Umm, no eliel, it was written that way because it was written 2000 years ago by people who didn't know crap, and thus made things up. If God had been there to dictate how it was to be written, you don't think he would have educated the people that the world was actually billions of years old and that dinosaurs roamed the Earth, and that man is in fact at the present evolutionary stage of a particular form of primate? We come to these answers through research and investigation, not through dogmatic denials. It is, in fact, the deniers that have repeatedly undermined the expansion of man's knowledge and personal growth. It is indeed religious deniers who orchestrated the death and destruction of minorities, outcasts, and entire cultures. This is the contradiction, the argument of context, for when man stands here and claims "right under God" when in fact they have done so much wrong. Indeed, the Old Testament shows centuries of vicious criminal acts for which Christian apologizers will quickly claim are necessary evils committed by their one true God.
And another thing --- I repeatedly hear Blondie claim that the contradictions presented are taken out of context. Well that's just a crap argument. They are in context when demonstrating contradiction, and in fact, it is the actions of people like Blondie that take things out of context all the damn time. For example, in another thread he posed a line that was out of context of all the other writings to claim that homosexuality is condemned by Christianity. When I hit him with the Greek word, he posed a false translation of that word when, in actuality, the translation is more along the lines of sodomy, not homosexuality (in truth, it is a word in ancient Greek, lost in time, and thus a direct and reliable translation is not available). But, more to the point, he pulled it out of context did not include that the same line essentially condemned drunks, liars, fools, thieves and tricksters, which pretty much puts every Politician and Wall Street executive in Hell (not to mention Blondie, for how he's demonstrated himself to be in these forums). He also failed to demonstrate the greatest argument, which is that believers are constantly posing obstruction to gays being allowed to live normal lives, to women being allowed to have equal rights, to abuse of women and children being reported. So when he claims he's just stating what's in the Bible and not wishing to pose his views on others, he's being dishonest (liar), precisely because Christians work as a group to impose their views on others.
So, when we discuss these things, and we come to some contradiction in the Bible, claiming that it is out of context, and yet being hypocritical by posting things "out of context" in response to other arguments, there's a degree of trickster in such actions, which Blondie has repeatedly demonstrated. Finally, we come to the other issue, which is that hate is repeatedly condemned in the New Testament, and yet Blondie repeatedly presents himself as hating this or hating that, condemning this or condemning that, which also plays into the New Testament's statements that only God should judge, and yet judgment is exactly what is committed by Blondie and so many other fundamentalist Christians, LDS, JW, or otherwise.
