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THE STORY OF JESUS' BIRTH AND FAMILY

WHEN WAS JESUS BORN? - Matthew 2:1 (NIV)
After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, "Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him.".
[NOTES: King Herod the Great died about 4 BCE. If the Magi came from the east, they would have been going westward.]
WHEN WAS JESUS BORN? - Luke 2:1-3 (NIV)
In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius/Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to his own town to register.
[NOTE: This census took place in 6 CE.]
WHO WAS JESUS' GRANDFATHER? - Matthew 1:16
Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.
[NOTE: Matthew's list differs from the list of David's descendants in 1 Chronicles 3.]
WHO WAS JESUS' GRANDFATHER? - Luke 3:23-24
Now Jesus himself was about thirty years old when he began his ministry. He was the son, so it was thought, of Joseph, the son of Heli ...
[NOTE: Luke's list also differs from 1 Chronicles 3.]
WHO WAS JESUS' FATHER? - Matthew 1:20
But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, "Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit."
PAUL, ON WHO WAS JESUS' FATHER? - Romans 1:3 (KJV)
"Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;"
PAUL, ON WHO WAS JESUS' FATHER? - 1 Corinthians 1:9 (NIV)
"God, who has called you into fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful."
HOW WAS JESUS CONCEIVED? - Acts 2:30 (KJV)
Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;
PAUL, ON WHO WAS JESUS' ANCESTOR? - Galatians 3:16 (NIV)
"The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed."
[NOTE: Paul did not say "to his seeds," meaning many people, but "to his seed," meaning one person, Christ. Galatians 3:16, Acts 2:30 and Romans 1:3 negate the virgin birth idea.]

WHERE WAS JESUS BORN? HOW WAS JESUS CONCEIVED? - Matthew 1:18-25
This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit. Because Joseph her husband was a righteous man and did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly. But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, "Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins." All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: "The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel" — which means, "God with us." When Joseph woke up, he did what the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife. But he had no union with her until she gave birth to a son. And he gave him the name Jesus.
NOTES:
The supposed prophesy, in Isaiah 7:14, was for its time, not for Jesus (about 700 years in the future).
Isaiah 7:14 referred to a young woman ('almah'), not a virgin ('betulot').
2 Chronicles 28 shows that King Ahaz (who received the prophesy from Isaiah) was later defeated — negating Isaiah's prophesy.
Matthew has Jesus born in the Bethlehem home of Joseph, where the family stays for about two years.
They never called Jesus "Immanuel" in the Bible.
WHERE WAS JESUS BORN? - Luke 2:4-7 (NIV)
So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son.
[NOTE: Luke has Jesus born in a stable, the traditional location. The family went to Jerusalem about eight days later, then returned to Nazareth. There were no Maji.]

JESUS ON THEFT

JESUS ON THEFT, AND WORKING ON THE SABBATH - Matthew 12:1 (NIV)
At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick some heads of grain and eat them.
JESUS ON THEFT - Matthew 21:2
"Go to the village ahead of you, and at once you will find a donkey tied there, with her colt by her. Untie them and bring them to me."
JESUS ON THEFT - Mark 11:2 [same as Luke 19:30]
"Go to the village ahead of you, and just as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here."

DID JESUS FULFILL PROPHESY?

NOTES:
Since the story of Jesus is either partially or totally fictional, when the gospels were written after about 70 CE (see Mark 13:2, below), prophesy could be “fulfilled” by just adding it to the story — and they still couldn't always get it right.
There is no evidence of a town of Nazareth in Galilee existing in the first half of the first century, even tho it's mentioned dozens of times in the New Testament. The unknown author of Matthew got "Nazarene" (a person from Nazareth) confused with "Nazirite" (one who lives apart and has made a vow of abstinence).

Jesus was said to have been born in Bethlehem to (incorrectly) fulfill Micah 5:2; Jesus was from Nazareth to (incorrectly) fulfill Judges 13:5; his family had to go to Egypt to (incorrectly) fulfill Hosea 11:1; and he rode two animals at once to (incorrectly) fulfill Zechariah 9:9.

“TRUE” PROPHESY - Mark 13:2
"Do you see all these great buildings?" replied Jesus. "Not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down."
[NOTE: This probably refers to the destruction of Jerusalem, in 70 CE. Most scholars think that it was written after the fact.]
THE PROPHESIED COMING OF ISRAEL'S RULER - Micah 5:2 (NIV)
But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times.
WHERE WAS JESUS BORN? - Matthew 2:1 (NIV)
After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, ...
[NOTE: Jesus was never ruler over Israel.]
THE PROPHESIED COMING OF ZION'S KING - Zechariah 9:9 (NIV)
Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout, Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and having salvation, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
[NOTE: This actually meant one animal.]
JESUS RIDES TWO ANIMALS AT ONCE! - Matthew 21:7
They brought the donkey and the colt, placed their cloaks on them, and Jesus sat on them.
[NOTE: This impossible story resulted from a mistranslation of Zechariah 9:9.]

THE PROPHESIED NAZIRITE - Judges 13:5 (NIV)
" ... because you will conceive and give birth to a son. No razor may be used on his head, because the boy is to be a Nazirite, set apart to God from birth, and he will begin the deliverance of Israel from the hands of the Philistines."
[NOTE: This actually referred to Samson, not Jesus (about 1100 years later).]
NAZARETH, NAZARENE, NAZIRITE CONFUSED - Matthew 2:23 (NIV)
... and [Joseph] went and lived in a town called Nazareth. So was fulfilled what was said through the prophets: "He will be called a Nazarene."
[NOTE: There is no mention of Nazareth or Nazarene in the Old Testament, just Nazirite in Judges 13:5.]
ISRAEL (JESUS?) IN EGYPT - Hosea 11:1 (NIV)
"When Israel was a child, I [God] loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son."
[NOTE: This denotes a past event, not one over 700 years later. It likely referred to the purported exodus of the Jews from Egypt.]
JESUS IN EGYPT - Matthew 2:13-15 (NIV)
When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. "Get up," he said, "take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him." So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt, where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: "Out of Egypt I called my son."
JESUS NOT IN EGYPT - Luke 2:39 (NIV)
When Joseph and Mary had done everything required by the Law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee to their own town of Nazareth.
PROPHESY OF HEROD'S “SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS” - Jeremiah 31:15 (NIV)
This is what the LORD says: "A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because her children are no more."
[NOTE: Matthew 2:18 refers to this, but Ramah was on the other side of Jerusalem from Bethlehem. Also, a 600 year-old tale of one woman weeping for her children hardly conveys the magnitude of the supposed slaughter.]
HEROD'S “SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS” - Matthew 2:16 (NIV)
When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under
[NOTE: Herod's “slaughter of the innocents” is not mentioned by any historian of the time, or in any other gospel. However, it fulfilled a common story line for religious saviors.]
CRUCIFICTION FORETOLD? - Psalm 22:16 (NIV)
Dogs have surrounded me; a band of evil men has encircled me, they have pierced my hands and my feet.
JUDAS' PAYMENT FORETOLD? - Zechariah 11:12
I told them, "If you think it best, give me my pay; but if not, keep it." So they paid me thirty pieces of silver.

FALSE PROPHESY AND FALSE PROPHETS

NOTE: If Jesus had actually told his disciples that he would resurrect after the crucifixion, why were they so upset when he was arrested, and dubious when he supposedly really did come back?
FALSE PROPHESY - Isaiah 7:14 (NIV)
Therefore the Lord himself will give you [King Ahaz] a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.
[NOTE: The original word ('almah') in Hebrew meant maiden, not virgin ('betulot'). Also, the context shows that this was meant for its time, not about 700 years later.]
FALSE PROPHESY - 2 Chronicles 28:5 (NIV)
Therefore the LORD his God handed [King Ahaz] over to the king of Aram. The Arameans defeated [King Ahaz] and took many of his people as prisoners and brought them to Damascus.
[NOTE: This shows that the sign of the prophesy in Isaiah 7:14 (above) failed even in its time.]
FALSE PROPHESY - Matthew 1:23
The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel — which means, "God with us."
[NOTE: They never called Jesus Immanuel. The author of Matthew was really reaching when he created this “prophesy” from Isaiah 7:14.]
FALSE PROPHESY: JESUS PREDICTS HIS RETURN - Matthew 10:23 [We're still waiting.]
"I tell you the truth, you will not finish going through the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes."
FALSE PROPHESY: JESUS PREDICTS HIS CHURCH WILL LAST - Matthew 16:18 (NIV) [There've been many "true churches" that have come and gone.]
And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.
FALSE PROPHESY: JESUS PREDICTS HIS RETURN - Matthew 16:28 [We're still waiting.]
"I tell you the truth, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom."
FALSE PROPHESY: JESUS PREDICTS HIS RETURN - Matthew 24:34 (same as Mark 13:30) [We're still waiting.]
"I tell you the truth, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened."
FALSE PROPHESY: JESUS PREDICTS THREE DAYS AND NIGHTS IN THE TOMB - Matthew 12:40 [Not a day and a half!]
"For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth."
FALSE PROPHESY: JESUS PREDICTS NO MIRACULOUS SIGN - Mark 8:12 (NIV)
[Jesus] sighed deeply and said, "Why does this generation ask for a miraculous sign? I tell you the truth, no sign will be given to it."
FALSE PROPHESY: JESUS PREDICTS THREE DAYS IN THE TOMB - Mark 8:31
[Jesus] then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days rise again.
FALSE PROPHESY: JESUS PREDICTS KINGDOM OF GOD - Mark 9:1 [We're still waiting.]
And [Jesus] said to them, "I tell you the truth, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God come with power."
FALSE PROPHESY: JESUS PREDICTS THE END OF THE WORLD - Luke 21:25-33 (NLT) [We're still waiting.]
"And there will be strange events in the skies – signs in the sun, moon, and stars. And down here on earth the nations will be in turmoil, perplexed by the roaring seas and strange tides. The courage of many people will falter because of the fearful fate they see coming upon the earth, because the stability of the very heavens will be broken up. Then everyone will see the Son of Man arrive on the clouds with power and great glory. So when all these things begin to happen, stand straight and look up, for your salvation is near! Then he gave them this illustration: "Notice the fig tree, or any other tree. When the leaves come out, you know without being told that summer is near. Just so, when you see the events I've described taking place, you can be sure that the Kingdom of God is near. I assure you, this generation will not pass from the scene until all these events have taken place. Heaven and earth will disappear, but my words will remain forever"
FALSE PROPHESY: PAUL PREDICTS JESUS' RETURN - Hebrews 10:37
"For in just a very little while, He who is coming will come and will not delay."
FALSE PROPHESY - John 3:13 (KJV) [See 2 Kings 2:11, next.]
"And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven."
ELIJAH WENT TO HEAVEN - 2 Kings 2:11 (KJV)
And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

FAILED PROPHESY

FAILED PROPHESY - 2 Chronicles 7:18
[God] said, "You shall never fail to have a man to rule over Israel."

GOD, JEREMIAH, JESUS, JOHN, PAUL, & JOHN THE REVELATOR ON FALSE PROPHETS

GOD, ON FALSE PROPHETS - Deuteronomy 18:21,22
You may say to yourselves, "How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the LORD?" If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the LORD does not take place or come true, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. That prophet has spoken presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him.
JEREMIAH, ON FALSE PROPHETS - Jeremiah 8:10 (NIV)
"From the least to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit."
JESUS, ON FALSE PROPHETS - Matthew 7:15
"Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves."
JESUS, ON FALSE PROPHETS - Matthew 7:22-23
"Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?' Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!'"
JESUS, ON FALSE PROPHETS - Matthew 24:23-24
"Then if any man shall say to you Lo, here is the Christ, or, Here, believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets and shall show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the very elect."
JOHN, ON FALSE PROPHETS - 1 John 4:1
"Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world."
PETER, ON FALSE PROPHETS - 2 Peter 2:1
"But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction."
PETER, ON INTERPRETATION OF PROPHECY - 2 Peter 1:20-21 (KJV)
"Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost."
PAUL, ON FALSE PROPHETS - Galatians 1:8
"But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed."
PAUL, ON PETER - Galatians 2:11 (NIV)
"When Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he was clearly in the wrong."
PENALTY FOR FALSE PROPHET - Revelation 20:10
And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
PENALTY FOR FALSE PROPHET - Revelation 22:18-19 (NIV)
"I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book. And if anyone takes words away from this book of prophecy, God will take away from him his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book."

TRUTH OF JESUS' TESTIMONY

JESUS ON TRUTH OF HIS TESTIMONY - Mark 13:31, Matthew 24:35
"Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away."
JESUS ON TRUTH OF HIS TESTIMONY - John 5:31
"If I testify about myself, my testimony is not valid."
JESUS ON TRUTH OF HIS TESTIMONY - John 8:14
"Even if I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is valid."
JESUS ON TRUTH OF HIS TESTIMONY - John 8:18 [So, which is it?]
"I am one who testifies for myself; my other witness is the Father, who sent me."
PETER ON TRUTH OF JESUS' TESTIMONY - 1 Peter 2:22 (NIV)
"He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth.."

JESUS ON PEACE AND FAMILY VALUES

JESUS ON PEACE - Matthew 10:34
"Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword."
JESUS ON PEACE - Matthew 26:52 (KJV)
Then said Jesus unto him, "Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword."
JESUS ON PEACE - Luke 22:36
He said to them, "But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one."
JESUS ON FAMILY VALUES - Matthew 8:21-22
And another of his disciples said unto him, "Suffer me first to go and bury my father." But Jesus said unto him, "Follow me and let the dead bury their dead."
JESUS ON FAMILY VALUES - Matthew 10:35-37
"For I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law — a man's enemies will be the members of his own household. He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me."
JESUS ON FAMILY VALUES - Matthew 12:46-50
While he yet talked to the people, behold his mother and brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him. Then one said unto him, "Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with you." But he answered and said, "Who is my mother? and who are my brethren? And he stretched forth his hand towards his disciples, and said, "Behold, my mother and my brethren! For whoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother."
JESUS ON FAMILY VALUES - Matthew 19:29 (NIV)
"And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life."
JESUS ON FAMILY VALUES - Mark 3:33-35
"Who are my mother and my brothers?" [Jesus] asked. Then he looked at those seated in a circle around him and said, "Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does God's will is my brother and sister and mother."
JESUS ON FAMILY VALUES - Luke 9:60
"Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God."
JESUS ON FAMILY VALUES - Luke 9:61,62
Still another said, "I will follow you, Lord; but first let me go back and say good bye to my family." Jesus replied, "No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God."
JESUS ON FAMILY VALUES AND PEACE - Luke 12:49-53
"I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is completed! Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division. From now on there will be five in one family divided against each other, three against two and two against three. They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law."
JESUS ON FAMILY VALUES - Luke 14:26 [What about John 3:15 and 4:19-21 (below)?]
"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters — yes, even his own life — he cannot be my disciple."
[NOTE: Buybull thumpers often say that this doesn't really mean “hate,” it just means “love less.” Some translations even word it like that (e.g. Contemporary English Version), because they don't like that nasty word “hate.” The original Greek word “miseo” always means hate; it has no alternative meaning. The prefixes for misanthropy and misogyny come from miseo. This just shows how screwed-up their minds are. If hate equals a form of love, how can we trust anything that those translations say?]
JESUS ON FAMILY VALUES - Luke 19:27 [In the words of a king in a parable.]
"But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them — bring them here and kill them in front of me."
JESUS ON FAMILY VALUES - John 2:4
Jesus saith unto [his mother], "Woman, what have I to do with thee? Mine hour is not yet come."
JESUS ON FAMILY VALUES - John 12:25
"The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life."
JESUS ON FAMILY VALUES - John 15:6 (KJV)
"If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned."
JOHN ON FAMILY VALUES - 1 John 3:15 [What about Luke 14:26 (above)?]
"Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life in him."
JOHN ON FAMILY VALUES - 1 John 4:19-21 [What about Luke 14:26 (above)?]
"We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, 'I love God,' yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother."
JOHN ON FAMILY VALUES - 2 John 1:7
Many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist.
[NOTE: The "FAMILY VALUES" verses above also show a classic method that cults use to separate followers from their families and friends. With a follower's normal connections to reality severed, the cult has a better chance to indoctrinate and keep the follower in line.]

CANNIBALISM AND VAMPIRISM!

[NOTE: See the biblical death penalty for those who eat blood.]
CANNIBALISM - Deuteronomy 28:57
And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them.
CANNIBALISM - 2 Kings 6:28-29
And the king said unto her, "What aileth thee?" And she answered, "This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow. So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son."
CANNIBALISM AND VAMPIRISM - Ezekiel 39:18 (KJV)
Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
CANNIBALISM AND VAMPIRISM - Isaiah 49:26
"I [God] will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will be drunk on their own blood, as with wine. Then all mankind will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior, your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob."
JESUS ADVOCATES RITUAL CANNIBALISM - Matthew 26:26
And while they were eating, Jesus took some bread, and after a blessing, He broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, "Take, eat; this is My body."
JESUS ADVOCATES RITUAL CANNIBALISM AND VAMPIRISM - Luke 22:19-20
And when He had taken some bread and given thanks, He broke it, and gave it to them, saying, "This is My body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of Me." And in the same way He took the cup after they had eaten, saying, "This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in My blood."
JESUS ADVOCATES RITUAL CANNIBALISM AND VAMPIRISM - John 6:53-57 (NIV)
Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him. Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me."
JESUS ADVOCATES RITUAL CANNIBALISM AND VAMPIRISM - 1 Corinthians 11:23-25
The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, "This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me." In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me."
VAMPIRISM - Revelation 16:6 (KJV)
For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.

HELL, SELF MUTILATION, CASTRATION, PUNISHMENT, TORTURE!

HELL IN THE OLD TESTAMENT - Ecclesiastes 9:5,10 (RSV)
For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, ... for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.
JESUS ON HELL & SELF MUTILATION - Matthew 5:29-30 [OUCH!]
"And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell."
JESUS ON HELL & SELF MUTILATION - Matthew 18:8-9 (KJV) [OUCH!]
"Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire. And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire."
JESUS ON SELF CASTRATION - Matthew 19:12 [OUCH!]
"For there are eunuchs, that were so born from their mother's womb: and there are eunuchs, that were made eunuchs by men: and there are eunuchs, that made themselves eunuchs [castrated themselves] for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it."
[NOTE: See also GOD ON EUNUCHS AND THE DISABLED]
JESUS ON HELL & SELF MUTILATION - Mark 9:43-48 [OUCH!]
"If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go into hell, where the fire never goes out. And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two feet and be thrown into hell. And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell, where 'their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.'
JESUS ON HELL - Matthew 13:41-42
"The Son of Man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity. And shall cast them into a furnace of fire; there shall be a wailing and gnashing of teeth."
JESUS ON HELL - Matthew 13:49-50
"So it shall be at the end of the world; the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just. And shall cast them into the furnace of fire; there shall be a wailing and gnashing of teeth."
JESUS ON HELL - Matthew 25:41
"Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels."
JESUS ON HELL & BLASPHEMY - Matthew 12:32
"Whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come."
JESUS ON HELL & BLASPHEMY - Mark 3:28-29
"I tell you the truth, all the sins and blasphemies of men will be forgiven them. But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; he is guilty of an eternal sin."
[NOTE: Whatever happened to Jesus' love? This also means that blasphemy is worse than murder!]
JESUS ON HELL & BELIEF - John 3:18 (NIV)
"Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son."
ANGEL, ON HELL - Revelation 14:9-11
A third angel followed them and said in a loud voice: "If anyone worships the beast and his image and receives his mark on the forehead or on the hand, he, too, will drink of the wine of God's fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath. He will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment rises for ever and ever.
JESUS ON HELL - Revelation 21:8
"But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars — their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death."
JESUS ON PUNISHMENT - Mark 9:42
"And if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to be thrown into the sea with a large millstone tied around his neck."
JESUS ON PUNISHMENT - Luke 17:2 (NIV)
"It would be better for him to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around his neck than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin."

JESUS ON TORTURE - Revelation 9:3-5
"Then out of the smoke locusts came upon the earth. And to them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. They were commanded not to harm the grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only those men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. And they were not given authority to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man."

PAUL ON JESUS, THE GOSPEL, THE RESURRECTION, JUDGMENT, NONBELIEVERS

PAUL ON JESUS - Hebrews 8:4 (NIV) [Paul thought of Jesus as a sky god.]
"If he were on earth, he would not be a priest, for there are already men who offer the gifts prescribed by the law."
PAUL ON JESUS - Hebrews 13:8 (NIV)
"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever."
[For camparison, see JESUS ON TRUTH OF HIS TESTIMONY.]

PAUL ON THE SOURCE OF THE JESUS STORY - Galatians 1:11,12
"I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel I preached is not something that man made up. I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather, I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ."
[NOTE: It can easily be argued that this means that Paul made it up, or derived his ideas from Jewish scripture and other religions.]
PAUL ON THE DEATH OF JESUS - Ephesians 5:1-2
"Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God."
[NOTE: This hardly reflects the horror of a crucifixion.]
PAUL ON THE RESURRECTION - 1 Corinthians 15:13-19 (NIV)
"If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith. More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that he raised Christ from the dead. But he did not raise him if in fact the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised either. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost. If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men."
[NOTE: Why didn't Paul mention the empty tomb? Was it because that story didn't exist yet?]

PAUL, PETER & JOHN ON LYING - Romans 3:5-8 (KJV)
"But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man) God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world? For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner? And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just."
PAUL ON LYING - 2 Corinthians 4:2 (NIV)
"Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God."
PAUL ON PASSING JUDGMENT - Romans 2:1
"You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things."
PAUL DOESN'T KNOW ABOUT PILATE - Romans 13:3
"For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong."
PAUL ON PUNISHMENT - 1 Corinthians 5:5 (NASB)
"I have decided to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus."
PAUL ON PUNISHMENT - 1 Timothy 1:19,20 (NIV)
"Some have rejected [faith and a good conscience] and so have shipwrecked their faith. Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan to be taught not to blaspheme."
PAUL ON EVILDOERS - 1 Corinthians 6:9,10 (KJV)
"Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God."
PAUL ON NONBELIEVERS AND HELL - 2 Thessalonians 1:6-9
"God is just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels. He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the majesty of his power."
PAUL ON SCIENCE AND PROOF - 1 Thessalonians 5:21 (KJV)
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good."
PAUL ON MYTHS - 1 Timothy 1:4 (NIV)
" ... nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies."
PAUL ON SCIENCE - 1 Timothy 6:20 (KJV)
"O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called."
PAUL ON PLANTS - 1 Corinthians 15:36-38 (NIV)
"How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies."
[NOTE: Seeds don't die when they sprout. They grow into a plant.]
PAUL ON CONTROVERSIES, GENEALOGIES, ARGUMENTS AND QUARRELS - Titus 3:9(NIV)
"But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and arguments and quarrels about the law, because these are unprofitable and useless."
PETER ON BLASPHEMERS - 2 Peter 2:12
"But these people blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like unreasoning animals, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like animals they too will perish."
JOHN ON HOW TO TREAT NONBELIEVERS - 1 John 2:22 (NIV)
Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the Antichrist—denying the Father and the Son.
JOHN ON HOW TO TREAT NONBELIEVERS - 2 John 1 10-11
If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.

WAS JESUS GOD? DOES JESUS CHANGE?

WAS JESUS GOD? - Matthew 19:17 (KJV)
And he said unto him, "Why callest thou me good? There is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments."
WAS JESUS GOD? - Matthew 24:36 (NIV)
"No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father."
WAS JESUS GOD? - Matthew 26:39 (NIV)
Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, "My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will."
WAS JESUS GOD? (ALL-KNOWING, ALL POWERFUL) - Matthew 27:46 (NIV)
About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" — which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
[NOTE: This is a direct quote from Psalm 22:1.]
WAS JESUS GOD? - Mark 10:18 (NIV)
"Why do you call me good?" Jesus answered. "No one is good — except God alone."
WAS JESUS GOD? (ALL-KNOWING, ALL POWERFUL) - Mark 13:32 (NIV)
"No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father."
WAS JESUS GOD? (SHOULD PEOPLE WORSHIP JESUS?) - Luke 4:8 (KJV)
And Jesus answered and said unto him, "Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve."
WAS JESUS GOD? - Luke 4:41 (NIV)
Moreover, demons came out of many people, shouting, "You are the Son of God!" But he rebuked them and would not allow them to speak, because they knew he was the Christ.
WAS JESUS GOD? (ALL-KNOWING, ALL POWERFUL) - Luke 22:42 (NIV)
"Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done."
WAS JESUS GOD? - John 1:18 (NIV)
No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only, who is at the Father's side, has made him known.
WAS JESUS GOD? - John 3:16 (KJV)
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
WAS JESUS GOD? - John 4:24 (NIV)
"God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth."
WAS JESUS GOD? (ALL-KNOWING, ALL POWERFUL) - John 5:19 (NIV)
Jesus gave them this answer: "I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does."
WAS JESUS GOD? (ALL-KNOWING, ALL POWERFUL) - John 5:30 (NIV)
"By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me."
WAS JESUS GOD? - John 5:37 (NIV)
"And the Father who sent me has himself testified concerning me. You have never heard his voice nor seen his form."
WAS JESUS GOD? - John 7:16 (KJV)
Jesus answered them, and said, "My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me."
WAS JESUS GOD? - John 8:42 (NIV)
Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and now am here. I have not come on my own; but he sent me."
WAS JESUS GOD? » YES! « - John 10:30 (KJV)
"I and my Father are one."
WAS JESUS GOD? - John 14:6 (NIV)
Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
WAS JESUS GOD? - John 14:28 (NIV)
"You heard me say, 'I am going away and I am coming back to you.' If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I."
WAS JESUS GOD? - John 20:17 (NIV)
Jesus said, "Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet returned to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, 'I am returning to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"
WAS JESUS GOD? - Hebrews 5:8-9
Although he was a son, he learned obedience from what he suffered and, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him.
WAS JESUS GOD? - Acts 2:22 (KJV)
"Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:"
DOES JESUS CHANGE? - Hebrews 13:8 (KJV)
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.

JESUS FAILED

JESUS FAILED IN HIS OWN COUNTRY - Matthew 13:54-58
And when he was come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said, Whence has this man wisdom, and these mighty works? Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary? And his brethren James and Joses, and Simon and Judas? And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things? And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house. And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.
JESUS FAILED IN HIS OWN COUNTRY - Luke 4: 24, 27-30
And he said, "Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country... And many lepers were in Israel at the time of El-i-se-us the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Na-a-man the Syrian." And all they in the Synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath. And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong. But he passing through the midst of them went his way.

INFALLIBILITY OF PRAYER, HOW TO PRAY

JESUS ON INFALLIBILITY OF PRAYER - Matthew 21:22 (NIV)
"If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer."
JESUS ON INFALLIBILITY OF PRAYER - John 14:13-14
"And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it."
JESUS ON INFALLIBILITY OF PRAYER - John 16:23 (KJV)
"And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you."
THE BIBLE ON INFALLIBILITY OF PRAYER - 1 John 5:14-15 (NIV)
This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.

JESUS, ON HOW TO PRAY - Matthew 6:5-6
"When you pray, be not like the hypocrites who love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. When you pray, enter into the closet, shut the door, and pray to thy Father in secret."
JESUS, ON HOW TO PRAY - Matthew 6:7-13
"And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. This, then, is how you should pray: [... the Lord's prayer ...]"
NEVERMIND, WE ARE ALL SINNERS - Romans 3:23 (KJV)
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
AND, GOD DOESN'T LISTEN TO SINNERS - John 9:31 (KJV)
Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.

CAN ALL SINS BE FORGIVEN?

ALL SINS CAN BE FORGIVEN - Acts 10:43 (KJV)
To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.
ALL SINS CAN BE FORGIVEN - 1 John 1:9 (KJV)
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
ALL SINS CAN NOT BE FORGIVEN - Matthew 12:32 (KJV)
And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.
ALL SINS CAN NOT BE FORGIVEN - Mark 3:29 (KJV)
But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation.

HOW ARE WE SAVED?

WE ARE SAVED BY LOSING OUR LIFE - Matthew 10:39
"He that finds his life shall lose it, and he that loses his life for my sake shall find it."
WE ARE SAVED BY CONFESSING OUR SINS - 1 John 1:9 (KJV)
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
WE ARE SAVED BY SUFFERING AND LOSING OUR LIFE - 2 Tim 2:11-12
"For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him: If we suffer, we shall also reign with him."
WE ARE SAVED BY FAITH WITHOUT DEEDS - Romans 3:28 (KJV)
"Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law."
WE ARE SAVED BY WORDS AND BELIEF - Romans 10:9,10 (KJV)
"That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation."
WE ARE SAVED BY WORDS - Romans 10:13 (KJV)
"For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
WE ARE SAVED BY FAITH, NOT BY WORKS - Galatians 2:16 (KJV)
"Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified."
WE ARE SAVED BY FAITH AND WORKS - James 2:17 (KJV)
Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
WE ARE SAVED BY FAITH AND WORKS - James 2:20 (KJV)
But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
WE ARE SAVED BY FAITH AND WORKS - James 2:26 (KJV)
For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
SUBMIT YOURSELVES TO GOD - James 4:4 (NIV)
"You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God."
WE ARE SAVED BY REPENTING OUR SINS AND BEING BAPTIZED - Acts 2:38 (KJV)
Then Peter said unto them, "Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost."
WE ARE SAVED BY REPENTING OUR SINS - Acts 3:19 (KJV)
Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.

FOOD, SEX TOYS, SALT, MAKEUP, DEMONS, SNAKES, POISON, HEALTH

GOD ON FOOD - Ezekiel 4:12 (KJV)
"And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight."
GOD ON SEX TOYS - Ezekiel 16:17 (KJV)
"Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them,"
GOD ON MAKEUP - Malachi 2:3 (KJV)
"Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it."
JESUS ON SALT - Mark 9:50
"Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with each other."
[NOTE: Salt does not age.]

JESUS ON DEMONS, SNAKES AND POISON - Mark 16:17,18
"And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all;"
JESUS ON SNAKES AND SCORPIONS - Luke 10:19
"I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you."
JESUS ON FOOD, CARING FOR YOUR HEALTH - Matthew 6:25
"Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than rainment."
JESUS ON WORKING FOR FOOD - John 6:27
"Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. On him God the Father has placed his seal of approval."

ON GIVING, THE RICH, PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE

GOD ON GIVING - Leviticus 27:30
A tithe of everything from the land, whether grain from the soil or fruit from the trees, belongs to the LORD;
GOD ON GIVING - Exodus 22:29,30
"Do not hold back offerings from your granaries or your vats. "You must give me the firstborn of your sons. Do the same with your cattle and your sheep. Let them stay with their mothers for seven days, but give them to me on the eighth day."
JESUS ON GIVING - Matthew 5:40-42
"And if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles. Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you."
JESUS ON GIVING - Matthew 19:21
Jesus answered, "If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."
JESUS ON GIVING - Mark 10:21
Jesus looked at him and loved him. "One thing you lack," he said. "Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."
JESUS ON GIVING - Luke 6:29
"If someone strikes you on one cheek, turn to him the other also. If someone takes your cloak, do not stop him from taking your tunic."
JESUS ON GIVING - Luke 6:30
"Give to everyone that asketh thee; and from him that taketh away thy goods ask not again."
JESUS ON GIVING - Luke 6:35
"But love your enemies, and do them good, and lend never despairing; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be Sons of the Most High: for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil."
JESUS ON GIVING - Luke 12:33
"Sell your possessions and give to the poor."
JESUS ON GIVING - Luke 14:33
"Any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple."

JESUS ON THE RICH - Matthew 13:12 (NIV)
"Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him."
JESUS ON THE RICH - Mark 10:25
"It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."
JESUS ON THE RICH - Luke 6:24-25
"But woe unto you that are rich! For ye have received your consolation. Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep."

JESUS ON SAVING AND PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE - Matthew 6:19,20 (NIV)
"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal."
JESUS ON SAVING AND PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE - Matthew 6:26,27 (NIV)
"Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?"
JESUS ON SAVING AND PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE - Matthew 6:28-31 (NIV)
"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'"
JESUS ON SAVING AND PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE - Matthew 6:34 (NIV)
"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."
JESUS ON SAVING AND PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE - Luke 14:33 (CEV)
"So then, you cannot be my disciple unless you give away everything you own."
JOHN THE BAPTIST, ON ASKING FOR A RAISE - Luke 3:13-14
"Exact no more than that which is appointed you." And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, "And what shall we do?" and he said unto them, "Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages."
GOD ON WORKING - Exodus 20:9-10
Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates.
GOD ON WORKING - Jeremiah 17:22
"Do not bring a load out of your houses or do any work on the Sabbath, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your forefathers."

HEALING THE SICK

JESUS ON HEALING THE SICK - Matthew 9:12 (NIV)
On hearing this, Jesus said, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick."
JESUS ON HEALING THE SICK - Matthew 10:1
He called his twelve disciples to him and gave them authority to drive out evil spirits and to heal every disease and sickness.
JESUS ON GENTILES, WHOM TO HEAL - Matthew 10:5-8
These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: "Do not go among the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans. Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel. As you go, preach this message: 'The kingdom of heaven is near.' Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons."
JESUS ON GENTILES, WHOM TO HEAL - Matthew 15:22-26
A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, "Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is suffering terribly from demon-possession." Jesus did not answer a word. So his disciples came to him and urged him, "Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us." He answered, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel." The woman came and knelt before him. "Lord, help me!" she said. He replied, "It is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to their dogs."
JAMES ON HEALING THE SICK - James 5:14-15
"Is any sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up."

HEAVEN

JESUS ON UNDERSTANDING HEAVEN - Matthew 13:11
And the disciples came, and said unto him, "Why speaketh thou to them in parables?" He answered and said unto them, "Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given."
JESUS ON ENTERING HEAVEN - Matthew 18:2-6
"Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore humbleth himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whosoever shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me. But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believeth in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged around his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea."
NUMBER OF PEOPLE (MEN) IN HEAVEN, SEX WITH WOMEN IS DEFILING - Revelation 14:3-4
And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth. These are those who did not defile themselves with women, for they kept themselves pure.

ON BELIEVERS AND UNBELIEVERS

JESUS ON BELIEVERS - Matthew 5:48
"Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect."
JESUS ON BELIEVERS: TALK TO CREATURES - Mark 16:15
"And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature."
JESUS ON BELIEVERS AND UNBELIEVERS - Mark 16:16
"He that believeth and is baptised shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned."
JESUS ON BELIEVERS: KINGDOM OF GOD - John 3:3
In reply Jesus declared, "I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again."
JOHN ON BELIEVERS: ETERNAL LIFE - John 3:36
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him."
PAUL ON BELIEVERS AND UNBELIEVERS - 2 Corinthians 6:14-15
"Believers must not commune with unbelievers. What fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness, light with darkness, believers with infidels?"
PAUL ON BELIEVERS AND UNBELIEVERS - Romans 3:10,11 (KJV)
"As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God."
JESUS ON UNBELIEVERS - Revelation 21:8
"But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars — their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death."

JESUS ON EVIL, ENEMIES, NONBELIEVERS, INSULTS

JESUS, ON EVIL AND SELF PROTECTION - Matthew 5:38-39 (KJV)
"You have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil; and whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also."
JESUS, ON ENEMIES - Matthew 5:43-44
"You have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love they neighbor, and hate thine enemies. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you."
JESUS, ON ENEMIES - Matthew 23:27
"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanliness."
JESUS, ON ENEMIES - Matthew 23:33
"Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?"
JESUS, ON ENEMIES - Luke 6:35 (NIV)
"But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked."
JESUS, ON NONBELIEVERS - John 3:18 (NIV)
"Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son."
JESUS, ON NONBELIEVERS - John 15:6 (KJV)
"If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned."
JESUS, ON INSULTS - Matthew 5:11
"Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me."

JESUS' ANACHRONISMS, CONTRADICTIONS

JESUS' ANACHRONISM - Matthew 10:38
"Anyone who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me."
JESUS' ANACHRONISM - Matthew 16:24
Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me."
JESUS' ANACHRONISM - Mark 8:34
Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me."
JESUS' ANACHRONISM - Luke 14:27
"And whosoever does not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple."
JESUS' CONTRADICTION: WHOM TO PREACH TO - Matthew 10:5-6
These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: "Do not go among the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans. Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel."
JESUS' CONTRADICTION: WHOM TO PREACH TO - Matthew 15:24 (KJV)
But he answered and said, "I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
JESUS' CONTRADICTION: WHOM TO PREACH TO - Matthew 28:19 (KJV)
"Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost."
JESUS' SERMON ON THE MOUNT? - Matthew 5:1
Now when he saw the crowds, he went up on a mountainside and sat down.
JESUS' SERMON ON THE MOUNT? - Luke 6:17
He went down with them and stood on a level place.

PAUL CONTRADICTS JESUS

PAUL CONTRADICTS JESUS ON WHOM TO PREACH TO - Romans 1:16
"I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile."
PAUL CONTRADICTS JESUS ON WHOM TO PREACH TO - Romans 10:12-13
"For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile — the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, for, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."
PAUL CONTRADICTS JESUS ON WHOM TO PREACH TO - Galatians 3:14
"[Christ] redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit."
PAUL CONTRADICTS JESUS ON WHOM TO PREACH TO - Galatians 3:28
"There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus."

INFALLIBILITY OF SCRIPTURE (OLD TESTAMENT)

INFALLIBILITY OF SCRIPTURE - 2 Samuel 22:31
As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is flawless.
INFALLIBILITY OF SCRIPTURE - Proverbs 30:5
Every word of God is flawless.
INFALLIBILITY OF SCRIPTURE - Psalm 12:6
And the words of the LORD are flawless.
INFALLIBILITY OF SCRIPTURE - Psalm 18:30
As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is flawless.
THE BIBLE ON TRUTH - Psalm 19:7 (NIV)
"The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul. The statutes of the LORD are trustworthy, making wise the simple."
THE BIBLE ON TRUTH - Psalm 119:130
"The unfolding of Thy words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple."
GOD'S WORDS AND LAWS ARE ETERNAL - Psalm 119:160
"All your [God's] words are true; all your righteous laws are eternal."
INFALLIBILITY OF SCRIPTURE - Isaiah 40:8 (NIV)
"The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever."
JESUS, ON INFALLIBILITY OF SCRIPTURE - Matthew 5:17,18 (NIV)
"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished."
JESUS, ON INFALLIBILITY OF SCRIPTURE - Luke 16:17 (CEV)
"Heaven and earth will disappear before the smallest letter of the Law does."
JESUS, ON INFALLIBILITY OF SCRIPTURE - John 10:35
" ... and the Scripture cannot be broken ..."
PAUL, ON INFALLIBILITY OF SCRIPTURE - 2 Timothy 3:15-17
" ... and how from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work."
INFALLIBILITY OF SCRIPTURE - 2 Peter 1:20-21 (NIV)
Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet's own interpretation. For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
INFALLIBILITY OF SCRIPTURE - general
"Scripture" is mentioned 55 times in the New Testament. If the the New Testament is true, then so is the Old Testament.

JESUS' TEACHINGS IN SCRIPTURE (OLD TESTAMENT)

JESUS' TEACHINGS IN SCRIPTURE - Leviticus 19:18 (NIV)
"Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD."

THE JEWS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT

JESUS ON GENTILES AND JEWS - Matthew 10:5-6 (NIV)
These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: "Do not go among the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans. Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel."
JESUS ON JEWS - Matthew 15:24 (NIV)
[Jesus] answered, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel."
JESUS ON JEWS - Matthew 23:33 (NIV)
"You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?"
THE JEWS ON JEWS - Matthew 27:25 (NIV)
All the people answered, "Let his [Jesus'] blood be on us and on our children!"
JESUS ON JEWS - John 8:22-24 (NIV)
This made the Jews ask, "Will he kill himself? Is that why he says, 'Where I go, you cannot come'?" But [Jesus] continued, "You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world. I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am the one I claim to be, you will indeed die in your sins."
PAUL ON JEWS - Galatians 3:10-11 (NIV)
"All who rely on observing the law are under a curse, for it is written: 'Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.' Clearly no one is justified before God by the law, because, 'The righteous will live by faith.'"
PAUL ON JEWS - Romans 3:20 (NIV)
"Therefore no one will be declared righteous in his sight by observing the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of sin."
PAUL ON JEWS - Romans 9:31 (NIV)
"but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it."
PAUL ON JEWS - Romans 11:26
And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob."
PAUL ON JEWS - Romans 11:28 (NIV)
"As far as the gospel is concerned, they [of Israel] are enemies on your account; but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs"
PAUL ON JEWS - 1 Thessalonians 2:14-15
"The Jews who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men."
PAUL ON JEWS, CIRCUMCISION - Galatians 5:2-3 (NIV)
"Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all. Again I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law."
PAUL ON JEWS, CIRCUMCISION - Galatians 6:15 (NIV)
"Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything; what counts is a new creation."

MARRIAGE, DIVORCE, WOMEN, HOMOSEXUALITY

[NOTE: There is nowhere in the Bible that clearly states "one man and one woman" or "monogamy" or any words to that effect, but references to abstinence and polygamy are plentiful. Also, contrast Deuteronomy 24:1-4 with the NT verses below that prohibit divorce.]
GOD ON RAPE AND MARRIAGE - Deuteronomy 22:28-29
If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.
GOD ON DIVORCE - Deuteronomy 24:1-4 (NIV)
If a man marries a woman who becomes displeasing to him because he finds something indecent about her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house, and if after she leaves his house she becomes the wife of another man, and her second husband dislikes her and writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house, or if he dies, then her first husband, who divorced her, is not allowed to marry her again after she has been defiled.
MARRIAGE TO SERVANT - 1 Chronicles 2:34,35
Sheshan had no sons—only daughters. He had an Egyptian servant named Jarha. Sheshan gave his daughter in marriage to his servant Jarha, and she bore him Attai.
JESUS ON MARRIAGE - Matthew 19:29
"And every one who hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life."
JESUS ON MARRIAGE - Luke 20:34-36 (KJV)
"The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage: But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection."

JESUS ON DIVORCE - Matthew 5:32 (NIV)
"But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, causes her to become an adulteress, and anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery."
JESUS ON DIVORCE - Mark 10:11-12 (NIV)
"Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her. And if she divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery."
[NOTE: It was not possible in Palestine at that time for a woman to divorce her husband.]
JESUS ON DIVORCE - Luke 16:18 (NIV)
"Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and the man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery."
PAUL ON MARRIAGE - 1 Corinthians 7:1-2 (KJV)
"Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband."
PAUL ON MARRIAGE - 1 Corinthians 7:8-9 (NIV)
"Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I am. But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion."
PAUL ON MARRIAGE & DIVORCE - 1 Corinthians 7:10-11 (NIV)
"To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband. But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife."
[Of course, we have to take Paul's word on this — that this is what the Lord commanded.]
PAUL ON MARRIAGE & DIVORCE - 1 Corinthians 7:27 (NIV)
"Are you married? Do not seek a divorce. Are you unmarried? Do not look for a wife."
PAUL ON DIVORCE - Romans 7:3 (NIV)
"So then, if she marries another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress, even though she marries another man."

PAUL ON WOMEN - 1 Timothy 2:9
"In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shame-facedness and sobriety; not with broided [braided] hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array."
PAUL ON WOMEN - 1 Timothy 2:11-15
"A woman should learn [from men] in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent. For Adam was formed first, then Eve. And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner. But women will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety."
PAUL ON WOMEN - 1 Corinthians 11:3
"I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God."
PAUL ON WOMEN - 1 Corinthians 11:9-10
"For man did not come from woman, but woman from man; neither was man created for woman, but woman for man. For this reason, and because of the angels, the woman ought to have a sign of authority on her head."
PAUL ON WOMEN - 1 Corinthians 14:34-35
"Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church."
PAUL ON WOMEN - Ephesians 5:22-24 (NIV)
"Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything."
PAUL ON WOMEN - Colossians 3:18 (NIV)
"Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord."
PETER ON WOMEN - 1 Peter 3:1-2 (NAB)
"Likewise, you wives should be subordinate to your husbands so that, even if some disobey the word, they may be won over without a word by their wives' conduct when they observe your reverent and chaste behavior. Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes."

LUST!

ANGELS LUSTED - Genesis 6:2,4
That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose... There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
KING DAVID LUSTED AND COMMITTED ADULTERY - 2 Samuel 11:2-4
One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful, and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, "Isn't this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite?" Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her.
JESUS ON LUST - Matthew 5:28
"But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart."
[NOTE: See Matthew 5:29-30 and Mark 9:43-48 (below) for what to do if this happens.]
PAUL ON LUST AND GREED - Colossians 3:5
"Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry."
PAUL ON LUST - Romans 1:24
"Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another."
PAUL ON LUST - 1 Corinthians 7:29 (NIV)
"What I mean, brothers, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they had none;"
[NOTE: This obviously means no sex for married men!]
PAUL ON ANGELS' LUST - 1 Corinthians 11:10 (KJV)
"For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels."
PETER ON LUST - 2 Peter 1:4
"For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust."

POLYGAMY

[NOTE: Nowhere in the bible does it clearly state "one man and one woman" or "monogamy" or any words to that effect, but references to abstinence and polygamy are plentiful.]
POLYGAMY - Genesis 4:19
Lamech married two women, one named Adah and the other Zillah.
POLYGAMY - Genesis 16:3
So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife.
POLYGAMY - Genesis 28:8,9
Esau then realized how displeasing the Canaanite women were to his father Isaac; so he went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Ishmael son of Abraham, in addition to the wives he already had.
POLYGAMY AND EXTRAMARITAL SEX - Genesis 30:3-10
Then she [Rachel] said, "Here is Bilhah, my maidservant. Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me and that through her I too can build a family." So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife. Jacob slept with her, and she became pregnant and bore him a son. Then Rachel said, "God has vindicated me; he has listened to my plea and given me a son." Because of this she named him Dan. Rachel's servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son. Then Rachel said, "I have had a great struggle with my sister, and I have won." So she named him Naphtali. When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she took her maidservant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife. Leah's servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son.
POLYGAMY - Genesis 30:26
Give me my wives and children, for whom I have served you, and I will be on my way. You know how much work I've done for you.
POLYGAMY - Genesis 31:17
Then Jacob put his children and his wives on camels, ...
POLYGAMY - Genesis 31:50
If you mistreat my daughters or if you take any wives besides my daughters, even though no one is with us, remember that God is a witness between you and me.
POLYGAMY - Genesis 32:22
That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two maidservants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.
POLYGAMY - Genesis 36:2
Esau took his wives from the women of Canaan: Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite.
POLYGAMY - Genesis 37:2
This is the account of Jacob. Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives, and he brought their father a bad report about them.
POLYGAMY - Exodus 21:7-10 (NIV)
If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as menservants do. If she does not please the master who has selected her for himself, he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, because he has broken faith with her. If he selects her for his son, he must grant her the rights of a daughter. If he marries another woman, he must not deprive the first one of her food, clothing and marital rights.
POLYGAMY - Deuteronomy 21:15-16
If a man has two wives, and he loves one but not the other, and both bear him sons but the firstborn is the son of the wife he does not love, when he wills his property to his sons, he must not give the rights of the firstborn to the son of the wife he loves in preference to his actual firstborn, the son of the wife he does not love.
POLYGAMY - 2 Samuel 5:13
After he left Hebron, David took more concubines and wives in Jerusalem, and more sons and daughters were born to him.
POLYGAMY - 1 Kings 11:1-3
But King Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites ... And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines.
POLYGAMY - Judges 8:30-31
And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten — for he had many wives. And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech.
POLYGAMY - 1 Chronicles 3:1-9
Eight wives of King David are listed, and the concubines are uncounted.
POLYGAMY - 2 Chronicles 11:21
Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than any of his other wives and concubines. In all, he had eighteen wives and sixty concubines, twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.
JESUS ON POLYGAMY - Matthew 25:1 (NIV)
"At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom."
[NOTE: This is almost as good as Islam, where martyrs can get 72 virgins.]

THE STORY OF THE CRUCIFICTION

THE WORDS ON THE CROSS - Matthew 27:37
And set up over his head his accusation written, This Is Jesus The King Of The Jews.
THE WORDS ON THE CROSS - Mark 15:26
And the superscription of his accusation was written over, The King Of The Jews.
THE WORDS ON THE CROSS - Luke 23:38
And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, This Is The King Of The Jews.
THE WORDS ON THE CROSS - John 19:19
And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was Jesus Of Nazareth The King Of The Jews.
WHO CARRIED THE CROSS? - Matthew 27:32
As they were going out, they met a man from Cyrene, named Simon, and they forced him to carry the cross.
WAS THERE A WHOLE BODY SHROUD? - John 20:7 (KJV)
And the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.
[NOTE: The Shroud of Turin is thus biblically declared a fake.]
HOW DID JESUS DIE? - Acts 5:30 (NIV)
"The God of our fathers raised Jesus from the dead — whom you had killed by hanging him on a tree."

BIBLICAL DAY OF THE LIVING DEAD - Matthew 27:50-53 (KJV)
Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
[NOTE: This fantastical event is referred to nowhere else, in or out of the Bible.]

WHAT HAPPENED TO JUDAS? - Matthew 27:5
So Judas threw the money into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.
WHAT HAPPENED TO JUDAS? - Acts 1:18
With the reward he got for his wickedness, Judas bought a field; there he fell headlong, his body burst open and all his intestines spilled out.
WHAT HAPPENED TO JUDAS? - 1 Corinthians 15:3-5 (NIV)
"For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve."

FOOLS, TRUST, PRIDE, DECEIT, WISDOM, INTELLIGENCE

FOOLS - Psalm 14:1
The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good.
FOOLS - Proverbs 8:5
You who are simple, gain prudence; you who are foolish, gain understanding.
FOOLS - Proverbs 28:26
He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.
PRIDE - Proverbs 29:23 (NIV)
A man's pride brings him low, but a man of lowly spirit gains honor.
[NOTE: Does this mean that there could be a contest to see who has the most "lowly spirit"?]
TRUST - Psalm 118:8
It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man.
TRUST - Jeremiah 17:5 (IV)
This is what the LORD says: "Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who depends on flesh for his strength and whose heart turns away from the LORD.
FOOLISH - Jeremiah 10:14,15 (same as Jeremiah 51:17,18)
The whole human race is foolish and has no knowledge! The craftsmen are disgraced by the idols they make, for their carefully shaped works are a fraud. These idols have no breath or power. Idols are worthless; they are ridiculous lies! On the day of reckoning they will all be destroyed.
TRUST - Jeremiah 17:7 (IV)
But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him.
DECEITFUL HEART - Jeremiah 17:9 (NIV)
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
WISDOM - Proverbs 4:7 (NIV)
Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get understanding.
WISDOM - Ecclesiastes 1:18 (KJV)
For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
WISDOM, INTELLIGENCE - Isaiah 29:14 (NIV)
"Therefore once more I will astound these people with wonder upon wonder; the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."
JESUS ON FOOLS - Matthew 5:22
"But anyone who says, 'You fool!' will be in danger of the fire of hell."
JESUS ON FOOLS - Matthew 23:17,19
"Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold? Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?"
PAUL ON FOOLISHNESS, WISDOM, INTELLIGENCE - 1 Corinthians 1:18-19 (NIV)
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate." (See Isaiah 29:14, above.)
PAUL ON FOOLS - 1 Corinthians 3:18
"Do not deceive yourselves. If any one of you thinks he is wise by the standards of this age, he should become a 'fool' so that he may become wise."
PAUL ON FOOLS - Romans 1:21-22
"For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools"

GAY LOVE

GAY LOVE PROHIBITED - Leviticus 18:22 (KJV)
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
KILL MALE HOMOSEXUALS - Leviticus 20:13
If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
GAY LOVE ACCEPTED - 1 Samuel 18:1-3
And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father's house. Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.
WAS JESUS GAY? - John 20:2
So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved.
[Or the other disciple could have been an unnamed woman.]
WAS JESUS GAY? - John 21:7
Then the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It is the Lord!"
WAS JESUS GAY? - John 21:20
Peter turned and saw that the disciple whom Jesus loved was following them.
MEN SHOULD KISS - 1 Thessalonians 5:26
Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss.

PAUL ON HOMOSEXUALITY - Romans 1:26-27, 32
Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
PAUL ON HOMOSEXUALITY - 1 Timothy 1:10 (CEV)
The Law was written for people who are sexual perverts or who live as homosexuals or are kidnappers or liars or won't tell the truth in court.

RAPE, INCEST, VIRGINITY, PORNOGRAPHY, EXHIBITIONISM

RAPE - Genesis 19:6
Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing. Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don't do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof."
INCEST - Genesis 19:36
So both of Lot's daughters became pregnant by their father.
VIRGINITY AND PUNISHMENT - Deuteronomy 22:20-21
If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the girl's virginity can be found, she shall be brought to the door of her father's house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father's house. You must purge the evil from among you.
VIRGINITY, RAPE AND PUNISHMENT - Deuteronomy 22:23-24
If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of the city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.
VIRGINITY, RAPE AND PUNISHMENT - Deuteronomy 22:28-29
If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.
VIRGINITY, RAPE AND PUNISHMENT - Exodus 22:16-17
If a man seduces a virgin who is not pledged to be married and sleeps with her, he must pay the bride-price, and she shall be his wife. If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he must still pay the bride-price for virgins.
VIRGINITY AND RAPE - Judges 19:22-29
While they were enjoying themselves, some of the wicked men of the city surrounded the house. Pounding on the door, they shouted to the old man who owned the house, "Bring out the man who came to your house so we can have sex with him." The owner of the house went outside and said to them, "No, my friends, don't be so vile. Since this man is my guest, don't do this disgraceful thing. Look, here is my virgin daughter, and his concubine. I will bring them out to you now, and you can use them and do to them whatever you wish. But to this man, don't do such a disgraceful thing."
[The concubine was raped, and died. The man cut her into twelve parts and sent them into all the areas of Israel.]
PORNOGRAPHY - Ezekiel 23:20 (NLT)
She lusted after lovers with genitals as large as a donkey’s and emissions like those of a horse.
EXHIBITIONISM - Isaiah 20:2
At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, "Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot." And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
EXHIBITIONISM - Isaiah 20:3
And the LORD said, "Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia."

GOD ON EUNUCHS AND THE DISABLED, RACISM

GOD ON THE DISABLED - Leviticus 21:16-23 [Eunuchs, those with glasses, and the disabled are not holy or allowed near altar.]
The LORD said to Moses, "Say to Aaron: 'For the generations to come none of your descendants who has a defect may come near to offer the food of his God. No man who has any defect may come near: no man who is blind or lame, disfigured or deformed; no man with a crippled foot or hand, or who is hunchbacked or dwarfed, or who has any eye defect, or who has festering or running sores or damaged testicles. No descendant of Aaron the priest who has any defect is to come near to present the offerings made to the LORD by fire. He has a defect; he must not come near to offer the food of his God. He may eat the most holy food of his God, as well as the holy food; yet because of his defect, he must not go near the curtain or approach the altar, and so desecrate my sanctuary. I am the LORD, who makes them holy.
GOD ON THE DISABLED - Deuteronomy 23:1 (KJV)
He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.
GOD ON THE DISABLED - Exodus 4:11 (KJV)
And the LORD said unto him, "Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? Have not I the LORD?"
GOD AND RACISM - Deuteronomy 23:3
"An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter the assembly of the LORD; even to the tenth generation none of his descendants shall enter the assembly of the LORD forever,"

SLAVERY

[NOTE: “Slave” and “slavery” are mentioned at least 164 times in the Bible, but it never says that slavery is morally wrong. It just implies that slavery is undesirable. Also, the Greek word for slave, “doulos,” is often wrongly translated in the New Testament as servant. “Diakonos” means servant.]
SLAVERY AND CHILD ABUSE - Genesis 9:22,24 (NIV)
Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers outside. When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him, he said, "Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves will he be to his brothers." He also said, "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the slave of Shem. May God extend the territory of Japheth; may Japheth live in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be his slave."
SLAVERY AND CHILD ABUSE - Genesis 17:12
For the generations to come every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised, including those born in your household or bought with money from a foreigner—those who are not your offspring.
SLAVERY - Leviticus 25:44-46 (NIV)
Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves. You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property. You can will them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly.
SLAVERY - Exodus 20:17 (NLT) (part of the Ten Commandments)
You must not covet your neighbor’s house. You must not covet your neighbor’s wife, male or female servant, ox or donkey, or anything else that belongs to your neighbor.
SLAVERY - Exodus 21:2-6 (NLT)
"If you buy a Hebrew slave, he is to serve for only six years. Set him free in the seventh year, and he will owe you nothing for his freedom. If he was single when he became your slave and then married afterward, only he will go free in the seventh year. But if he was married before he became a slave, then his wife will be freed with him. If his master gave him a wife while he was a slave, and they had sons or daughters, then the man will be free in the seventh year, but his wife and children will still belong to his master. But the slave may plainly declare, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children. I would rather not go free.' If he does this, his master must present him before God. Then his master must take him to the door and publicly pierce his ear with an awl. After that, the slave will belong to his master forever."
SLAVERY - Exodus 21:7-11 (NLT)
"When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are. If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again. But he is not allowed to sell her to foreigners, since he is the one who broke the contract with her. And if the slave girl's owner arranges for her to marry his son, he may no longer treat her as a slave girl, but he must treat her as his daughter. If he himself marries her and then takes another wife, he may not reduce her food or clothing or fail to sleep with her as his wife. If he fails in any of these three ways, she may leave as a free woman without making any payment."
SLAVERY - Exodus 21:20-21
If a man beats his male or female slave with a rod and the slave dies as a direct result, he must be punished, but he is not to be punished if the slave gets up after a day or two, since the slave is his property.
SLAVERY - Exodus 21:32
If the bull gores a male or female slave, the owner must pay thirty shekels of silver to the master of the slave, and the bull must be stoned.
SLAVERY - Exodus 22:3 (NIV)
A thief must certainly make restitution, but if he has nothing, he must be sold to pay for his theft.
SLAVERY - Proverbs 29:19 (NASB)
A slave will not be instructed by words alone; For though he understands, there will be no response.
SLAVERY - Deuteronomy 5:21 (CEV) (part of the Ten Commandments)
Do not want anything that belongs to someone else. Don't want anyone's wife or husband, house, land, slaves, oxen, donkeys, or anything else.
SLAVERY - Deuteronomy 20:13-14 (NIV)
When the LORD your God delivers it [the city] into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it. As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder [slaves] for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the LORD your God gives you from your enemies.

SLAVERY - Deuteronomy 23:15-16 (KJV)
Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee: He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him.

SLAVERY, JESUS - Matthew 18:25 (KJV) [Jesus recommends families to be sold as slaves.]
"But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made."
SLAVERY, JESUS - Matthew 24:45-51 (NASB) [Jesus recommends killing slaves.]
"Who then is the faithful and sensible slave whom his master put in charge of his household to give them their food at the proper time? Blessed is that slave whom his master finds so doing when he comes. Truly I say to you that he will put him in charge of all his possessions. But if that evil slave says in his heart, 'My master is not coming for a long time,' and begins to beat his fellow slaves and eat and drink with drunkards; the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour which he does not know, and will cut him in pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
SLAVERY, JESUS - Luke 12:42-48 (NASB) [Jesus recommends killing and flogging slaves.]
And the Lord [Jesus] said, "Who then is the faithful and sensible steward, whom his master will put in charge of his servants [slaves], to give them their rations at the proper time? "Blessed is that slave whom his master finds so doing when he comes. "Truly I say to you that he will put him in charge of all his possessions. "But if that slave says in his heart, 'My master will be a long time in coming,' and begins to beat the slaves, both men and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk; the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces, and assign him a place with the unbelievers. "And that slave who knew his master's will and did not get ready or act in accord with his will, will receive many lashes, but the one who did not know it, and committed deeds worthy of a flogging, will receive but few. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and to whom they entrusted much, of him they will ask all the more."
SLAVERY, JESUS - Luke 16:13
"No servant [slave] can serve two masters."
SLAVERY, JESUS - Luke 17:7-8
"But which of you having a slave ploughing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, "Go and sit down to meat."? And will not rather say unto him, "Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, til I have eaten, and drunken, and afterwards thou shalt eat and drink."?
SLAVERY, JESUS - John 8:35 (NIV)
"Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever."
SLAVERY, PRIESTS - Mark 14:66 (KJV) ["Maids" means "slaves." Thus, priests owned slaves.]
And as Peter was beneath in the palace, there cometh one of the maids of the high priest
SLAVERY, PAUL - Colossians 3:22-24
"Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything; and do it, not only when their eye is on you and to win their favor, but with sincerity of heart and reverence for the Lord. Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving."
SLAVERY, PAUL - Colossians 4:1 (NIV)
Masters, provide your slaves with what is right and fair, because you know that you also have a Master in heaven.
SLAVERY, PAUL - Ephesians 6:5-6 (NIV)
"Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ. Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;"
SLAVERY, PAUL - Titus 2:9-10
"Teach slaves to be subject to their masters in everything, to try to please them, not to talk back to them, and not to steal from them, but to show that they can be fully trusted, so that in every way they will make the teaching about God our Savior attractive."
SLAVERY, PAUL - 1 Timothy 6:1-2 (NLT)
"Christians who are slaves should give their masters full respect so that the name of God and his teaching will not be shamed. If your master is a Christian, that is no excuse for being disrespectful. You should work all the harder because you are helping another believer by your efforts. Teach these truths, Timothy, and encourage everyone to obey them."
SLAVERY, PAUL - Galatians 3:28
"There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus."
[NOTE: Everybody may be equal for Jesus, but on Earth the slaves are still slaves].
SLAVERY, PAUL - 1 Corinthians 7:21-22
"Were you a slave when you were called? Don't let it trouble you — although if you can gain your freedom, do so. For he who was a slave when he was called by the Lord is the Lord's freedman; similarly, he who was a free man when he was called is Christ's slave."
SLAVERY, PAUL - 1 Corinthians 12:13 (KJV)
"For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit."
SLAVERY, PAUL - Philemon 1
[In this book, Paul tells how he returned the slave Onesimus to his owner (presumably Phelemon). This action is forbidden in Deuteronomy 23:15-16]
SLAVERY, PETER - 1 Peter 2:18 (NLT)
"You who are slaves must accept the authority of your masters. Do whatever they tell you — not only if they are kind and reasonable, but even if they are harsh."

JESUS KILLS

JESUS SAYS TO KILL ANYONE WHO CURSES HIS PARENTS - Matthew 15:4 (Jesus reaffirms Moses, who spoke for God)
"For God said, 'Honor your father and mother' and 'Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.'"
JESUS KILLS A FIG TREE - Matthew 21:18-19
Now in the morning as he returned to the city, he hungered. And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said to it, "Let no fruit grow on thee henceforth for ever." And presently the fig tree withered away.
JESUS KILLS A FIG TREE - Mark 11:12-14, 20
The next day as they were leaving Bethany, Jesus was hungry. Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit. When he reached it, he found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs. Then he said to the tree, "May no one ever eat fruit from you again." ... In the morning, as they went along, they saw the fig tree withered from the roots.
[NOTE: Is this the action of a sane man?]
JESUS ON SEXUAL IMMORALITY, ADULTERY, AND CHILD ABUSE - Revelation 2:20-23
"You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols. I have given her time to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling. So I will cast her on a bed of suffering, and I will make those who commit adultery with her suffer intensely, unless they repent of her ways. I will strike her children dead."

GOSPEL AUTHORS CONFUSED ABOUT GEOGRAPHY

MARK CONFUSED ABOUT GEOGRAPHY, JESUS KILLS 2000 PIGS - Mark 5:1-2, 8-9, 11-13 (KJV)
And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes [Gerasenes in NIV]. And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit.... For [Jesus] said unto him, "Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit." And he asked him, "What is thy name?" And he answered, saying, "My name is Legion, we are many."... Now there was nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding. And all the devils besought him, saying, "Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them." And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, they were about two thousand and were choked in the sea.
[NOTE: The original Greek text referred to the country of the Gerasenes, which was about 31 miles from the Sea of Galilee. The King James translators realized this, and changed the location to “Gadarenes” which was close to the sea. Later translators used the original. Also, the swine owner would not have been happy at their destruction.]
LUKE CONFUSED ABOUT GEOGRAPHY - Luke 8:26 (KJV)
And they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, [Gerasenes in NIV] which is over against Galilee. And when he went forth to land, there met him out of the city a certain man, ...
[See note for Mark 5, above.]
MATTHEW CONFUSED ABOUT GEOGRAPHY, CHANGES STORY TO TWO MEN - Matthew 8:28 (KJV)
And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, [Gadarenes in NIV] there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.
[NOTE: The original Greek text referred Gadara, which was five miles from the shore.]
MARK CONFUSED ABOUT GEOGRAPHY - Mark 7:31 (NIV)
Then Jesus left the vicinity of Tyre and went through Sidon, down to the Sea of Galilee and into the region of the Decapolis.
[NOTE: Sidon was about 25 miles north of Tyre, and the Sea of Galilee was about 40 miles SE of Tyre. The KJV tried to fix this, by making the initial city indeterminate.]
MARK CONFUSED ABOUT GEOGRAPHY - Mark 8:10 (KJV)
And straightway [Jesus] entered into a ship with his disciples, and came into the parts of Dalmanutha.
[NOTE: There is no reliable evidence of a region called Dalmanutha.]
MARK CONFUSED ABOUT GEOGRAPHY - Mark 11:1 (NIV)
As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, ...
[NOTE: Anyone approaching Jerusalem from Jericho would come first to Bethany and then Bethphage.]
LUKE CONFUSED ABOUT GEOGRAPHY - Luke 4:29,30 (NIV)
They got up, drove [Jesus] out of [Nazareth], and took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw him down the cliff. But he walked right through the crowd and went on his way.
[NOTE: there is no hill in or near Nazareth.]
JOHN CONFUSED ABOUT GEOGRAPHY - John 3:23 (NIV)
Now John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, ...
[NOTE: There's no evidence of any place called Aenon near Salim.]
JOHN CONFUSED ABOUT GEOGRAPHY - John 12:21 (NIV)
They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, ...
[NOTE: Bethsaida was in Gaulonitis, not Galilee.]
AUTHOR OF MATTHEW CONFUSED ABOUT MATTHEW - Matthew 10:2-4
These are the names of the twelve apostles: ... and Matthew the tax collector; ...
[NOTE: Why would Matthew refer to himself in the third person?]

CHILD ABUSE

CHILD ABUSE - Genesis 22:2 (NIV)
Then God said, "Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about."
CHILD ABUSE - GOD KILLS - Genesis 38:7
But Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the LORD's sight; so the LORD put him to death.
CHILD ABUSE - Proverbs 13:24 - KING SOLOMON (NAB)
He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him takes care to chastise him.
CHILD ABUSE - Proverbs 19:18-19 - KING SOLOMON (NAB)
"Chastise your son, for in this there is hope, but do not desire his death. The man of violent temper pays the penalty; even if you rescue him, you will have to do it again."
CHILD ABUSE - Proverbs 20:30
Blows and wounds cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the inmost being.
CHILD ABUSE - Proverbs 22:15 - KING SOLOMON
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
CHILD ABUSE - Proverbs 23:13-14 - KING SOLOMON (NIV)
Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you punish him with the rod, he will not die. Punish him with the rod and save his soul from death.
CHILD ABUSE - Proverbs 29:15 - KING SOLOMON
The rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.

CHILD ABUSE - Exodus 20:5 [part of one of the three sets of 10 Commandments - see Deuteronomy 5:9 below]
"... for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me."
CHILD SACRIFICE - Exodus 20:29,30 (NIV)
"You must give me the firstborn of your sons. Do the same with your cattle and your sheep. Let them stay with their mothers for seven days, but give them to me on the eighth day."
CHILD ABUSE - Deuteronomy 5:9 [part of one of the three sets of 10 Commandments - see Exodus 20:5 above]
"for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me."
CHILD EXECUTION - Deuteronomy 21:18-21
If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him, his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of the town. They shall say to the elders, 'This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a profligate and a drunkard.' Then all the men of his town shall stone him to death...
CHILD EXECUTION - Deuteronomy 2:34
And we took all [Sihon's] cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain.

CHILD ABUSE - 2 Kings 2:23-24
From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some youths came out of the town and jeered at him. "Go on up, you baldhead!" they said. "Go on up, you baldhead!" He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.
CHILD ABUSE - Leviticus 20:9
For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother. His blood shall be upon him.
CHILD ABUSE - GOD ON ATTACKING ONE'S PARENTS - Exodus 21:15
"Anyone who attacks his father or his mother must be put to death."
CHILD ABUSE - GOD ON CURSING ONE'S PARENTS - Exodus 21:17
"Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death."
CHILD ABUSE - Exodus 34:6-7 [part of one of the three sets of 10 Commandments]
The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation.
CHILD ABUSE - GOD WILL KILL THE CHILDREN OF SINNERS - Leviticus 26:21-22 (NLT)
"If even then you remain hostile toward me and refuse to obey, I will inflict you with seven more disasters for your sins. I will release wild animals that will kill your children and destroy your cattle, so your numbers will dwindle and your roads will be deserted."
CHILD ABUSE AND HUMAN SACRIFICE - KILL SONS FOR THE SINS OF THEIR FATHERS - Isaiah 14:21
Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the sins of their forefathers; they are not to rise to inherit the land and cover the earth with their cities.
CHILD ABUSE - Deuteronomy 23:2 (KJV)
A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.
[NOTE: It can be argued that Jesus was a bastard, because his parents weren't married. Also, how many people can be sure that all ten generations of their ancestors (1023 couples) were married?]
CHILD ABUSE - Deuteronomy 8:5
Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.
CHILD ABUSE - Deuteronomy 20:13-14
When the LORD your God delivers [a city] into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it. As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves.
CHILD ABUSE - Nahum 3:10
Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
CHILD ABUSE - Isaiah 13:16
Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses will be looted and their wives ravished.
CHILD ABUSE - Isaiah 13:18
Their bows will strike down the young men; they will have no mercy on infants nor will they look with compassion on children.
CHILD ABUSE - 2 Samuel 12:13-14
Then David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the LORD." Nathan replied, "The LORD has taken away your sin. You are not going to die. But because by doing this you have made the enemies of the LORD show utter contempt, the son born to you will die." [The child dies seven days later.]

CHILD ABUSE AND HUMAN SACRIFICE - Judges 11:30-31
And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD: "If you give the Ammonites into my hands, whatever comes out of the door of my house to meet me when I return in triumph from the Ammonites will be the LORD's, and I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering." [Jephthah's daughter ends up as the burnt offering.]
CHILD ABUSE - Hosea 9:12
"Even if they rear children, I will bereave them of every one."
CHILD ABUSE - Hosea 9:16 (NLT)
"The people of Israel are struck down. Their roots are dried up, and they will bear no more fruit. And if they give birth, I will slaughter their beloved children."
CHILD ABUSE - Psalm 109:9-13
May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow. May his children be wandering beggars; may they be driven from their ruined homes. May a creditor seize all he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor. May no one extend kindness to him or take pity on his fatherless children. May his descendants be cut off, their names blotted out from the next generation.
CHILD ABUSE - Psalm 137:8-9 (KJV)
O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
CHILD ABUSE - Hosea 13:16
... because they have rebelled against their God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to the ground, their pregnant women ripped open.
CHILD ABUSE AND HUMAN SACRIFICE - Ezekiel 20:26 (NIV)
"I let them become defiled through their gifts — the sacrifice of every firstborn — that I might fill them with horror so they would know that I am the LORD."
CHILD ABUSE - Ezekiel 23:46,47 (KJV)
For thus saith the Lord GOD; "I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled. And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire."
DON'T BURN YOUR CHILDREN - Deuteronomy 12:31
You must not worship the LORD your God in their way, because in worshiping their gods, they do all kinds of detestable things the LORD hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.
DON'T EXECUTE CHILDREN FOR THEIR FATHERS - Deuteronomy 24:16 (NIV) [See also Exodus 20:5 above.]
Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.

ANIMAL ABUSE

ANIMAL ABUSE - Exodus 20:24
"Make an altar of earth for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, your sheep and goats and your cattle. Wherever I cause my name to be honored, I will come to you and bless you."
ANIMAL ABUSE - Joshua 11:6
The LORD said to Joshua, "Do not be afraid of them, because by this time tomorrow I will hand all of them over to Israel, slain. You are to hamstring their horses and burn their chariots."
ANIMAL ABUSE - Hebrews 9:22
In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

WAR

WAR - Deuteronomy 2:32-34
Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz. And the LORD our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people. And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain.
WAR - Deuteronomy 3:3-6 (NIV)
So the LORD our God also gave into our hands Og king of Bashan and all his army. We struck them down, leaving no survivors. At that time we took all his cities. There was not one of the sixty cities that we did not take from them — the whole region of Argob, Og's kingdom in Bashan. All these cities were fortified with high walls and with gates and bars, and there were also a great many unwalled villages. We completely destroyed them, as we had done with Sihon king of Heshbon, destroying every city — men, women and children.
WAR - Deuteronomy 20:10-18
When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace. If they accept and open their gates, all the people in it shall be subject to forced labor and shall work for you. If they refuse to make peace and they engage you in battle, lay siege to that city. When the LORD your God delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it. As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the LORD your God gives you from your enemies. This is how you are to treat all the cities that are at a distance from you and do not belong to the nations nearby. However, in the cities of the nations the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. Completely destroy them - the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites - as the LORD your God has commanded you. Otherwise, they will teach you to follow all the detestable things they do in worshiping their gods, and you will sin against the LORD your God.
WAR - Exodus 17:13
So Joshua overcame the Amalekite army with the sword.
WAR - 1 Samuel 15:3 (KJV)
"Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass."
WAR - 1 Samuel 27:6-10 (NIV) [David raids towns and kills everyone. He then lies about it to his friend King Achish.]
So on that day [King] Achish gave [David] Ziklag, and it has belonged to the kings of Judah ever since. David lived in Philistine territory a year and four months. Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites and the Amalekites. (From ancient times these peoples had lived in the land extending to Shur and Egypt.) Whenever David attacked an area, he did not leave a man or woman alive, but took sheep and cattle, donkeys and camels, and clothes. Then he returned to Achish.
When Achish asked, "Where did you go raiding today?" David would say, "Against the Negev of Judah" or "Against the Negev of Jerahmeel" or "Against the Negev of the Kenites." He did not leave a man or woman alive to be brought to Gath, for he thought, "They might inform on us and say, 'This is what David did.'" And such was his practice as long as he lived in Philistine territory. Achish trusted David and said to himself, "He has become so obnoxious to his people, the Israelites, that he will be my servant for life."
[NOTE: Apparently God didn't mind, because 1 Kings 15:5 says, "For David had done what was right in the eyes of the LORD and had not failed to keep any of the LORD’s commands all the days of his life—except in the case of Uriah the Hittite."]
WAR - Numbers 25:16-18 (NIV)
The LORD said to Moses, "Treat the Midianites as enemies and kill them, because they treated you as enemies when they deceived you in the affair of Peor and their sister Cozbi, the daughter of a Midianite leader, the woman who was killed when the plague came as a result of Peor."
WAR - Numbers 31:7 (NIV)
They fought against Midian, as the LORD commanded Moses, and killed every man.
WAR - Jeremiah 50:21 (NIV)
"Attack the land of Merathaim and those who live in Pekod. Pursue, kill and completely destroy them," declares the LORD. "Do everything I have commanded you."
WAR - Jeremiah 51:20-23 (NLT)
"You are my battle-ax and sword," says the Lord. "With you I will shatter nations and destroy many kingdoms.
With you I will shatter armies — destroying the horse and rider, the chariot and charioteer.
With you I will shatter men and women, old people and children, young men and maidens.
With you I will shatter shepherds and flocks, farmers and oxen, captains and officers."
[NOTE: In Jeremiah 52, Jerusalem was destroyed and ransacked by the Babylonians.]
WAR - Joshua 6:21 (KJV)
And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.
WAR - Joshua 8:24-25 (NLT)
When Israel had finished killing all the men of Ai in the fields and in the desert where they had chased them, and when every one of them had been put to the sword, all the Israelites returned to Ai and killed those who were in it. Twelve thousand men and women fell that day - all the people of Ai.
WAR - Joshua 10:28 (NIV)
That day Joshua took Makkedah. He put the city and its king to the sword and totally destroyed everyone in it. He left no survivors.
WAR - Joshua 10:40
So Joshua subdued the whole region, including the hill country, the Negev, the western foothills and the mountain slopes, together with all their kings. He left no survivors. He totally destroyed all who breathed, just as the LORD, the God of Israel, had commanded.
WAR - Joshua 11:11
Everyone in it they put to the sword. They totally destroyed them, not sparing anything that breathed, and he burned up Hazor itself.
WAR - Joshua 11:14
The Israelites carried off for themselves all the plunder and livestock of these cities, but all the people they put to the sword until they completely destroyed them, not sparing anyone that breathed.
WAR - Isaiah 13:9
See, the day of the LORD is coming - a cruel day, with wrath and fierce anger - to make the land desolate and destroy the sinners within it.
WAR - Isaiah 13:15-16
Whoever is captured will be thrust through; all who are caught will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses will be looted and their wives ravished.
WAR - Isaiah 13:18-29
Their bows will strike down the young men; they will have no mercy on infants nor will they look with compassion on children. Babylon, the jewel of kingdoms, the glory of the Babylonians' pride, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.
WAR - Judges 18:6,27 (NIV)
The priest answered them, "Go in peace. Your journey has the LORD's approval." Then they took what Micah had made, and his priest, and went on to Laish, against a peaceful and unsuspecting people. They attacked them with the sword and burned down their city.
WAR - Judges 21:10,11
So the assembly sent twelve thousand fighting men with instructions to go to Jabesh Gilead and put to the sword those living there, including the women and children. "This is what you are to do," they said. "Kill every male and every woman who is not a virgin."
WAR - Ezekiel 39:18 (KJV)
Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
WAR - Ezekiel 32:5-7 (NAB)
"I will leave your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys with your carcass. I will water the land with what flows from you, and the river beds shall be filled with your blood. When I snuff you out I will cover the heavens, and all the stars will darken."
WAR - Exodus 23:23 (NIV)
"My angel will go ahead of you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites and Jebusites, and I will wipe them out."
WAR - Psalm 144:1 (NIV)
Praise be to the LORD my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.
MOSES AND SPOILS OF WAR - Numbers 31:9-11 (NIV)
The Israelites captured the Midianite women and children and took all the Midianite herds, flocks and goods as plunder. They burned all the towns where the Midianites had settled, as well as all their camps. They took all the plunder and spoils, including the people and animals.
MOSES AND WAR AND KILLING, VIRGINS AS SPOILS - Numbers 31:15-18 (NIV)
"Have you allowed all the women to live?" [Moses] asked them. "They were the ones who followed Balaam's advice and were the means of turning the Israelites away from the LORD in what happened at Peor, so that a plague struck the LORD's people. Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man."
GOD ON SPOILS OF WAR - Numbers 31:25-35 (NLT)
And the LORD said to Moses, 'You and Eleazar the priest and the family leaders of each tribe are to make a list of all the plunder taken in the battle, including the people and animals. Then divide the plunder into two parts, and give half to the men who fought the battle and half to the rest of the people. But first give the LORD his share of the captives, cattle, donkeys, sheep, and goats that belong to the army. Set apart one out of every five hundred as the LORD's share. Give this share of their half to Eleazar the priest as an offering to the LORD. Also take one of every fifty of the captives, cattle, donkeys, sheep, and goats in the half that belongs to the people of Israel. Give this share to the Levites in charge of maintaining the LORD's Tabernacle.' So Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses. The plunder remaining from the spoils that the fighting men had taken totaled 675,000 sheep, 72,000 cattle, 61,000 donkeys, and 32,000 young girls.
[NOTE: The rest of the captives were killed.]
GOD ON SPOILS OF WAR - Deuteronomy 21:11-14 (NIV)
"if you notice among the captives a beautiful woman and are attracted to her, you may take her as your wife. Bring her into your home and have her shave her head, trim her nails and put aside the clothes she was wearing when captured. After she has lived in your house and mourned her father and mother for a full month, then you may go to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife. If you are not pleased with her, let her go wherever she wishes. You must not sell her or treat her as a slave, since you have dishonored her."
DAVID AND SPOILS OF WAR - 1 Samuel 18:27
Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king's son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.

MORTALITY

MORTALITY - Ecclesiastes 3:18-20
I also thought, "As for men, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals. Man's fate is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath; man has no advantage over the animal. Everything is meaningless. All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return.
MORTALITY - Ecclesiastes 9:2
All share a common destiny—the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad, the clean and the unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not.
MORTALITY - Ecclesiastes 9:5-6
For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even the memory of them is forgotten. Their love, their hate and their jealousy have long since vanished; never again will they have a part in anything that happens under the sun.
MORTALITY - Ecclesiastes 9:9-10
Enjoy life with your wife, whom you love, all the days of this meaningless life that God has given you under the sun — all your meaningless days. For this is your lot in life and in your toilsome labor under the sun. Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the grave, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.
MORTALITY - Revelation 19:17-18
And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.

OTHER GODS

GOD ON OTHER GODS - Genesis 1:26
Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness..."
GOD ON OTHER GODS - Genesis 3:22
And the LORD God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever."
GOD ON OTHER GODS - Genesis 11:7
"Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other."
GOD ON OTHER GODS - Exodus 20:3 [part of one of the three sets of 10 Commandments]
"You shall have no other gods before me."
GOD ON OTHER GODS - Exodus 20:23
"Do not make any gods to be alongside me; do not make for yourselves gods of silver or gods of gold."
GOD ON OTHER GODS - Exodus 23:13
"Be careful to do everything I have said to you. Do not invoke the names of other gods; do not let them be heard on your lips."
GOD ON OTHER GODS - Exodus 23:24
"Do not bow down before their gods or worship them or follow their practices. You must demolish them and break their sacred stones to pieces."
GOD ON OTHER GODS - Exodus 34:14
For thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
GOD ON OTHER GODS - Deuteronomy 5:7 [part of one of the three sets of 10 Commandments]
"You shall have no other gods before me"
GOD ON OTHER GODS - Deuteronomy 12:2
"Destroy completely all the places on the high mountains and on the hills and under every spreading tree where the nations you are dispossessing worship their gods."
GOD ON OTHER GODS - Deuteronomy 12:16-18 (NIV)
However, in the cities of the nations the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. Completely destroy them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—as the LORD your God has commanded you. Otherwise, they will teach you to follow all the detestable things they do in worshiping their gods, and you will sin against the LORD your God.
GOD ON OTHER GODS - Psalm 82:1 (KJV)
God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.
GOD ON OTHER GODS - Isaiah 46:9-10
"Remember the former things, those of long ago; I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me. I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say: My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please."
MOSES' FATHER-IN-LAW ON OTHER GODS - Exodus 18:11
"Now I know that the LORD is greater than all other gods, for he did this to those who had treated Israel arrogantly."
MOSES ON OTHER GODS - Deuteronomy 8:19
"If you ever forget the LORD your God and follow other gods and worship and bow down to them, I [Moses] testify against you today that you will surely be destroyed."
OTHER GODS - 1 Chronicles 16:25
For great is the LORD and most worthy of praise; he is to be feared above all gods.

GOD'S QUALITIES, WHAT HE CREATED

GOD'S QUALITIES - 1 John 4:8
God is love.
GOD'S QUALITIES - 1 Corinthians 13:4
Love is not jealous.
GOD'S QUALITIES - Exodus 20:5
"I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God."
GOD'S QUALITIES AND NAME - Exodus 34:14
For thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
GOD'S QUALITIES AND NAME - Exodus 15:3 (KJV)
The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name.
GOD'S QUALITIES - Romans 15:33 (KJV)
Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
DOES GOD CHANGE? - Malachi 3:6 (KJV)
"For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed."
DOES GOD CHANGE HIS MIND? NO. - Numbers 23:19 (NIV)
God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?
DOES GOD CHANGE HIS MIND? NO. - 1 Samuel 15:29 (KJV)
And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent.
DOES GOD CHANGE HIS MIND? NO. - James 1:17 (KJV)
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
DOES GOD CHANGE HIS MIND? YES. - Genesis 6:6 (KJV)
And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
DOES GOD CHANGE HIS MIND? YES. - Exodus 32:14 (NIV)
Then the LORD relented and did not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened.
DOES GOD CHANGE HIS MIND? YES. - Numbers 14:20 (KJV)
And the LORD said, "I have pardoned according to thy word."
DOES GOD CHANGE HIS MIND? YES. - 1 Samuel 15:35 (KJV)
And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.
DOES GOD CHANGE HIS MIND? YES. - 2 Samuel 24:16 (KJV)
And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil
DOES GOD CHANGE HIS MIND? YES. - Jonah 3:10
And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.
HAS ANYONE SEEN GOD? YES. - Genesis 32:29-30
Jacob said, "Please tell me your name." But he replied, "Why do you ask my name?" Then he blessed him there. So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, "It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared."
HAS ANYONE SEEN GOD? NO. - Isaiah 45:15 (NIV)
"Truly you are a God who hides himself, O God and Savior of Israel."
HAS ANYONE SEEN GOD? NO. - John 1:18 (NIV)
No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only, who is at the Father's side, has made him known.
HAS ANYONE SEEN GOD? NO. - 1 John 4:12 (NIV)
No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
WILL ANYONE SEE GOD? YES. - Psalm 11:7 (NIV)
For the LORD is righteous, he loves justice; upright men will see his face.

GOD CREATED ALL GOOD - Genesis 1:31
And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.
GOD CREATED EVIL - Isaiah 45:7 (KJV) [pick a translation]
"I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things."
GOD CREATED DISASTER - Isaiah 45:7 (NIV) [pick a translation]
"I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the LORD, do all these things."
GOD BRINGS EVIL - Joshua 23:15 (KJV)
Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things are come upon you, which the LORD your God promised you; so shall the LORD bring upon you all evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.
GOD BRINGS EVIL - Micah 1:12 (KJV)
For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.
GOD BRINGS EVIL - Micah 2:3 (KJV)
Therefore thus saith the LORD; "Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil."
GOD BRINGS EVIL - 2 Samuel 12:11 (KJV)
Thus saith the LORD, "Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun."
GOD BRINGS EVIL - 1 Kings 9:9 (KJV)
And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil.
GOD BRINGS EVIL - 1 Kings 14:10 (KJV)
"Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone."
GOD BRINGS EVIL - 2 Kings 6:33 (KJV)
And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him: and he said, "Behold, this evil is of the LORD; what should I wait for the LORD any longer?"
GOD BRINGS EVIL - 2 Kings 21:12 (KJV)
Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such EVIL upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.
GOD BRINGS EVIL - Nehemiah 13:18 (KJV)
Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city?
GOD BRINGS EVIL - Jeremiah 6:19 (KJV)
"Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it."
GOD BRINGS EVIL - Jeremiah 35:17 (KJV)
Therefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel; "Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them: because I have spoken unto them, but they have not heard; and I have called unto them, but they have not answered."
GOD BRINGS EVIL - Jeremiah 44:2 (KJV)
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; "Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwelleth therein,"
GOD BRINGS EVIL - Jeremiah 45:5 (KJV)
"And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh," saith the LORD: "but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest."
GOD BRINGS EVIL - Jeremiah 49:37 (KJV)
"For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger," saith the LORD; "and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:"
GOD CREATED EVIL - Amos 3:6 (KJV)
Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?
GOD, EVIL, AND GOOD - Lamentations 3:38 (KJV)
Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
GOD HATES WORKERS OF INIQUITY - Psalm 5:5 (KJV)
The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
GOD HATES - Malachi 1:2,3
saith the LORD: "yet I loved Jacob, and I hated Esau."
GOD CREATED WICKED PEOPLE - Proverbs 16:4 (NAB)
"The Lord has made everything for his own ends, even the wicked for the evil day."
GOD HEALS - Exodus 15:26 (KJV)
"... for I am the LORD that healeth thee."
GOD WRESTLES - Genesis 32:24 (KJV)
And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
[NOTE: Later in the story, the 'man' turns out to be God.]
GOD AND TRUTH - Proverbs 30:5-6
"Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee and thou be found a liar."
GOD AND TRUTH - Psalm 19:7
The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
GOD AND TRUTH - Psalm 19:8
The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.
GOD AND TEMPTATION - James 1:13
When tempted, no one should say, "God is tempting me." For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone;
IS GOD ALL-POWERFUL? - 1 John 5:19 (NIV)
We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.
[NOTE: So, Satan's really controlling the world?]
GOD AND LIBERTY - 2 Corinthians 3:17 (KJV)
Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

ABORTION, KILLING PREGNANT WOMEN AND BABIES

[NOTE: The Bible defines being alive as breathing (see Genesis 2:7, below). Since fetuses don't breathe, they are not defined as alive.]
GOD ON WHEN LIFE BEGINS - Genesis 2:7 (KJV)
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
GOD ON ABORTION [VALUE OF CHILDREN] - Leviticus 27:6
If it is a person between one month and five years, set the value of a male at five shekels of silver and that of a female at three shekels of silver.
[NOTE: Babies have just monetary value, not moral value, and no value is placed on fetuses or babies less than one month old.]
GOD ON ABORTION - Numbers 5:21 (NIV)
here the priest is to put the woman under this curse of the oath - "may the LORD cause your people to curse and denounce you when he causes your thigh to waste away and your abdomen to swell (causes you to have a miscarrying womb and barrenness)."
GOD ON ABORTION [MISCARRIAGE] - Exodus 21:22,23 (NIV)
"If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely [has a miscarriage] but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman's husband demands and the court allows. But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life."
GOD ON ABORTION [MISCARRIAGE] - Hosea 9:14
Give them, O LORD — what will you give them? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that are dry.

GOD ON ABORTION AND KILLING BABIES - Hosea 13:16
... because they have rebelled against their God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to the ground, their pregnant women ripped open.
KILLING PREGNANT WOMEN - 2 Kings 15:16
At that time Menahem, starting out from Tirzah, attacked Tiphsah and everyone in the city and its vicinity, because they refused to open their gates. He sacked Tiphsah and ripped open all the pregnant women.
MOSES ON KILLING WOMEN WHO COULD BE PREGNANT - Numbers 31:17
"And kill every woman who has slept with a man."
GOD ON KILLING BABIES - Psalm 137:8-9
O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.

GOD STEALS, ORDERS GENOCIDE, AND PUNISHES

GOD STEALS - Genesis 15:18-21
On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram and said, "To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates — the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites."
GOD STEALS AND ORDERS GENOCIDE - Deuteronomy 7:1-2
When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations — the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you — and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy.
GOD ORDERS GENOCIDE - Deuteronomy 20:10-18
When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace. If they accept and open their gates, all the people in it shall be subject to forced labor and shall work for you. If they refuse to make peace and they engage you in battle, lay siege to that city. When the LORD your God delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it. As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the LORD your God gives you from your enemies. This is how you are to treat all the cities that are at a distance from you and do not belong to the nations nearby. However, in the cities of the nations the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. Completely destroy them - the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites - as the LORD your God has commanded you. Otherwise, they will teach you to follow all the detestable things they do in worshiping their gods, and you will sin against the LORD your God.
GOD ORDERS GENOCIDE - Numbers 21:3
The LORD listened to Israel's plea and gave the Canaanites over to them. They completely destroyed them and their towns; so the place was named Hormah.
GOD ORDERS GENOCIDE - Numbers 21:31-35
So Israel settled in the land of the Amorites. After Moses had sent spies to Jazer, the Israelites captured its surrounding settlements and drove out the Amorites who were there. Then they turned and went up along the road toward Bashan, and Og king of Bashan and his whole army marched out to meet them in battle at Edrei. The LORD said to Moses, "Do not be afraid of him, for I have handed him over to you, with his whole army and his land. Do to him what you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon." So they struck him down, together with his sons and his whole army, leaving them no survivors. And they took possession of his land.
GOD ORDERS GENOCIDE - Joshua 11:12-15
Joshua took all these royal cities and their kings and put them to the sword. He totally destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded. Yet Israel did not burn any of the cities built on their mounds—except Hazor, which Joshua burned. The Israelites carried off for themselves all the plunder and livestock of these cities, but all the people they put to the sword until they completely destroyed them, not sparing anyone that breathed. As the LORD commanded his servant Moses, so Moses commanded Joshua, and Joshua did it; he left nothing undone of all that the LORD commanded Moses.
GOD ORDERS GENOCIDE - Joshua 11:20
For it was the LORD himself who hardened their hearts to wage war against Israel, so that [Joshua] might destroy them totally, exterminating them without mercy, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
GOD ORDERS GENOCIDE - Jeremiah 50:21 (NIV)
"Attack the land of Merathaim and those who live in Pekod. Pursue, kill and completely destroy them," declares the LORD. "Do everything I have commanded you."
GOD ORDERS GENOCIDE - 1 Samuel 15:1-3
Samuel said to Saul, "I am the one the LORD sent to anoint you king over his people Israel; so listen now to the message from the LORD. This is what the LORD Almighty says: 'I will punish the Amalekites for what they did to Israel when they waylaid them as they came up from Egypt. Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy everything that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.'"
SAUL DISOBEYS GOD'S ORDER - 1 Samuel 15:9
But Saul and the army spared [king] Agag and the best of the sheep and cattle, the fat calves and lambs—everything that was good. These they were unwilling to destroy completely, but everything that was despised and weak they totally destroyed.
GOD IS GRIEVED - 1 Samuel 15:10
Then the word of the LORD came to Samuel: "I am grieved that I have made Saul king, because he has turned away from me and has not carried out my instructions."
GOD PUNISHES HIS OWN PEOPLE - Lamentations 4:6,11
The punishment of my people is greater than that of Sodom, which was overthrown in a moment without a hand turned to help her. ... The LORD has given full vent to his wrath; he has poured out his fierce anger. He kindled a fire in Zion that consumed her foundations.
GOD EXPLAINS THE SIN OF SODOM – Ezekiel 16:49-50 (NIV)
"Now this was the sin of your sister [city] Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen."

GOD KILLS

GOD KILLS ALMOST EVERYBODY AND EVERYTHING - Genesis 7:20-23
The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than twenty feet. Every living thing that moved on the earth perished — birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind. Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; men and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds of the air were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.
[NOTE: Noah's flood story was derived from older Akkadian and Sumerian flood myths.]
GOD KILLS FOR COITUS INTERRUPTUS - Genesis 38:9,10 (NIV)
But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so whenever he lay with his brother's wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to keep from producing offspring for his brother. What he did was wicked in the LORD's sight; so He put him to death also.
GOD KILLS FOR UNAUTHORIZED FIRE - Leviticus 10:1,2 (NIV)
Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu took their censers, put fire in them and added incense; and they offered unauthorized fire before the LORD, contrary to his command. So fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed them, and they died before the LORD.
GOD KILLS BABIES AND MORE - Exodus 12:29-30
At midnight the LORD struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner, who was in the dungeon, and the firstborn of all the livestock as well. Pharaoh and all his officials and all the Egyptians got up during the night, and there was loud wailing in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone dead.
[NOTE: There must have been no childless couples, neither of them firstborn, and living alone. Also, there are no historical records that the Egyptians ever had Jews as slaves, or even that the Jews lived in Egypt.]
GOD KILLS BY PREDESTINATION - Jeremiah 15:2 (NLT)
"And if they say to you, ‘But where can we go?’ tell them, ‘This is what the Lord says: Those who are destined for death, to death; those who are destined for war, to war; those who are destined for famine, to famine; those who are destined for captivity, to captivity.’"
GOD KILLS - Jeremiah 10:10 (KJV)
And the LORD discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goeth up to Bethhoron, and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah.
GOD KILLS BY PROXY - 1 Kings 15:28-30
Baasha killed Nadab in the third year of Asa king of Judah and succeeded him as king. As soon as he began to reign, he killed Jeroboam's whole family. He did not leave Jeroboam anyone that breathed, but destroyed them all, according to the word of the LORD given through his servant Ahijah the Shilonite - because of the sins Jeroboam had committed and had caused Israel to commit, and because he provoked the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger.
GOD KILLS BY PROXY - 1 Kings 20:35-36
By the word of the LORD one of the sons of the prophets said to his companion, "Strike me with your weapon," but the man refused. So the prophet said, "Because you have not obeyed the LORD, as soon as you leave me a lion will kill you." And after the man went away, a lion found him and killed him.
GOD KILLS BY PROXY - 2 Kings 19:35 (NIV)
That night the angel of the LORD went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies!
GOD KILLS FOR CURIOUSITY - 1 Samuel 6:19 (NIV)
But God struck down some of the men of Beth Shemesh, putting seventy of them to death because they had looked into the ark of the LORD.
GOD KILLS FOR TOUCHING THE ARK - 2 Samuel 6:6-7
Uzzah reached out and took hold of the ark of God, because the oxen stumbled. The LORD's anger burned against Uzzah because of his irreverent act; therefore God struck him down and he died there beside the ark of God.
GOD KILLS BY PROXY - 1 Kings 20:36 (NIV)
So the prophet said, "Because you have not obeyed the LORD, as soon as you leave me a lion will kill you." And after the man went away, a lion found him and killed him.
GOD KILLS - Jeremiah 25:34-38 (NLT)
Weep and moan, you evil shepherds! Roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock! The time of your slaughter has arrived; you will fall and shatter like fragile pottery. You will find no place to hide; there will be no way to escape. Listen to the frantic cries of the shepherds, to the leaders of the flock shouting in despair, for the LORD is spoiling their pastures. Peaceful meadows will be turned into a wasteland by the LORD's fierce anger. He has left his den like a lion seeking its prey, and their land will be made desolate by the sword of the enemy and the LORD's fierce anger.
GOD KILLS FOR COMPLAINING - Numbers 11:1
Now when the people complained, it displeased the Lord; for the Lord heard it, and His anger was aroused. So the fire of the Lord burned among them, and consumed some in the outskirts of the camp.
GOD KILLS FOR CHALLENGING MOSES AND FOR OFFERING INCENSE - Numbers 16:32-35
And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods. They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation. And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also. And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
GOD KILLS FOR HAVING TAKEN A CENSUS - 1 Chronicles 21:1,14 (NIV)
Satan rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census of Israel. ... So the LORD sent a plague on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell dead.
GOD KILLS INDESCRIMINATELY - Job 9:22
"He destroys both the blameless and the wicked."
GOD KILLS FOR PROPHECY - Ezekiel 14:9
"And if the prophet is enticed to utter a prophecy, I the LORD have enticed that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him and destroy him from among my people Israel."
GOD KILLS BY PROXY - A WHOLE FAMILY FOR THEFT - Joshua 7:24,25
Then Joshua, together with all Israel, took Achan son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the gold wedge, his sons and daughters, his cattle, donkeys and sheep, his tent and all that he had, to the Valley of Achor. ... Then all Israel stoned him, and after they had stoned the rest [of his family], they burned them.
GOD KILLS BY PROXY - Acts 12:23
And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the Glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
GOD KILLS BY PROXY - Revelation 9:15
And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind.
GOD KILLS BY PROXY - Revelation 9:18
A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulfur that came out of their mouths.

GOD WILL KILL

GOD WILL KILL AS PUNISHMENT - Genesis 2:17 (KJV)
"But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."
GOD WILL KILL AS PUNISHMENT - Exodus 22:22-24
"Do not take advantage of a widow or an orphan. If you do and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear their cry. My anger will be aroused, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives will become widows and your children fatherless."
GOD WILL KILL AS PUNISHMENT - Job 4:8-9
As I have observed, those who plow evil and those who sow trouble reap it. At the breath of God they are destroyed; at the blast of his anger they perish.
GOD PROMISES TO KILL - Ezekiel 35:7-9 (NLT)
"I will make Mount Seir utterly desolate, killing off all who try to escape and any who return. I will fill your mountains with the dead. Your hills, your valleys, and your ravines will be filled with people slaughtered by the sword. I will make you desolate forever. Your cities will never be rebuilt. Then you will know that I am the Lord."
GOD WILL KILL - Jeremiah 25:33 (NLT)
In that day those the LORD has slaughtered will fill the earth from one end to the other. No one will mourn for them or gather up their bodies to bury them. They will be scattered like dung on the ground.
GOD WILL KILL - Zephaniah 1:2-3
"I will sweep away everything from the face of the earth," declares the LORD. "I will sweep away both men and animals; I will sweep away the birds of the air and the fish of the sea. The wicked will have only heaps of rubble when I cut off man from the face of the earth," declares the LORD.
GOD WILL KILL FOR ARROGANCE AND PRIDE - Isaiah 13:11-12
"I will punish the world for its evil, the wicked for their sins. I will put an end to the arrogance of the haughty and will humble the pride of the ruthless. I will make man scarcer than pure gold, more rare than the gold of Ophir."
GOD WILL KILL KINGS AND RULERS - Psalm 110:5-6
The Lord is at your right hand; he will crush kings on the day of his wrath. He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead and crushing the rulers of the whole earth.
GOD WILL KILL A CITY - Revelation 18:21 (KJV)
And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, "Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all."

BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTIES

BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL THOSE WHO BLASPHEME - Leviticus 24:16
"anyone who blasphemes the name of the LORD must be put to death. The entire assembly must stone him. Whether an alien or native-born, when he blasphemes the Name, he must be put to death."
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL THOSE WHO WORK ON THE SABBATH - Exodus 31:14-15 (NLT)
"Observe the Sabbath, because it is holy to you. Anyone who desecrates it must be put to death; whoever does any work on that day must be cut off from his people. For six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day must be put to death."
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL THOSE WHO WORK ON THE SABBATH - Exodus 35:2-3 (NLT)
"For six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day shall be your holy day, a Sabbath of rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on it must be put to death. Do not light a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day."
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL THOSE WHO GET NEAR THE TABERNACLE - Numbers 1:51 (NIV)
Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites are to take it down, and whenever the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall do it. Anyone else who goes near it shall be put to death.
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL THOSE WHO WORK ON THE SABBATH - Numbers 15:32-36 (NAB)
While the Israelites were in the desert, a man was discovered gathering wood on the Sabbath day. Those who caught him at it brought him to Moses and Aaron and the whole assembly. But they kept him in custody, for there was no clear decision as to what should be done with him. Then the Lord said to Moses, "This man shall be put to death; let the whole community stone him outside the camp." So the whole community led him outside the camp and stoned him to death as the Lord had commanded Moses.
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL A STUBBORN AND REBELLIOUS SON - Deuteronomy 21:18-21
If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him, his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of the town. They shall say to the elders, 'This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a profligate and a drunkard.' Then all the men of his town shall stone him to death...
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL ANYONE WHO CURSES HIS PARENTS - Leviticus 20:9
For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother. His blood shall be upon him.
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL ADULTERERS - Leviticus 20:10
If a man commits adultery with another man's wife — with the wife of his neighbor — both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL SOME ADULTERERS - Leviticus 20:11
If a man sleeps with his father's wife, he has dishonored his father. Both the man and the woman must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL SOME ADULTERERS - Leviticus 20:12
If a man sleeps with his daughter-in-law, both of them must be put to death. What they have done is a perversion; their blood will be on their own heads.
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL NONVIRGIN BRIDES - Deuteronomy 22:20-21
If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the girl's virginity can be found, she shall be brought to the door of her father's house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father's house. You must purge the evil from among you.
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL ADULTERERS - Deuteronomy 22:22
If a man is found sleeping with another man's wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL SOME ADULTERERS - Deuteronomy 22:23-24
If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of the city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL MALE HOMOSEXUALS - Leviticus 20:13
If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL SOME POLYGAMISTS - Leviticus 20:14
If a man marries both a woman and her mother, it is wicked. Both he and they must be burned in the fire, so that no wickedness will be among you.
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL FOR BEASTIALITY - Leviticus 20:15
If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he must be put to death, and you must kill the animal.
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL FOR BEASTIALITY - Leviticus 20:16
If a woman approaches an animal to have sexual relations with it, kill both the woman and the animal. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL FOR PROMISCUITY - Leviticus 21:9
If a priest's daughter defiles herself by promiscuity, she defiles her father; she must be burned up.
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL MURDERERS - Exodus 21:12-13 (NIV)
"Whoever strikes a man so that he dies shall be put to death. However, if he does not do it intentionally, but God lets it happen, he is to flee to a place I will designate."
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL MURDERERS - Exodus 21:14 (NIV)
"But if a man schemes and kills another man deliberately, take him away from my altar and put him to death."
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL ANYONE WHO ATTACKS HIS PARENTS - Exodus 21:15
"Anyone who attacks his father or his mother must be put to death."
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL KIDNAPPERS - Exodus 21:16 (NIV)
"Anyone who kidnaps another and either sells him or still has him when he is caught must be put to death."
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL ANYONE WHO CURSES HIS PARENTS - Exodus 21:17
"Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death."
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL FAMILY OR FRIEND - Deuteronomy 13:6-9 (NIV)
If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, "Let us go and worship other gods" (gods that neither you nor your fathers have known, gods of the peoples around you, whether near or far, from one end of the land to the other), do not yield to him or listen to him. Show him no pity. Do not spare him or shield him. You must certainly put him to death.
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL WITCHES - Exodus 22:18 (KJV)
Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
[NOTE: This single verse has been used as the excuse to kill thousands or millions of people.]
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL ANYONE WHO HAS SEX WITH ANIMALS - Exodus 22:19
"Anyone who has sexual relations with an animal must be put to death."
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL WORSHIPPERS OF OTHER GODS - Exodus 22:20
Whoever sacrifices to any god other than the LORD must be destroyed.
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL WORSHIPPERS OF OTHER GODS - Exodus 32:27-29
Then [Moses] said to [the Levites], "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'Each man strap a sword to his side. Go back and forth through the camp from one end to the other, each killing his brother and friend and neighbor.' "The Levites did as Moses commanded, and that day about three thousand of the people died. Then Moses said, "You have been set apart to the LORD today, for you were against your own sons and brothers, and he has blessed you this day."
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL AN ENTIRE TOWN - Deuteronomy 13:12-15 (NIV)
If you hear it said about one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you to live in that wicked men have arisen among you and have led the people of their town astray, saying, "Let us go and worship other gods" (gods you have not known), then you must inquire, probe and investigate it thoroughly. And if it is true and it has been proved that this detestable thing has been done among you, you must certainly put to the sword all who live in that town. Destroy it completely, both its people and its livestock.
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL WORSHIPPERS OF OTHER GODS - Deuteronomy 14:6-10
“If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is of thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him: But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. Thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the Lord thy God.
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL WORSHIPPERS OF OTHER GODS - Deuteronomy 17:2-5 (NIV)
If a man or woman living among you in one of the towns the LORD gives you is found doing evil in the eyes of the LORD your God in violation of his covenant, and contrary to my command has worshiped other gods, bowing down to them or to the sun or the moon or the stars of the sky, and this has been brought to your attention, then you must investigate it thoroughly. If it is true and it has been proved that this detestable thing has been done in Israel, take the man or woman who has done this evil deed to your city gate and stone that person to death.
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL FOR CONTEMPT - Deuteronomy 17:12 (NIV)
The man who shows contempt for the judge or for the priest who stands ministering there to the LORD your God must be put to death. You must purge the evil from Israel.

BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL THOSE WHO EAT BLOOD - Leviticus 7:27
If anyone eats blood, that person must be executed.
[Kinda' makes one wonder about communion and transubstantiation.]
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL BLASPHEMERS - Leviticus 24:16
"Anyone who blasphemes the name of the LORD must be put to death. The entire assembly must stone him. Whether an alien or native-born, when he blasphemes the Name, he must be put to death."
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL MEDIUMS OR SPIRITISTS - Leviticus 20:27
"A man or woman who is a medium or spiritist among you must be put to death. You are to stone them; their blood will be on their own heads."
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL FALSE PROPHETS - Deuteronomy 13:5 (NIV)
The false prophets or dreamers who try to lead you astray must be put to death.
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL FALSE PROPHETS - Deuteronomy 18:20 (NIV)
"But any prophet who claims to give a message from another god or who falsely claims to speak for me must die."
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL FALSE PROPHETS - Zechariah 13:2,3 (NIV)
"I will remove both the prophets and the spirit of impurity from the land. And if anyone still prophesies, his father and mother, to whom he was born, will say to him, 'You must die, because you have told lies in the LORD's name.' When he prophesies, his own parents will stab him."
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL KILL A MAN AND HIS FAMILY FOR HAVING THE ACCURSED THING - Joshua 7:15
He that is taken with the accursed thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath.
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL SONS FOR THE SINS OF THEIR FOREFATHERS - Isaiah 14:21
Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the sins of their forefathers; they are not to rise to inherit the land and cover the earth with their cities.
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL UNBELIEVERS - Acts 3:23
"And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear the prophet, shall be destroyed."
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL UNBELIEVERS - 2 Chronicles 15:13 (NIV)
All who would not seek the LORD, the God of Israel, were to be put to death, whether small or great, man or woman.
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL THOSE DEVOTED TO DESTRUCTION - Leviticus 27:29
No person devoted to destruction may be ransomed; he must be put to death.
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL THOSE WITHOUT THE MARK - Ezekiel 9:5-7 (NLT)
"Then I heard the LORD say to the other men, "Follow him through the city and kill everyone whose forehead is not marked. Show no mercy; have no pity! Kill them all – old and young, girls and women and little children. But do not touch anyone with the mark.
Begin your task right here at the Temple." So they began by killing the seventy leaders. "Defile the Temple!" the LORD commanded. "Fill its courtyards with the bodies of those you kill! Go!" So they went throughout the city and did as they were told."
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL FOR GOD - Jeremiah 48:10 (NIV)
"Cursed be he who does the Lord's work remissly, cursed he who holds back his sword from blood."
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL FOR WICKEDNESS, ETC. - Romans 1:29-32 (NIV)
"They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them."
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL KIDNAPPERS - Deuteronomy 24:7 (NIV)
If a man is caught kidnapping one of his brother Israelites and treats him as a slave or sells him, the kidnapper must die. You must purge the evil from among you.
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL MURDERERS - Leviticus 24:17
"If anyone takes the life of a human being, he must be put to death."
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL MURDERERS - Leviticus 24:21
"He who kills a beast shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death."
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL MURDERERS - Numbers 35:16-18
"But if he struck him down with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall be put to death. And if he struck him down with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall be put to death. Or if he struck him down with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall be put to death."
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL MURDERERS - Numbers 35:20-21
"And if he stabbed him from hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died, or in enmity struck him down with his hand so that he died, then he who struck the blow shall be put to death; he is a murderer; the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meets him."
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL ANYONE WHO CURSES HIS PARENTS - Matthew 15:4 (Jesus reaffirms Moses, who spoke for God)
"For God said, 'Honor your father and mother' and 'Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.'"
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL ANYONE WHO CURSES HIS PARENTS - Mark 7:10 (Jesus reaffirms Moses)
"For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.'"
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL THOSE WHO DON'T FOLLOW JESUS - John 15:6 (KJV)
"If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned."
[NOTE: This single verse has been used as the excuse to burn alive thousands or millions of people.]
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL HOMOSEXUALS AND OTHERS - Romans 1:29-32 (KJV)
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL CHILDREN OF ADULTEROUS WOMEN - Revelation 2:22-23
"So I will cast her on a bed of suffering, and I will make those who commit adultery with her suffer intensely, unless they repent of her ways. I will strike her children dead. Then all the churches will know that I am he who searches hearts and minds, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds."
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: KILL KILLERS - Revelation 13:10
he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword.
BIBLICAL EXECUTIONER - Deuteronomy 17:6,7
On the testimony of two or three witnesses a man shall be put to death, but no one shall be put to death on the testimony of only one witness. The hands of the witnesses must be the first in putting him to death, and then the hands of all the people.

PUNISHMENT

PUNISHMENT FOR WOUNDING SOMEONE - Genesis 9:6
Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for in the image of God has God made man.
GUILT (OR NOT) FOR MANSLAUGHTER - Exodus 22:2-3 [What about the verses above?]
If a thief is caught breaking in and is struck so that he dies, the defender is not guilty of bloodshed; but if it happens after sunrise, he is guilty of bloodshed.
PUNISHMENT FOR TOUCHING A MAN'S PRIVATE PARTS - Deuteronomy 25:11-12 (NIV)
If two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes to rescue her husband from his assailant, and she reaches out and seizes him by his private parts, you shall cut off her hand. Show her no pity.
GOD PUNISHES WITHOUT REASON - Job 2:3 (NIV)
Then the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil. And he still maintains his integrity, though you incited me against him to ruin him without any reason."
GOD ON PUNISHMENT OF HAUGHTY WOMEN - Isaiah 3:16-17
Moreover the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet: Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will lay bare their secret parts.
PUNISHMENT OF THOSE WHO DO NOT KNOW GOD - 2 Thessalonians 1:6-9
God deems it just to repay with affliction those who afflict you…when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance upon those who do not know God and upon those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They shall suffer the punishment of eternal destruction.
GOD ACTUALLY WANTS US TO LIVE - Ezekiel 18:32 (NIV)
"For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign LORD. Repent and live."

GOD'S ANGER

[NOTE: How can an omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent being be angry?]
GOD'S ANGER - Exodus 22:24
[God:] "My anger will be aroused, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives will become widows and your children fatherless."
GOD'S ANGER (BEHEADING) - Numbers 25:3-4
And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel. And the LORD said unto Moses, "Take all the heads of the people and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel."
GOD'S ANGER - Numbers 16:32-35
And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods. They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation. And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also. And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
GOD'S ANGER - Jeremiah 25:15-16 (NLT)
Then the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me, "Take from my hand this cup filled to the brim with my anger, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink from it. When they drink from it, they will stagger, crazed by the warfare I will send against them."
GOD'S ANGER - Isaiah 9:18
At the wrath of the Lord of hosts the land quakes, and the people are like fuel for fire; No man spares his brother, each devours the flesh of his neighbor.
GOD'S ANGER - 1 Kings 15:29-30
As soon as [Baasha] began to reign, he killed Jeroboam's whole family. He did not leave Jeroboam anyone that breathed, but destroyed them all, according to the word of the LORD given through his servant Ahijah the Shilonite - because of the sins Jeroboam had committed and had caused Israel to commit, and because he provoked the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger.
GOD'S ANGER - Job 4:9
At the breath of God they are destroyed; at the blast of his anger they perish.
GOD'S ANGER - Zephaniah 1:18 (NIV)
Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to save them on the day of the LORD's wrath. In the fire of his jealousy the whole world will be consumed, for he will make a sudden end of all who live in the earth.
GOD'S ANGER - 2 Peter 3:10 (NIV)
But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare.

INDEPENDENT THOUGHT, ART

GOD ON INDEPENDENT THOUGHT - Deuteronomy 29:19-20
If anyone should think to himself, "I will do well enough if I follow the dictates of my heart," Yahweh will not pardon him. His wrath shall burn against him. And all the curses written in the book will come upon him.
GOD ON INDEPENDENT THOUGHT - Proverbs 3:5
Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;
GOD ON SIN - Numbers 15:30 (NIV)
"But anyone who sins defiantly, whether native-born or alien, blasphemes the LORD, and that person must be cut off from his people."
GOD ON ART - Exodus 20:4 (KJV) [part of one of the three sets of 10 Commandments]
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
GOD ON ART - Deuteronomy 5:8 (KJV) [part of one of the three sets of 10 Commandments]
Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth.
PAUL ON AGREEMENT - 1 Corinthians 1:10
"I appeal to you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another so that there may be no divisions among you and that you may be perfectly united in mind and thought."
PAUL ON BEING WISE - 1 Corinthians 1:26 (NIV)
"Brothers, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth."
PAUL ON INDEPENDENT THOUGHT - 2 Corinthians 10:5
"We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ."

CLOTHING, HAIRCUTS, TATOOS, DANCING

GOD ON FARMING, SEEDS, AND CLOTHING - Leviticus 19:19 (KJV)
"Ye shall keep my statutes. ..., neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee."
HAIRCUTS - Leviticus 19:27
Do not cut the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.
TATOOS - Leviticus 19:28
"Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD."
GOD ON CLOTHING - Deuteronomy 22:5 (KJV) [Women can't wear pants. Men can't wear dresses.]
The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
GOD ON CLOTHING - Deuteronomy 22:11-12
Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together. Make tassels on the four corners of the cloak you wear.
GOD ON CLOTHING - Numbers 15:38 (NIV)
"Throughout the generations to come you are to make tassels on the corners of your garments, with a blue cord on each tassel."
PRAISE GOD WITH DANCING - Psalm 150
praise him with tambourine and dancing, praise him with the strings and flute
SLAM DANCING - 2 Samuel 6:14
And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.
PAUL ON CLOTHING AND HAIRCUTS - 1 Corinthians 11:4-6 (NIV)
"Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head. And every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head — it is just as though her head were shaved. If a woman does not cover her head, she should have her hair cut off; and if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut or shaved off, she should cover her head."
PAUL ON CLOTHING - 1 Timothy 2:9
"I also want women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes, ..."

FARMING, FOOD

GOD ON FARMING, SEEDS, AND CLOTHING - Leviticus 19:19 (KJV)
"Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee."
FARMING - Deuteronomy 22:9 (NIV)
"Do not plant two kinds of seed in your vineyard; if you do, not only the crops you plant but also the fruit of the vineyard will be defiled."
[NOTE: We now know that hybrid seeds (from two kinds of seed) can be stronger.]
FARMING - Leviticus 25:3-4
"For six years sow your fields, and for six years prune your vineyards and gather their crops. But in the seventh year the land is to have a sabbath of rest, a sabbath to the LORD. Do not sow your fields or prune your vineyards."

GOD ON CHRISTMAS TREES - Jeremiah 10:2-8
Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.... They are altogether brutish and foolish.

FOOD (YOUNG GOATS) - Exodus 23:19 (NIV)
"Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk."
FOOD (YOUNG GOATS) - Exodus 34:26 (NIV) [part of one of the three sets of 10 Commandments]
"Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk."
FOOD (CARION, YOUNG GOATS) - Deuteronomy 14:21 (NIV)
"Do not eat anything you find already dead. ... Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk."
FOOD (FAT and BLOOD) - Leviticus 3:17
"This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood."
FOOD (BLOOD) - Leviticus 7:27 [What about communion?]
"If anyone eats blood, that person must be executed."
FOOD (FERMENTED DRINK) - Leviticus 10:8,9
Then the LORD said to Aaron, "You and your sons are not to drink wine or other fermented drink whenever you go into the Tent of Meeting, or you will die. This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come."
FOOD (CAMELS) - Leviticus 11:4
The camel, though it chews the cud, does not have a split hoof; it is ceremonially unclean for you.
FOOD (RABBITS & PIGS) - Leviticus 11:6-8
The rabbit, though it chews the cud, does not have a split hoof; it is unclean for you. And the pig, though it has a split hoof completely divided, does not chew the cud; it is unclean for you. You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you.
FOOD (FISH) - Leviticus 11:10 [God doesn't like whales or dolphins. No eating lobster, shrimp, clams or calamari!]
"But anything in the seas or rivers that does not have fins and scales, regard as an abomination. Do not eat their meat and regard their carcasses as an abomination."
FOOD (BIRDS) - Leviticus 11:13-20 [God doesn't like our national emblem, and bats are birds!]
Of the birds, regard the following as an abomination and do not eat them: the eagle, the osprey, the kite, the falcon, the raven, the horned owl, the nighthawk, the sea gull, hawks of all kinds, the little owl, the cormorant, the white owl, the desert owl, the carrion vulture, the stork, the heron, the hoopoe, and the bat. All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you.
FOOD (INSECTS) - Leviticus 11:21-22
There are, however, some winged insects you may eat: those that have jointed legs for hopping on the ground. You may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket or grasshopper.
FOOD (CRAWLING THINGS) - Leviticus 11:29 [No escargot.]
Of the crawling things that crawl on the earth, regard the following as unclean: the weasel, the rat, the tortoise, the ferret, the crocodile, the lizard, the snail, and the mole.
FOOD (BLOOD) - Deuteronomy 12:23
But be sure you do not eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.
FOOD (FISH) - Deuteronomy 14:9-10
These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat: And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you.
FOOD (CANNIBALISM) - Isaiah 9:18
At the wrath of the Lord of hosts the land quakes, and the people are like fuel for fire; No man spares his brother, each devours the flesh of his neighbor.
FOOD (CANNIBALISM) -Ezekiel 5:10 (NIV)
"Therefore in your midst fathers will eat their children, and children will eat their fathers. I [God] will inflict punishment on you and will scatter all your survivors to the winds."
FOOD (CANNIBALISM) - Jeremiah 19:9 (NIV)
"I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another's flesh during the stress of the siege imposed on them by the enemies who seek their lives."
FOOD (EXCREMENT) - 2 Kings 18:27 (KJV)
"Hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?"
FOOD (RITUAL CANNIBALISM AND VAMPIRISM) - John 6:53-57 (NIV)
Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him. Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me."

STRANGE ANIMALS

TALKING ANIMALS - Genesis 3:1 (NIV)
Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?"
TALKING ANIMALS - Numbers 22:30 (NIV)
The donkey said to Balaam, "Am I not your own donkey, which you have always ridden, to this day? Have I been in the habit of doing this to you?" "No," he said.
TALKING ANIMALS - 2 Peter 2:16 (NIV)
But he was rebuked for his wrongdoing by a donkey—a beast without speech—who spoke with a man's voice and restrained the prophet's madness.
STRANGE ANIMALS - Numbers 23:22 (KJV)
God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.
STRANGE ANIMALS - Job 39:9,10 (KJV)
Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
DUMB ANIMALS - Psalm 32:9 (NIV)
Do not be like the horse or the mule, which have no understanding but must be controlled by bit and bridle or they will not come to you.
[NOTE: Most people who own horses know that they can be trained, even to come on command.]

ZOMBIES IN THE BIBLE!

ZOMBIES - Zechariah 14:12,13
And the LORD will send a plague on all the nations that fought against Jerusalem. Their people will become like walking corpses, their flesh rotting away. Their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths. On that day they will be terrified, stricken by the LORD with great panic. They will fight their neighbors hand to hand.
ZOMBIES - Ezekiel 37:10
So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet–a vast army.
ZOMBIES - Revelation 11:6
These men have power to shut up the sky so that it will not rain during the time they are prophesying; and they have power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they want.
ZOMBIES - Revelation 11:8
Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city, which is figuratively called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.
ZOMBIES - Revelation 11:11
But after the three and a half days a breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and terror struck those who saw them.

GOD ON LIBERALS

GOD ON LIBERALS - Proverbs 11:25
"The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself."
GOD ON LIBERALS - Isaiah 32:5
"The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful."
GOD ON LIBERALS - Isaiah 32:8
"But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand."

JESUS ON MODERATES - Revelation 3:16 (NIV)
"So, because you are lukewarm — neither hot nor cold — I am about to spit you out of my mouth."
THE BIBLE ON COMMUNISM - Exodus 16:16-18
This is what the Lord has commanded: Gather of it, every man of you, as much as he can eat; you shall take an omer apiece, according to the number of persons who each of you has in his tent. And the people of Israel did so; they gathered some more, some less. But when they measured it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; each gathered according to what he could eat.
THE BIBLE ON COMMUNISM - Acts 4:32-35 (NIV)
All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they shared everything they had. With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and much grace was upon them all. There were no needy persons among them. For from time to time those who owned lands or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales and put it at the apostles' feet, and it was distributed to anyone as he had need.

PLEASURE

KING SOLOMON, ON PLEASURE - Ecclesiastes 2:10
"I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure."
ENJOY DRINKING AND EATING - Ecclesiastes 9:7
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.

HUMAN AND SUBSTITUTIVE SACRIFICE

GOD ON HUMAN SACRIFICE - Genesis 22:2
Then God said, "Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about."
GOD ON HUMAN SACRIFICE - Ezekiel 20:26 (NIV)
"I let them become defiled through their gifts — the sacrifice of every firstborn — that I might fill them with horror so they would know that I am the LORD."
GOD ON HUMAN SACRIFICE - Deuteronomy 18:10 (NIV) [What about Genesis 22:2, Ezekiel 20:26 and Judges 11:30-31?]
"Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft."
GOD ON HUMAN AND ANIMAL SACRIFICE - Numbers 31:28,29 (NIV)
"From the soldiers who fought in the battle, set apart as tribute for the LORD one out of every five hundred, whether persons, cattle, donkeys, sheep or goats. Take this tribute from their half share and give it to Eleazar the priest as the LORD's part."
GOD ON SUBSTITUTIVE SACRIFICE - Leviticus 1
[There are extensive instructions on how to sacrifice bulls, sheep, and birds. Each section ends with:]
It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, an aroma pleasing to the LORD.
GOD ON SUBSTITUTIVE SACRIFICE - Leviticus 5:5-10
"And it shall be, when he is guilty in any of these matters, that he shall confess that he has sinned in that thing; and he shall bring his trespass offering to the LORD for his sin which he has committed, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats as a sin offering. So the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin.
"If he is not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring to the LORD, for his trespass which he has committed, two turtledoves or two young pigeons: one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. And he shall bring them to the priest, who shall offer that which is for the sin offering first, and wring off its head from its neck, but shall not divide it completely. Then he shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar, and the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar. It is a sin offering. And he shall offer the second as a burnt offering according to the prescribed manner. So the priest shall make atonement on his behalf for his sin which he has committed, and it shall be forgiven him."
GOD ON SUBSTITUTIVE SACRIFICE - Deuteronomy 12:27
"Present your burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD your God, both the meat and the blood. The blood of your sacrifices must be poured beside the altar of the LORD your God, but you may eat the meat."
SUBSTITUTIVE SACRIFICE - Deuteronomy 21:1-4 (NIV)
If a man is found slain, lying in a field in the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who killed him, your elders and judges shall go out and measure the distance from the body to the neighboring towns. Then the elders of the town nearest the body shall take a heifer that has never been worked and has never worn a yoke and lead her down to a valley that has not been plowed or planted and where there is a flowing stream. There in the valley they are to break the heifer's neck.
SUBSTITUTIVE SACRIFICE - Numbers 15:3 (NIV) [God likes BBQ!]
" ... and you present to the LORD offerings made by fire, from the herd or the flock, as an aroma pleasing to the LORD - whether burnt offerings or sacrifices, for special vows or freewill offerings or festival offerings"
SUBSTITUTIVE SACRIFICE - Numbers 15:3 (NIV) [God likes wine with mutton!]
"With each lamb for the burnt offering or the sacrifice, prepare a quarter of a hin of wine as a drink offering."
PHAROAH AND SACRIFICES - Exodus 5:17
Pharaoh said, "Lazy, that's what you are - lazy! That is why you keep saying, 'Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD."
KING DAVID AND HUMAN SACRIFICE - 2 Samuel 21:8,9
But the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons of Aiah's daughter Rizpah, whom she had borne to Saul, together with the five sons of Saul's daughter Merab, whom she had borne to Adriel son of Barzillai the Meholathite. He handed them over to the Gibeonites, who killed and exposed them on a hill before the LORD. All seven of them fell together; they were put to death during the first days of the harvest, just as the barley harvest was beginning.
GOD AND HUMAN SACRIFICE - Hebrews 10:10
And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

BODY FUNCTIONS

CHILDBIRTH - Genesis 3:16 (NIV)
To the woman [God] said, "I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children."
MENSTRUATION - Leviticus 15:19-30 (NIV)
When a woman has her regular flow of blood, the impurity of her monthly period will last seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean till evening. Anything she lies on during her period will be unclean, and anything she sits on will be unclean. Whoever touches her bed must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean till evening. Whoever touches anything she sits on must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean till evening. Whether it is the bed or anything she was sitting on, when anyone touches it, he will be unclean till evening. If a man lies with her and her monthly flow touches him, he will be unclean for seven days; any bed he lies on will be unclean. When a woman has a discharge of blood for many days at a time other than her monthly period or has a discharge that continues beyond her period, she will be unclean as long as she has the discharge, just as in the days of her period. Any bed she lies on while her discharge continues will be unclean, as is her bed during her monthly period, and anything she sits on will be unclean, as during her period. Whoever touches them will be unclean; he must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean till evening. When she is cleansed from her discharge, she must count off seven days, and after that she will be ceremonially clean. On the eighth day she must take two doves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. The priest is to sacrifice one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. In this way he will make atonement for her before the LORD for the uncleanness of her discharge.
MENSTRUATION - Leviticus 20:18
If a man lies with a woman during her sickness and uncovers her nakedness, he has discovered her flow, and she has uncovered the flow of her blood. Both of them shall be cut off from her people.
HEMORRHOIDS - Deuteronomy 28:27 (KJV)
The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods [hemorrhoids], and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.
HEMORRHOIDS - 1 Samuel 5:9 (KJV)
...the hand of the LORD was against the city with a very great destruction: and he smote the men of the city, both small and great, and they had emerods in their secret parts.
HEMORRHOIDS - 1 Samuel 5:12 (KJV)
And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods: and the cry of the city went up to heaven.
HEMORRHOIDS - 1 Samuel 6:4 (KJV)
Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines: for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.
HEMORRHOIDS - 1 Samuel 6:5 (KJV)
Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto sthe God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.
HEMORRHOIDS - 1 Samuel 6:11 (KJV)
And they laid the ark of the LORD upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.
HEMORRHOIDS - 1 Samuel 6:17 (KJV)
And these are the golden emerods which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering unto the LORD; for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Askelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;
BOWEL SOUNDS - Isaiah 16:11 (KJV)
Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kirharesh.
PRIVATE BODY PART REMOVAL - 1 Kings 14:10 (KJV)
Therefore, behold, [God] will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall,
ONE YEAR GESTATION - 2 Kings 4:17
But the woman became pregnant, and the next year about that same time she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.

GOD AND JESUS ON DISEASES

GOD WILL PREVENT DISEASES - Exodus 15:26
[God] said, "If you listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God and do what is right in his eyes, if you pay attention to his commands and keep all his decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the LORD, who heals you."
GOD HEALS ALL DISEASES - Psalm 103:2-3
Praise the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits - who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases,
DEMONS CAUSE DISEASE, OIL CAN CURE DISEASE - Mark 6:13
[The disciples] drove out many demons and anointed many sick people with oil and healed them.

GOD LIES, KILLS, GIVES BAD LAWS

GOD LIES AND KILLS - Ezekiel 14:9
"And if the prophet is enticed to utter a prophecy, I the LORD have enticed that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him and destroy him from among my people Israel."
GOD GIVES BAD LAWS - Ezekiel 20:25
"I also gave them over to statutes that were not good and laws they could not live by."
GOD ALLOWS THEFT OF SMALL AMOUNTS OF FOOD - Deuteronomy 23:24-25 (NIV)
If you enter your neighbor's vineyard, you may eat all the grapes you want, but do not put any in your basket. If you enter your neighbor's grainfield, you may pick kernels with your hands, but you must not put a sickle to his standing grain.
GOD MISLEADS - Proverbs 14:12 (NIV)
There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.
GOD MISLEADS - 1 Kings 22:23, 2 Chronicles 18:22 (NIV)
"So now the LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouths of all these prophets of yours. The LORD has decreed disaster for you."
GOD LIES - 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12
For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.
GOD MISLEADS - 1 Timothy 2:14 (NIV)
And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner.
GOD LIES - Deuteronomy 6:5
Love the LORD your God ...
GOD LIES - Deuteronomy 6:13
Fear the LORD your God ...
GOD LIES - 1 John 4:18
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear ...

GOD'S IMPOTENCE

GOD'S IMPOTENCE - Judges 1:19
The LORD was with the men of Judah. They took possession of the hill country, but they were unable to drive the people from the plains, because they had iron chariots. [Superman had kryptonite. God had ... iron?]
GOD'S IMPOTENCE - Exodus 4:24-26 (NIV)
At a lodging place on the way, the LORD met Moses and was about to kill him. But Zipporah [Moses' wife] took a flint knife, cut off her son's foreskin and touched Moses' feet with it. "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me," she said. So the LORD let him alone. [Superman had kryptonite. God had ... a foreskin?]

GOD, GOVERNMENT AND TAXES

GOD AND GOVERNMENT - Exodus 22:28 (NIV)
"Do not blaspheme God or curse the ruler of your people."
GOD AND GOVERNMENT - Deuteronomy 13:4
It is the LORD your God you must follow, and him you must revere. Keep his commands and obey him; serve him and hold fast to him.
GOD AND GOVERNMENT - Isaiah 33:22
For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; it is he who will save us.
[NOTE: Some claim that this was the basis for the 3 branches of the U.S. government.]
GOD, GOVERNMENT AND TAXES - Mark 12:17
"Give to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's."
GOD, GOVERNMENT AND TAXES - Romans 13:1-7 [No American Revolution?]
Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. Consequently, he who rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and he will commend you. For he is God's servant to do you good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword for nothing. He is God's servant, an agent of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer. Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also because of conscience. This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God's servants, who give their full time to governing. Give everyone what you owe him: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.
GOD AND THE LAW - 1 Timothy 1:8-10 (CEV)
We know that the Law is good, if it is used in the right way. We also understand that it wasn't given to control people who please God, but to control lawbreakers, criminals, godless people, and sinners. It is for wicked and evil people, and for murderers, who would even kill their own parents. The Law was written for people who are sexual perverts or who live as homosexuals or are kidnappers or liars or won't tell the truth in court.
GOD AND GOVERNMENT - Acts 5:29
Peter and the other apostles replied: "We must obey God rather than men!"
GOD AND GOVERNMENT - Revelation 2:26,27
To him who overcomes and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations. He will rule them with an iron scepter; he will dash them to pieces like pottery — just as I have received authority from my Father.

GOD AND FEAR, LOVE

GOD AND FEAR - Exodus 20:20
Moses said to the people, "Do not be afraid. God has come to test you, so that the fear of God will be with you to keep you from sinning."
GOD AND FEAR - Leviticus 19:14
"Do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block in front of the blind, but fear your God. I am the LORD."
GOD AND FEAR - Leviticus 25:17
"Do not take advantage of each other, but fear your God. I am the LORD your God."
GOD AND FEAR - Leviticus 25:36
"Do not take interest of any kind from him, but fear your God, so that your countryman may continue to live among you."
GOD AND FEAR - Leviticus 25:42-43
"Because the Israelites are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt, they must not be sold as slaves. Do not rule over them ruthlessly, but fear your God."
GOD AND FEAR - Deuteronomy 6:13
Fear the LORD your God, serve him only and take your oaths in his name.
GOD AND FEAR - Deuteronomy 6:24
The LORD commanded us to obey all these decrees and to fear the LORD our God, so that we might always prosper and be kept alive, as is the case today.
GOD AND FEAR - Deuteronomy 10:12
And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
GOD AND FEAR - Deuteronomy 10:20
Fear the LORD your God and serve him. Hold fast to him and take your oaths in his name.
GOD AND FEAR - Deuteronomy 31:12-13
"Assemble the people—men, women and children, and the aliens living in your towns—so they can listen and learn to fear the LORD your God and follow carefully all the words of this law. Their children, who do not know this law, must hear it and learn to fear the LORD your God as long as you live in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess."
GOD AND FEAR - Joshua 4:24
"He did this so that all the peoples of the earth might know that the hand of the LORD is powerful and so that you might always fear the LORD your God."
GOD AND FEAR - Joshua 24:14
"Now fear the LORD and serve him with all faithfulness."
GOD AND FEAR - 1 Samuel 12:14-15
If you fear the LORD and serve and obey him and do not rebel against his commands, and if both you and the king who reigns over you follow the LORD your God - good! But if you do not obey the LORD, and if you rebel against his commands, his hand will be against you, as it was against your fathers.
GOD AND FEAR - 1 Chronicles 16:25
For great is the LORD and most worthy of praise; he is to be feared above all gods.
GOD AND FEAR - 2 Chronicles 19:7
Now let the fear of the LORD be upon you.
GOD AND FEAR - Psalm 40:3
He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear and put their trust in the LORD.
GOD AND FEAR - Psalm 96:4
For great is the LORD and most worthy of praise; he is to be feared above all gods.
GOD AND FEAR - Ecclesiastes 12:13
Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.
GOD AND FEAR - Isaiah 35:4
say to those with fearful hearts, "Be strong, do not fear; your God will come, he will come with vengeance; with divine retribution he will come to save you."
GOD AND LOVE - Leviticus 19:18 (NIV)
"Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD."

FAITH AND WORKS

FAITH AND WORKS - Jeremiah 17:10 (NIV)
"I the LORD search the heart and examine the mind, to reward a man according to his conduct, according to what his deeds deserve."
FAITH AND WORKS - Matthew 5:16
"Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your father in heaven."
FAITH AND WORKS - Matthew 6:1
"Be careful not to do your ‘acts of righteousness’ before men, to be seen by them."
FAITH AND WORKS - Matthew 16:27 (NIV)
For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father's glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done.
JESUS ON FAITH - Matthew 17:20
"I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you."
FAITH AND WORKS - James 2:14
What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? Can faith save him?
FAITH AND WORKS - James 2:17
Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
FAITH AND WORKS - Ephesians 2:8,9
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.
FAITH AND WORKS - Hebrews 11:1 (KJV)
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
FAITH AND WORKS - Hebrews 11:6 (NIV)
And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
FAITH AND WORKS - Romans 8:28 (NIV)
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.

THE CREATION STORIES, PART 1

DAY AND NIGHT CREATED BEFORE THE SUN - Genesis 1:3-5
And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning — the first day.
PLANTS CREATED BEFORE THE SUN - Genesis 1:13
Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning — the third day.
GOD FINALLY CREATED THE SUN AND MOON ON THE FOURTH DAY - Genesis 1:14-19
And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. God made two great lights — the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning — the fourth day.
GOD CREATED ANIMALS ON THE FIFTH DAY - Genesis 1:20-23
And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." And there was evening, and there was morning — the fifth day.
GOD(s) CREATED MAN AND WOMAN ON THE SIXTH DAY, AFTER THE ANIMALS - Genesis 1:24-27 [See Genesis 2:4-8, below]
And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground." So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
GOD SAID ALL SEED-BEARING PLANTS ARE EDIBLE - Genesis 1:29
Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food."
GOD SAID ALL ANIMALS ARE HERBIVORES - Genesis 1:30
"And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground — everything that has the breath of life in it — I give every green plant for food."
END OF THE SIXTH DAY - Genesis 1:31
God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.

THE CREATION STORIES, PART 2

GOD CREATED MAN, THEN PLANTS AND ANIMALS - Genesis 2:4-8 [See Genesis 1:24-31, above]
This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created. When the LORD God made the earth and the heavens — and no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to work the ground, but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground — the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. Now the LORD God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden;
GOD CREATED THE ANIMALS - Genesis 2:19
Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air.
GOD CREATED WOMAN AFTER MAN, THE PLANTS AND ANIMALS - Genesis 2:22
Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
GOD AND CAIN REFER TO OTHER PEOPLE ON EARTH - Genesis 4:13-16
Cain said to the LORD, "My punishment is more than I can bear. Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me." But the LORD said to him, "Not so; if anyone kills Cain, he will suffer vengeance seven times over." Then the LORD put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him. So Cain went out from the LORD's presence and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden. Cain lay with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch.
GOD CREATED THE RAINBOW FOR THE FIRST TIME - Genesis 9:13
"I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth."
GOD GOT TIRED - Genesis 2:2
By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.
GOD CAN'T GET TIRED - Isaiah 40:28
The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.
GOD ON KNOWLEDGE - Genesis 2:17 (KJV)
"But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."
EVE AND ADAM EAT THE FRUIT - Genesis 3:6 (KJV)
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
WHAT HAPPENED TO ADAM AND EVE - Genesis 3:22
And the LORD God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever."
ADAM DID NOT DIE THE DAY HE ATE THE FRUIT - Genesis 5:5 (KJV)
And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.

THE CREATION STORIES, PART 3

EARTH FORMED OUT OF WATER - 2 Peter 3 (NIV)
But they deliberately forget that long ago by God's word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water.

THE BIBLE AND LANGUAGES

NATIONS, EACH WITH ITS OWN LANGUAGE - Genesis 10:4 (NIV)
The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittim and the Rodanim. (From these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with its own language.)
NATIONS, EACH WITH ITS OWN LANGUAGE - Genesis 10:20 (NIV)
These are the sons of Ham by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.
NATIONS, EACH WITH ITS OWN LANGUAGE - Genesis 10:31 (NIV)
These are the sons of Shem by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.
WHOLE WORLD HAD ONE LANGUAGE - Genesis 11:1 (NIV)
Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.

THE BIBLE AND MATH

PI EQUALS 3 - I Kings 7:23 (KJV)
And [Solomon] made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
PI EQUALS 3 - II Chronicles 4:2 (KJV)
Also [Solomon] made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.

GOD, GEOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY -
[For more, see The Flat-Earth Bible.]

GOD'S FLAT EARTH - Genesis 7:20 (KJV)
Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
[NOTE: Does this mean that the mountains were less than about 25 feet high?]
GOD'S FLAT EARTH - Isaiah 11:12 (NIV)
[God] will assemble the scattered people of Judah from the four quarters of the earth.
GOD'S FLAT EARTH - Isaiah 24:1 (KJV)
Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
GOD'S FLAT EARTH - Isaiah 40:22
He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in.
[NOTE: Isaiah used the Hebrew term for circle, “chug,” not the term for sphere, “kadur.”]
GOD'S FLAT EARTH - Job 9:5-8
[God] removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger. [God] shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble. [God] commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars. [God] alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.
GOD'S FLAT EARTH - Job 26:7
He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing.
GOD'S FLAT EARTH - Job 28:24
... for he views the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens.
GOD'S FLAT EARTH - Job 37:3
He unleashes his lightning beneath the whole heaven and sends it to the ends of the earth.
GOD'S FLAT EARTH - Daniel 4:11
The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth:
GOD'S FLAT EARTH - Ecclesiastes 1:7
All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, there they flow again.
GOD'S FLAT EARTH - Jeremiah 10:13 (NIV)
When [God] thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; he makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth. He sends lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses.
GOD'S FLAT EARTH - Psalm 19:4 (NIV)
Their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.
GOD'S FLAT EARTH - Matthew 4:8 (NIV)
Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor.
GOD'S FLAT EARTH - Luke 4:5 (NIV)
The devil led him up to a high place and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world.
GOD'S FLAT EARTH - Revelation 1:7
Look, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him,
GOD'S FLAT EARTH - Revelation 7:1
After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth to prevent any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree.
GOD'S FLAT EARTH - Revelation 20:7-8
When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth — Gog and Magog — to gather them for battle.
GOD'S FIXED EARTH - 1 Chronicles 16:30
He has fixed the earth firm, immovable.
GOD'S FIXED EARTH - Psalm 75:3
"When the earth and all its people quake, it is I who hold its pillars firm."
GOD'S FIXED EARTH - Psalm 77:18
Your thunder was heard in the whirlwind, your lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked.
GOD'S FIXED EARTH - Psalm 82:5
... all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
GOD'S FIXED EARTH - Psalm 93:1
Thou hast fixed the earth immovable and firm ...
GOD'S FIXED EARTH - Psalm 96:10
He has fixed the earth firm, immovable ...
GOD'S FIXED EARTH - Psalm 104:5
Thou didst fix the earth on its foundation so that it never can be shaken.
GOD'S FIXED EARTH - Ecclesiastes 1:4
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth standeth for ever.
GOD'S FIXED EARTH - Job 9:6
He shakes the earth from its place and makes its pillars tremble.
GOD'S FIXED EARTH - Isaiah 45:18
...who made the earth and fashioned it, and himself fixed it fast...
THE FIRMAMENT AND HEAVEN - Genesis 1:7-8 (KJV}
And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven.
[NOTE: “Firmament” meant an extended dome-like solid surface above the Earth.]
THE FIRMAMENT AND HEAVEN - Genesis 1:14 (KJV}
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
THE FIRMAMENT AND HEAVEN - Genesis 7:11-12 (KJV}
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
THE FIRMAMENT AND HEAVEN - Job 26:11 (KJV}
The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.
THE SKY AND HEAVEN - Matthew 24:29 (NIV)
the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.
GOD MAKES THE SUN AND THE MOON AS LIGHTS - Genesis 1:16
And God made two great lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night.
[NOTE: What about when the moon shines during the day, or doesn't shine at night?]
THE SUN MOVES PAST THE FLAT EARTH - Psalm 19:6 (NIV)
It rises at one end of the heavens and makes its circuit to the other; nothing is hidden from its heat.
GOD STOPS THE SUN AND THE MOON SO JOSHUA CAN CONTINUE FIGHTING - Joshua 10:13
So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, till the nation avenged itself on its enemies, as it is written in the Book of Jashar. The sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day.
GOD WILL REJECT ALL JEWS, WHEN WE MEASURE HEAVEN AND EARTH - Jeremiah 31:37 (KJV)
Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.

ఒక చారిత్రక దృక్పథం నుండి బైబిల్, పురావస్తు శాస్త్రం మరియు ఖగోళ శాస్త్రం నుండి భాషాశాస్త్రం మరియు తులనాత్మక సాహిత్యం యొక్క పద్ధతులు వరకు అధ్యయనం అనేక రంగాలలో ఉన్నాయి. బైబిల్ సహా వృత్తులకు , ప్రావీణ్యతను అందిస్తుంది కానీ పరిమితం కాలేదు ఉండవచ్చు; పురాతన మరియు ఆధునిక సంస్కృతి, పురాణ , పురా మరియు నైతికత యొక్క మా అవగాహన . సంఘటనలకు ఆపాదించాడు చారిత్రక సందర్భంలో , ప్రాముఖ్యత పరిశీలిస్తోంది, మరియు ఈ సంఘటనలు వర్ణనలు మరియు వారి సంభవించిన చారిత్రక ఆధారాలు (లేదా లేకుంటే ) మధ్య విరుద్ధంగా బైబిల్ సాధారణ వాస్తవిక ఖచ్చితత్వం దాటి అంశాలపై సమాచారాన్ని అందించడంలో ఉపయోగపడుతుంది.

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