10 passages in the christian bible that i think are strange....
So there are some weird bible passages i wanted to point out that do not make sense to me although i no they have a deeper meaning to them, i was just curious to highlight them out, you understand any please feel free to point out i'm a learner and i'm willing to know what they mean.
1) DEUT 23:11
“No one whose testicles are crushed or whose male organ is cut off shall enter the assembly of the Lord.”
2) ECCLE 1:18
“For in much wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.”
3) Proverb 21:6
“Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress.”
ok i read deep into this and it was a thing in the old days to give alcohol to criminals that were going to be crucified, even jesus was given alcohol, although it was a bad one...
4) Genesis 38:8-10
Then Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife, and perform your duty as a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother.”
5) Ezekiel 23:19-20 NET
Yet she increased her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth when she engaged in prostitution in the land of Egypt. She lusted after their genitals as large as those of donkeys, and their seminal emission was as strong as that of stallions.
6) Deut. 28: 27
May the Lord strike you with Egyptian boils and with tumors, scabs and itch for which you will find no cure.
7) Deut. 28:53
Then because of the dire straights to which you will be reduced when your enemy besieges you, you will eat your own children, the flesh of your sons and daughters whom the Lord has given you.
8) Kings 2:23
Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up the road, some youths came from the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you bald head! Go up, you bald head!” So he turned around and looked at them, and pronounced a curse on them in the name of the Lord. And two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.
9) Leviticus 24:16
Whoever utters the name of the Lord must be put to death. The whole community must stone him whether alien or native. If he utters the name, he must be put to death.
10) Deuteronomy 23:1
"He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord.
one extra
Matthew 5:28
But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.