Subversive Scriptures Index Post

How many people have actually read and considered the whole of the Bible? The answer, unsurprisingly, is 'not many'. Even many pastors have not read the whole Bible critically and analyzed the importance of its scriptures. We see verses about love in Sunday School, but we don't see the verses about slavery, or about god's power to harden the hearts of those people whom he has not chosen.

The truth is, if a number of Christians would read the Bible completely (and think carefully about what it says), today's religions might look very different than they currently do. In the spirit of reminding myself (and others) that sometimes the Bible is not a warm and fuzzy book of Jesus-loves-us-all, I'm starting a list of disturbing scriptures from the Bible. This will probably be updated on a rolling basis as I find more verses that fit onto this list.

I hope that this list raises questions in its readers. Is it actually good or right to believe that the Bible is infallible? Was the Bible authored solely by god, or by men who were divinely inspired? What things in the Bible should be interpreted at face value, and which are the results of a culture that no longer applies to or interacts with our own? What is the meaning of faith, in the face of scriptures about God's divine will? Don't read this as a list of scriptures posted solely for their controversial nature, but as a list of scriptures that, if taken seriously, project a very different view of God than the one commonly taught in all Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant denominations.

The truth is, no Christian believes completely in the whole of the Bible. These are the verses that get ignored.


I will post these under the tag 'subversive scriptures', but this post will serve as an index of all the Subversive Scriptures series. Scriptures without links are planned for future posts, and the links will be updated as those posts are forthcoming.

God's Nature / God's Will

• Romans 9:10-21

Social Issues

• Colossians 3:21
  
• Peter 2:18
• Romans 13
• Leviticus 18:22
• Leviticus 20:13
• Romans 1:26-271
  
• Corinthians 6:9-101
  
• Timothy 1:9-10
• Genesis 29:18-27
• Ruth 4:10
• Matthew 19:1-12