Someone Online Asked What Do People Pretend Is In The Bible But Is Absolutely Not In The Bible? And 25 People Delivered
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BoredPanda staff Publish Not your original work? Add source The Bible is known to be one of the most important books that people tend to live by. Its contents teach and inspire people as well as help them to change for the better. Despite it being widely used, studied, and referenced, very often its contents encourage people to discuss various interpretations of matters that are being written about in this collection of religious texts. Having this in mind, Reddit user @LoneShark81 asked people online to share what are the things that people pretend to be in the Bible when, in fact, these things are not there. This question gave a green light to those who have noticed some discrepancies between what is written in the Bible and how people understand these matters. Some of the things that were mentioned by users online include speculations about what Jesus or angels looked like, explanations on how hell really works, and what well-known sayings are not actually taken from the Bible. Do you know any things that people pretend to be in the Book of Books when in reality it isn't the truth? Which one of these matters shared by others online do you agree with? Don't forget to leave your thoughts in the comments down below! More Info: Reddit This post may include affiliate links. #1 Jesus being a white skinned, long haired, white boy.
Dude looks like how most black haired Middle Easterns would look like today. He was a Jew from south Israel but every European and American Christian seems to think he looks like a hippie from a middle-class suburb in the 90s. KlippelGiraffe , Trevor Hurlbut Report Final score: 426points POST Alloydog Alloydog Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Also, he often said to keep your self clean and tidy. Since Palestine was under the Romans, it would have most likely been fashionable to be clean shaven and have short hair - so even the image of a long haired bearded man is probably wrong. 77 77points reply View More Replies... View more comments #2 israfilled wrote:
That Mary Magdalene was a prostitute. A pope conflated her with Mary of Bethany and an unnamed "sinful woman," because he didn't like the fact that a woman was important to Jesus and wanted to discredit her.
gentlybeepingheart responded:
Mary Magdalene was, according to the Bible, a wealthy woman who chose to support Jesus from her own resources out of gratitude for him driving demons from her. This was problematic to that Pope because it didn't quite fit what women were supposed to be like.
Mary, mother of Jesus, was important because she had been chosen specifically by God to bear Jesus and that was her main role. Mary of Bethany was the one who anointed Jesus' feet with perfume and her hair because of him saving her brother. Mary Magdalene chose to follow and support Jesus of her own free will. Mary Magdalene was successful and was not acting in response to the actions/status of a male guardian. This independence was not what the Pope and that society wanted from women, so they decided she was a prostitute. She followed Jesus instead of getting married and bearing children because nobody would marry a prostitute, not because of her own beliefs.
israfilled , Jules & Jenny Report Final score: 326points POST ShriSha Kamboj ShriSha Kamboj Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago yet again casting women to be lower than men and punishing them for their "crimes"...........and also a controversial opinion......prostitute is not supposed to be an insult....gigolo isn't... 84 84points reply View More Replies... View more comments #3 That money is the root of all evil. The correct quote is actually the *love* of money. Pixxel_Wizzard , Keith Cooper Report Final score: 315points POST Chimmels Chimmels Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago In 1942 the bible was changed to saying “a man who lies with a man is a sin” before it was “ a man who lies wit a CHILD is a sin” so i guess jesus hates pedos 82 82points reply View More Replies... View more comments #4 That people who commit suicide go to Hell. acl2244 , Eric.Ray Report Final score: 286points POST Nikki Sevven Nikki Sevven Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago I think people got this one from Dante's Inferno. 80 80points reply View More Replies... View more comments #5 “Thou shalt hate the gays. Forget all of thy commandments specifically when dealing with queer folk, and thee will be blessed with a Facebook group.” MQ116 , Per Pettersson Report Final score: 285points POST Thorfin Wolfsbane Thorfin Wolfsbane Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Disciple: "should we love even gay people?" Jesus: "Yes, we should love even those who ask stupid questions" 183 183points reply View More Replies... View more comments #6 The_Max_V wrote:
All those people that think they're better than the rest because they openly demonstrate they're SO religious? The Bible literally say to pray and worship In secret.
beththebookgirl responded:
And, if I remember correctly, to do good deeds privately.
giosaraiv replied:
Yup. "But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you." Mathew 6:3-4. The_Max_V , brett jordan Report Final score: 273points POST Huddo's sister Huddo's sister Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Doing good deeds should be in secret, as getting praise from others for them defeats the purpose. Celebrating God can be done in public, but it is often more powerful to worship with one or two people in private than publicly claiming you know the truth. In other words you can have more meaningful impact sharing the word of God through the way you treat others and live your life than being someone who constantly tells people they should be doing x,y,z because that is what God wants. (I don't know if that last part makes sense) 52 52points reply View More Replies... View more comments #7 Most stuff about Satan and Hell. He doesn't actually show up that much in the Bible and most stuff about him is taken from other previous cultures like Hades. Most of what people think of Hell is from Dante's Inferno. gentlybeepingheart , Spencer Means Report Final score: 237points POST ?? ?? Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Also! Lucifer is not the name of the Devil, It is a translation of the Hebrew word heh·lelʹ, literal meaning is “shining one.” Heh·lelʹ is not a name or a title but, a term describing the boastful position taken by Babylon’s dynasty of kings of the line of Nebuchadnezzar. 43 43points reply View More Replies... View more comments #8 RodMunch85 wrote:
The seven deadly sins
Shadrach451 replied:
However, listed in Proverbs 6:16-19 are "Seven Things God Hates" and people should maybe pay some attention to those. These are almost definitely the source of what people later construed into The Seven Deadly Sins.
I should point out that Proverbs is not a book of the law, per say. So, it's not the same as calling these things "sins". But six things "The Lord Hates" and Seven he Detests should not be taken lightly.
Proverbs 6:16
There are six things the Lord hates,
seven that are detestable to him: haughty eyes,
a lying tongue,
hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes,
feet that are quick to rush into evil, a false witness who pours out lies
and a person who stirs up conflict in the community.
I feel like these are particularly meaningful in today's world, and Christians especially should be paying attention. There is a strong emphasis on that last item. It's highlighted in the wording. Stirring up conflict in the community is directly in opposition to the nature of God, and that sort of division is deeply embedded in our American culture right now. God hates division. RodMunch85 , contemplativechristian Report Final score: 225points POST JayBird JayBird Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago One thing I find funny as an atheist is that according to the christian bible some of us are closer to God in our ways than a lot of those who call themselves christians today. No disrespect intended. Please forgive my english - from Sweden. 162 162points reply View More Replies... View more comments #9 So many Christian and Non-Christian alike get “goodness” and “worthiness” wrong. People somehow got to thinking that being Christian makes you good and that believing Jesus makes you somehow less fallible or more worthy in some regard. The entire Christian belief is that humans and humanity is so completely corrupted and beyond redemption by themselves that they required Jesus to come to atone for their sins. That doesn’t mean that they’re inherently better once they believe in Jesus nor does it believe they have increased worth amongst humans as a result. Christians should be the ones who recognize that they’re the beyond redemption and need Jesus and should NOT be parading their beliefs as if they’re better than someone who doesn’t believe the same thing. This is entirely contradictory to the entire purpose of Jesus in the Christian lore. Even still, Christians use their beliefs as a prop to hate on Abortion Clinics or for some to even go on “mission trips” to people less fortunate with a seriously effed up attitude that “I’m better than them and they need my service”. I see it all the time. It’s their moment to be better than someone and it sickens me to see people pretend to be better in the name of Christianity. OscarDivine , Marco Report Final score: 199points POST Imogene Cargeaux Imogene Cargeaux Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Dude. Thank you. I have been talking about this for yrs . Mostly bcuz I grew up kinda poor n I went to a very good catholic school (my grandma left the Catholic school tuition $ in a trust for us when she died bcuz she was very religious n demanded we learn the ways of the lord) so I had to go to school with all the rich kids. N don't get me wrong I got a very good education but I was treated like a charity case. Ppl would bring me their old clothes, announce it to the class like they were the nicest ppl for doing so, PARENTS DID THIS S**T TOO! N all the other parents/students would be like "omg Karen, you're such a good Catholic.. god is going to reward u for being so compassionate." the biggest problem was that WE WERENT THAT POOR nor did my family EVER ask for a damn thing from ppl. Nor did we announce we weren't wealthy. We just lived in a small house so everyone assumed we needed to be their charity show Pony. It was so disgusting n so embarrassing. Also.... 75 75points reply View More Replies... View more comments #10 That people become Angels when they die. Nope. COAZRanger , Howard Lifshi*z Report Final score: 188points POST Deth Invictus Deth Invictus Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Angels are terrifying creatures that in no way resemble humans. 124 124points reply View More Replies... View more comments #11 That Satan is in any way in charge of torture in hell. derizen , Cahroi Report Final score: 175points POST ?? ?? Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago The word hell in Hebrew didn’t exist, Sheol translates best as grave. It was a place for the dead. “ the dead know nothing at all… all memory of them is forgotten” Ecc 9:5. In the Greek scriptures the term ‘fiery Gehenna’ is used. Gehenna was a literal place outside the gates of Jerusalem where refuse was burned, as well as the carcasses of animals that had been used in sacrifice or ones that were diseased etc. Everyone was familiar with it. On occasion, criminals were given the severest punishment by having their bodies burned there too, AFTER their death. This was severe as Jews carried a lot of significance with burials. It represented they were destroyed, eternally, and likened to refuse. Whenever the Greek scriptures refer to someone going to fiery Gehenna, it represented this shameful cremation after death. It never had any meaning whatsoever to torture, being burned alive, or their soul being held in an afterlife. 83 83points reply View More Replies... View more comments #12 Kind of a reverse of the question, but a lot of people pretend that "taking the Lord's name in vain" isn't about using other people's faith against them in order to acquire ridiculous wealth, privilege, and power. God most certainly does not approve of people like Joel Osteen and Kenneth Copeland and any of the other mega millionaire preachers but tons of Christians ignore it because it's "spreading Christianity". Surfing_Ninjas , asbruff Report Final score: 157points POST El muerto El muerto Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago that's from the old testament. Jews are not permitted to say the name of god aloud. they use other terms, like calling him god or lord 22 22points reply View More Replies... View more comments #13 That Eve eats an “apple” Kiwipecosa , Gaby Altenberger Report Final score: 150points POST Deth Invictus Deth Invictus Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Yup, the fruit of forbidden knowledge isn't even named. 59 59points reply View More Replies... View more comments #14 CaesarWrap said:
That god wants your sports team to win.
PokemonMaster619 responded:
Leviticus 15:22. “And the Lord said, “Go, Lions!” CaesarWrap , Daniel Lewis Report Final score: 147points POST Queenie-Poo Queenie-Poo Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago I always found this idea to be among the most annoying (which, just to clarify, is different from hateful). Obsessed sports fans are annoying enough; adding God to the mix is just stupid. 55 55points reply View More Replies... View more comments #15 The levels of hell. Dante wrote about his journey through hell. The levels are not biblical. maruffin , Jill Report Final score: 141points POST Leo Domitrix Leo Domitrix Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Dante also chose the numbers based on, essentially, superstition. 26 26points reply View More Replies... View more comments See Also on Bored Panda Woman Shows How "Harry Potter" Characters Were Supposed To Look According To Book Descriptions (35 Pics) 50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective #16 God helps those who help themselves, that actually comes from the Greek myths, Aesop’s fable "Hercules and the Waggoner." where a guy was having trouble with a muddy road and was praying Hercules for help, Hercules appeared and told him how to help himself, the moral being thee gods help those who help themselves. aume3 , oatsy40 Report Final score: 134points POST Not a Made up Name Not a Made up Name Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago This is also present in Hindu Pauranic Scriptures. 24 24points reply View more comments #17 "Neither a borrower nor a lender be"
I have had a minister 'quote' that to me as a Bible quote.
It's from Hamlet.
Edit: Lots of comments about the bible having stuff like this. Yes I know but a quote is a quote and from a christian professional you would at least expect an accurate quote from the bible but this is as wrong as quoting Hamlet and saying "Alas Poor Yorik, I knew him well" Magnus_40 , Hilary Perkins Report Final score: 130points POST Hugh Willie Mungous Hugh Willie Mungous Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago The English language is liberally sprinkled with words invented by Shakespeare and with many of his pithy writings that have become our sayings. 15 15points reply View more comments #18 "Not all who wander are lost."
-Tolkien 29:17 Kill3rT0fu , summonedbyfells Report Final score: 123points POST Ozacoter Ozacoter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 9 months ago (edited) I didnt remember Tolkien being in the Bible ;) 37 37points reply View More Replies... View more comments #19 The vegan teacher says that being vegan is being closer to God because he doesn't want animals to die even though God was the first one to murk an animal iwillgiveyouup , Max Kiesler Report Final score: 123points POST Nikki Sevven Nikki Sevven Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago The vegan teacher hasn't read her Old Testament. 73 73points reply View More Replies... View more comments #20 My brother has a friend that will argue with you that Jesus said in the Bible "Do as I say, not as I do". heyitsmeur_username , George Bannister Report Final score: 114points POST Sky Render Sky Render Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Now THAT would be a very bad message for a "savior" to tout! 50 50points reply View More Replies... View more comments #21 el_muerte17 wrote:
"This, too, shall pass" isn't in the Bible at all.
meowtiger replied:
for clarity: it most likely originated from one of three noted 11th-13th century persian poets
el_muerte17 , alex.ch Report Final score: 114points POST rumade rumade Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago I thought it was a Gandalf quote ? 51 51points reply View More Replies... View more comments #22 Half the s**t Shakespeare said. crazyisthenewnormal , Ungry Young Man Report Final score: 104points POST ShriSha Kamboj ShriSha Kamboj Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago yes please 14 14points reply View more comments #23 That Noah took two of each animal into the Ark.
He took 14: 7 male and 7 female of clean creatures and only a pair of unclean animals.
Gen 7:2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
Give that he sacrificed one of each of the clean animals that would be quite a facepalm if he only had a pair.
Gen 8:20 And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. Magnus_40 , Denise Womack-Avila Report Final score: 104points POST Rijkærd Rijkærd Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago The entire flood story is pure hogwash when they try to make it seem like the entire world was submerged...I'd like to know what they meant by the "entire world".... 36 36points reply View More Replies... View more comments #24 That angels are humans with wings. They're not. As far as I remember there are some depictions of them in the Revelation but not in much detail (I'm pretty sure that the four animals next to the throne aren't angels, but I may be wrong on that). Tilian1986 , Anastasia Intishar Report Final score: 102points POST Zedrapazia Zedrapazia Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 9 months ago The biblical angel is some circling Sauron with many eyes, rings and wings. 35 35points reply View More Replies... View more comments #25 Pythia007 said:
That Jesus said anything about children suffering. “Suffer the children to come unto me” means to allow them.
mcoombes314 responded:
Yeah, the word "suffer" is a weird one where the meaning has changed so much that it doesn't make sense in modern English. Same goes with "thou shalt not suffer a witch to live". Pythia007 , Ben Onken Report Final score: 93points POST Thorfin Wolfsbane Thorfin Wolfsbane Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago I would be willing to bet that Jesus never ever said the words 'suffer' or 'children'. Pretty sure he spoke Aramaic. 41 41points reply View More Replies... View more comments See Also on Bored Panda Overworked Employee Quits Because He Wasn't Getting A Fair Wage, Costs The Company $40 Million 40 Embarrassing Moments People Didn't Know Who They Were Talking To And Made A Fool Of Themselves Anyone can write on Bored Panda. Start writing! Follow Bored Panda on Google News! Follow us on Flipboard.com/@boredpanda! Add Your Answer! Not your original work? Add source Publish Change image Upload Photo Ooops! Your image is too large, maximum file size is 8 MB. Upload Upload Edit Image Error occurred when generating embed. Please check link and try again. Render conversation
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Discuss what is and is not in the religious text of your choice. So long as your beliefs don't become laws I have to live by. 55 55points reply Lyone Fein Lyone Fein Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Amen 18 18points reply Load More Replies... LazyPanda LazyPanda Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago I agree with this. Jesus (Yeshua) never forced people to believe. He did invite, and teach His disciples to preach about Him. But I think your claim about not making beliefs into laws is vague. Every law starts with someone's belief in or about something. 4 4points reply Lovin' Life Lovin' Life Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago (edited) I am a Christian, but we are all free to believe and worship as we wish. I try to do things to live a Christian life but never try to suffocate or push my beliefs on anyone. I just read my Bible and do good things, not for recognition, and live the way I feel I am supposed to live in accordance with God's word. Your religion is as important to you as mine is to me. I respect you all. Therefore I have made no comment in this post but it was a good read. Hugs and love to all. 27 27points reply just another drone just another drone Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago The problem is what you think are "good things" are not always good things. Plenty of Christians think they're doing good when they force gay kids into conversion therapy, or think they're doing good when they protest abortions. Religion is the main source of evil in this world. 22 22points reply Load More Replies... Stephanie Keith Stephanie Keith Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago What you're speaking of is not a good Christian. Those of us that are do not behave the way you are describing. It is people that twist the words of God to their will. Make no mistake about it. Doing any evil is not what God or his people do. Unfortunately the good ones get lumped in with the bad. 6 6points reply Summer Mason Summer Mason Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Exactly. I'm Christian myself and couldn't ever think of being like what I've seen others be. Just cause there are bad apples doesn't mean we are all bad. I stopped going to church because they gay bashed. I have alot of lbgtq (I'm not sure if I'm getting that right anymore) friends and family. And I could never hate them cause my church told me to. 7 7points reply jpaul jpaul Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Amen 0 0points reply jpaul jpaul Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago in all honesty this is not a christianity problems. I mean if there's no laws in your country to firmly condemn conversion therapies it's not christians fault 5 5points reply Squiddles Squiddles Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Speaking of junk that’s not in the Bible…abortion is a biggie where you gotta really twist it to make it seem like it’s mentioned at all. 2 2points reply jpaul jpaul Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago like most of the stuff anti religion are condemning. they didn't get the bible is a translation, and a question of interpretation 1 1point reply HarperTheCentaur (they/them) HarperTheCentaur (they/them) Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago The only part of the abortion debate that really matters is whether a fetus is a person. All the stuff about bodily autonomy is secondary; a murderer can't say he has the right to kill because of bodily autonomy. Different people have different beliefs about the personhood of a fetus, I'm personally still on the fence, but when you have the perspective that it IS a person, it's as simple as "murder is bad". It's really not an unreasonable mindset and there are definitely bible passages implying that unborn babies are people. -2 -2points reply jpaul jpaul Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago i'm sorry but to me the basic right to do what you want with your own body comes first. You can't force a woman to carry a child, the same way you can't force her to keep a child after birth. I remember an edifying video once. an anti abortion woman was annoying another woman trying to convince her to keep the child. the carrier finally kept the baby. Then she realized she couldn't do it, and put the child to adoption. A guy came out, and asked the first woman to adopt the child. The woman literally went mad. and she didn't adpt the baby of course -1 -1point reply Just saying Just saying Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago You are aware of course that the biggest genocides and wars in the 20C were caused by Fascism and Communism? 1 1point reply Om Om Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago religions aren't the main source of evil, it's ignorance and lack of empathy 0 0points reply Shane S Shane S Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago If we could let go of religion as a species, we could literally solve most of our problems and probably save the planet too. There would be one less reason to fight about and so many cultures would begin to collaborate and cooperate. -1 -1point reply jpaul jpaul Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago so because you see a black sheep, all the sheeps should be black 0 0points reply Moxxie️️️ The Queer Moxxie️️️ The Queer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago you seem like a good person? 4 4points reply Monica Pryts Monica Pryts Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 4 months ago What about those who don't practice religion? 0 0points reply Colin Leamon Colin Leamon Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Well said. I just made one comment (degrees of hell - but some will suffer more than others) 0 0points reply Mewton’s Third Paw Mewton’s Third Paw Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago (edited) I saw one of your comments on one of the posts above about Job and Satan. “ And Job never lost his patience and his faith and love for God remained intact.” What an odd thing to lie about. 0 0points reply Chucky Cheezburger Chucky Cheezburger Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Whatever religious text you believe, take it with a grain of salt. The words you read aren't the words of God. They are the interpretation of what someone long ago thought was a gods will, and those words have been filtered through time and the minds of people, who we know are very capable of being corrupted. How many things have been changed, added or removed to benefit someone or some group? And no one would know because much of the population was illiterate Only the rulers and the clergy would know when there was a change here or there... 24 24points reply Daria B Daria B Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago (edited) "Whatever religious text you believe, take it with a grain of salt." I second that. But this goes beyond religion. Everything you hear, even when presented as "fact", has to be taken with a grain of salt. Never stop questioning, comparing, hearing more sides of the same story and from different points of view. Even "scientifically approved" information can become obsolete with new discoveries. 10 10points reply Load More Replies... ERIKA H. ERIKA H. Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Absolutely true. It's why i describe myself as spiritual but not religious. I personally believe in a higher entity, but I don't believe in religion. 4 4points reply Mewton’s Third Paw Mewton’s Third Paw Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago That’s good but I think most people who say this are fully influenced by religion to have a god / higher power belief. If religions hadn’t presented it to you, you probably wouldn’t have just made up a higher power on your own. 0 0points reply Olga Dremina Olga Dremina Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago "Saint Spirit ain't got a pen" 1 1point reply Om Om Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago (edited) that's my main issue with the bible. After so many edits it had, not to mention everything that was lost between translations, it's hard to trust what it says. Even if we all knew the original language it was written with, and had the unedited texts, we couldn't know for sure what the authors meant almost 2000 years ago, because we're not living in that place and time. And even if we did know what they meant, we still don't know if they were just making up everything lol In the end, people is blindly trusting stuff made/written by humans, like any of us. No different than worshipping that Dante's Inferno this post talked so much about. 0 0points reply Shane S Shane S Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago This is why I LOVE Quakers. Quakers basically have an outlook of “whatever you believe, is true to you. And that’s all that matters” 0 0points reply Load More Comments POST Helen Haley Helen Haley Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Believe what you want. Discuss what is and is not in the religious text of your choice. So long as your beliefs don't become laws I have to live by. 55 55points reply Lyone Fein Lyone Fein Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Amen 18 18points reply Load More Replies... LazyPanda LazyPanda Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago I agree with this. Jesus (Yeshua) never forced people to believe. He did invite, and teach His disciples to preach about Him. But I think your claim about not making beliefs into laws is vague. Every law starts with someone's belief in or about something. 4 4points reply Lovin' Life Lovin' Life Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago (edited) I am a Christian, but we are all free to believe and worship as we wish. I try to do things to live a Christian life but never try to suffocate or push my beliefs on anyone. I just read my Bible and do good things, not for recognition, and live the way I feel I am supposed to live in accordance with God's word. Your religion is as important to you as mine is to me. I respect you all. Therefore I have made no comment in this post but it was a good read. Hugs and love to all. 27 27points reply just another drone just another drone Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago The problem is what you think are "good things" are not always good things. Plenty of Christians think they're doing good when they force gay kids into conversion therapy, or think they're doing good when they protest abortions. Religion is the main source of evil in this world. 22 22points reply Load More Replies... Stephanie Keith Stephanie Keith Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago What you're speaking of is not a good Christian. Those of us that are do not behave the way you are describing. It is people that twist the words of God to their will. Make no mistake about it. Doing any evil is not what God or his people do. Unfortunately the good ones get lumped in with the bad. 6 6points reply Summer Mason Summer Mason Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Exactly. I'm Christian myself and couldn't ever think of being like what I've seen others be. Just cause there are bad apples doesn't mean we are all bad. I stopped going to church because they gay bashed. I have alot of lbgtq (I'm not sure if I'm getting that right anymore) friends and family. And I could never hate them cause my church told me to. 7 7points reply jpaul jpaul Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Amen 0 0points reply jpaul jpaul Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago in all honesty this is not a christianity problems. I mean if there's no laws in your country to firmly condemn conversion therapies it's not christians fault 5 5points reply Squiddles Squiddles Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Speaking of junk that’s not in the Bible…abortion is a biggie where you gotta really twist it to make it seem like it’s mentioned at all. 2 2points reply jpaul jpaul Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago like most of the stuff anti religion are condemning. they didn't get the bible is a translation, and a question of interpretation 1 1point reply HarperTheCentaur (they/them) HarperTheCentaur (they/them) Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago The only part of the abortion debate that really matters is whether a fetus is a person. All the stuff about bodily autonomy is secondary; a murderer can't say he has the right to kill because of bodily autonomy. Different people have different beliefs about the personhood of a fetus, I'm personally still on the fence, but when you have the perspective that it IS a person, it's as simple as "murder is bad". It's really not an unreasonable mindset and there are definitely bible passages implying that unborn babies are people. -2 -2points reply jpaul jpaul Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago i'm sorry but to me the basic right to do what you want with your own body comes first. You can't force a woman to carry a child, the same way you can't force her to keep a child after birth. I remember an edifying video once. an anti abortion woman was annoying another woman trying to convince her to keep the child. the carrier finally kept the baby. Then she realized she couldn't do it, and put the child to adoption. A guy came out, and asked the first woman to adopt the child. The woman literally went mad. and she didn't adpt the baby of course -1 -1point reply Just saying Just saying Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago You are aware of course that the biggest genocides and wars in the 20C were caused by Fascism and Communism? 1 1point reply Om Om Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago religions aren't the main source of evil, it's ignorance and lack of empathy 0 0points reply Shane S Shane S Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago If we could let go of religion as a species, we could literally solve most of our problems and probably save the planet too. There would be one less reason to fight about and so many cultures would begin to collaborate and cooperate. -1 -1point reply jpaul jpaul Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago so because you see a black sheep, all the sheeps should be black 0 0points reply Moxxie️️️ The Queer Moxxie️️️ The Queer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago you seem like a good person? 4 4points reply Monica Pryts Monica Pryts Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 4 months ago What about those who don't practice religion? 0 0points reply Colin Leamon Colin Leamon Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Well said. I just made one comment (degrees of hell - but some will suffer more than others) 0 0points reply Mewton’s Third Paw Mewton’s Third Paw Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago (edited) I saw one of your comments on one of the posts above about Job and Satan. “ And Job never lost his patience and his faith and love for God remained intact.” What an odd thing to lie about. 0 0points reply Chucky Cheezburger Chucky Cheezburger Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Whatever religious text you believe, take it with a grain of salt. The words you read aren't the words of God. They are the interpretation of what someone long ago thought was a gods will, and those words have been filtered through time and the minds of people, who we know are very capable of being corrupted. How many things have been changed, added or removed to benefit someone or some group? And no one would know because much of the population was illiterate Only the rulers and the clergy would know when there was a change here or there... 24 24points reply Daria B Daria B Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago (edited) "Whatever religious text you believe, take it with a grain of salt." I second that. But this goes beyond religion. Everything you hear, even when presented as "fact", has to be taken with a grain of salt. Never stop questioning, comparing, hearing more sides of the same story and from different points of view. Even "scientifically approved" information can become obsolete with new discoveries. 10 10points reply Load More Replies... ERIKA H. ERIKA H. Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Absolutely true. It's why i describe myself as spiritual but not religious. I personally believe in a higher entity, but I don't believe in religion. 4 4points reply Mewton’s Third Paw Mewton’s Third Paw Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago That’s good but I think most people who say this are fully influenced by religion to have a god / higher power belief. If religions hadn’t presented it to you, you probably wouldn’t have just made up a higher power on your own. 0 0points reply Olga Dremina Olga Dremina Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago "Saint Spirit ain't got a pen" 1 1point reply Om Om Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago (edited) that's my main issue with the bible. After so many edits it had, not to mention everything that was lost between translations, it's hard to trust what it says. Even if we all knew the original language it was written with, and had the unedited texts, we couldn't know for sure what the authors meant almost 2000 years ago, because we're not living in that place and time. And even if we did know what they meant, we still don't know if they were just making up everything lol In the end, people is blindly trusting stuff made/written by humans, like any of us. No different than worshipping that Dante's Inferno this post talked so much about. 0 0points reply Shane S Shane S Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago This is why I LOVE Quakers. Quakers basically have an outlook of “whatever you believe, is true to you. And that’s all that matters” 0 0points reply Load More Comments Popular on Bored Panda I Used AI To See What These 23 Popular Cartoon Characters Would Look Like In Real Life 30 Y.O. 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Someone Online Asked What Do People Pretend Is In The Bible But Is Absolutely Not In The Bible And 25 People Delivered
Konstancija GasaitytėBoredPanda staff Publish Not your original work? Add source The Bible is known to be one of the most important books that people tend to live by. Its contents teach and inspire people as well as help them to change for the better. Despite it being widely used, studied, and referenced, very often its contents encourage people to discuss various interpretations of matters that are being written about in this collection of religious texts. Having this in mind, Reddit user @LoneShark81 asked people online to share what are the things that people pretend to be in the Bible when, in fact, these things are not there. This question gave a green light to those who have noticed some discrepancies between what is written in the Bible and how people understand these matters. Some of the things that were mentioned by users online include speculations about what Jesus or angels looked like, explanations on how hell really works, and what well-known sayings are not actually taken from the Bible. Do you know any things that people pretend to be in the Book of Books when in reality it isn't the truth? Which one of these matters shared by others online do you agree with? Don't forget to leave your thoughts in the comments down below! More Info: Reddit This post may include affiliate links. #1 Jesus being a white skinned, long haired, white boy.
Dude looks like how most black haired Middle Easterns would look like today. He was a Jew from south Israel but every European and American Christian seems to think he looks like a hippie from a middle-class suburb in the 90s. KlippelGiraffe , Trevor Hurlbut Report Final score: 426points POST Alloydog Alloydog Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Also, he often said to keep your self clean and tidy. Since Palestine was under the Romans, it would have most likely been fashionable to be clean shaven and have short hair - so even the image of a long haired bearded man is probably wrong. 77 77points reply View More Replies... View more comments #2 israfilled wrote:
That Mary Magdalene was a prostitute. A pope conflated her with Mary of Bethany and an unnamed "sinful woman," because he didn't like the fact that a woman was important to Jesus and wanted to discredit her.
gentlybeepingheart responded:
Mary Magdalene was, according to the Bible, a wealthy woman who chose to support Jesus from her own resources out of gratitude for him driving demons from her. This was problematic to that Pope because it didn't quite fit what women were supposed to be like.
Mary, mother of Jesus, was important because she had been chosen specifically by God to bear Jesus and that was her main role. Mary of Bethany was the one who anointed Jesus' feet with perfume and her hair because of him saving her brother. Mary Magdalene chose to follow and support Jesus of her own free will. Mary Magdalene was successful and was not acting in response to the actions/status of a male guardian. This independence was not what the Pope and that society wanted from women, so they decided she was a prostitute. She followed Jesus instead of getting married and bearing children because nobody would marry a prostitute, not because of her own beliefs.
israfilled , Jules & Jenny Report Final score: 326points POST ShriSha Kamboj ShriSha Kamboj Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago yet again casting women to be lower than men and punishing them for their "crimes"...........and also a controversial opinion......prostitute is not supposed to be an insult....gigolo isn't... 84 84points reply View More Replies... View more comments #3 That money is the root of all evil. The correct quote is actually the *love* of money. Pixxel_Wizzard , Keith Cooper Report Final score: 315points POST Chimmels Chimmels Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago In 1942 the bible was changed to saying “a man who lies with a man is a sin” before it was “ a man who lies wit a CHILD is a sin” so i guess jesus hates pedos 82 82points reply View More Replies... View more comments #4 That people who commit suicide go to Hell. acl2244 , Eric.Ray Report Final score: 286points POST Nikki Sevven Nikki Sevven Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago I think people got this one from Dante's Inferno. 80 80points reply View More Replies... View more comments #5 “Thou shalt hate the gays. Forget all of thy commandments specifically when dealing with queer folk, and thee will be blessed with a Facebook group.” MQ116 , Per Pettersson Report Final score: 285points POST Thorfin Wolfsbane Thorfin Wolfsbane Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Disciple: "should we love even gay people?" Jesus: "Yes, we should love even those who ask stupid questions" 183 183points reply View More Replies... View more comments #6 The_Max_V wrote:
All those people that think they're better than the rest because they openly demonstrate they're SO religious? The Bible literally say to pray and worship In secret.
beththebookgirl responded:
And, if I remember correctly, to do good deeds privately.
giosaraiv replied:
Yup. "But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you." Mathew 6:3-4. The_Max_V , brett jordan Report Final score: 273points POST Huddo's sister Huddo's sister Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Doing good deeds should be in secret, as getting praise from others for them defeats the purpose. Celebrating God can be done in public, but it is often more powerful to worship with one or two people in private than publicly claiming you know the truth. In other words you can have more meaningful impact sharing the word of God through the way you treat others and live your life than being someone who constantly tells people they should be doing x,y,z because that is what God wants. (I don't know if that last part makes sense) 52 52points reply View More Replies... View more comments #7 Most stuff about Satan and Hell. He doesn't actually show up that much in the Bible and most stuff about him is taken from other previous cultures like Hades. Most of what people think of Hell is from Dante's Inferno. gentlybeepingheart , Spencer Means Report Final score: 237points POST ?? ?? Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Also! Lucifer is not the name of the Devil, It is a translation of the Hebrew word heh·lelʹ, literal meaning is “shining one.” Heh·lelʹ is not a name or a title but, a term describing the boastful position taken by Babylon’s dynasty of kings of the line of Nebuchadnezzar. 43 43points reply View More Replies... View more comments #8 RodMunch85 wrote:
The seven deadly sins
Shadrach451 replied:
However, listed in Proverbs 6:16-19 are "Seven Things God Hates" and people should maybe pay some attention to those. These are almost definitely the source of what people later construed into The Seven Deadly Sins.
I should point out that Proverbs is not a book of the law, per say. So, it's not the same as calling these things "sins". But six things "The Lord Hates" and Seven he Detests should not be taken lightly.
Proverbs 6:16
There are six things the Lord hates,
seven that are detestable to him: haughty eyes,
a lying tongue,
hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes,
feet that are quick to rush into evil, a false witness who pours out lies
and a person who stirs up conflict in the community.
I feel like these are particularly meaningful in today's world, and Christians especially should be paying attention. There is a strong emphasis on that last item. It's highlighted in the wording. Stirring up conflict in the community is directly in opposition to the nature of God, and that sort of division is deeply embedded in our American culture right now. God hates division. RodMunch85 , contemplativechristian Report Final score: 225points POST JayBird JayBird Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago One thing I find funny as an atheist is that according to the christian bible some of us are closer to God in our ways than a lot of those who call themselves christians today. No disrespect intended. Please forgive my english - from Sweden. 162 162points reply View More Replies... View more comments #9 So many Christian and Non-Christian alike get “goodness” and “worthiness” wrong. People somehow got to thinking that being Christian makes you good and that believing Jesus makes you somehow less fallible or more worthy in some regard. The entire Christian belief is that humans and humanity is so completely corrupted and beyond redemption by themselves that they required Jesus to come to atone for their sins. That doesn’t mean that they’re inherently better once they believe in Jesus nor does it believe they have increased worth amongst humans as a result. Christians should be the ones who recognize that they’re the beyond redemption and need Jesus and should NOT be parading their beliefs as if they’re better than someone who doesn’t believe the same thing. This is entirely contradictory to the entire purpose of Jesus in the Christian lore. Even still, Christians use their beliefs as a prop to hate on Abortion Clinics or for some to even go on “mission trips” to people less fortunate with a seriously effed up attitude that “I’m better than them and they need my service”. I see it all the time. It’s their moment to be better than someone and it sickens me to see people pretend to be better in the name of Christianity. OscarDivine , Marco Report Final score: 199points POST Imogene Cargeaux Imogene Cargeaux Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Dude. Thank you. I have been talking about this for yrs . Mostly bcuz I grew up kinda poor n I went to a very good catholic school (my grandma left the Catholic school tuition $ in a trust for us when she died bcuz she was very religious n demanded we learn the ways of the lord) so I had to go to school with all the rich kids. N don't get me wrong I got a very good education but I was treated like a charity case. Ppl would bring me their old clothes, announce it to the class like they were the nicest ppl for doing so, PARENTS DID THIS S**T TOO! N all the other parents/students would be like "omg Karen, you're such a good Catholic.. god is going to reward u for being so compassionate." the biggest problem was that WE WERENT THAT POOR nor did my family EVER ask for a damn thing from ppl. Nor did we announce we weren't wealthy. We just lived in a small house so everyone assumed we needed to be their charity show Pony. It was so disgusting n so embarrassing. Also.... 75 75points reply View More Replies... View more comments #10 That people become Angels when they die. Nope. COAZRanger , Howard Lifshi*z Report Final score: 188points POST Deth Invictus Deth Invictus Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Angels are terrifying creatures that in no way resemble humans. 124 124points reply View More Replies... View more comments #11 That Satan is in any way in charge of torture in hell. derizen , Cahroi Report Final score: 175points POST ?? ?? Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago The word hell in Hebrew didn’t exist, Sheol translates best as grave. It was a place for the dead. “ the dead know nothing at all… all memory of them is forgotten” Ecc 9:5. In the Greek scriptures the term ‘fiery Gehenna’ is used. Gehenna was a literal place outside the gates of Jerusalem where refuse was burned, as well as the carcasses of animals that had been used in sacrifice or ones that were diseased etc. Everyone was familiar with it. On occasion, criminals were given the severest punishment by having their bodies burned there too, AFTER their death. This was severe as Jews carried a lot of significance with burials. It represented they were destroyed, eternally, and likened to refuse. Whenever the Greek scriptures refer to someone going to fiery Gehenna, it represented this shameful cremation after death. It never had any meaning whatsoever to torture, being burned alive, or their soul being held in an afterlife. 83 83points reply View More Replies... View more comments #12 Kind of a reverse of the question, but a lot of people pretend that "taking the Lord's name in vain" isn't about using other people's faith against them in order to acquire ridiculous wealth, privilege, and power. God most certainly does not approve of people like Joel Osteen and Kenneth Copeland and any of the other mega millionaire preachers but tons of Christians ignore it because it's "spreading Christianity". Surfing_Ninjas , asbruff Report Final score: 157points POST El muerto El muerto Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago that's from the old testament. Jews are not permitted to say the name of god aloud. they use other terms, like calling him god or lord 22 22points reply View More Replies... View more comments #13 That Eve eats an “apple” Kiwipecosa , Gaby Altenberger Report Final score: 150points POST Deth Invictus Deth Invictus Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Yup, the fruit of forbidden knowledge isn't even named. 59 59points reply View More Replies... View more comments #14 CaesarWrap said:
That god wants your sports team to win.
PokemonMaster619 responded:
Leviticus 15:22. “And the Lord said, “Go, Lions!” CaesarWrap , Daniel Lewis Report Final score: 147points POST Queenie-Poo Queenie-Poo Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago I always found this idea to be among the most annoying (which, just to clarify, is different from hateful). Obsessed sports fans are annoying enough; adding God to the mix is just stupid. 55 55points reply View More Replies... View more comments #15 The levels of hell. Dante wrote about his journey through hell. The levels are not biblical. maruffin , Jill Report Final score: 141points POST Leo Domitrix Leo Domitrix Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Dante also chose the numbers based on, essentially, superstition. 26 26points reply View More Replies... View more comments See Also on Bored Panda Woman Shows How "Harry Potter" Characters Were Supposed To Look According To Book Descriptions (35 Pics) 50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective #16 God helps those who help themselves, that actually comes from the Greek myths, Aesop’s fable "Hercules and the Waggoner." where a guy was having trouble with a muddy road and was praying Hercules for help, Hercules appeared and told him how to help himself, the moral being thee gods help those who help themselves. aume3 , oatsy40 Report Final score: 134points POST Not a Made up Name Not a Made up Name Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago This is also present in Hindu Pauranic Scriptures. 24 24points reply View more comments #17 "Neither a borrower nor a lender be"
I have had a minister 'quote' that to me as a Bible quote.
It's from Hamlet.
Edit: Lots of comments about the bible having stuff like this. Yes I know but a quote is a quote and from a christian professional you would at least expect an accurate quote from the bible but this is as wrong as quoting Hamlet and saying "Alas Poor Yorik, I knew him well" Magnus_40 , Hilary Perkins Report Final score: 130points POST Hugh Willie Mungous Hugh Willie Mungous Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago The English language is liberally sprinkled with words invented by Shakespeare and with many of his pithy writings that have become our sayings. 15 15points reply View more comments #18 "Not all who wander are lost."
-Tolkien 29:17 Kill3rT0fu , summonedbyfells Report Final score: 123points POST Ozacoter Ozacoter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 9 months ago (edited) I didnt remember Tolkien being in the Bible ;) 37 37points reply View More Replies... View more comments #19 The vegan teacher says that being vegan is being closer to God because he doesn't want animals to die even though God was the first one to murk an animal iwillgiveyouup , Max Kiesler Report Final score: 123points POST Nikki Sevven Nikki Sevven Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago The vegan teacher hasn't read her Old Testament. 73 73points reply View More Replies... View more comments #20 My brother has a friend that will argue with you that Jesus said in the Bible "Do as I say, not as I do". heyitsmeur_username , George Bannister Report Final score: 114points POST Sky Render Sky Render Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Now THAT would be a very bad message for a "savior" to tout! 50 50points reply View More Replies... View more comments #21 el_muerte17 wrote:
"This, too, shall pass" isn't in the Bible at all.
meowtiger replied:
for clarity: it most likely originated from one of three noted 11th-13th century persian poets
el_muerte17 , alex.ch Report Final score: 114points POST rumade rumade Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago I thought it was a Gandalf quote ? 51 51points reply View More Replies... View more comments #22 Half the s**t Shakespeare said. crazyisthenewnormal , Ungry Young Man Report Final score: 104points POST ShriSha Kamboj ShriSha Kamboj Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago yes please 14 14points reply View more comments #23 That Noah took two of each animal into the Ark.
He took 14: 7 male and 7 female of clean creatures and only a pair of unclean animals.
Gen 7:2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
Give that he sacrificed one of each of the clean animals that would be quite a facepalm if he only had a pair.
Gen 8:20 And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. Magnus_40 , Denise Womack-Avila Report Final score: 104points POST Rijkærd Rijkærd Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago The entire flood story is pure hogwash when they try to make it seem like the entire world was submerged...I'd like to know what they meant by the "entire world".... 36 36points reply View More Replies... View more comments #24 That angels are humans with wings. They're not. As far as I remember there are some depictions of them in the Revelation but not in much detail (I'm pretty sure that the four animals next to the throne aren't angels, but I may be wrong on that). Tilian1986 , Anastasia Intishar Report Final score: 102points POST Zedrapazia Zedrapazia Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 9 months ago The biblical angel is some circling Sauron with many eyes, rings and wings. 35 35points reply View More Replies... View more comments #25 Pythia007 said:
That Jesus said anything about children suffering. “Suffer the children to come unto me” means to allow them.
mcoombes314 responded:
Yeah, the word "suffer" is a weird one where the meaning has changed so much that it doesn't make sense in modern English. Same goes with "thou shalt not suffer a witch to live". Pythia007 , Ben Onken Report Final score: 93points POST Thorfin Wolfsbane Thorfin Wolfsbane Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago I would be willing to bet that Jesus never ever said the words 'suffer' or 'children'. Pretty sure he spoke Aramaic. 41 41points reply View More Replies... View more comments See Also on Bored Panda Overworked Employee Quits Because He Wasn't Getting A Fair Wage, Costs The Company $40 Million 40 Embarrassing Moments People Didn't Know Who They Were Talking To And Made A Fool Of Themselves Anyone can write on Bored Panda. Start writing! Follow Bored Panda on Google News! Follow us on Flipboard.com/@boredpanda! Add Your Answer! Not your original work? Add source Publish Change image Upload Photo Ooops! Your image is too large, maximum file size is 8 MB. Upload Upload Edit Image Error occurred when generating embed. Please check link and try again. Render conversation
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Discuss what is and is not in the religious text of your choice. So long as your beliefs don't become laws I have to live by. 55 55points reply Lyone Fein Lyone Fein Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Amen 18 18points reply Load More Replies... LazyPanda LazyPanda Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago I agree with this. Jesus (Yeshua) never forced people to believe. He did invite, and teach His disciples to preach about Him. But I think your claim about not making beliefs into laws is vague. Every law starts with someone's belief in or about something. 4 4points reply Lovin' Life Lovin' Life Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago (edited) I am a Christian, but we are all free to believe and worship as we wish. I try to do things to live a Christian life but never try to suffocate or push my beliefs on anyone. I just read my Bible and do good things, not for recognition, and live the way I feel I am supposed to live in accordance with God's word. Your religion is as important to you as mine is to me. I respect you all. Therefore I have made no comment in this post but it was a good read. Hugs and love to all. 27 27points reply just another drone just another drone Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago The problem is what you think are "good things" are not always good things. Plenty of Christians think they're doing good when they force gay kids into conversion therapy, or think they're doing good when they protest abortions. Religion is the main source of evil in this world. 22 22points reply Load More Replies... Stephanie Keith Stephanie Keith Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago What you're speaking of is not a good Christian. Those of us that are do not behave the way you are describing. It is people that twist the words of God to their will. Make no mistake about it. Doing any evil is not what God or his people do. Unfortunately the good ones get lumped in with the bad. 6 6points reply Summer Mason Summer Mason Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Exactly. I'm Christian myself and couldn't ever think of being like what I've seen others be. Just cause there are bad apples doesn't mean we are all bad. I stopped going to church because they gay bashed. I have alot of lbgtq (I'm not sure if I'm getting that right anymore) friends and family. And I could never hate them cause my church told me to. 7 7points reply jpaul jpaul Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Amen 0 0points reply jpaul jpaul Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago in all honesty this is not a christianity problems. I mean if there's no laws in your country to firmly condemn conversion therapies it's not christians fault 5 5points reply Squiddles Squiddles Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Speaking of junk that’s not in the Bible…abortion is a biggie where you gotta really twist it to make it seem like it’s mentioned at all. 2 2points reply jpaul jpaul Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago like most of the stuff anti religion are condemning. they didn't get the bible is a translation, and a question of interpretation 1 1point reply HarperTheCentaur (they/them) HarperTheCentaur (they/them) Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago The only part of the abortion debate that really matters is whether a fetus is a person. All the stuff about bodily autonomy is secondary; a murderer can't say he has the right to kill because of bodily autonomy. Different people have different beliefs about the personhood of a fetus, I'm personally still on the fence, but when you have the perspective that it IS a person, it's as simple as "murder is bad". It's really not an unreasonable mindset and there are definitely bible passages implying that unborn babies are people. -2 -2points reply jpaul jpaul Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago i'm sorry but to me the basic right to do what you want with your own body comes first. You can't force a woman to carry a child, the same way you can't force her to keep a child after birth. I remember an edifying video once. an anti abortion woman was annoying another woman trying to convince her to keep the child. the carrier finally kept the baby. Then she realized she couldn't do it, and put the child to adoption. A guy came out, and asked the first woman to adopt the child. The woman literally went mad. and she didn't adpt the baby of course -1 -1point reply Just saying Just saying Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago You are aware of course that the biggest genocides and wars in the 20C were caused by Fascism and Communism? 1 1point reply Om Om Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago religions aren't the main source of evil, it's ignorance and lack of empathy 0 0points reply Shane S Shane S Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago If we could let go of religion as a species, we could literally solve most of our problems and probably save the planet too. There would be one less reason to fight about and so many cultures would begin to collaborate and cooperate. -1 -1point reply jpaul jpaul Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago so because you see a black sheep, all the sheeps should be black 0 0points reply Moxxie️️️ The Queer Moxxie️️️ The Queer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago you seem like a good person? 4 4points reply Monica Pryts Monica Pryts Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 4 months ago What about those who don't practice religion? 0 0points reply Colin Leamon Colin Leamon Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Well said. I just made one comment (degrees of hell - but some will suffer more than others) 0 0points reply Mewton’s Third Paw Mewton’s Third Paw Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago (edited) I saw one of your comments on one of the posts above about Job and Satan. “ And Job never lost his patience and his faith and love for God remained intact.” What an odd thing to lie about. 0 0points reply Chucky Cheezburger Chucky Cheezburger Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Whatever religious text you believe, take it with a grain of salt. The words you read aren't the words of God. They are the interpretation of what someone long ago thought was a gods will, and those words have been filtered through time and the minds of people, who we know are very capable of being corrupted. How many things have been changed, added or removed to benefit someone or some group? And no one would know because much of the population was illiterate Only the rulers and the clergy would know when there was a change here or there... 24 24points reply Daria B Daria B Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago (edited) "Whatever religious text you believe, take it with a grain of salt." I second that. But this goes beyond religion. Everything you hear, even when presented as "fact", has to be taken with a grain of salt. Never stop questioning, comparing, hearing more sides of the same story and from different points of view. Even "scientifically approved" information can become obsolete with new discoveries. 10 10points reply Load More Replies... ERIKA H. ERIKA H. Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Absolutely true. It's why i describe myself as spiritual but not religious. I personally believe in a higher entity, but I don't believe in religion. 4 4points reply Mewton’s Third Paw Mewton’s Third Paw Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago That’s good but I think most people who say this are fully influenced by religion to have a god / higher power belief. If religions hadn’t presented it to you, you probably wouldn’t have just made up a higher power on your own. 0 0points reply Olga Dremina Olga Dremina Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago "Saint Spirit ain't got a pen" 1 1point reply Om Om Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago (edited) that's my main issue with the bible. After so many edits it had, not to mention everything that was lost between translations, it's hard to trust what it says. Even if we all knew the original language it was written with, and had the unedited texts, we couldn't know for sure what the authors meant almost 2000 years ago, because we're not living in that place and time. And even if we did know what they meant, we still don't know if they were just making up everything lol In the end, people is blindly trusting stuff made/written by humans, like any of us. No different than worshipping that Dante's Inferno this post talked so much about. 0 0points reply Shane S Shane S Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago This is why I LOVE Quakers. Quakers basically have an outlook of “whatever you believe, is true to you. And that’s all that matters” 0 0points reply Load More Comments POST Helen Haley Helen Haley Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Believe what you want. Discuss what is and is not in the religious text of your choice. So long as your beliefs don't become laws I have to live by. 55 55points reply Lyone Fein Lyone Fein Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Amen 18 18points reply Load More Replies... LazyPanda LazyPanda Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago I agree with this. Jesus (Yeshua) never forced people to believe. He did invite, and teach His disciples to preach about Him. But I think your claim about not making beliefs into laws is vague. Every law starts with someone's belief in or about something. 4 4points reply Lovin' Life Lovin' Life Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago (edited) I am a Christian, but we are all free to believe and worship as we wish. I try to do things to live a Christian life but never try to suffocate or push my beliefs on anyone. I just read my Bible and do good things, not for recognition, and live the way I feel I am supposed to live in accordance with God's word. Your religion is as important to you as mine is to me. I respect you all. Therefore I have made no comment in this post but it was a good read. Hugs and love to all. 27 27points reply just another drone just another drone Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago The problem is what you think are "good things" are not always good things. Plenty of Christians think they're doing good when they force gay kids into conversion therapy, or think they're doing good when they protest abortions. Religion is the main source of evil in this world. 22 22points reply Load More Replies... Stephanie Keith Stephanie Keith Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago What you're speaking of is not a good Christian. Those of us that are do not behave the way you are describing. It is people that twist the words of God to their will. Make no mistake about it. Doing any evil is not what God or his people do. Unfortunately the good ones get lumped in with the bad. 6 6points reply Summer Mason Summer Mason Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Exactly. I'm Christian myself and couldn't ever think of being like what I've seen others be. Just cause there are bad apples doesn't mean we are all bad. I stopped going to church because they gay bashed. I have alot of lbgtq (I'm not sure if I'm getting that right anymore) friends and family. And I could never hate them cause my church told me to. 7 7points reply jpaul jpaul Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Amen 0 0points reply jpaul jpaul Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago in all honesty this is not a christianity problems. I mean if there's no laws in your country to firmly condemn conversion therapies it's not christians fault 5 5points reply Squiddles Squiddles Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Speaking of junk that’s not in the Bible…abortion is a biggie where you gotta really twist it to make it seem like it’s mentioned at all. 2 2points reply jpaul jpaul Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago like most of the stuff anti religion are condemning. they didn't get the bible is a translation, and a question of interpretation 1 1point reply HarperTheCentaur (they/them) HarperTheCentaur (they/them) Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago The only part of the abortion debate that really matters is whether a fetus is a person. All the stuff about bodily autonomy is secondary; a murderer can't say he has the right to kill because of bodily autonomy. Different people have different beliefs about the personhood of a fetus, I'm personally still on the fence, but when you have the perspective that it IS a person, it's as simple as "murder is bad". It's really not an unreasonable mindset and there are definitely bible passages implying that unborn babies are people. -2 -2points reply jpaul jpaul Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago i'm sorry but to me the basic right to do what you want with your own body comes first. You can't force a woman to carry a child, the same way you can't force her to keep a child after birth. I remember an edifying video once. an anti abortion woman was annoying another woman trying to convince her to keep the child. the carrier finally kept the baby. Then she realized she couldn't do it, and put the child to adoption. A guy came out, and asked the first woman to adopt the child. The woman literally went mad. and she didn't adpt the baby of course -1 -1point reply Just saying Just saying Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago You are aware of course that the biggest genocides and wars in the 20C were caused by Fascism and Communism? 1 1point reply Om Om Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago religions aren't the main source of evil, it's ignorance and lack of empathy 0 0points reply Shane S Shane S Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago If we could let go of religion as a species, we could literally solve most of our problems and probably save the planet too. There would be one less reason to fight about and so many cultures would begin to collaborate and cooperate. -1 -1point reply jpaul jpaul Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago so because you see a black sheep, all the sheeps should be black 0 0points reply Moxxie️️️ The Queer Moxxie️️️ The Queer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago you seem like a good person? 4 4points reply Monica Pryts Monica Pryts Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 4 months ago What about those who don't practice religion? 0 0points reply Colin Leamon Colin Leamon Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Well said. I just made one comment (degrees of hell - but some will suffer more than others) 0 0points reply Mewton’s Third Paw Mewton’s Third Paw Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago (edited) I saw one of your comments on one of the posts above about Job and Satan. “ And Job never lost his patience and his faith and love for God remained intact.” What an odd thing to lie about. 0 0points reply Chucky Cheezburger Chucky Cheezburger Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Whatever religious text you believe, take it with a grain of salt. The words you read aren't the words of God. They are the interpretation of what someone long ago thought was a gods will, and those words have been filtered through time and the minds of people, who we know are very capable of being corrupted. How many things have been changed, added or removed to benefit someone or some group? And no one would know because much of the population was illiterate Only the rulers and the clergy would know when there was a change here or there... 24 24points reply Daria B Daria B Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago (edited) "Whatever religious text you believe, take it with a grain of salt." I second that. But this goes beyond religion. Everything you hear, even when presented as "fact", has to be taken with a grain of salt. Never stop questioning, comparing, hearing more sides of the same story and from different points of view. Even "scientifically approved" information can become obsolete with new discoveries. 10 10points reply Load More Replies... ERIKA H. ERIKA H. Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Absolutely true. It's why i describe myself as spiritual but not religious. I personally believe in a higher entity, but I don't believe in religion. 4 4points reply Mewton’s Third Paw Mewton’s Third Paw Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago That’s good but I think most people who say this are fully influenced by religion to have a god / higher power belief. If religions hadn’t presented it to you, you probably wouldn’t have just made up a higher power on your own. 0 0points reply Olga Dremina Olga Dremina Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago "Saint Spirit ain't got a pen" 1 1point reply Om Om Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago (edited) that's my main issue with the bible. After so many edits it had, not to mention everything that was lost between translations, it's hard to trust what it says. Even if we all knew the original language it was written with, and had the unedited texts, we couldn't know for sure what the authors meant almost 2000 years ago, because we're not living in that place and time. And even if we did know what they meant, we still don't know if they were just making up everything lol In the end, people is blindly trusting stuff made/written by humans, like any of us. No different than worshipping that Dante's Inferno this post talked so much about. 0 0points reply Shane S Shane S Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago This is why I LOVE Quakers. Quakers basically have an outlook of “whatever you believe, is true to you. And that’s all that matters” 0 0points reply Load More Comments Popular on Bored Panda I Used AI To See What These 23 Popular Cartoon Characters Would Look Like In Real Life 30 Y.O. 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