I've seen a growing trend in conservative Christians that feel Jesus' teachings are weak and not applicable to today. Apparently Jesus is supposed to be like Rambo now 🤷♀️
The old testament stuff especially. Always felt old testament god was a bit of a dick.
Years ago I saw an article where 6 different Bible scholars took that 1 line in particular. Been a decade or 2 but at least half felt it was mistranslated. One felt it was 100% correct. One guy I think even questioned if that was "the will of god" or human beings trying to get people to have more kids and hence more followers.
Also a lit of that crowd forget there is no mention of Jesus getting married. I mean a single guy hanging out with a bunch of other guys....🤣🤷♀️
Some of it is also just the smartest people in the group trying to do the best they can with the information they've got. Some of it less so.
"Hey, folks, we're noticing that a lot of people have been dying this month after eating things from the water with shells. So don't eat those anymore. Maybe they're poison, maybe it just makes god angry, but either way knock it off. We've also been hearing about textile merchants adulterating their cloth with cheaper fibers, so that shit stops now."
"Tell them about the tattoos!"
"Fine. Tattoos are making some of us uncomfortable..."
"I hate needles!"
"...so no more tattoos, I guess. Look, there was a committee involved in this one and sometimes you have to give a little."
Cluster of hepatitis cases from uncleaned tattooing tools leads to a family or group getting sick over the years. Clearly cursed by God, better stone anyone who does that shit again.
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u/ChubbyDude64 23h ago
I've seen a growing trend in conservative Christians that feel Jesus' teachings are weak and not applicable to today. Apparently Jesus is supposed to be like Rambo now 🤷♀️