Hi,
i just came across this article, i don't necessarily agree with it
let me know what your opinion is.
( i have split this up into 8 or so sections because of the 15000 character rule )
i just came across this article, i don't necessarily agree with it
let me know what your opinion is.
( i have split this up into 8 or so sections because of the 15000 character rule )
Sex in God's Words
by NaTaS
The Holy Bible is believed by many to be the actual, inspired word of God. If this were true, God should have his mouth washed out with soap.
Biblical Sex Talk
One of the reasons why the general public is not outraged about the sexual content in the Bible is that many modern readers don't understand the 17th century Old English which the King James version of the Bible was translated into. The more modern translations also tend to water-down these passages which are less than pleasing and alter the original intent of the authors of the Bible. For example, Ezekiel 23:20 speaks of a harlot who lusts after men who have penises as big as donkeys and who [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse] as much as horses. The original King James translation says it this way: "whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses."
And the Revised Standard Version puts it like this:
"whose members were like those of asses, and whose issue was like that of horses."
The Good News Bible translation completely removes the reference to the sexual organs and discharges of these animals, calling it merely "lustfulness" as follows:
"She was filled with lust for oversexed men who had all the lustfulness of donkeys or stallions."
The actual intent of some biblical passages is masked by the use of phrases or words which don't carry the same meaning in today's society. One example of this is the use of the word "feet." In some passages, the word feet is used to mean "genitals." For example, Ruth snuck into the barn where her prospective husband was sleeping and she laid down next to him and uncovered his "feet." Apparently she was "checking out the goods before she purchased" and the man, realizing that he was uncovered wakes up afraid, until Ruth proposed to him, then he realized that he was not threatened (Ruth 3:7-8). The Bible warns that God will make mothers who don't obey him eat their own newborn children which "cometh out from between her feet." (Deut. 28:57) The Bible also tells of a time when the Israelites would be taken captive by the Assyrian king, who would shave their heads and their pubic hair, describing it as "the hair of the feet" (Isaiah 7:20).
Another example of how meaning gets lost in the translation can be seen in the use of the word "knew" for "had sexual intercourse with." Whenever Adam had sex with Eve it is described as "And Adam knew Eve his wife" (Gen. 4:1). Some other ways the Bible has for saying a man had sex with a woman include "he went in unto her" (Gen. 38:2, 9, 18) or "he took so and so to wife." (Exodus 6:20) Perhaps if the Bible stated "And Adam had sex with Eve" more people would see that it couldn't be the word of a virtuous God. But that would require that they actually READ the Bible first!
Incest is Best
Sexual relations between related people commonly took place in the Bible even though the Hebrew law specifically forbade it (Lev. 20:11, 17, Deut. 22:30, 27:22).
Cain was the first born son of Adam and Eve, according to the Bible (Gen. 4:1,2). The Bible tells us that "Cain knew his wife; and she conceived." (Gen. 4:17) If Adam and Eve were the only couple created by God, then Cain must have had an incestuous relationship with his own sister. Why incest was okay in this incident but is not okay in others is a mystery.
Abraham was married to his half-sister as were numerous other biblical characters (Genesis 20:12)
Moses, the leader of Israel, was born of an incestuous relationship (Exodus 6:20)
Lot was saved from the fiery destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah just so he could impregnate his own two daughters (Gen. 19:31-36)
One of Jacob's sons had sex with one of his father's concubines (making him a mother-in-law-[wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth]er) (Gen. 35:22)
King David's son, Absalom had sex with ten of his father's concubines (mistresses) in a special tent he erected on top of the palace so that all of Israel would know what he "knew." (2 Sam. 16:21-22)
Another of King David's sons, Amnon, had sex with his brother Absalom's sister (his own half sister). Raping her when she refused to have sex with him, he then became disgusted with her and kicked her out. (2 Sam. 13:1-17)
Too Much is Always Better Than Not Enough
Much to the disappointment of modern Christians, the Bible teaches that a man can marry as many women as he can support (Exodus 21:10-11, Deut. 21:15) and nowhere does it limit the number of women that a man can marry to only one (Of course a woman can only marry one man...sorry ladies.). The men of the Bible took full advantage of this state of affairs, often having numerous wives, as well as sex slaves or "concubines." The word concubine comes from the Latin meaning "one to lie with" and the Hebrew word for concubine means a woman bought as a slave or otherwise acquired by a man for his sexual pleasure, or to serve as a surrogate child bearer if his wife, or one of his wives, was barren. In the Bible, a father had the right to sell his daughter to be one of these sex slaves (Exodus 21:7-9) God used concubines as a source of offspring throughout the Bible. The Father of God's chosen people, Abraham had sex with his wife's handmaid (Gen. 16:4) and the fathers of several of the tribes of Israel came from Jacob having sex with his wives' hand maids, (Gen. 30:4-5, 7, 9-12)
Polygamy, or having more than one wife was practiced by such popular biblical heros as Abraham (Gen. 16:1-11), Jacob (Gen. 29:28, 30:4,9,26), King David (2 Sam. 2:2, 5:13, 12:8-9, Abijah (2 Chron. 13:21), Jehoiada (2 Chron. 24:3), Gideon (Judges 8:30) and of course the wise King Solomon with his seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines (1 Kings 11:1-4). Mormons were persecuted by Bible-believing Christians in the United States for attempting to continue this practice which God had established in his "good" book.