Bible

[spiral]

There's been a lot of threads on religion-God, Life, and death.

Have any of you guys read the Bible?

I had never really read the bible, I just knew a few stories from it, ones that my elders have told me about.

I thought I'd give it a try and read some scriptures, just to get an idea.

my question is about Sodom and Gomorrah.

I don't see what "lesson, moral, or message" this story has to teach.

got any ideas or opinions on it?

[fstkhnan]

Re: Bible

Originally posted by spiral There's been a lot of threads on religion-God, Life, and death.

Have any of you guys read the Bible?

I had never really read the bible, I just knew a few stories from it, ones that my elders have told me about.

I thought I'd give it a try and read some scriptures, just to get an idea.

my question is about Soddom and Gomorah.

I don't see what "lesson, moral, or message" this story has to teach.

got any ideas or opinions on it?

NOPE!!!

[spiral]

NOPE!!!

Shat parap es

posting just to say "nope"...

go play tetris.

[fstkhnan]

Originally posted by spiral Shat parap es

posting just to say "nope"...

go play tetris.

yeah good idea! lol good luck with this thread though....

[Anonymouse]

It had to do with sexual immorality and the judgement of God.

Staunch Biblical conservatives argue about societies moral breakdown, homosexuality, sexual promiscuity, as the signs we are experiencing, what Sodom and Gemorrah were experiencing before God punished them.

One can look at this from a more reasonable perspective of course.

[spiral]

I understand the part where God is going to destroy the city, and Lot is allowed to take his family and leave.

The wife looks back, and turns into stone..etc...

then Lot goes into a cave with his daughters.(if I remember correctly)

They stay there for quite a while.

The daughters want to sleep with someone, but they're in a cave with their father being the only male.

They know that their father won't agree with the idea of sleeping with his own daughters,

So when their father is alseep, they each take their turn at him.


That's what I don't get. I don't see any metaphorical explanation for that.

[Anonymouse]

Maybe this might help?

http://www.ldolphin.org/sodom.html

[sleuth]

i will quote Paul Tillich

Religion is a state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of life .

I started to read bible when i was only 11. and i still read

[sleuth]

no subject connected with his psychic life has so engrossed the mind of man as that of his condition after death .


bible is a historical book that is backed by archeology, and a prophetic book that has lived up to all of its claims thus far. The Bible is God’s letter to humanity collected into 66 books written by 40 divinely inspired writers. thoes writers come from all walks of life and spans over a period of 1,500 years or more. These claims may seem dramatic (or unrealistic to some), but a careful and honest study of the biblical scriptures will show them to be true.

[Hogg]

I love fairytales.