This question is for any believer who has a sacred text. Is there anything that is contained in any part of your sacred text that you wish had never been included? This can range from things where the inclusion was political or somehow controversial or otherwise “tainted,” to things you don’t think are wise, to things that just run counter to your inclinations.
This is a bit inspired by the conversations about the Conservapedia Bible project, but it’s something I’ve wondered about for a while.
Jesus mentioning that he loves skat in John 13 is a little off-putting.
If the scriptures were different then the truth would be altered, and a new reality would be in effect. The Word is God, and it is exactly what He wants to give us to know His truths. As such things left out or added would really change things and it is impossible to figure out the effects, much like the things as if one was to go back in time and did things to change the timeline.
That out of the way, The trials of Job which define just how bad our trials can get, would seem like there should be a easier way.
Also incineration of our children into furnaces (Jer 7:31, 19:5, 32:35), may be the closest one that can go, as God Himself said about it ‘nor did it enter my mind’, so the timeline might be closer to reality with that one removed, and perhaps lots better as that one seems to have already been a altered timeline.
Old, old joke. Moses comes down from the mountain, and says “I got good news, and I got bad news. I managed to talk Him down from fifteen to ten. But adultery is still one of them.”
Quoth The Cleveland Steamer:
Peculiar username-post combination there, but… What verse? I don’t see anything there of the sort.
Personally, there are plenty of things in the Bible that I don’t agree with, but I think the solution is not a better book, but better readers. Someone who accepts the Bible unquestioningly will also accept other things unquestioningly, so even if the Bible were perfect, we’d still have the same problems.
Laugh if you will but I heard it’s really true.
Blessed are they who cannot hear the whooshing sound, for they will keep the thread lively.