Coming out of some threads relating to the bible, it got me thinking:
Should the bible have an age rating and if so what should it be? At what age should people be exposed to the bible?
I G00gled and there are lots of opinions on it. A summary that someone else posted online is quite interesting to sum up some key issues in the bible that might be thought to be unsuitable for certain ages:
Should the bible have an age rating and if so what should it be? At what age should people be exposed to the bible?
I G00gled and there are lots of opinions on it. A summary that someone else posted online is quite interesting to sum up some key issues in the bible that might be thought to be unsuitable for certain ages:
- A man and woman standing in nakedness and shame, blaming each other for what they did wrong.
- An angry and envious man, lures his brother into a field, brutally murders him, and then tries to cover it up.
- The world becomes so corrupt and violent that God decides to virtually wipe out the human population and start over.
- Noah gets drunk, and one of his son dishonors him by committing an immoral act in his father’s bedroom.
- Abraham twice tries to pass his wife off to another man to save his own skin. Later, his son Isaac does the same thing.
- Abraham sleeps with one of the household servants so he can have an heir. This was his wife’s idea, but she becomes so jealous after it happens, that she angrily throws the woman and her son out of house to live in poverty and shame.
- Lot offers to let a violent mob assault his daughters. Lot’s daughters later get their own father drunk and sleep with him so that they can have children.
- Jacob, Isaac’s son, is a deceitful mama’s boy who tricks his father and brother out of important family legal rights. He has to run away from home so his brother won’t kill him.
- He goes to work for his ruthless uncle, who keeps him in virtual slavery for decades. Jacob escapes by tricking him and running away.
- Jacob’s wives live in constant jealousy and competition, continually tricking Jacob and each other in an ongoing battle for supremacy in the family.
- Jacob’s sons loathe one of their brothers, sell him into slavery, then lie to their father and tell him he died.
- Jacob’s daughter Leah is sexually assaulted. Her brothers exact revenge by deceiving and then murdering the perpetrator, destroying and looting his city, and taking all his family members captive.
- Judah refuses to find a husband for his widowed daughter-in-law, Tamar. So she disguises herself as a prostitute, tricks her father-in-law into sleeping with her, and becomes pregnant.