Deuteronomy 22:13-21
“If a man, after marrying a woman and having relations with her, comes to dislike her,
and makes monstrous charges against her and defames her by saying, ‘I married this woman, but when I first had relations with her I did not find her a virgin,’
the father and mother of the girl shall take the evidence of her virginity and bring it to the elders at the city gate.
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“But if this charge is true, and evidence of the girl’s virginity is not found,
they shall bring the girl to the entrance of her father’s house and there her townsmen shall stone her to death, because she committed a crime against Israel by her unchasteness in her father’s house. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst.
fuck? what is this. shall i stone my husband to death in front of his father’s gate after i’ve come to dislike him after a few years of marriage, if his parents can’t give me evidence that he was a virgin before he married me? what the shit? why didn’t the bible say anything about guys who slept around before they got married? if you’re going to tell me it was just some old testament law well then i wished the people back then had enough sense to kill some bastards since they were willing to kill some women for not being chaste. then they’ll have purged even more evil from their midst!
(maybe now we now have an idea of what happens when we imperfect people interpret the scriptures abit too literally.)
sometimes things like that really make me angry.
and apparently the episcopal church caused one bloody big ruckus when they ordained women (allow females to become bishops).
the opponents point to this passage:
1 Timothy 2:11-14 A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent. For Adam was formed first, then Eve. And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner.
i think some self righteous man forgot that Adam sinned as well. and since people now refer to this passage maybe we should pull all female teachers out of the boys and mixed schools! and maybe we can give men legal authority to tell all women to shut up! why are we made with diaphragms in the first place? if we should be bloody silent and submissive all the time, our mouths should be only good for eating and making men happy!
and apparently the episcopal church caused a huge fuss when they ordained gay men.
if i talk about this my saliva will probably run dry and i’ll bao my word limit here.
read this well researched essay: here
basically what i want to say is that if people actually bothered to look properly and read up homosexuality is a grey area. GREY AREA! means that both sides of the argument can quote bible verses and tweak the meanings to suit their arguments. God said ‘Thou shalt to steal’ but He didn’t say ‘Thou shalt not have sex with nor love someone of the same gender even if the two people involved are in a lifelong committed relationship.’ so everyone can argue all they want. and not come to a conclusion. and anyone who professes that his/her interpretation is superior and enforces their will on others are being bloody self righteous. you see i don’t see why the church will probably admit any incorrigible person or some married person who had slept with 10 other people but refuse entry to a person who is committed to loving another person for the rest of his or her life.
‘The Episcopal Church affirmed at the 1976 General Convention that homosexuals are “children of God” who deserve acceptance and pastoral care from the church. It also called for homosexual persons to have equal protection under the law. This was reaffirmed in 1982.’
i’m sorry, isn’t it common sense that the church doesn’t have walls and since we’re all limited humans we shouldn’t judge other humans no matter how we interpret the scripture? i can’t believe people will actually cheerfully cast the first stone.
truth is the church is made up of us imperfect people. the church have made mistakes. the church may be making mistakes now. i just hope our mistakes don’t prevent a union between two godly people who truly love each other when 1/3 of the unions we DO acknowledge end up in divorce every year. which is why i sadly have little regard for church authority up to now. my allegiance is with God alone.
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