If I get a chance to talk to the pope, I’ll tell him about how I’m revising the Bible so "bad" passages are removed--that is, passages which influence humans to do evil deeds.

I refer to pro-slavery passages and others that urge humans to behave in wicked ways.

I’m certain that such passages do not come from God.

Oh, I also don't think witches should be killed since this is just an excuse to kill women you don't like (witches don't exist).

Here is Exodus 21:20-21: If a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod and he or she dies at his hand, he shall be punished. If, however, the slave survives a day or two, no vengeance shall be taken; for the slave is his property.

Exodus 21:1-6 If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free, without paying anything. If he comes alone, he is to go free alone; but if he has a wife when he comes, she is to go with him. If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free. But if the servant declares, “I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free,” then his master must take him before the judges. He shall take him to the door or the doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he will be his servant for life. If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as male servants do.

Leviticus 25:44 Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves.

Exodus 21:20-21 If a master strikes his male or female slave with a rod and the slave dies, the master shall be punished. If, however, the slave survives a day or two, no vengeance shall be taken, for he is the master’s property.

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In 2015, Pope Francis expressed the Catholic Church's opposition to the death penalty, calling it "inadmissible, no matter how serious the crime committed."

The Catholic Church also teaches that the Bible is divine revelation--that God is the primary author, the Holy Spirit working through human writers.

Many Biblical passages promote the death penalty.

The language is clear.

So the pope’s call for an abolition of the death penalty goes against divine revelation.

Leviticus 20: 9: Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.

Leviticus 20:13: If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.

Nobody today takes such passages seriously. Nobody wants the death penalty in these cases.

Such passages were written by humans, not God, and the Church should acknowledge that God is missing in some parts of the Bible.



is Bible proslavery? Leviticus 25:44 & Exodus 21:20-21 God wants humans to own humans Exodus 21:1-6