Why is the Bible offensive?

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KAT247 · Accepted Answer

There are two reasons that come to mind. 1.) There are contradictions throughout
2.) The right that all humans have called free will is not practiced
Sure, free will can be practiced, but per the Bible, if you exercise your rights, you burn. You have to follow exactly, word for word, or you end up being the devil’s bitch. Doesn’t sound like a loving god would write that. So that’s probably the main reason why it comes across as offensive.

Of course, the other argument to defend the free will thing is that everyone needs discipline and the Bible teaches you how to live a life that doesn’t always conform to “the lusts of the flesh” and instead submits to an authority, humbling yourself.

In my opinion, however, this sounds too much like a government system formed by man than a god, or higher being, who, by the way, created free will. (The argument of “there has to be evil to balance out the good” is not valid at this point in the discussion). Humans use scare tactics. Look at history. It’s an evil human trait, and these human patterns are all throughout the Bible.
So I will finish with this: If a being did indeed create free will, isn’t it more powerful to have the option to choose the right decision because you know it’s good and it’s your right, revealing who you were meant to be in the process by gaining perspective and life experience?
Or
Is it more powerful to stop yourself from being your full potential to conform to laws and rules that keep you from faults that teach you better lessons than servitude?
Also not looking for anyone to try to argue with me on this. Thanks for reading 👍🏼

Katebfun · Accepted Answer

Gee so much where to start
* Insest: Lot's daughter's have sex w/dad
* Sodom and Gomorrah story God killed men who were "homesexuals*
* Slavery.
* The story of Job, God makes a deal with the devil and tests Job's faith.
*John the Babtist is headed and his head served on a platter.
*Lot's of murder and death
* Jehoram And The Cannibal Mothers. Eat babies.
READ the Bible and find out for yourself.

ObscuredBeyond · Accepted Answer

Everyone has a monster self, seeking the same conceit as pointed out by Satan himself in the Garden: the desire to be one's own god. The truth by definition absolutism to the contrary means we are never in full control of our own minds, hearts, and destinies. We don't get to make all the rules ourselves, no matter how much we want to. We don't have total ownership of self either. Our every physical blessing is on loan, to which we're all accountable. Also, wants by themselves can never equal rights, no matter how much we wish to delude ourselves otherwise.

Nowhere does this drive men crazier, than when it confronts sexual profligates and reprobates. It rips through state propaganda they spent lifetimes crafting to excuse their perversions, and their injustices toward anyone who wouldn't celebrate said perversions. It even calls for righteous action to be taken to stop them.

This is no different than a habitual drunk driver having no love for cops, or anyone else. The perverse desire for that orivile and advantage supercedes the capacity for love.

The Bible cuts out the BS, and confronts everyone with the same message: the potential to be that monster exists in all of us, and there is only one way to not pay for it for all eternity. Not one of us can be made holy where it truly matters by any of our own scheming.

Those who are still controlled by their Old Adam, know all this, but persist in defiance out of pride. The Bible makes their guilty souls swell up like a poison ivy rash. So they feel compelled to treat it like poison ivy. Even if blue fire is their future for doing so.

razelove · Accepted Answer

Probably because the old testament is more provocative than the religions it has spawned generally speaking. There is good advice in the good book, rules that if followed will only benefit you and your community. Honestly, eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth are for more gentle and straightforward than their predecessor Hammurabi's code. Context and placing the time and place require effort that's tough to muster up for a book most people who are Christians don't read though.

It's tough to read and look at through different lenses. One view being a collection of parables from the past, the other being objective truth based on faith. There are also many contradictions on how to conduct yourself. Such as the ten commandments, 1st one being not to have other gods, yet the religion is monotheistic, so there shouldn't be any other gods. Murder is unacceptable, but it can be acceptable, theft is unacceptable, but can be alright under the right circumstances. All sins can be forgiven as long as you can forgive, though that one eludes me.

Some people obsess over certain parts and become extremists, people get outraged and blame it on the bible, koran, torah, whatever rather than the crazies. Also looking back into our past is uncomfortable. It's an old book that spans over a long period of time. Pretty much from the start of widespread agrarian farming (the expulsion from Eden) to Christianity becoming a religion rather than a cult offshoot of Judaism (when book of revelation was added).

jennifer_bloom · Answer

Because people do not understand it

OpenClose · Answer

I mean besides the insanity that is the old testament...

I think nearly all of the PR damage done to Christianity has come from Evangelicals and other self-proclaimed Christians who, if they actually met Jesus, would be more likely to be hammering in the nails.

The bible warns of things like a false prophet who presents themself as a devout follower but leads everyone astray. I see people attacking gays, shaming outsiders, electing people who would kick out a priest and protesters to do a photo-op with an upside-down bible, and focusing their practice primarily on eliminating that which they hate. And honestly, all I see in them is the exact false prophecy the Bible warned about.

Hence why I follow more of Christian Atheism or "Radical Christianity" (Not to be confused with extremism), and others who prioritize the actual teachings of Jesus over what they think Christianity "should look like".

Wsx2wsx2ws · Answer

Offensive annoyance or resentment brought about by a perceived insult to or disregard for oneself or one's standards or principles
ECCLESIASTES 7:9 “The taking of offense is what rests in the bosom of the stupid ones.”
Proverbs 14:17 "The one who is quick to anger acts foolishly, But the man who thinks things out is hated."
Proverbs 14:29 "The one who is slow to anger has great discernment, But the impatient one displays his foolishness."
Proverbs 29:11 "A stupid person gives vent to all his feelings, But the wise one calmly keeps them in check."
Proverbs 16:32 "The one slow to anger is better than a mighty man, And the one controlling his temper than one conquering a city."
James 1:19 "Know this, my beloved brothers: Everyone must be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger,"

Guy13 · Answer

It is offensive because it is Absolute Truth and people dislike because they will have to follow it, Absolutely. And our Hearts are deceitfully wicked, therefore, we are at odds with a Holy Creator God who Intelligently Designed man with Soul, Mind, Body and the free ability to Choose God or Choose Not God.
—And you can not choose Good, without the Creator, God calling you to Himself. We are a fallen people as the Bible points out. -I don’t like it either BUT I recognize that have capability to be both Good and Evil. Man fell of his own Choice and Doing as Bible points out and we are incapable of self-improving, self-evolving, or Enlightening into a Better State. Pride and both Atheists and Secular Humanists are highly correlated.

ManOnFire · Answer

Because our human side does not like it's instructions/commandments but our spirit knows deep down it's correct. Even Jesus said "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak."

The thing that makes the Bible so unique - and what proves its truth - is the fact that it is both beautiful and hard to handle. Many other religions' texts tend to have a lot of wise sayings and pretty words, but the Bible has both pretty and harsh words. You can't live life and know truth without the parts that are hard to handle. The Bible is supposed to make us think. It's supposed to make us ask God to help us understand the parts, passages, etc. that are confounding, troubling, or don't make sense.

SixFootSexy · Answer

Evolution gives mankind a narrative that humans came from goo to you, via the zoo... that you are a useless and purposeless, biological and mysterious accident. The Bible's narrative is that you were created in the image of God, yet things went awry a few chapters in.

The Bible as a collection of books is a comprehensive way of weaving the symbolic and literal, historical and poetic, abstract and concrete throughout it's storytelling in a way that shows the human experience hasn't changed much, if at all, in thousands of years. It's quite astounding really.

Anonymous · Answer

Why are idiots offensive? Why are uneducated offensive? Why are **you** offensive?
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The Bible is "offensive" only to people who know little to nothing. The uneducated, the simple minded, the ignorant, the stupid. The sort that generations ago flocked to listen to the Bible because they were uneducated, simple-minded, ignorant & stupid.

There are far more offensive religious books. Read Muhammad's books. They are not even true religious books but the ramblings of a warlording tyrant that came across a fledgling culture and made it his. That is why those books exist to subvert and corrupt the actual religious teachings in the Qur'an.

purplepoppy · Answer

Have you actually read it? Basically It's a long list of reasons to kill people for just about anything. For example in leviticus it says you'll be put to death for having a bad hair day (I shit you not, look it up). Just about all the hate and discrimination you see today has its roots in the bible.

User2324 · Answer

people don’t like correction & are offended by the truth. many things of this world go against what the Bible says so people feel like they’re being called out… it’s the same reason why some people won’t go to church.. they may feel ashamed/embarrassed.

Whatever2929292 · Answer

Because people don't like hearing the truth. People don't like being told they are going to hell. Even though Jesus says that if you come to him he will change you and wash you clean of your sins... Even though Gods love and mercy.

People get angry about horrible crimes all the time. But once something is more normalized people don't care anymore

Zenit93 · Answer

Living life as a Christian is difficult. I've been doing it for a year now. A natural response to being told your habits are evil is retaliation. "Porn is fine! You're crazy." Imagine the bible telling a gay man he is not supposed to be living the way he is? Of course that's going to offend that man.

josephinelcajon · Answer

Its simply a book of "tall tales" from long ago when people were far mor ignorant and believed in magic, witchcraft, mystical beings and gods. Its been written over and over each time being changed to suite the current agenda. Typically its fear to control you and make you obedient to the king.

HopefulGuy94 · Answer

If you do not try to understand and try hard to misunderstand or you are oppose even it says something really logical or make extremely sense or you have so many prejudgements or you do not believe anything , then of course , you find it really offensive though ;)

cth96190 · Answer

The Bible is offensive to low IQ snowflakes who think that the view to which they subscribe should be the only one allowed.
That is the obnoxious totalitarianism of the left.
The Bible is a historical document that claims to be the revealed word of God.
If a snowflake is offended by God, it is self-evidently the snowflake who has the problem.

iamjustaman · Answer

The Bible is not offensive. Rather, it is God's word to those who would worship him. People start to take offense when they begin to realize the struggle between devotion to God and pleasing themselves. For those who worship truthfully, they consider selfish and greedy pleasures to be garbage, and put their faith in the bright future that God will soon bring about in all the earth.

bean2k21 · Answer

Because idiots take every word of it literally, when it was intended to be a work of art. Why else would you have four different versions of the life of Jesus by four different authors, if not to illustrate that your spiritual experience is purely subjective?

Reaper1985 · Answer

It's a book of stories that is based on events which happen thousands of years ago which may or may not be totally true. since it's likely each time the stories were told they got slightly modified over the years. so no one currently alive likely knows what truly happened at those events in question.

Anonymous · Answer

It’s not offensive on face value. What’s offensive are the people who use it to try to shame and control others. Religions are mythology. If a person wants to live their own life based on that, it’s their business. When they try to influence mine, I make sure they regret it.

Anonymous · Answer

I would not say that the Bible is offensive. You must sit down and read it, meditate about it, and pray about it. God will let you know what is right and what is wrong. Most of us look at it as being offensive because it's not telling us that we can go out and fuck or whoring.

captain_voidwalker · Answer

Its because the Bible has both gods word and parables to learn from, but dosent realy do a good job of distinguishing between them. Also political interests over the centuries have removed over half of the books that are supposed to be in the Bible such as the book of Enoch

Belgie · Answer

Pro slavery, pro genocide, pro war, pro violence, pro punishing the innocent, pro disproportionate punishments, pro revenge, anti women, anti gay... Yeah, what's so offensive about that?

Anonymous · Answer

I think it's human nature. Man wants to believe he has total control of his destiny. If there is a God than he rules you right? I think this was a sticking point with me when I first came to the cross. I was too full of my own self importance. We think that if God exists we don't have free will. And that's totally FALSE. God doesn't want to control you. He just wants to love you because he KNOWS what you need. Even before you do.

PastorJohn69 · Answer

In my experience, many run from it as they don't want to be heald accountable for their actions, so they design a God to suit their needs and wants.
They prefer their own self ways.
Just what I see a lot

Lionman95 · Answer

Because of the statement that Jesus is God, that also claims to be objective truth. Everything else could be taken lightly but because of that people won´t like it.

OlderAndWiser · Answer

It is "offensive" to some because it describes consequences for behavior.

globetrotter22 · Answer

“The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.“. 1 Corinthians 2:14

Snsl153 · Answer

It isn't. People are just too easily "offended", because they've lived their entire lives in a safe-space bubble, and when they're exposed to reality they can't handle it and have a meltdown.

NamerOfStars · Answer

Things are not "offensive". People will take offense at certain things for certain reasons, it's true, but the key word there is "take" - offense isn't given, it's taken.

Alwayreckles93 · Answer

It not offensive only to the people who don't want to followed Gods rulers.

dustybiker · Answer

Religious texts have been a means of designed control for so very long people take what they want from it.

JoyGirl · Answer

Wha? I haven’t noticed anything offensive, and I have been reading it my whole life. 😂 It just doesn’t cater to the ways of the world. 🤷🏾‍♀️

Anonymous · Answer

Because it’s written from an earthling human
if you think send form - god etc wrote it then you must know it’s not the (Good God) rather the opposite. Ya all worshipping Satans without even knowing it.

Agape93 · Answer

Advocating for slavery, rape, genocide, anthrocide etc tends to do that

Dargil · Answer

Because people are threatened by religion, particularly Christianity. They are afraid we are right and they have chosen a path to eternal death.

annabananna · Answer

@jennifer_bloom I agree with what she said. I used to find it offensive when I didn’t understand it.

Flower7 · Answer

I would guess that it’s offensive to the people who don’t want to follow it.

Keyboardkat · Answer

I do not consider the Bible offensive, so I could not answer a question about WHY it is offensive.

KingofCups · Answer

Hmm let's take a look at all the people it excludes:  1. Homosexuals  2. All other world religions  3. Basically every young person who wants to have sex and not ever get married or have kids

McKellar · Answer

Because the enemy has the world wrapped up around his finger and influenced them to think the Bible is offensive,... and little do those people know the Bible explains everything about God's wisdom in life, Jesus and the salvation through Jesus.

marish01 · Answer

Because it condemns sexual immorality, murder and other sins people love to commit.

Subarugirl · Answer

Probably has to with all the rape murder slavery and genocide

XXblack88 · Answer

Cause the Bible doesn't match up with their beliefs and lifestyle.

strateguy632 · Answer

Because it got written BEFORE the rules of offensive stuff.

Changiis07 · Answer

People don't take the time to read the entire Bible, study and meditate on it.

MrKinktastic · Answer

It depends who you ask but the main pet I find offensive is all the God-sanctioned genocide.

CubsterShura · Answer

Is the Bible offensive to begin with? I'm not even Christian but I can't help but ask that lol.

TommyMountainFigure · Answer

I'm not a religious person, but we haven't established that it IS offensive.

LivingExample · Answer

To me the Bible is Not offensive, it is how we Learn God’s Ways!

FunkyMonkee · Answer

Because it's aimed at stupid people. Intelligent people get insulted when talked down to and expected to believe every word of it.

leahzrc · Answer

the outrage comes from a lot of different perspectives

WhitneySnow · Answer

It isn’t to me. But some people see it as a symbol of patriarchy.

jshm2 · Answer

To who? Being American can be seen as offensive, to the Natives.

genericname85 · Answer

because back in the day, there were no safe spaces where people could hide from opinions they didn't like xD

Hispanic-Cool-Guy · Answer

The Bible is God's inspired word and it exposes the evil nature and dark hearts of mankind and how God's judgment is upon them and people simply don't like to hear such things.

Hellodownthere · Answer

Not to me. What CNN pushes these days is far more disturbing.

Anonymous · Answer

Some christians, like me, don't agree with all its politics. But that doesn't make us less christian. I can totally relate with people who disagree with the same things.

Blueeyes81 · Answer

In and of itself it is not. It's the people who twist it and pick passages that suit their agenda that are.

noless10in · Answer

I'd love to know too. I'm a Christian and I'm not offended by anybody else's religious text, or their religion in general.

Marklaw12 · Answer

It's not. The Bible is the most complete book in history. It tells the past, the present and the future.

EnglishEuropean · Answer

It isn't. You have the choice not to read it. If you choose to read it and you're offended, that's on you.

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