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Jan. 2nd, 2014
Misinterpretations in the Bible
Jan. 2nd, 2014 09:54 pmI learned some cool things about misinterpretations most people have made about the Bible, from a Christian I know who actually does real research and is a true Christian and not just a CINO (Christian In Name Only):
* The thing in Leviticus that says to stone adulterers does NOT mean to kill them with rocks. It was a specific cultural reference to a shaving stone, and interpreted within the proper context means adulterers are to have their pubic hair publicly shaved. It was meant as an embarrassment that they could learn from, not a deadly punishment. Somewhere along the line, people forgot that meaning and misinterpreted it, and ever since then we've had people doing the wrong thing.
* Eve was NOT made from a rib. Most mammals have a bone in their penis called a baculum. Properly translated and interpreted, Eve was made from Adam's baculum. This actually makes more sense, because ancient peoples would have noticed the lackulum of baculum more than the fact that women had an extra rib, because it would have been obvious to anyone who had anything to do with most male mammals, whereas the rib thing only becomes plain to people studying corpses; and since most human corpses back then were buried or burned LONG before the bones would have been exposed, I doubt anyone noticed the rib thing until modern times.
* Back in Jesus's day, slapping someone on one cheek (I forget which one) meant, among other things, "You are beneath me." But slapping them on the OTHER cheek meant "We are equals." So "turning the other cheek" was actually forcing the other person to say "we are equals," or else be embarrassed. It was the equivalent of "standing up for yourself." So most Satanists and atheists who claim it's weak, are wrong. Turning the other cheek is actually pretty badass.
* The thing in Leviticus that says to stone adulterers does NOT mean to kill them with rocks. It was a specific cultural reference to a shaving stone, and interpreted within the proper context means adulterers are to have their pubic hair publicly shaved. It was meant as an embarrassment that they could learn from, not a deadly punishment. Somewhere along the line, people forgot that meaning and misinterpreted it, and ever since then we've had people doing the wrong thing.
* Eve was NOT made from a rib. Most mammals have a bone in their penis called a baculum. Properly translated and interpreted, Eve was made from Adam's baculum. This actually makes more sense, because ancient peoples would have noticed the lackulum of baculum more than the fact that women had an extra rib, because it would have been obvious to anyone who had anything to do with most male mammals, whereas the rib thing only becomes plain to people studying corpses; and since most human corpses back then were buried or burned LONG before the bones would have been exposed, I doubt anyone noticed the rib thing until modern times.
* Back in Jesus's day, slapping someone on one cheek (I forget which one) meant, among other things, "You are beneath me." But slapping them on the OTHER cheek meant "We are equals." So "turning the other cheek" was actually forcing the other person to say "we are equals," or else be embarrassed. It was the equivalent of "standing up for yourself." So most Satanists and atheists who claim it's weak, are wrong. Turning the other cheek is actually pretty badass.