Is It Wrong To Use The Bible As A Standard To Measure What Is Right And Wrong?

[goodlife]

Because a proverb says A bad person will not go unpunished. (Prov. 11:21)

[naomi24]

Daisy, I'm not with you. What does that have to do with this question?

[wildwood]

Yes, it is wrong.

Even for a Theist, the bible is not a good example on morality. There are far too many contradictory passages.

[goodlife]

How hard it would be to discern the full significance of certain Scriptural passages if other parts of the Bible did not shed light on them! Historical accounts in God’s Word can be taken at face value. But some of these narratives contain deeper truths that are not so obvious. One example is what Jesus said: No one can be a slave to two masters.(Matt. 6:24)

[mikey4444]

Its always wrong to use mythical sources as a standard for our current lives. You might as well use the Lord of the Rings !

[LazyGun]

@goodlife "Historical accounts in God’s Word can be taken at face value. "

No, they cannot, and research and study hasa demonstrated that.

This is an interesting sentence from you
"But some of these narratives contain deeper truths that are not so obvious. One example is what Jesus said: No one can be a slave to two masters.(Matt. 6:24)"

One can take a lot of things from that. The first is your own admission that biblical texts and scripture are open to interpretation and reinterpretation - and that such interpretations are necessarily subjective and are going to be partial. So much for biblical inerrancy.


Second - What do you actually think jesus meant with that quote? Says to me that jesus wants man in thrall to god - and no one else. So, lealous and a slave owner, What a guy!

Do you, in all seriousness, imagine for one second that such nonsense actually brings converts to your cause?

[Peter Pedant]

Oh God Good Life again - I think the answer will be ... yes readers

A bible should only be used to beat out the brains of an unbeliever and in that, a bible shares a property with a quran

A bible when I last looked did NOT tell me whether I should obey or not s 122 of the most recent Road Traffic Act and so I am forced to answer NO

What about 'give to Caesar what is Caesar's ' I think is not adequate to consider the later sections of the Finance Act 1986 especially the rather difficult bits about Capital gains Tax and so again I am forced to say it is not an adequate standard and that Tolley is better. NO again

Do I read Tolley on Sundays ? Not the q posed but no I dont .

Another proverb says - Crazy man - crazy book '

[naomi24]

Goodlife, //Historical accounts in God’s Word can be taken at face value. But some of these narratives contain deeper truths that are not so obvious. //

Ah, I see. So the bible is the inerrant word of God; God freely confesses that he is a liar - but you don't believe him. That figures.

[jomifl]

goodlife, the bible is NOT god's word, he didn't write any of it, it is a rather innaccurate history of the jewish tribe.

[goodlife]

You pool lot the fact is, your way of life can be pleasing to only one of two masters. Either you are serving Jehovah God or Satan the Devil.

As long as Satan’s world exists, Christians must live in it. Jesus showed this when he prayed to his Father: I request you, not to take them out of the world. But then Jesus added regarding his followers: They are no part of the world. (John 17:15, 16) How is it possible to be in Satan’s world but still be no part of it?

How many prefer to fool themselves, and think they fool others, and hope they fool God.

[RATTER15]

Put a sock in it Goodlife, you don't half talk a load of drivel!!

[Kromovaracun]

"Either you are serving Jehovah God or Satan the Devil."

We don't believe either exist.

But, I mean, if it comes to a choice between the two, I'd rather go with Satan. He's much less bloodthirsty than God.

[LazyGun]

@goodlife Ahh, that exasperation creeping into your tone again.

"You pool lot the fact is, your way of life can be pleasing to only one of two masters. Either you are serving Jehovah God or Satan the Devil."

At least this time though we have graduated from being "a poor lot" to being "a pool lot" - although i do not remember seeing a pool in my back garden the last time i looked.

Proof of this Satans world you speak of please. Some proof of god other than from the bible might have some value too - oh, but of course, you have none.

Really - this is the best you can do? All the other nonsense you post, and you are reduced to exasperated name calling?

[goodlife]

If children become exasperated through constant correction, how much more will an adult! “Remember that the patient is an adult who has achievement.

[Baldric]

Shouldn't you be out door knocking on a day like this?

[mrs_overall]

goodlife, your skills at cutting and pasting are excellent.

It is a shame it is all drivel

[naomi24]

Goodlife, //As long as Satan’s world exists, Christians must live in it. //

Ahhhh ..... Never mind. Being a true Christian, full of love and compassion, you can console yourself with the thought that one of these days we'll all be dead. ;o)

[goodlife]

You see thirty warnings should have been sufficient, especially after what the Israelites had just witnessed in there deliverance of them from Egypt.

But did God become impatient and exasperated with them, giving them up as an impossible case, No, as a wise parent, he disciplined them by allowing them, from time to time, to suffer the consequences of their own foolishness, letting them experience oppression at the hands of other slave nations and saving them when they called to him for help. This went on for some 850 years.

[naomi24]

//You see thirty warnings should have been sufficient//

You've given us more than that, so we can't say you haven't given it a fair shot. Any chance of giving your preaching a rest now?

[Kromovaracun]

"But did God become impatient and exasperated with them, giving them up as an impossible case"


Um, yes.

In Numbers, and Judges, he regularly forsakes the Israelites for violating his codes, and sells them into slavery for decades on end.

[society]

Well done you lot, 100 posts and going strong.