Anonymous wrote:I'll feed the troll!
OP's premises are faulty all around.
1. Women not teaching men is in the context of doctrine and leading the church. The justification is given that Eve was deceived and Adam followed along. This is not to be extended to every walk of life. This is not prima facie immoral, just OP wants it different.
2. For all you into "justice," brush up on the Amalekites. They were a tribe that killed the straggling women, children and old people as the Israelites left Egypt. This was retributive justice against a people that was murdering women and children. Also, one of the overarching themes of the Bible is that God protects the Jewish people, because this is through whom He brought the Messiah.
3. Not allowing a sorceress to live: See above. The Jewish people were the people through whom God was bringing the Messiah. Sorceresses worshipped demons, and they did it knowing the prohibition against it. Not worshipping demons also happens to be in your interest.
4. Psalm 137 is a lament of the Jewish people who were taken into captivity by the Babylonians, who murdered many people, probably even children. It reflected their mindset of persecution and a longing for deliverance. This is not a command to throw children against rocks.
5. It's absurd that the concubine event is even mentioned here. It's not held up as something to do. Indeed, it is condemned in the very passage it relates. Not even a nice try.
6. Slavery passages are way misunderstood and used by non-believers to beat believers over the head. One, slavery here shouldn't be likened to the African slave trade. Two, another overarching narrative of the Bible is that God is anti-slavery. God brought the Jewish people OUT of slavery, and the consequences for the enslaving Egyptians were severe. Also, notice the provisions for freeing slaves in the seventh year. Also, sin, which God is decidedly against, is likened repeatedly to slavery of the soul. And the Book of Philemon lays out that Christ commands us not to hold slaves. The passages about slaves submitting to masters is as a testimony of witness to slaveholders so that they might be ASHAMED of being slaveholders and turn from holding slaves. The "pro"-slavery passages in the Bible stem partly from indentured servitude and partly from the tribal makeup of the Middle East during these ages, when the Jewish people were beset on all sides from people groups trying to kill them to extinction.
7. The story of Isaac is an illustration of Abraham trusting that God could raise Isaac from the dead. God DID NOT ALLOW Abraham to murder Isaac but provided a sacrifice Himself. If you can't see this as a picture and presaging of Christ on the cross, you are being willfully blind. It is also held up in Romans 4 as the example that we are saved by our faith in God being able to raise Christ from the dead, not from anything we can do ourselves.
8. My wife LOVES the passage about wives submitting to husbands. Why? Because right before that, we're told to submit to EACH OTHER. Also, husbands are told to sacrifice for their wives even as Christ did the church, which He did unto a gruesome death. The burden on men is much greater. Also, if you want to see what God thinks of women, he brought Christ through Mary, a woman, as the seed of man was tainted from ADAM's. Women were the first ones to know of the resurrection. Christ revealed Himself as God to a woman first. Men are told to LOVE their wives.
The Bible is immoral? Someone please enlighten us on the immorality you can find in this passage from Ephesians 4.
Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbor, for we are all members of one body. “In your anger do not sin”: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold. Anyone who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing something useful with their own hands, that they may have something to share with those in need. Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
Do not feed the troll. Always remember, trolls that hate on "religion" actually have visceral hatred of Christianity. Notice, no hatred of any other religion. Just Christianity. They are not here to debate, they are here to hate: on Jesus Christ and his message of love and life.
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