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| quote: | Originally posted by St_Andrew
oh, so you cant find that in the bible 
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Genesis
# God likes Abel's dead animals better than Cain's fruits and vegetables. Why? Well, no reason is given, but it probably has something to do with the amount of pain, blood, and gore involved. 4:3-5
# God gives Abraham and his descendants all of the land of Canaan "forever". This promise is still used to justify the the unending battles over the land in the Middle East. 13:14-15, 17:8
# An uncircumcised boy is to be abandoned by his parents and community. 17:14
# God kills everyone (men, women, children, infants, newborns) in Sodom and Gomorrah by raining "fire and brimstone from the Lord out of heaven." Well, almost everyone -- he spares the "just and righteous" Lot and his family.19:24
# Lot's nameless wife looks back, and God turns her into a pillar of salt. 19:26
# Abraham makes his servant swear that he won't let Isaac marry a Canaanite. 24:3
# Isaac tells Jacob not to marry a Canaanite. 28:1
# Jacob's sons can't stand the idea of their sister marrying someone who is uncircumcised. 34:14
# "And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord slew him." What did Er do to elicit God's wrath? The Bible doesn't say. Maybe he picked up some sticks on Saturday. 38:7
# After God killed Er, Judah tells Onan to "go in unto they brother's wife." But "Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and ... when he went in unto his brother's wife ... he spilled it on the ground.... And the thing which he did displeased the Lord; wherefore he slew him also." This lovely Bible story is seldom read in Sunday School, but it is the basis of many Christian doctrines, including the condemnation of both masturbation and birth control. 38:8-10
# After Judah pays Tamar for her services, he is told that she "played the harlot" and "is with child by whoredom." When Judah hears this, he says, "Bring her forth, and let her be burnt." 38:24
Exodus
# God decides to kill Moses because his son had not yet been circumcised. 4:24-26
# God will kill the Egyptian children to show that he puts "a difference between the Egyptians and Israel." 11:7
# After God has sufficiently hardened the Pharaoh's heart, he kills all the firstborn Egyptian children. When he was finished "there was not a house where there was not one dead." 12:29
# No stranger, foreigner, or uncircumcised person can eat the passover. 12:43, 45, 48
# Joshua, with God's approval, kills the Amalekites "with the edge of the sword." 17:13
# The Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation." 17:14
# God favors Israelites "above all people." 19:5
# The first commandment ("Thou shalt have no other gods before me.") condemns those who worship any other than the biblical god. 20:3
# "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." Thousands of innocent women have suffered excruciating deaths because of this verse. 22:18
# "He who sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the Lord only, he shall be utterly destroyed." If this commandment is obeyed, then the four billion people who do not believe in the biblical god must be killed. 22:20
# Don't even mention the names of the other gods. 23:13
# Do not allow others to worship a different god. Conquer them and destroy their religious property. 23:24
# God promises to "send his fear before the Israelites" and to kill everyone that they encounter when they enter the promised land. 23:27
# Stay away from those who worship a different god. 23:32
# Don't let any strangers attend your animal sacrifices. 29:33
# Whoever puts holy oil on a stranger shall be "cut off from his people." 30:33
# Those who break the Sabbath are to be executed. 31:14
# God orders the sons of Levi (Moses, Aaron, and the other members of their tribe that were "on the Lord's side") to kill "every man his neighbor.... And there fell of the people that day about 3000 men." 32:27-28
# God drives out the pagan tribes and commands the Israelites to destroy their altars and places of worship. 34:11-14
# God, "whose name is Jealous", will not tolerate the worship of any other god. 34:14
# Whoever works, or even kindles a fire, on the Sabbath "shall be put to death." 35:2-3
Leviticus
# Two of the sons of Aaron "offered strange fire before the Lord" and "there went out fire from the Lord, and devoured them, and they died before the Lord." 10:1-2
# Homosexual acts are an abomination to God. 18:22
# Don't eat anything with blood, observe times, round the corners of your head, mar the corners of your beard, make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, or print any marks on you. 19:26-28
# Stay away from wizards and people with familiar spirits. 19:31
# Stay away from people with familiar spirits and don't "go a whoring" after them either. 20:6
# If a man has sex with another man, kill them both. 20:13
# People with "familiar spirits" (witches, fortune tellers, etc.) are to be stoned to death. 20:27
# Handicapped people cannot approach the altar of God. They would "profane" it. 21:16-23
# No stranger or slave can "eat of the holy thing." 22:10
# Don't do any work on the day of atonement or God will destroy you. 23:29-30
# A man curses and blasphemes while disputing with another man. Moses asks God what to do about it. God says that the whole community must stone him to death. "And the children of Israel did as the Lord and Moses commanded." 24:10-23
# God describes the torments that he has planned for those who displease him. The usual stuff: plagues, burning fevers that will consume the eyes, etc. but he reserves the worst for the little children. He says "ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it," "I will send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children," and "ye shall eat the flesh of your sons and daughters." 26:16-39
# Anyone who blasphemes or curses shall be stoned to death by the entire community. 24:16
Numbers
# God shows his hospitality with the admonition: "The stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death." 1:51, 3:10, 3:38
# Two of Aaron's sons are killed by God for "offering strange fire before the Lord." 3:4
# God tells the people to expel from camp "every leper, every one that hath an issue, and whoever is defiled by the dead." So by God's instructions, the sick are abandoned and left to suffer and die alone. 5:1-4
# "And when the people complained, it displeased the Lord: and the Lord heard it." (He had his hearing aid on.) He then burned the complainers alive. That'll teach them. 11:1
# "And while the flesh [of the quails] was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord smote the people with a very great plague. "The Bible isn't too clear about what these poor folks did to upset God so much; all it says is that they had "lusted." 11:33
# Because of a dispute between Korah and Moses, God has the ground open up and swallow Korah and his family. And then, just for the hell of it, God has a fire burn 250 men (friends of Korah?) to death. 16:20-49
# After God killed Korah, his family, and 250 innocent bystanders, the people complained saying, "ye have killed the people of the Lord." So God, who doesn't take kindly to criticism, sends a plague on the people. And "they that died in the plague were 14,700." 16:41-50
# "And the Lord hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities." This verse demonstrates the power of prayer: If you ask God, he will destroy entire cities for you. 21:3
# God delivers the Amorites into Moses' hands. (You're in God hands with Moses.) So Moses does the usual thing, killing everyone "until their was none left alive." 21:34-35
# After the people "commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab," Moses has them all killed. Then God tells Moses to hang their dead bodies up in front of him; God says that this will satisfy him. 25:1-5
# When one of the Israelite men brings home a foreign woman, "Phinehas (Aaron's grandson) sees them and throws a spear "through the man .. and the woman through her belly." This act pleases God so much that "the plague was stayed from the children of Israel." But not before 24,000 had died. 25:6-9
# God tells Moses how to care for his neighbors by saying: "Vex the Midianites, and smite them." 25:16-17
# Under God's direction, Moses' army defeats the Midianites. They kill all the adult males, but take the women and children captive. When Moses learns that they left some live, he angrily says: "Have you saved all the women alive? Kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves." So they went back and did as Moses (and presumably God) instructed, killing everyone except for the virgins. In this way they got 32,000 virgins -- Wow! [Even God gets some of the booty -- including the virgins. (31:28-29)] 31:1-54
# God tells Moses to exterminate the residents of Canaan and destroy all of their religious symbols and possessions. 33:50-52
Deuteronomy
# God destroyed the followers of Baalpeor. 4:3
# The first commandment ("Thou shalt have no other gods before me.") condemns those who worship any other than the biblical god. 5:4
# If you worship the wrong god, God will get jealous and kill you. 6:15
# God forbids marriages with those of other tribes. 7:3
# If you do show any mercy to such strangers, "give your daughters to any of them, or "take" any of their daughters, then you'll get God so angry that he'll "destroy thee suddenly." 7:4
# God prefers the Israelites to everyone else. It's not that he's prejudiced, he just like them better. 7:6
# Destroy the altars, images, and places of worship of those with different religions. 7:5
# God will kill those who hate him. 7:10
# God's favorite people will never be infertile (neither will their cows!) and will never get sick. (God will send infertility and diseases on the other guys.) 7:14-15
# God commands his people to "consume all the people which the Lord thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity on them." 7:16
# God orders the destruction of all other places of worship. 12:2-3
# Kill those of other faiths. Reject their beliefs and do not learn about them. 12:30
# Prophets and dreamers are to be executed if they say or dream the wrong things. 13:1-5
# If your brother, son, daughter, wife, or friend tries to get you to worship another god, "thou shalt surely kill him, thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death." If Bible-believers followed this one, they would have to kill many of their own family and friends. 13:6-10
# If you hear of a city where another god is worshiped, then destroy everyone in the city (even the cattle) and burn it down. (Watch out Salt Lake!) 13:12-16
# Kill everyone who has religious beliefs that are different from your own. 17:2-7
# Anyone who will not listen to a priest or a judge must be executed. 17:12-13
# Wizards, witches, astrologers, and new age folks are all "an abomination unto the Lord." 18:10-12
# False prophets are to be (you guessed it) executed. How do you know who is a false prophet? By whether or not their predictions come true. (Watch out Jehovah's Witnesses!) 18:20
# God won't let bastards attend church. Neither can the sons or daughters of bastards "even to the tenth generation." So if you plan to attend church next Sunday be ready to prove that your genitals are intact and don't forget your birth certificate and genealogical records for at least the last ten generations. Don't laugh. This stuff is important to God. 23:2
# No Moabite will ever be allowed into the congregation of the Lord. 23:3, 6
# God commands the Israelites to "blot out the rembrance of Amalek from under heaven." A few hundred years later God orders Saul to kill of the Amalekites "both man and woman, infant and suckling." (1 Sam.15:2-3) 25:19
# "And the Lord will put all these curses upon thine enemies." See Dt.28:16-64 for some of the curses God has in mind. 30:7
Joshua
# Keep yourselves from "the accursed thing". Whatever that is. But be sure to save all the silver and gold for God! 6:18-19
# If you happen to see "the accursed thing," don't touch it. If you do, you, your family, and all of your animals must be burned. 7:15
# "And Joshua ... took Achan ... and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his sheep... And all of Israel stoned them with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones." This is because Achan "took of the accursed thing" -- whatever that means. But why would God require that Achan's sons and daughters (and even his animals) be stoned to death along with him? The Bible doesn't say. But it does tell us that "the Lord turned from the fierceness of his anger" when Achan, his children, and his animals were stoned to death and their dead bodies burned. This story tells us about the loving kindness of the biblical God. 7:24-16
# "When ye have taken the city [Ai] ... ye shall set the city on fire: according to the commandment of the LORD. 8:8
# Joshua and his army, per God's instructions, slaughter "all the inhabitants of Ai." 8:22-26
# "For it was of the Lord to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly." Notice that God hardens their hearts so that he can have an excuse to kill them. 11:20
# God is jealous and will never forgive you for your sins. And if you worship other gods, "He will turn and do you hurt, and consume you." 24:19-20
Judges
# God gets angry when the Israelites reject him and decide to worship other Gods. 2:12
1 Kings
# Note that Solomon is told to stay away from foreign women. Why? Because they have different ("strange") religious beliefs, and God disapproves of mixed-faith marriages. 11:2
# Elijah orders the people to kill all prophets of Baal. 18:40
# Naboth is stoned to death for blaspheming god and the king. 21:13
# Jehoshaphat "did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord" and "took" the homosexuals (sodomites) "out of the land," or as the RSV says, "he exterminated" them. 22:43, 46
2 Kings
# Ahaziah was sick and sent messengers to Baalzebub to ask if he would recover. God was jealous of the attention given to his competitor and tells Ahaziah that he will die for asking the wrong god. 1:4, 17
# Jehu shows off his zeal for the Lord by murdering "all that remained unto Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him according to the word of the Lord." 10:16-17
# Jehu lied to the followers of Baal so that he could trap and kill them. 10:19
# Jehu, when he finishes his animal sacrifices, orders his men to "Go in, and slay them, let none come forth. And they smote them with the edge of the sword." 10:25
# God is greatly pleased with all of Jehu's killings, saying "because thou hast done well in executing that which is right in mine eyes, and hast done unto the house of Ahab according to all that was in mine heart [Jehu murdered them all], thy children of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel." 10:30
# Destroy the religious buildings of those of other faiths and kill their ministers. 11:18
# God sent lions to devour the foreigners in Samaria because "they feared not the Lord," and even worse "they knew not the manner of the God of the land." Well that'll teach them about God's manners. 17:25-26
# Josiah, apparently with God's approval, kills "all the priests of the high places" and sacrifices them to God on their altars. Note that this is a guy who "did what was right in the eyes of the Lord" (2 Kg.22:2). 23:20
2 Chronicles
# Whoever that does not seek the God of Israel should be executed. 15:13
# Hate the sinner -- or God will pour his wrath out on you. 19:2
Ezra
# The Israelites offend God by "taking" foreign wives and thereby corrupting "the holy seed." 9:2
# Ezra tells the men that they must abandon their wives and children if they are to avoid God's wrath. 10:2-3, 10-12
Nehemiah
# Nehemiah rebukes the men for marrying "strange wives." To punish them he "contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair." 13:25-27
Psalms
# God will hit heathens with a rod of iron and "dash them in pieces." 2:8
# Christians often say that one should love the sinner but hate the sin. Perhaps, but God hates sinners and plans to destroy them. 5:5-6
# Atheists are fools who never do anything good. 14:1, 53:1
# The Psalmist praises God for driving out and afflicting "the heathen" with his own hand. 44:2
# The Psalmist asks God to kill all "the heathen" and not show them any mercy. 59:5
# God will laugh at the heathen as he kills them. 59:8
# A prayer for God to kill those who don't know him. 79:6
# The psalmist excels at hating. He hates people with a "perfect hatred." 139:19-22
Isaiah
# No astrologer, stargazer, or prognosticator will be able to save those that God plans to burn to death. 47:13-14
# "God's servants" will have it good; everyone else will suffer big time. 63:13-16
Jeremiah
# The worshipping of other gods is called wickedness. 1:16
# Those who don't follow or know God are "poor" and "foolish." 5:4
# God will kill those who believe and preach the wrong doctrines. 5:12-13
# God "will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts" because they refuse to do whatever the hell he asks them to do. 6:19
# God says that there are some people that you just shouldn't bother praying for. And if you do he won't listen anyway. 7:16
# God is angered by children who gather wood, fathers who make fires, and women that make bread for the "queen of heaven" (Mary?) and other gods. 7:18
# Don't trust anyone. Not even your neighbors, family, or friends. Those who believe differently than you are all liars and evil doers. 9:4-6
# "Learn not from the heathen." 10:2
# Jeremiah prays for the destruction of the people that don't call on God's name. 10:25
# Those who don't follow the Old Testament laws are cursed by God. 11:3
# God will break those who worship other gods as though they were made of clay, killing so many that there will not be enough room to bury them all. 19:11-13
# If any nation does not listen to God, he "will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation." 12:17
# Worshipping other gods "is good for nothing." 13:10
# God will kill children if their parents worship other gods. 16:10-11
# God will enslave the people of Judah because they worshipped the wrong gods. 17:4
# Jeremiah asks God to bring evil upon his enemies and to "destroy them with double destruction." 17:18
# For worshipping "other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known," God will make parents eat their own children, and friends each other. Then he'll feed whoever's left over to the birds.
# If you don't honor the Sabbath, God will burn you to death unquenchable fire. 17:28
# God will break those who worship other gods as though they were made of clay, killing so many that there will not be enough room to bury them all. 19:11-13
# God will kill those who refuse listen to his prophets. 29:19
Ezekiel
# God is jealous of people's attention on idols, so he says these idols and altars will be destroyed and the people will pay for their "abominations." 6:4-9
# God again promises to destroy those that dare worship something or someone other than him. 14:6-8
# God planned to "pour out [his] fury" on the Hebrews in Egypt for worshipping idols or other gods. 20:7-10
# "The day ... of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen." God plans to wipe out the heathen. When? Soon. Really soon. 30:3
# God's got a hardcore grudge against the "uncircumcised." 32:21-32
# Worshipping idols and other gods is "detestable." 37:23
# God will not allow any uncircumcised foreigners into the sanctuary and, for any priests who worshipped idols, God will lift his "hand against them, ... and they shall bear their iniquity." 44:9-13
Daniel
# Nebuchadnezzar, after first trying to burn to death the three Hebrews, now decrees that everyone who says anything against the Hebrew god "shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill." This is an example of the loving kindness and tolerance that supernatural belief inspires in humans. 3:29
# King Darius makes a decree, "that in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel." 6:26
Hosea
# It's not clear in the KJV, but "people" and "strangers" are translated as "aliens" and "foreigners" in other versions. This would mean part of the reason for Ephraim's bloody fate is association with other races. 7:8-9
# Because the Samaritans chose to worship another deity, God promises to dash their infants to pieces and their "women with child shall be ripped up." 13:16
Amos
# God promises to destroy those who worship other gods. 7:9
# God will eliminate anyone who prays to a different god on the day of his wrath. 8:14
Obadiah
# God will take care of the heathen. "They shall be as though they had not been." 16
Micah
# Other cultures' religious beliefs and symbols are associated with prostitutes, and should be destroyed. 1:7
# God will strengthen the Israelites so they can "beat in pieces many peoples" and give the booty to God. 4:13
# "Burn more witches! Destroy the images of gods who aren't me!" sayeth the Lord. 5:12-13
Zephaniah
# God will "cut off" all those who "have not sought the Lord" or who worship another god.1:4-6
# God "will punish the princes, and the king's children, and all such as are clothed with strange apparel."1:8
# God doesn't have night-vision, so he needs candles when he comes to punish these people that say, "The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil": atheists, agnostics, freethinkers, etc. 1:12
Zechariah
# God will "smite the heathen" with a plague. 14:18
Malachi
# God hates the Edomites, and his hatred will last forever. 1:4
Matthew
# Jesus says that most people will go to hell. 7:13-14
# "the children of the kingdom [the Jews] shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." 8:12
# Cities that neither "receive" the disciples nor "hear" their words will be destroyed by God. It will be worse for them than for Sodom and Gomorrah. And you know what God supposedly did to those poor folks (see Gen.19:24). 10:14-15
# "Whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven." 10:33
# Jesus condemns entire cities to dreadful deaths and to the eternal torment of hell because they didn't care for his preaching. 11:20-24
# Jesus says, "He that is not with me is against me." 12:30
# Jesus will send his angels to gather up "all that offend" and they "shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth." 13:41-42, 50
# Jesus refuses to heal the Canaanite (Mk.7:26 says she was Greek) woman's possessed daughter, saying "it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to the dogs." 15:22-26
# The ever-so-kind Jesus calls the Pharisees "hypocrites, wicked, and adulterous." 15:2-3
# Jesus condemns the Jews for being "the children of them which killed the prophets." 23:31
# This verse blames the Jews for the death of Jesus and has been used to justify their persecution for twenty centuries. 27:25
Mark
# Jesus becomes angry at those who said that he had "an unclean spirit," so he announces the unforgivable sin: "blasphemy against the Holy Ghost." 3:29
# Any city that doesn't "receive" the followers of Jesus will be destroyed in a manner even more savage than that of Sodom and Gomorrah. 6:11
# Jesus initially refuses to cast out a devil from a Syrophoenician woman's daughter, calling the woman a "dog". After much pleading, he finally agrees to cast out the devil. 7:25-29
# Jesus says that those that believe and are baptized will be saved, while those who don't will be damned. 16:16
Luke
# Those who fail to bear "good fruit" will be "hewn down, and cast into the fire." 3:9
# Jesus says, "He that is not with me is against me." 11:23
# God is like a slave-owner who beats his slaves "with many stripes." 12:46-47
# In the parable of the talents, Jesus says that God takes what is not rightly his, and reaps what he didn't sow. The parable ends with the words of Jesus: "bring them [those who preferred not to be ruled by him] hither, and slay them before me." 19:22-27
John
# People are damned or saved depending only on what they believe. 3:18, 36
# The "wrath of God" is on all unbelievers. 3:36
# John, with his usual anti-Semitism, says that the Jews persecuted Jesus and "sought to slay him." 5:16, 18
# John says that Jesus "would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him." 7:1
# No one could speak openly about Jesus "for fear of the Jews." 7:13
# Jesus says we must believe in him or we will "die in our sins." 8:24
# Jesus calls his opponents (the Jews) the sons of the devil. 8:44
# Once again, "the Jews" are accused of trying to kill Jesus. 11:8
# If you don't believe in Jesus you are going to hell. 12:48
# John blames the Jews for the death of Jesus. 19:7, 12, 14-15
# Those who do not believe in Jesus will be cast into a fire to be burned. 15:6
# John, with his usual anti-Semitism, says tht the disciples hid in locked room "for fear of the Jews." 20:19
Acts
# Peter blames the Jews for the death of Jesus. 3:14-15
# Peter wrongly claims that Dt.18:18-19 refers to Jesus, saying that those who refuse to follow him (all nonchristians) must be killed. 3:23
# God will torture forever those who don't know the password to heaven. 4:12
# Once again, Peter accuses the Jews of murdering Jesus. 5:30
# Stephen blames the Jews for persecuting the prophets and murdering Jesus. 7:51-52
# After Saul "increased the more in strength, and confounded the Jews," the "Jews took counsel to kill him." 9:22-23
# The Jews are again blamed for the death of Jesus. 10:39
# Herod beheads James the brother of John and imprisons Peter "because he saw it pleased the Jews." 12:1-3
# Paul and the Holy Ghost conspire together to make Elymas (the sorcerer) blind. 13:8-11
# The Jews of Antioch, after seeing Paul's success in preaching, were envious and blasphemed God. Paul then declares them to be "unworthy of everlasting life." 13:45-46
# Once again "the Jews stirred up" trouble and "raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts." 13:50
# "The unbelieving Jews" stir up trouble again for Paul and incite the people to try to stone him to death. 14:2-5
# In Thesssalonica, "the Jews which believed not, moved with envy" stir up trouble for Paul and his friends. 17:5
# The Jews hate the word of God and are always just stirring up trouble. 17:13
# "And when they [the Jews of Corinth] opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he [Paul] shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads." (Have a nice day?) 18:6
# "The Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brought him to the judgment seat." 18:12
# Poor Paul complains, once again, of being mistreated by "the Jews." 20:19
# The Jews, once again, incite the people to kill poor old Paul 21:27, 31
# The Jews form a grand conspiracy to kill Paul. They vow not to eat until the job is done. 23:12-15
# Claudius saves Paul from being killed by the Jews. 23:27
# Those pesky Jews caught Paul and and tried to kill him. But he got away. Darn! 26:21
Romans
# "The wrath of God" is on all unbelievers. 1:18
# Paul claims that the existence and nature of God is self-evident; thus, unbelievers are "without excuse." 1:20
# With his usual intolerance, Paul condemns homosexuals (including lesbians). This is the only clear reference to lesbians in the Bible. 1:26-28
# Homosexuals (those "without natural affection") and their supporters (those "that have pleasure in them") are "worthy of death" and should be killed. 1:31-32
# "He that doubteth is damned ... Whosoever is not of faith is sin." 14:23
# Shun those who disagree with your religious views. 16:17
1 Corinthians
# "Put away from among yourselves that wicked person." 5:9-11
# Paul lists ten things that will keep you out of heaven, including homosexuality and being "effeminate." 6:9-10
# Those who don't love Jesus are to be "anathema" (damned). 16:22
# Gentiles sacrifice to devils. If you have gentile friends, then you are friends with devils. 10:20
2 Corinthians
# "The god of this world" has blinded the minds of nonbelievers. 4:3-4
# Keep away from unbelievers. Neither marry nor be friends with them. 6:14-17
# Christians cannot be freethinkers, since all their thoughts and imaginings must be brought into captivity in obedience to Christ. 10:5
Galatians
# Those who disagree with Paul's religious views are damned. 1:8-9
# Those who try to follow the law are cursed 3:10
# "I would they were even cut off which trouble you." Gosh, that doesn't sound very nice. But I wonder what Paul meant by "cut off". The New Revised Standard Version translates this verse as: "I wish those who unsettle you would castrate themselves!" 5:12
# Witches, idol worshippers, and heretics will not go to heaven. (Guess where they'll be going.) 5:20-21
Philippians
# Everyone will have to worship Jesus -- whether they want to or not. 2:10-11
# "Beware of dogs ... beware of the concision." I'm not sure who Paul is calling "dogs" here. Some say he is referring to Jews -- to those of "the concision", as opposed to Christians, who are of the "true circumcision". In any case, Paul is expressing hostility and intolerance toward his fellow human beings. 3:2
1 Thessalonians
# Paul accuses "the Jews" of killing Jesus, persecuting the prophets, displeasing God, and being "contrary to all men." He concludes that the wrath of God will "come upon them to the uttermost. 2:14-16
2 Thessalonians
# Jesus will take "vengeance on them that know not God" by burning them forever "in flaming fire." 1:7-9
# God will cause us to believe lies so that he can damn our souls to hell. 2:11-12
# Those who disagree with Paul are to be shunned. 3:6, 14
1 Timothy
# Paul delivered Hymenaeus and Alexander unto Satan so "that they might learn not to blaspheme." Apparently (see 2 Tim.2:16-18 and 4:14-15) their "blasphemy" was disagreeing with Paul. 1:20
# Paul advises his followers to stay away from those who discuss important matters -- especially if they disagree with him. 6:1
# Paul advises his followers to stay away from those who discuss important matters -- especially if they disagree with him. 6:1
# Paul instructs Timothy to avoid science, especially that which disagrees with him ("science falsely so called"). Other versions translate this phrase as "false knowledge", which may be more correct. However many fundamentalist Christians still use this verse ("science falsely so called") to justify their rejection of any idea, scientific or otherwise, they believe contradicts the bible. 6:20
2 Timothy
# "If we deny him [Jesus], he will deny us." Fair is fair! 2:12
# Paul condemns Hymenaeus and Philetus for disagreeing with him about the timing of the resurrection. (See 1 Tim.1:20 and 2 Tim.4:14-15) 2:16-18
# "The Lord knoweth them that are his." This verse was used by the Catholic Church during the inquisition to justify killing those suspected of heresy. (Kill them all, for `the Lord knows them that are His'." ) 2:19
# Paul says that God will bring evil on Alexander the coppersmith. Why? Well, because Alexander did Paul "much evil." He even blasphemed by disagreeing with Paul. (See 1 Tim.1:20 and 2 Tim.2:16-18) 4:15
Titus
# To Paul, Jews are unruly liars "whose mouths must be stopped." 1:10-11
# According to Paul, the people of Crete are "always liars, evil beasts, slow bellies." 1:12
# Heretics are to be rejected since they are subverted, sinners, and condemned by God. 3:10-11
Hebrews
# Every skeptic and nonbeliever has "an evil heart of unbelief." 3:12
# It is impossible for fallen-away Christians to be saved. (Didn't the author know about confession or the finality of being saved?) 6:4-6
# Those who disobeyed the Old Testament law were killed. It will be much worse for those who displease Jesus. 10:28-29
# If you don't believe the same things as the author of Hebrews, then it's impossible to please God. 11:6
James
# Whoever is a friend of the world is an enemy of God. 4:4
1 Peter
# Things may get rough for Christians, but it will really be hell for nonbelievers. 4:17-18
2 Peter
# The basic message of Christianity is "believe or be damned" and from this flows intolerance toward all nonchristians. But, as these verses show, Christian intolerance is often directed toward believers as well. Each group of Christians accuses the others of being "false teachers" of "damnable heresies" who will soon be damned to hell. 2:1-3
# God will set the entire earth on fire so that he can burn non-believers to death. 3:7
1 John
# "Love not the world." Stay away from those who believe differently than you. 2:15
# Every nonchristian is liar and an antichrist. 2:22, 4:2-3
# Christians are alive; nonchristans are dead. 5:12
# Christians are "of God;" everyone else is wicked. 5:19
2 John
# The nonchristian is "a deceiver and an antichrist." 1:7
# "Whosoever ... abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God." 1:9
# Don't associate with nonchristians. Don't receive them into your house or even exchange greeting with them. 1:10
Jude
# Jude reminds us that God destroys those who don't believe in him. 1:5
Revelation
# False Jews are members of "the synagogue of Satan." 2:9
# God will make "the synagogue of Satan [that would be the Jews] ... come and worship before thy feet." (Whose feet? Well, the feet of Christians, of course!) 3:9
# God's favorites just can't wait until everyone else is slaughtered. 6:10-11
# 144,000 Jews will be going to heaven; everyone else is going to hell. 7:4
# All liars, as well as sorcerers, idolaters, and those who are fearful or unbelieving will be cast into "the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone." 21:8 |
christains arent told to to kill every believer they see, or go to a religious war. they are told to witness to them and spread the "good news". if someone rejects it, thats there choice, god gives us the free will.
in the old testament, there was no jesus. people were sinning, and there was nothing to pay for the cost of sinning. with that, god would become very angry with an unrepentant sinner. notice how he always showed mercy with repentant sinners, such as david, and moses, and adam and eve. so there was literal judgement on sinners back in those days. today, we have jesus who paid for it all. and instead of being judged here and now, we are to be judged on the day of judgement.
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