and brimstone is actually derived from Dante’s inferno. Although the Catholics are the ones who publicized it as reality. 🙂
So let’s recap. A Christian kills sombody and goes to Hell. A Muslim kills somebody and gets 72 virgins. H-m-m-m-m. Hello Allah!
Richard – Virgins? I heard those are obsolete.
That reminds me…where’s Kate been lately?
@duuude
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gehenna#Christian_New_Testament_references
Now repeat after me “wikipedia is my friend, I will use wikipedia in the future….”
Kate is on a mission. She was one of the last virgins left on earth. SHE WILL BE BACH.
With a good divorce lawyer you too can survive hell, and be free once more.
Mike, I did, but just barely.
Isiah: My apologies to the Catholic Church! According to Wikipedia the Jews invented Hell! The Catholics just believes on the inventive Jews.
Still doesn’t make it anything but an imaginary place!
“In Jewish tradition this valley was associated with the idea of Hell. “
The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.
You know, that isn’t in the bible, but it would be cool if it was.
Phew!! With all that fire and brimstone sh!t, Mike F., I’m glad you weren’t talking about us womens.
It’s from Pulp Fiction, Bella.
Mike- are you sure that it is not from the Book of WoopAss?
And yet in chapter 18 of Leviticus, there is made a mention of gays, but no one thinks it is funny or completely ridiculous at all. Why is that?
Damn, someone ripped chapter 18 out of my Book. Please read it to us.
Richard,
It’s from the book of Samuel….L Jackson
My favourite bit of pulp fiction Mike! There is no one cooler that Samuel L Jackson!
@Craig
Maybe because the church bans considers every moral rule of the old testament to be in-effect just not the ritual rules. So you cant sleep with your sister, aunt, mother, daughter, your son’s ex-wife, and a dude etc. Dont worry its mentioned again in chapter 3 of Romans.
The Bible. A book that the “original” copy doesn’t exist, translated and re-translated and re-translated again and again, Simply put, a bunch of horse hockey.
Paul,
Due to the number of translations, hanging on the exact phrasing of something in the Bible is indeed a bit of a stretch. However, dismissing it as shit because it has been around for quite a while is fairly ham-handed. Much of the Old Testament is what soldiers would refer to as basic field sanitation, rules of hygeine and food safety.
Do you dismiss the writings of Buddha, Confusius, Sun Tzu, etc. because they are old and have been translated a few times, as well as altered by politics, etc.? Oh, wait, those aren’t Christian, so it isn’t OK to bash them as that would be racist.
“An Inconvenient Truth” is a bunch of horse hockey. The Bible, regardless of your opinion on it’s resemblance to the first edition (oh, by the way, the Bible wasn’t written as a single document in its original form/forms) is not a document to be dismissed out of hand, if for no other reason than its influence on history and current times.
Bible was written by people who thought earth was flat, lets talk about son of god.
Don’t you think it’s a little strange how this book you refer to as a “bunch of horse hockey” has quite a few references, some more than 2400 years old, to things happening in our time? As one example, Zechariah 14:12 (read it here: http://is.gd/yWpH ) is a perfect description of what happens to a human body when hit by the blast of a nuclear weapon? Or in Daniel 12:4 (read it here: http://is.gd/yWqB ) where it says near the end times that knowledge will increase (see “Internet” circa now). I guess those were just lucky guesses? I would think if I were you that even if there is only a remote possibility that this book is true that I might want to investigate further? Right? If the book has no power then reading it won’t harm you, right? Read the book of Mark with an open mind. Here’s chapter 1: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark;&version=31;
Or looked at another way, Go0se, Zechariah 14:12 might be a perfect description of advanced Hansen’s Disease (leprosy), Daniel 12:4 could be about growing up before the end. Careful which websites you believe. It’s a lot easier to understand the interpretation when someone tells you what to look for.
Go0se must really worship Nostradamus, too.
The Magna Carta was written by people who thought bleeding was a legitimate medical treatment. What is your point Kuntal? Last I checked, pretty much everyone at the time thought the Earth was flat when the Bible was written. They also didn’t have the scientific research that allows current dietary practices to take place safely, so they banned pork and mandated draining the blood from food animals. None of which has anything to do with the legitimacy or lack thereof of religion.
As for the son of God, if one believes in an omnipotent being, suggesting that said being would have difficulty impregnating a woman is kind of silly.
This isn’t why I believe what I believe but let’s just say for argument’s sake that I’m wrong about what the Bible teaches and the Bible is just “horse hockey”. If this is true then I will “waste” (as some might put it) roughly maybe 60 or 70 years of my life (plus or minus) living my life the way I live it and you live your life however you live and then when we both die and then who knows what happens – maybe we just cease to exist or we are re-incarnated or whatever. But, if I’m right and you are wrong about what I believe the Bible teaches then I live how I live and you live freely doing whatever you wish maybe the next 60 or 70 years (plus or minus) until whenever we both die and then you are, according to Revelation 20:12 “judged according to what you have done” and as Revelation 20:15 says then you are “cast into the lake of fire” where you will spend eternity and I live with God for eternity. I’m just saying with eternity (THAT’S FOREVER) at stake that if I were you guys I’d do a little more investigation into it. I think I’d spend some time with an open mind and read more into the Bible. Like I said, what can it hurt?
Go0se, thank’s. That is the kick in the a$$ I needed. I need to find a church, though.
ahem….
*the world was always known to be round http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_Flat_Earth
*even through the bible has been translated multiple times the three main languages of the bible: latin, aramic, and hebrew are still spoken to this day.
*Soras is not leporsy that is a mis-understanding.
*Oh while I am at it, It should read “thou shall not kidnap” not “thou shall not steal” makes more sense that way.
Klaw, pray and ask God to lead you to the church he wants you to attend. Jeremiah 29:13 says, “You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.” so give maximum effort to searching. Don’t treat the process like the guy that started to build a birdhouse in his garage but it’s been there for 3 years unfinished. He worked on it one weekend every other month for three months and then quit. I would suggest trying different Baptist churches but let God lead you.
wow..I’m going to hell X11 over:0