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Lying is strongly discouraged and forbidden by most interpretations of Christianity. Arguments for this are based on various biblical passages, especially " Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour ", one of the Ten Commandments. Christian theologians disagree as to the exact definition of "lie" and whether it is ever acceptable.
Matthew Henry taught that the prohibition against false witness concerns our own and our neighbor's good name. "Thou shalt not bear false witness" forbids: "1. Speaking falsely in any matter, lying, equivocating, and any way devising and designing to deceive our neighbour. 2. Speaking unjustly against our neighbour, to the prejudice of his ...
The Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and its traditional interpretations in Judaism and Christianity have historically affirmed and endorsed a patriarchal and heteronormative approach towards human sexuality, [5] [6] favouring exclusively penetrative vaginal intercourse between men and women within the boundaries of marriage over all other forms of human sexual activity, [5] [6] including ...
v. t. e. Jesus teaching in the Temple, illustration from Standard Bible Story Readers, 1928. Since 1980, scholars have debated the translation and modern relevance of New Testament texts on homosexuality. [1] Three distinct passages – Romans 1:26–27, 1 Corinthians 6:9–10, 1 Timothy 1:9–10 and Jude 1:7 – have been taken to condemn same ...
The team discovered that within the King James Version Bible, a total of 3,418 distinct names were identified. Among these, 1,940 names pertain to individuals, 1,072 names refer to places, 317 names denote collective entities or nations, and 66 names are allocated to miscellaneous items such as months, rivers, or pagan deities.
[17] [15] Especially when a Hebrew verb is in the pi'el (intensifying) form, this adds force, [105] and in Deuteronomy 22:29 עִנָּ֔הּ ‘in-nāh is in the pi'el. [104] In several other cases in the Hebrew Bible where this word is used to describe a man and a woman interacting, for example Judges 20:5 [a] and 2 Samuel 13:14, [b] it ...
An American Christian family's Bible dating to 1859. Disputes regarding the internal consistency and textual integrity of the Bible have a long history.. Classic texts that discuss questions of inconsistency from a critical secular perspective include the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus by Baruch Spinoza, the Dictionnaire philosophique of Voltaire, the Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot and The Age ...
v. t. e. There are a number of passages in the Hebrew Bible that have been interpreted as involving same-sex sexual acts, desires, and relationships. [1][2][3] The passages about homosexual individuals and sexual relations in the Hebrew Bible are found primarily in the Torah [1] (the first five books traditionally attributed to Moses) [4] and ...