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June 12, 2007
I have been pretty busy revising my work for the coming exams, but that does not give me an excuse not to pursue biblical truths in order to clarify my recent doubts upon my Lord God.
Sorry Jesus.. it's just that I have this issue of confronting the unknown and the enigmas of faith in Christianity.
First off, I need somebody who's spiritually strong enough to tell me what all these verses means.. okay? 'Cos I've been reading the bible and found many weird verses from the scriptures that I absolutely do not comprehend. Worse, this has led me to doubt the morality of the Holy Bible.
Here are the verses: -
Topic #1 -
Rape CasesJudges 21:10-24 NLT So they sent twelve thousand warriors to Jabesh-gilead with orders to kill everyone there, including women and children. "This is what you are to do," they said. "Completely destroy all the males and every woman who is not a virgin." Among the residents of Jabesh-gilead they found four hundred young virgins who had never slept with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.
The Israelite assembly sent a peace delegation to the little remnant of Benjamin who were living at the rock of Rimmon. Then the men of Benjamin returned to their homes, and the four hundred women of Jabesh-gilead who were spared were given to them as wives. But there were not enough women for all of them. The people felt sorry for Benjamin because the LORD had left this gap in the tribes of Israel. So the Israelite leaders asked, "How can we find wives for the few who remain, since all the women of the tribe of Benjamin are dead? There must be heirs for the survivors so that an entire tribe of Israel will not be lost forever. But we cannot give them our own daughters in marriage because we have sworn with a solemn oath that anyone who does this will fall under God's curse."
Then they thought of the annual festival of the LORD held in Shiloh, between Lebonah and Bethel, along the east side of the road that goes from Bethel to Shechem. They told the men of Benjamin who still needed wives, "Go and hide in the vineyards. When the women of Shiloh come out for their dances, rush out from the vineyards, and each of you can take one of them home to be your wife! And when their fathers and brothers come to us in protest, we will tell them, 'Please be understanding. Let them have your daughters, for we didn't find enough wives for them when we destroyed Jabesh-gilead. And you are not guilty of breaking the vow since you did not give your daughters in marriage to them.'" So the men of Benjamin did as they were told. They kidnapped the women who took part in the celebration and carried them off to the land of their own inheritance. Then they rebuilt their towns and lived in them. So the assembly of Israel departed by tribes and families, and they returned to their own homes.--> Obviously, according to reason, these women in their own towns were repeatedly raped by those sick people. And if that wasn't enough.. they were out to rape some more.
Numbers 31:7-18 NLT They attacked Midian just as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they killed all the men. All five of the Midianite kings – Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba – died in the battle. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword. Then the Israelite army captured the Midianite women and children and seized their cattle and flocks and all their wealth as plunder. They burned all the towns and villages where the Midianites had lived. After they had gathered the plunder and captives, both people and animals, they brought them all to Moses and Eleazar the priest, and to the whole community of Israel, which was camped on the plains of Moab beside the Jordan River, across from Jericho.
Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the people went to meet them outside the camp. But Moses was furious with all the military commanders who had returned from the battle. "Why have you let all the women live?" he demanded. "These are the very ones who followed Balaam's advice and caused the people of Israel to rebel against the LORD at Mount Peor. They are the ones who caused the plague to strike the LORD's people. Now kill all the boys and all the women who have slept with a man. Only the young girls who are virgins may live; you may keep them for yourselves.--> This was how God treated His own enemies in those days. And this was the solution: The approval of the rape of virgins. And so you kill all the men, and keep the ladies then do unto them in whatever ways you like.. cos after all, they are your captives. Doesn't make any sense.
Deuteronomy 20:10-14 NKJV When you go near a city to fight against it, then proclaim an offer of peace to it. And it shall be that if they accept your offer of peace, and open to you, then all the people who are found in it shall be placed under tribute to you, and serve you. Now if the city will not make peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it. And when the Lord our God delivers it into your hands, you shall strike every male in it with the edge of the sword.
But the women, the little ones, the livestock, and all that is in the city, all its spoil, you shall plunder for yourself; and you shall eat the enemies' plunder which the Lord your God gives you.--> So God approves of murder, rape and slavery..? It makes no sense... really. Do we have to treat our enemies this way? Or should there be a form of respect towards our enemies?
Deuteronomy 22:28-29 NLT If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her.--> What kind of lunatic would make a rape victim marry her attacker? God?
Deuteronomy 22:23-24 NAB If within the city a man comes upon a maiden who is betrothed, and has relations with her, you shall bring them both out of the gate of the city and there stone them to death: the girl because she did not cry out for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbors wife.--> This is probably a sign that the God of the old testament does not even give a damn about the rape victim. He is only concerned with the violation of another man's "property". This verse shows how chauvinistic God's laws are. Don't you think?
Deuteronomy 21:10-14 NAB When you go out to war against your enemies and the LORD, your God, delivers them into your hand, so that you take captives, if you see a comely woman among the captives and become so enamored of her that you wish to have her as wife, you may take her home to your house. But before she may live there, she must shave her head and pare her nails and lay aside her captive's garb. After she has mourned her father and mother for a full month, you may have relations with her, and you shall be her husband and she shall be your wife. However, if later on you lose your liking for her, you shall give her her freedom, if she wishes it; but you shall not sell her or enslave her, since she was married to you under compulsion.--> So, you burn the whole city, kill all the men, take all their livestocks, rape the virgin women and even those taken captives. But in this case, you take a female captive as your wife, then
DO her pretty good.. and if you're not happy with her, you can just dump her. So this is God's commands in the Bible...? How loving is God if He says that He is the same yesterday, today and forever more???
Topic #2 -
Murder CaseDeuteronomy 13:6-10 NKJV If your brother, the son of your mother, your son or your daughter, the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, secretly entices you, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods,' which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers, of the gods of the people which are all around you, near to you or far from you, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth, you shall not consent to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him or conceal him; but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
And you shall stone him with stones until he dies, because he sought to entice you away from the Lord your God...--> My goodness... how brutal is God who actually commanded people to commit murder in His name.
And mind you, I'm not speaking all these because I'm any less spiritual. If one has got to be reasonable, putting reasons and critical thought into reading between the lines, could perhaps solve the enigmatic verses spoken from the bible. And it has been argued that both books in Holy Bible contradicted the whole concept of Christianity. By reading those verses, I've got nothing to say but just like what Dr. Richard Dawkins would say: -
"The god of the Old Testament has got to be the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it, petty, vindictive, unjust, unforgiving, racist, an ethnic-cleanser urging his people on to acts of genocide."To me, as I interpreted his speech, it's description has no difference to that of Adolf Hitler.
Correct me if I'm wrong, for I was just reading the Bible I have with me. And there's certainly no harm to clarify biblical doubts I've encountered so far. If there're any Christians who wish to help clarify this doubt with me, it would be very much appreciated.
You can email me at:
keuriseudo@gmail.comTill then, I'm Frederick. Be right back soon.
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