Bible Verses I love to hear.

Originally posted by SwissGambit
Turnabout is fair play. The religious right is happy to boycott books and movies for being too obscene, or too graphic. And yet they give little kids Bibles, which have porn and graphic violence in several of the stories.

Originally posted by SwissGambit
Did you read some of the bible verses in this thread? If you think they are appropr ? Don't you think you should read posts correctly before asking others to do homework for you?

Oh, my bad, I meant boycott, not banning.

I have been a Christian since I was little one, around 5 or 6 yrs old.

My parents and Sunday school teachers would read me OT stories like Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel,Tower of Babel, Moses and the Ten Commandments, Jonah and the whale, Noah and the Flood, Abraham and Isaac, Daniel in the lion's den, and David and Goliath.

Since Christians believe that Jesus came to be the center of the NT, He has basically become the New Testament and new law.
The Ten Commandments are still in tact, but stoning a woman for betrayal, and murdering people for not obeying God is now null and Void.

In OT times, people had to sacrifice animals to cover their sins.
In NT times, Jesus sacrificed Himself to give us the opportunity to accept His as Savior and He would then, when asked...not cover up, but Forgive our sins.

True, alot of these OT stories describe some violence, but not elicit and graphic sex.

Because I haven't read the entire Bible, I was shocked to read your quoted scripture. I even checked to see if it was really in the Bible. (no offense)

I really don't think that Sunday School teachers would overlook all of the stories I have described above and go right to the verses that you quoted for any chilldren or even highschoolers for that matter.

No, if you don't mind, would you please answer my question about which books Christians BOYCOTT?

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
You didn't answer my question. Was he a Jew or not?

Oh yeah--Ol' Abe was THE Jew--, Big J, First Patriarch, "Father of the Nation"...

Originally posted by PureRWandB
No, if you don't mind, would you please answer my question about which books Christians BOYCOTT?

See, the bible really does have a lot of really bad stuff mandated by God.

As for your question, I imagine "The Golden Compass", and "Harry Potter" would fit the bill of books boycotted by Christian organisations.

Originally posted by scottishinnz
See, the bible really does have a lot of really bad stuff mandated by God.

As for your question, I imagine "The Golden Compass", and "Harry Potter" would fit the bill of books boycotted by Christian organisations.

I wouldn't call it boycotting, I would call it..."Christians knowing what trash really is."
Don't forget the "The Davinci Code" as well.

Harry Potter is very useful, for the bottom of my birdcage. 😉
It did have a pretty cool chess scene though.

Originally posted by clearlight
Deuteronomy 20:10-14

As you approach a town to attack it, first offer its people terms for peace. If they accept your terms and open the gates to you, then all the people inside will serve you in forced labor. But if they refuse to make peace and prepare to fight, you must attack the town. When the LORD your God hands it over to you, kill every man in ...[text shortened]... ould go on posting quotes like this all day and all night - the bible is full of gems like this.

Any christian care to justify the contents of this passage?

Originally posted by PawnChop
Any christian care to justify the contents of this passage?

Why would a Christian have to justify this passage? They ain't livin' in the desert no more. As my preacher done tole me, the Old Testament was written before God became a Christian.

Up-tempo!

Judges 21
[21] And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
[23] And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them.

2Sam.6
[14] And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.

Isa.13
[21] But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.

Mark.6
[22] And when the daughter of the said Herodias came in, and danced, and pleased Herod and them that sat with him, the king said unto the damsel, Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt, and I will give it thee.

1Sam.18
[6] And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of musick.

The Old Testament is written in a major key, the New Testament in a minor.

Originally posted by scottishinnz
See, the bible really does have a lot of really bad stuff mandated by God.

As for your question, I imagine "The Golden Compass", and "Harry Potter" would fit the bill of books boycotted by Christian organisations.

The Christians I know don't boycott these books--in fact, Harry Potter is quite popular among some.

Originally posted by PureRWandB
I wouldn't call it boycotting, I would call it..."Christians knowing what trash really is."
Don't forget the "The Davinci Code" as well.

Harry Potter is very useful, for the bottom of my birdcage. 😉
It did have a pretty cool chess scene though.

http://www.christianboycott.org/
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local&id=5781276

Originally posted by PureRWandB
I wouldn't call it boycotting, I would call it..."Christians knowing what trash really is."
Don't forget the "The Davinci Code" as well.

Harry Potter is very useful, for the bottom of my birdcage. 😉
It did have a pretty cool chess scene though.

The quality of the prose is not what is in question here. Actually, I'm led to believe Harry Potter is quite a good read, although I couldn't tell you myself, having never read one.

Originally posted by scottishinnz
The quality of the prose is not what is in question here. Actually, I'm led to believe Harry Potter is quite a good read, although I couldn't tell you myself, having never read one.

Yea, I enjoyed reading the first three HP books, but stopped after that as it upset my devoutly christian parents. I wasn't prepared to argue with them at the time, as a book series simply wasn't worth fighting with them over it. The reason they were so against it was simply the portrayal of real witchcraft as a good and wholesome thing, which I can understand. However, IMO there are much worse things out there that should be focused on, such as not having your 12 year old playing GTA4 or Age of Conan.

The Golden Compass was self-admittedly written by the author as his anti-catholocism statement, I believe. I've heard it's also a good book once you look past the actual words used (i.e. look at the story as just that, a story), but sometimes that can be hard to do when the whole point of the quest is to kill God and the church is the main evil in the way, and especially when you know the author's mind.

Anyway, a verse currently on my mind:

Matthew 6:19-20
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
Bosse...you're tunring me on. 😵

Who would have thought that passage to be in the Bible without reading it?

Originally posted by JonoKyle
Anyway, a verse currently on my mind:

Matthew 6:19-20
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.

So what treasures have you stored up so far. Tell us about them.

Originally posted by scherzo
Who would have thought that passage to be in the Bible without reading it?

I've always known about the freakishness of the Bible. I wasn't raised a Christian. My first real, memorable exposure to Christianity was when they made me stand and kneel and chant over and over and over and over at some relative's wedding:

"Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, amen."

I understood then it was a religion that tried to make people feel terrified and unworthy of safety and security. As I studied the religion my opinion of it has not improved.

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.
So you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when in Egypt your bosom was caressed and your young breasts fondled.

(Ezekiel 23:20-21)

An interesting thought came to me as I revisited this post of yours. I've been told that female breasts are sex objects only to the modern Western influenced mind. Clearly this is not the case, unless this strange quirk came directly from the ancient Hebrews. Here we have an ancient text talking about fondling boobies as sexy.