Christians explain!
So I go to a christian school but I am an atheist and one of my favorite things to do is to discuss ethical and scientific questions with my friends. One day we were discussing the morality of religion and i noticed everything that they did not agree with or did not follow was not a part of their religion. I looked through the bible and the worst verses according to me are (Leviticus 20:13:"'If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.) (Numbers 31:17-18King James Version (KJV)
17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
18 But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.)
So now my question is what do Christians think about these verses and why are they not being followed.
I dont think anyone these days takes those verses literally or even quotes them anymore.
I am christian but I love to discuss ethical, church can't control me now, a lot of bullshits around, strange verses... I believe now that exist a big power but I don't know what to believe about the paragraphs that contradict in the Bible
Those verses pertained to the law of the Old Covenant that Israel was under. It was only given to Israel, the Jews. Today we as Christians are under a new covenant and are not bound to the old. (Old testament / new testament). The law was a shadow of things to come, a preparation if you will. We don't follow them because they were not made for us or given to us and are not part of the covenant that we are now under. It is the same faith but a new set of rules.
As frightening, and backwards, as the old law is, I'd push people on stories like this one:
So, god was perfectly content to slaughter young boys that made fun of his prophet for being bald. Did the prophet have that much pride? Did god?