“How many of you have read the Bible? The answers to all your questions are in there. God is a God of love and is the God of all of us. Do some research in the Bible and you will find the Truth.”
This was the posting of “SD” here on Wednesday in our Comments Section, and I am wondering, SD, which part of the Bible you believe has the answer to all of our questions. Which part of the Bible says that “God is love”? Do you suppose it might be the Book of Deuteronomy, where it says that if a man marries a woman and finds that she is not a virgin, and if her family cannot prove that she was a virgin before her marriage, “she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death.”

Now you might say, “Wait a minute. This is God’s Law?” And the answer is, as it is found in the Bible, yes. The Torah also says that, if found to be in an adulterous relationship, both the man and the woman are to be taken to the city gates and also stoned to death.
And God is concerned about other real life matters as well. Apparel, for instance. A woman “must not wear men’s clothing…for the Lord your God detests anyone who does this,” the Torah says. Also, “Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.”
Then, too, only certain people are welcome in God’s house of worship. If you happen to be a child born out of wedlock, you cannot go to there. Did you know that SD? The Bible makes this very clear. It says that no illegitimate child, “nor any of his descendants may enter the assembly of the Lord, even down to the tenth generation.”
And, did you know this, SD? If a certain part of a man’s body happens to be injured in an accident or as a result of war, he may join with other worshippers of God in a House of the Lord.
The Bible says:
“If a man’s testicles are crushed or his penis is cut off, he may not be included in the assembly of the Lord.
Yes, these are words right out of the Bible. Do they upset or embarrass you? Turn to Deuteronomy 23:1-2, New Living Translation. “Oh,” you might say, “one of those modern Bibles.” Yes. The King James Version has it this way:
“He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord,” but it means the same thing.
And the Bible has some startling news for women who take some of those self-defense classes that are offered these days. They can find themselves in a lot of trouble with some of what they learn in those classes.
The Bible says:
“If two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes to rescue her husband from his assailant, and she reaches out and seizes him by his private parts, you shall cut off her hand. Show her no pity.”
The writers of the Bible had a real thing going on about male genitals, didn’t they? Of course, who do you suppose was doing the writing? Oh, and they also had some thoughts about children who don’t obey their parents. These are probably not thoughts that many mothers would have. SD, do you know what the Holy Bible has to say about children who don’t obey? Kill them.
What? you might say. But according to the Torah, God says to kill them Now you might not believe that, but it’s right there, plain as day:
“If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him, his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his town.
“They shall say to the elders, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a profligate and a drunkard.’ Then all the men of his town shall stone him to death.
“You must purge the evil from among you.”
I guess that would do it, all right…
So, SD, you will excuse us if we are not quite totally convinced that all of our answers will be found in the Bible…or that the Bible teaches of a God who loves us.
Hmmm…