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What is this writing as a matter of fact about?
About Bible. Biblos means Book in greek (biblia-books). Bible are really Books - it's not one story, but a few stories from different authors that however wrote inspired by God. During ages were single books winnowed till Christian Churches compromised on so called canonical books, i.e. on those having respect and their inspiration by God wasn't impeached.What is the difference between world religions?
Related opinion on Israel
How to read Bible?
What is written in Bible?
The Old Testament
The New Testament
Relation between the New and the Old Testaments
Speaking in parables
"If God exists then he is a sadistic bastard"
The right of the Creator
The story about Job's suffering
The story of children teared to death
Why doesn't God intervene?
A dogged atheist
"Prove me that God exists"
God is proved by World existence itself
Calculus of probabilities
Canting believers
"People are developed from a primary incest"
Why does Christians judge homosexuals?
What is the meaning of Easter?
Resurrection
"Jesus died for somebody's sin but not mine"
"The Bible is a compilation of myths"
What does mean a bastard?
What is the difference between world religions?
Though it looks that Christianity, Judaism and Islam have nothing common, the opposite is truth. All those religions worship same God, Lord, Father, Lord of hosts, The Most High God, God of Heaven, God of gods, God of spirits, Ancient of days, God of Jacob, Holy One of Israel, Father of Lights, Living God, God Jahve, God Allah - still this is the same Person.If you are interested about World Creation, read (at least beginning of) 1st. Book of Moses alias Genesis. That is the first book in Bible (although you will find it in the middle at me). There you will know that God created Man Adam and later picked out one of his offspring, Abraham.
That had first son Ishmael with slave-girl who became a "father" of all "sons of desert" (Arabs etc.). His second son, Isaac was rightful delivered by regular wife and became a "father" of selected nation Jews or Israelis (according his son Jacob-Israel).
Year 0, when (approximatelly) was Jesus Christ (Saviour, Messiah, Son of God, Son of man, Word, Light, Anointed, Lord, Branch, Desirable) born, became a year of beginning of Christianity. Jews expected Saviour comming and Saviour came in person of Jesus Christ. Those who believed him that he is the Son of God and Saviour, those became Christians, other Jews that didn't believe him are waiting for Saviour comming till today.
How to read Bible?
I tried to sequence books to be "readable". You can start above and finish a week later below. If a man has a problem with keeping attention, he can start reading with Mark's Gospel - it is the oldest one, it is most original and the most important is that it is the shortest one. After it I would recommend to read Acts of Apostles that concurs to the Gospel. If you feel yourself strong for "preachment", try Paul's letters to Romans or 1st. to Corinthians. From The Old Testament there is quite readable 1st. Moses Book or Genesis, known stories are possible to find also in Book of Judges. If you got under those books and want others, return to The New Testament to other Gospels and Letters. Start to attend to reference links to The Old Testament, especially to Psalms and to Prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Zechariah). Well readable are Books of Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes but also 1st. and 2nd. Samuel and 1st. and 2nd. Kings. If I can recommend, Books Revelation in The New Testament and Exodus till Deuteronomium - those books leave to the end, those are readable especially badly - first mentioned is much horrorish, others are very drily written.What is written in Bible?
Bible consists of The Old Testament (from World creation till coming of Jesus) and The New Testament (from Jesus's birth till his death and rise of Christianity).The Old Testament
The Old Testament begins by Genesis: 1st. Book of Moses. God created Earth, space, nature, animals and a Man (Adam and Eve), everything during six days and He rested on seventh day (that was Saturday, which is respected as high-day, week began by Sunday, see f.e. Adventists of the Seventh Day).God had his angels, helping spirits. His most favourite angel was called Lucifer (Light-bearer), who was the closest to God. But later Lucifer high-minded, wanted be greater than God. For that he was thrown down to the Earth and he teared down one third of angels (demons) with him - and now he rules the World.
In shape of serpent he tempted Adam to sin (Adam and Eve lived in Paradise (garden of paradise) on Earth (probably somewhere in present Iraq), they were naked and weren't sinful - God prohibited them to eat fruit from Tree of Recognition of good and bad. Serpent (satan, Lucifer) tempted them to take fruit from that tree, their eyes got to be opened, they understood that they are naked, started to shy and fear of God, how He punish them when He will come.
They sinned by that and God banished them from Paradise, they had children and didn't hallow God much and sinned more and more (Cain killed Abel), and God decided to destroy a Man. He sent a flood to the Earth and because from all mankind only Noah was good, God permited to him, his sons and their wives, with all animals (pair of every kind) to save themselves in Ark, which after the flood has gone touched land on mountain Ararat in Armenia - and it's said that there are archeological residues - so - it's not a legend at all.
All others died and Noah's family started to populate the land again. People were altogether bad again, they didn't listen to God, God punished them and choosed Abraham, from whom selected nation should arised. Abraham had a son Isaac and that had Jacob, whom God renamed to Israel. Israel had 12 sons, from one of them Judah arised king David and from the same branch later arised Jesus. When there was famine, Jacob with his sons moved from Palestina to Egypt and was there for 400 years. God then with help of Moses carried Israelites out of Egypt back to Palestina (they crossed the sea on it's ground by dry-shod a.s.o.). God entered with Israelites to pact that Him and only Him they will hallow for He carried them out of Egypt; and they will have good times. But Israelites prefered to worship to idols and God punished them and they wailed to God and God forgived them.
That time there was so called theocracy - God ruled the people with help of judges, which made verdicts over the people according His suggestion. But people according of model of surrounding nations wanted a king, therefore God gave them David, but this change only diverted people far from God because they lived according kings's habits and those usually worship to idols and not to God.
In the end God let Israelites to fall to inprisonment in Babylon. In the meantime a lot of prophets prophetized the income of Jesus. Palestine then was all the time under dominion of other nations (in Jesus's time under Romish).
The New Testament
The New Testament begins by Jesus's birth. Mary - his mother - was virgin engaged to Joseph, who was from David's family (that is important because of prophecies). An angel visited her and told her: You will superfetate from Holy Ghost (that is the third from God's triade Father God, Son Jesus and the Holy Ghost) and you will name your child Jesus. Mary agreed and superfetate (and remained a virgin, even after a delivery (Christmass), it had happen somehow mystically). That time was illegitimate superfetation punished by lapidation, Joseph wanted Mary kept from that, so he wanted to let her through in secret but angel explained it to him and Joseph married Mary.Jesus growed up until his 30 as a carpenter, then he came to Jordan to let himself baptized by John the Baptist. In that moment a Holy Ghost descended on him and he started to proclaim a God's Word, heal the people a.s.o. That he did for 3 years and then he was betrayed by one of 12 apostles - followers - Judas. Priests gave him to Romans (because it was said that he excited the people) and Romans crucified him.
Jesus after 3 days rised from the dead (Easter), stayed with followers for 40 days and then he was taken up to Heaven. He was wrapped by some that Toulous linen, which is said to be preserved to this day and it is one of the scarcest relics.
His followers then spreaded Christianity, mainly Paul, who first persecuted Christians, then Jesus revealed to him, he believed and became Jesus's keenest propagator.
A relation between the New and the Old Testaments
Although it is said that The New Testament replaced The Old Testament, it's not true at all. Certainly some dogmas of The Old Testament are replaced - f.e. Eye for eye is changed in the New Testament to: Whoever shall strike you on your right cheek, turn to him also the other - what is in direct opposite, of course, man should think about the time when those messages arised - that time it was absolutely standard to believe in something - he only needed to decide in WHAT - today he also decides IF to believe. That time it was nothing special to destroy a city as accursed including all children, elder people and ripping up pregnant women - as that time the greatest sin it was NOT to believe in God - or to "fornicate with idols" - and that pertained to all the city.The New Testament understands things differentelly at all. Certainly, f.e. that time priests (pharisees, saducees) took Saturday like a law - who worked in Saturday, deserved the lapidation. But Jesus says in wrangle about Saturday that Saturday (Sabbath) God gave us because of our heart hardness, in the same way as f.e. bill of divorce for not wanted wife (she had to leave as a beggar), Jesus says that Son of man (as he name himself) rules also Saturday (followers could work on Saturdays too) and what God joined together, let not man separate (thus nobody should chase out his wife even if he doesn't love her - that time, if you don't understand, there was no equality of genders like today, but families were described only by sons - only in very special cases, when there was no son, it was allowed that family can continue by daughter; a wife was rather a servant-maid, a man could visit a a prostitute but alas for wives - if they got out of hand - see lapidation).
In the Old Testament there are f.e. determined pure animals, which are allowed to eat - fishes, beef - in the New Testament it is let say allowed to eat anything. In the Old Testament there is a plenty of rituals and restrictions, the New Testament only says that a man who is (lives on the Earth under command of satan) naturally evil, can be saved only from the grace - thus by decision of Jesus about that who believes in him - a man probably and especially that modern one is not able to obey all laws of the Old Testament. Because - who believes in Jesus, that will not die (in spiritual meaning) but has everlasting life.
Speaking in parables
Jesus often speaks in parables, f.e.:A householder planted vineyard and gave it to husbandmen for rent. Those grew grapevine but they did not pay the rent. A householder was angry and was sending his servants to husbandmen to take his rent. Husbandmen always beated servants, some of them they killed. A householder has decided to send his own son, whom should husbandmen respected. Husbandmen saw the son a debated among them: Inheritor, let's kill him and vineyard remains ours. When householder saw that husbandmen killed his son, he chased them out of vineyard and gave vineyard to other husbandmen.
Interpretation: God gave Palestine (Land of Cannan) to Israelites but those didn't subserve what they promised what He wanted from them (to hallow Him, not to worship to idols) therefore God was sending regularly prophets through which He enounced his word (wish). But prophets weren't entertained positivelly. Therefore he sent his only Son (Jesus) to open their eyes - but Israelites killed him. Thus God spread Israelites all around by all parts of the World and his "favour" gave to other people (to non-Israelites - f.e. to us).
And why in fact are parables used? It has two reasons - a practical and let's say a spiritual one. A practical reason consists in that time position - Jewish people were not educated and parables help them to understand the described situation. A spiritual reason was that God on the other hand wanted to hide the truth before educated people who didn't subserve his directions although they were educated in Law. Because of it Jesus explained the content of some parables only to his followers, other things are revealed to a Bible reader by God.
I heard some of opinions or questions of unbelieving people, so I'll try to to go throug it one by one:
"If God exists then he is a sadistic bastard"
What a sentence! - more substantial is the first half (and I'm still explaining you that two halfs must be equal - and that bigger half of you still doesn't want to understand it!).If God exists - if we express a doubt, we are not sure, God may be existing or may not be existing. Let's analyse it step by step - so from the end.
Let's imagine that there is no God. If somebody is not existing - that cannot be a hero - nor a bastard. Implication if-then has no sense then - there is no "if" if there should be "then".
Possible versions are:
1) "God is not existing and therefore he is not a sadistic bastard" - that's a useless information.
2) "God is not existing and therefore he is a sadistic bastard" also misses it's sense - is He guilty by His non-existence?
There is some sense in case that God exists. The sentence should then be: God is (and he is) a sadistic bastard. But from that statement we conclude that God IS existing. If we accept his existence - we accept that He is a God - are we allowed to deliver also a rest of the sentence?
God exists - it is verified by an author of the statement. God created World, life, vegetables, animals and people.
The right of the Creator
Has that, who can create something, the right to destroy what he created? I thing that he has. If he had not it, who could order Him, who could judge Him? If God created everything - must He recognize some norm that would hold Him under it? Who would create that norm? Somebody greater than God? God of Gods? Are we replacing monotheism by polytheism?That's probably a nonsense, let's stay rather at ONE God. Norm that should restrict God should possibly create some of God's creations - probably a man. And now let's think: Can a creation commands to a Creator? May a pupil teach a teacher, a soldier head to a General, an employee directs a director? No, I don't think so.
Our problem is that we create our own moral norms. But those norms are logically valid only for us, for people and for individuals subservient to us (f.e. animals). For God who is superior to us there is no norm to may judge Him. Some of you turn their heads and don't want to identify with it. But don't remember that God who created everything can give life (except World creation f.e.: revival of Jesus, revival of Lazarus, revival of dead by St. Peter and Paul or by prophets Elijah and Elisha. That who gives a life can also take a life.
It is not comparable with human's laws - which man can give a life to take it back later? Make no mistake in imagine that f.e. a man gives life by birthing a baby. That's not true. A baby is born because God gave a reproduction ability (hope I don't need to analyse the word "reproduction" - to reproduce means to copy, not to create...). But is a man able to birt a baby if he is a sterile - only by a will power? Is a man able to breath a life to a dead? No he cannot - we only entertain false hopes to us.
The story about Job's suffering
In the Old Testament there is a story of Job who was very godfearing man and God blessed him. Devil wanted to tempt and sent every possible infliction to him, did out of his property, his family and his health. Job suffered, cried and his friend instead of comforting him they argued him that he is responsible himself for his misery. Job impeached the God to send such misery to him. At the final God broke silence and in Book of Job, chapters 38-42 He lectured at Job and explained that He is a Creator and nobody can judge the Creator. I recommend to read it.A murder is a heinous crime for a man that is not able to give a life. But God can do whatever he wants, He gives a life and therefore he can also take it.
The story of children teared to death
When I already touched that Elisha, in Bible there is also a story about children giving names to Elisha, Elisha damned them, from a forest ran two she-bears and killed 42 children (2 Kings 2.23-24).At first sight bestial act. At second sight - in following chapters prophet Elisha revived other child (2 Kings 4.32-35). A prophet was in that times the right arm of God and often had similar abilities like God - better said, he could do in agreement with God - no man can do revivals by his own decisions without help of God. And because to profane God is a sin, it is a sin also to profane "The First after God". That children commit and they were punished. His mission then Elisha approved vy following miracles including revivals.
If the punishableness of profaning God is ununderstable, I could refer f.e. to story of Saul - that was the first Jewish king. God indeed discouraged people from having it's own king but people lasted on their request to have own king. God warned people and told them that king will rule the people, people will be forced to honour him because a king is done from God and stand in place of God and therefore people must respect him. When Saul was crowned some people gibed at him and Saul faced not hear it (1 Samuel 10.27). He made God angry by that because by keeping people insulting him, he in fact let people insult also God non-punishably. God saw that Saul will not be a good king and He let anoint the second king, David.
Why doesn't God intervene?
There are people that will believe to God in certain moment and others that will under impression of some terrible fact lose their faith. Often asked question of unbelieveing people is why doesn't God intervene, why does he let people be killed, why he doesn't estop it. Why it is that way, it only God himself knows - but it is possible to tell that God gave freedom to the people - freedom to turn back to God or to turn ouf of God, freedom to love or to kill. Let's take it from the beginning - God created a man to His image - He offered an ideal life in ideal environment (in Paradise Garden) to a man.A man was similar to the God (probably also) physically but also mentally - but with one exception - God is holy, so absolutely without any sin. But man let sin in his life and because of it he was chased out to real life in inhospitable land. Already from the beginning was the man evil and God didn't want to look at it, so he bring a Flood to a world, killed all evil people except family of Noah that was rightful. But his offspring was evil too and God punished them for their sins. God selected Jewish nation to hounour Him, gave them His laws - but Jews also breached them. God says that people are stiff-necked and evil and God's intervention never enlighten people to give up their sins.
Thus God "change the tactics" an said: "If you don't want to obey me, don't obey. I will not push in myself to you and force you to live according my instructions". Thus God stopped to intervene to people's life and gave to people the only chance how to overcome the depth of sin between a man and God. That who want to commit himself to God must confess his sins and admit Jesus Christ that is the bridge across the depth to his life. God gave to believing people the possibility of prayer and with prayer can people ask for help, f.e. for restoring of health, correction of sin a.s.o.
People themselves replaced the rule of God with the rule of kings, presidents a.s.o. Instead of prayers they have entertainment, culture, sport, they don't need God and don't know Him. When they got into a complicated situation, possibly somebody is dying, suddenly a man spontaneously started to pray and suppose that God is ready to provide him some miracle - and if not then it is a reason for proclamation that God is not existing. But people are ungrateful - till today they didn't need God, now they need some miracle and later should God miss behind the church wall. But God doesn't want to tinker up to people their leaky lifes - God wants people to commit themselves Him, for Him to grant them eternal life - that's more important than a local miracle prolonging man's life for 20 years, but what it helps to a man after his death...
A dogged atheist
People are readdy to discuss different things, to philosophize friendly but watch as soon as meeting of believing man with unbelieving man comes. Believing man knows that God exists, unbelieving man doesn't know it because he never saw Him - that's why a man things that God doesn't exists. So - possible to say - from unbelieving man should be indifference expected - I don't know if something exists, it has no influence to my life, it is indifferent for me. But opposite is true - suddenly responsible philosophists changes themselves and they would jangle and tear "that something is NOT existing". Isn't it interesting? I have my own explanation for that but unbelieving people certainly cathegorically reject it.It is concerned that spiritual sphere is not only a "good God". God created beside a world, people, animals a.s.o. also spiritual entity - angels. Angels are serving spirits that do some thing according God's directs. Nevertheles they don't thing blindly, they have they own will.
The highest angel, Lucipher (Satan, Devil) was punished by throwing down to Earth and from that time he tries to revenge for his degradation and fights again God. He fights in that manner that he controls people, whisper them lies and temps them to evil acts. And the easiest lie that can harm people - and therefore to God - is the lie that God doesn't exist. For satan it is very important - it is indifferent to him if american Indians developed in America or if they came from Asia. This theme is then unbelieving man discussing very quitly or even amusely. But when discussion reaches a God's existence, devil started to rage and aggressively speak by unbelieving man about this "indifferent" theme having for unbelieving man same importance as the origin of american Indians is - thus zero importance.
"Prove me that God exists"
Unbelieving people often tell: "Prove me that God exists and I will believe in him".The point is what does it mean "to believe". Do I believe that I had spinach to my dinner? Well, I don't believe to it, I KNOW that I had spinach. If my friend from T-mobile ratify me that T-mobile will switch off mobile network tomorrow then I know it will be switched off and again I can't believe to it if I know it. I can believe that tomorrow will be nice day - because nobody can approve it. And that's the point: "Prove me to believe". Man can believe only without proofs, on trust, otherwise - it is no faith but knowledge.
And God because He is the highest, unchained being simply cannot be known at all - if God was hanging on the sky, any man could call on Him and God would answer him - it wouldn't be faith yet. And moreover - full understanding is like restriction of His position - if I know something, I can foresee His reactions, prepare for them and God wouldn't be almighty.
Nevertheless God let Himself recognize to believing people and a level of recognition is adequate to the faith dimension. But there is no faith by the help of knowledge.
God is proved by World existence itself
We people in our pride on craft of our hands and knowledge of the world are able to believe in paradoxical facts.Let's think logically: will nothing change to something by itself? Will castle arise from sand stack? Or will rather castle decay with time to sand?
Scientifically that property is called entropy - inordinance - if you let something be - will it's ordinance improve with time?
What I observe - what is not painted, that will rot and fall apart, rust and fall apart, I can't remember case that I let some row foodstuff in a pan and after some time there was excelent Kung-Pao or something similar.
Thus in the real life we don't see decrease entropy - but it's spontaneus increase. But this experience doesn't hate anyhow to materialistic theory of the world origin:
At Big Bang from nothing arised matter, from original formless matter arised different corpuscles, this corpuscles created simple atoms, simple atoms created complex atoms, dead matter livened and living substance started to think and conceived a God to be afraid of something?
Yes, surely - all the history is continuos increase, bloom, evaluating - i.e. decreasing of entropy - in contrast to our real experiences!
How should it be possible without intervention from outside, without supplies of "energy" for synthesis of more complex structures from simply ones? General system is demoting, not grading that we expect the world has developed.
A collegue from office told: that's a nature selection, what was weak - that expired and stayed only that strong.
Only that strong? Who's stronger - primitives or intelligents? I think that rough force always knock down that good and thoroughbred.
Selection? Let's say: a million of substances and only one suitable, from million of suitables only one suitable a.s.o. - OK. But, Who selects them - who choose suitables and destroy those not suitables not to take "nutrients" and space? And if there's nobody like that (according materialists), what about of Calculus of probabilities - has somebody played an airplane (pyramid game)? Does he know how fast grows geometric progression?
Calculus of probabilities
Let's imagine that for becoming from "nothing" to thinking man is needed (only) 100 development phases.Let's imagine that in every phase (occasionally) originates f.e. (only) 10 combinations of substances. Only one result from those combinations is correct, thus 10x10x...x10, it all 100 times, i.e. 10100, number that has 100 zeroes (or 33 triads: thousand, million, billion, trillion, quadrillion (that's so far 1015).
Those counts have no sense if we look at the time as unlimited source - Jews count 6.000 years from the World creation, Christians are ready to go even further (first week of creation should last even thousands years). Even the most materialistic materialist doesn't count the time from Big Bang more than in rank of billions years. Let's multiply presently received 15 billion (i.e. 15x109) years by 365.3 (days) then by 24 (hours) then by 60 (minutes) and by 60 (seconds) and you'll get 5x1017. Let's be broadminded and expect space age not 15 billion years but 200 times more - thus 3 trillion years - to get round sum of 1020 - thus number with 20 zeroes. This is a count of seconds from the Big Bang till today. As up to 100 there is 80 zeroes more, thus 1080 times more, it's necessary by every second to pass 1080 combinations - that's only mathematics - and unimaginably big number. And don't forget - trivial example of 100 phases and 10 combination in each...
There is a sciential specialization called microbiology or such similarly, concerning with structure of atoms, compounds and their origin.
I heard students of that specialization on T.V. - they vouched that those probabilities simply differs - in case the world was developed this way, it wouldn't be able to perform it in given time (i.e. not that f.e. only 90% should be performed - it's thought that only one billionth should be catched (and I choose only such small number that is imaginable).
That must surely disquiet a thoughtful man. What does result from that? - Our World should arise by influence of outer co-ordinative force or we can flatter ourselves that the space is old not billion years but billions of billions years - only we are not able to measure it. Yes, we are able to confess that we can't measure it but we are not able to confess that World should arise otherwise than randomly (thus would be man's souverignity compromised).
That's a paradox, we are people ready to believe for beyond, for space potencies, for healership, for numerology, to cofee grounds, but still we defend back to the most common explanaition - that there is Somebody having power over time, space and our lives, somebody who created us and only wants us to confess it and don't believe to other lies causing our death.
Canting believers
For an unbeliving man are believing people those "strange people kneeling in the church and praying to some statue, looking badly to us while pastor rapes small boys in sacristy". As I anticipated former, God let people to organize their things according themselves. And the religion is one of human things that means nothing to God. For instance God doesn't speak about celibate of priests in Bible. On the contrary, a priest should be according 1st.Timothy 3.2 a man married to one wife. But in catholic church rules doesn't come up purely according Bible but there is also important function of so called revealed truth, i.e. inspiration that have the highest representatives of church (Pope, archbishops, cardinals). Under such inspiration the celibate for church dignitaries was established - and thereby also horrible stress rised because a man wasn't created for celibate and for substantial part of priests this rule will lead to a certain improper behaviour.And why is only homosexuality and paedophilia being mentioned? I think it is because of opportunities - two priests annoyed by celibate are able to understand each other while every young Christian girl haunting the church knows that "seducing the priest is a capital sin". Assistants of priests are being usually young boys - never young girls that should be a "temptation" for the priest. But as I say, from these effects it is not possible to accuse God - only people. Some churches are holding their meetings very ritually, people are conning over learned sentences and I thing their religion is rather a groovy procedure than an intensive personal spiritual relation to God, as maybe God would prefers.
"People are developed from a primary incest"
Adam lived with Eve that was cloned from Adam (she originated from his rib). They had children and there were no other people there. It is clear that another generation had to be born from Adam's children mutually or from liason of Adam or Eve with their children. That's true. Let's jump for a moment some next generations and let's look on time when f.e. lived 10th generation after Adam. Can we still suppose that only direct first-hand related, thus brother and sister got married? Why, what should be reason for that? In Bible there is usually written about only one child but there is also written that father of first-born later birthed other sons and daughters. Adam according Bible lived almost thousand years.There was no T.V., no electricity, it was not possible to read, what should Adam do during nights? I think that he birthed sons and daughters, first with Eve, later with his daughters, granddaughters, great granddaughters a.s.o. According Bible Adam still lived in time of eight generation after him. If there was f.e. 100 children in every generation from which some were born f.e. 800 years later than their oldest brothers - it is possible to expect that if someone couple someone else who was same age but from entirely different generation - that in fact it was not "related" marriage. A pessimist objects that original DNA was same for all.
Yes, but after every another generation DNA little mutated, in every clan certainly differently and the result was an unrelated marriage. Moreover - if the history is under arrangement of God - then God prohibited incest as far as in Moses times (Leviticus 18.6) - till that time related marriages were moreless standard - f.e. Abraham's wife Sarah was his step-sister - they both have the same father but their mothers were different (Genesis 20.12). Lot that left Sodom had no man from his clan to marry his daughters. Finally daughters themselves solved the situation by getting drunk their father and birthed with him clans of Moab and Amon (Genesis 19.36-38). And probably they did it in harmony with God's will because God didn't punish them. And God that is really God surely created DNA and DNA f.e. should have a mission to not degenerate in related marrieages till time when the world was populated enough - and till God prohibited related marriages. If you want some example from today - imagine that I am an offspring of king Henry the 8th. I will marry wife that is also offspring of king Henry the 8th., but her family was living far from my family.
Is it possible to tell that we both are offspring of king Henry 8th., i.e. our former DNA was the same, that today, after 600 years we both are still related and our marriage would be "incest"?
Why does Christians judge homosexuals?
That's a very delicate question havig no clear answer. I think that God didn't create homosexuals. God created sex because of multiplication of people - if people have no pleasure from "multiplication", probably they wouldn't launch to such "fun" bringing further hungry necks.Homosexuality doesn't multiplicate people - so God probably had no interest on it. In the Old Testament homosexuality is directly prohibited (Leviticus 18.22) and it is possible to suppose that Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed also because of "sodomy".
In the moment when Jesus Christ fulfiled the law, he unbinded those that believe in Him from bondage of law and it should be reasoned that homosexuality would be more tolerable. Nevertheless it is still valid that God didn't create homosexuality and therefore homosexuality is a state that originated as a result of an old sin (that is not mentioned in Bible) - but it possible to assume that same way as Adam was seduced, also one of his sons was seduced to passion for same gender. That sin should have been encoded in DNA, so maybe it is truth that today's homosexuals are born without a possibility to choice. Especially in this case but also in other cases is therefore valid Matthew 7.1: Don't judge (your neighbour) not to be judge yourself.
What is the meaning of Easter?
Easter is a Christian feast celebrating crucifying and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Then it is also a Jewish feast that celebrated also Jew Jesus Christ. Jews celebrates memorial of their rescue from Egypt - a day that was called Great Night when ale firstborn Egypt child and all firstborn cattle died. Jews also ate unfermented breads and a lamb (because of it today usually during Easter is a cake in shape of lamb baken). And also Easter is a pagan feast of Spring when it is needed to rejuvenate girls and wake them from dormancy by whipping and pouring over. That habit has nothing common with Christianity.Resurrection
Jesus Christ was a firstborn son of the God, sent by God to save people. But people are living in their sin that God can't stand. To conciliate those irreconcilable worlds God became in Jesus Christ a man that was absolutely sinless and when he was crucified he became at fact a human sacrifice that vicariously undertake all sins and conciliate that way people with God. That who believe that Jesus undertook all sins, died and was revived - that can overcome a depth between a sinful world and a sinless God. Need to tell that this is an offer only, man can refuse it and die in his own sin (after his death to be gone to the hell instead of Heaven).A ressurection itself is not a solitary act happening to Jesus only - Jesus himself revived Lazar and others, prophets revived other people either before Jesus (f.e. prophet Elias) or after Jesus (f.e. apostle Peter or apostle Paul).
"Jesus died for somebody's sin but not mine"
Unbelieving people doesn't understand that they are sinful and they feel being bothered by Christians announced them Jesus. They tell that "they didn't ask anybody for any vicarious death". It results from misunderstanding of what will happen after physical death of a man - believing people believe that life is not ending by death and that it is necessary to prepare for life after death already on this world - and they have a responsibility to bring this message also to unbelieving people.It is possible to compare it to a relation of father - loung doctor and son - strong smoker. Father knows from his experience that son is killing himself and tries to presuade him to unbend from that bad habit. A son doesn't want to hear what will happen after a year or after ten years, son doesn't believe that just he could die from smoking.
Because some Christians are being up to their neighbours, wants them "survive", they tries at any occasion to persuade them about "their" truth. Of course, I don't apologize behaviour of "brain-washing" churches like Watch-tower or Mormons that often rather discourage unbelieving people by their zeal and I would maybe venture to assert that they even tempt people far off.
"The Bible is a compilation of myths"
Bible looks such for unbelieving man - depends strongly on point of view. If we stick to Marxist-Leninist truth then we know that what is not real (i.e. clear, visible, repeatable, measurable a.s.o.) that is fairy and fairy is not existing, there is only so far unrecognized. I'm not Marxist and I assume that fantasy of (especially those ancient) people was not so boundless and maybe their records arised from real facts. F.e. in fairy tales often features characters that we don't see around but Bible mentions them - those are f.e. angels, various monsters (demons) or giants that arised from joints of angels with human girls (1.Moses.6.4). With one of giants, Goliath, king David fighted and king David is definitelly not a fictitious person and also no other supernatural acts are applyed to him in Bible - as it would in glorification chronicle on every his step. Even Greek mythology is obviously not fictitious - or at least partly. My opinion on Greek gods is that those were demons that meddled to people's life and amazed by their supernatural abilities.But back to Bible - Bible was not written by only one man, it is a collection of 66 books from various authors that were written under God's inspiration. Of course His inspiration is not demonstrable but as an indirect proof it is possible to introduce that there is a convention of all Christian churches on the New Testament book collection and there is a convention also with Jewish church on books of the Old Testament. There is only Catholic church that has some more so called Deuterocanonic books in their Bible. This agreement or selection of books to Bible was done by God's inspiration and by a hard and long negotiations among the heighest representatives of churches. It is definitely not a decision of one man, f.e. of king that should intrude his vision to all the world.
From Christian point of view Bible is a way how God speaks to people. God inspirated various people for writing of Bible and to it's content He included information about Himself and about His intentions that way that it is not clear at all by passing reading. Only that reader that approaches to the Word with humbleness that sometimes reads surprising things at places already readed many times before without success. Thus God reveals a part of the truth to people that He wants and when He wants. That way it is prevented from inflation of God's Word: the truth is recognised only to those that are worthy of it.
What does mean a bastard?
At a final I would like to take a think on the word bastard. In relation to a God it is a very impertinent word - who with whom and even with some "unrightful" should birth the highest being, the creator? Stupid, isn't it?A word sadistic I think is not needed to mention - who can compare God the Creator to some Marquis de Sade that except of name of sexual deviation didn't create anything ever?
Nothing that, we all uses foreign words that we don't understand - but if we have a lack of faith for decision in the most important question of our life, we should at least to try to leave our groovy cliché and humans conventions and take a proper think on the existence of God.
Concerned to the sense of life - why are we people here - God created a man according his image - thus the creation was His intention. If the world should have been such as it is today - with all wars - serving for God's fun - Goethe wrote "God's comedy" - if the world is really a comedy - then we should be happy that we should participate on it.
If the world is bad because God let people to decided themselves independently - that should unbelieving people to be gartified by it - that's their wish, isn't it? But how it is truly, it only God knows, we others can only guess.
Once that I was at army, there was a youngster that when we touch the question of existence of God had clearness immediatelly: "God is simply not existing".
By other words: Why should He be existing? Well that was his teacher telling to him at school that people created God because they were afraid of a storm. Naturally - comunists should never tell us lies, in addition - teacher had that clearly confirmed by the Chairmann of Comunistic Party.
And he must know something about that.
My grandfather was prisoned at World War 2 at concentration camp and he after his return told that the most of his co-prisoners found a faith in prison. Even teachers who were that time almost with no-exceptions atheists, wrote home to send them Bibles. And only with help of faith they survived from concentration camp.
"... and same as it is possible to ask: Why should be God existing? I ask: And why shouldn't He be existing?..."
If you are interested about Christianity, you can
continuously pass to particullar systematically ordered (so far under construction)
Lessons of faith
If you are interested about Christianity, you can
continuously pass to particullar systematically ordered (so far under construction)
Lessons of faith
