Worst Bible Verse ... EVER

by Wild_Thing 19 Replies latest jw friends

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  Wild_Thing

  From the NWT, of course. None of the other versions make it sound any better, either. 2 Timothy, chapter 2 has been used and abused to suppress women everywhere.

  12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man, but she is to remain silent.* 13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve. 14 Also, Adam was not deceived, but the woman was thoroughly deceived and became a transgressor.
  

  Paul was an asshole (or whoever it was that supposedly wrote the book of Timothy.) And it sounds like we need to let imaginary Adam take responsibility for his imaginary actions instead of blaming his imaginary wife.

  What is your worst verse in the bible?
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  Village Idiot

  11 If two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes to rescue her husband from his assailant, and she reaches out and seizes him by his private parts, 12 you shall cut off her hand. Show her no pity. Deuteronomy 25:11-12 New International Version
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  Simon

  There are lots of "women are stupid" verses ... or "women are dirty" ... that's when they are not both stupid and dirty ...

  Or maybe we could pick one of the "kill all the babies, smash their heads on rocks" classics from the OT

  Ah, a god of love. Imagine if he was a psychotic misogynistic woman-hating god instead of the "loving god" he really* is?!

  * The bible tells us he is so it must be true. If you don't believe it, the bible also makes clear that god wrote it. Yep, no arguing with that water-tight logic.
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  Captain Schmideo2

  Genesis 1:1 "In the Beginning, God created the Heavens and The Earth"
  
  (side note from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:"This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.")
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  Wild_Thing

  I am too lazy to look it up, but there is also one in the OT that says to stone your children if they are disobedient.
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  AFRIKANMAN

  Interpolations and .......................[My wife don't dig Pauls writings btw ]
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  LittleRedWorm

  Hi Wild_thing,

  Yes it's up there with the worst, but considering what the writer gives as the rationale for his ruling I doubt that Paul or anyone else with even a smidgen of rational thinking ability would have reasoned as he does … Also, Adam was not deceived, but the woman was thoroughly deceived and became a transgressor…. Since he says Eve was deceived and Adam wasn’t, Adam was to surely the more culpable of the two since he knowingly ate the fruit.

  PS: Interestingly a literal translation of the Hebrew of Gen 3:6 says … CLV Gn 3:6... And taking is she of its fruit and is eating, and she is giving moreover to her husband with her, and they are eating...

  Notice it says her husband was with her at the time of the temptation that makes his action even more reprehensible.

  The NWT translation says ...afterward she gave some to her husband when with her... the Heb word rendered moreover in the CLV above can also be also rendered however, even or though but never afterward which is an entirely different Hebrew word, so the NWT and others have tinkered their translations to reinforce the faulty reasoning of the writer of 1Tim 2:12-14

  LRW~

  
  
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  Crazyguy

  in exodus where god is said to punish people for their sins to the 4th generation and in another book I think it says 10 generations. Yet people think this guy is loving.
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  cofty

  If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, he shall pay her father fifty shekels He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives. - Deut.22:28,29
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  cofty

  However, you may purchase male or female slaves from among the foreigners who live among you. You may also purchase the children of such resident foreigners, including those who have been born in your land. You may treat them as your property, passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance. - Lev.25:44