Common misconceptions about Christianity.

[ManusJustus]

c03n3nj0 said:

ManusJustus said:

calvinandhobbes said:

ManusJustus said:

thanny said:

The other thing is that many people condemn christianity and christians for the laws of the old testament. By this i mean the arguement of 'You can't believe in some of the bible and not all of it'.

The old testament is the law before Jesus Christ.

God cannot be near sin. This means that for a person to be with God they must be completely without sin. This is why the old testament has many laws or whatever about animal sacrifice. The sacrifice pays for the sins, and thus the individual can be in the presence of God. Jesus Christ dying on the cross was a sacrifice for the sins of everyone, making these laws obsolete.

In the Old Testament, God told the Israelites to rape and kill children after they conquered their city.  Not quite the 'God cannot be near sin' idea that you state.

source?

Bible

If you are going to believe something, you should be familiar with it.  Here's a nice quote from God...

Thus says the LORD, 'Behold, I will raise up evil against you from your own household; I will even take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in broad daylight.

2 Samuel 12:11

Whoa, way to take things out of context there, buddy. First of all, that has nothing to do with what you said. Nothing. It doesn't even have to do with conquering anything, or raping any little girls. 

In the chapter of 2 Samuel, God is punishing King David for being sinful. 

Here's part of the bigger quote: 

"Why, then, have you disobeyed my command? You had Uriah killed in battle; you let the Ammonites kill him, and then took his wife! Now, in every generation some of your descendants will die a violent death because you have disobeyed me and have taken Uriah's wife. I swear to you that I will cause someone from your family to bring trouble on you. You will see it when I take your wives from you and give them to another man; and he will have intercourse with them in broad daylighht." - 2 Samuel 12: 9-11

I just literally put a bible on my lap and wrote from it. 

Please, before you try to discuss something and say they don't know anything, do your homework first. 

Edit for spelling mistakes. 

That wasn't the verse I initially mentioned, notice how I said, "here is a nice quote from God."  My bad in thinking that I wouldn't have to help people find things in the Bible that they believe in.

Judges 21 is the initial verse that you are looking for.

And good job of justifying having a woman raped in broad day light.