Disgusting characters in the Bible. Know any?

by punkofnice 55 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  RubaDub

  Lot and David.

  Rub a Dub
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  Finkelstein

  Good pickup Tater-T

  Jehovah ... told his people not to steal, kill, or covet.... then tells them to covet neighbors land, kill everyone in it and steal it..

  I'll add, bring back back any unwed virgins
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  Theocratic Sedition

  lol OTWO.

  David would be the one I'd mention as others have already stated. Warmonger, Premeditated Murderer, Adulterer, probable fornicator, etc.. Granted the warmonger aspect of his life can be debated as they were surrounded by enemies although one has to wonder how much that was a result of Israel's own aggression. The WT even puts it as his aggression was necessary to establish Israel's borders. Funny how he wasn't allowed to have a hand in building the temple because he had too much blood on his hands. Makes me wonder if there were multiple hands involved with writing that piece of history. He was sick and weak at the time when he expressed interest in building the temple. Possibly too weak and vulnerable to argue with the priestly class at the time.

  Rahab was possibly a prostitute and a traitor, sold out her own people. The Bible indicates that what she did was honorable and she was blessed with becoming a part of Jesus' lineage. My personal opinion is that the victors write history and she's given special recognition for selling out her own people.
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  Heartofaboy

  Good examples everyone.

  I was thinking of the sleazeball Judah that had sex with whom he thought was a prostitute.

  The prostitute turned out to be Tamar his daughter-in-law. When it was apparent she was pregnant, he was willing to have her burned to death.

  HAHA................she able to prove it was him that made her pregnant & then it was a differtent kettle of fish.

  Just one of the many distateful bible characters.
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  punkofnice

  mP -

  Sarah was his sister and his wife at the same time.!

  Yuk. That makes him even worse.

  OTWO - Yeah. I hate Solomon. Had more punnany than even I can dream of. Lucky sod!

  Tater-T -

  correction Punk .. jehovah can be included because you want bible characters

  Oh, go on then, I'll let you. I s'pose most of the characters in the bibble are fictitious anyway.
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  vajeni82

  I vote for Laban. The father of Rachel & Leah. What kind of dad tricks somebody into marrying his ugly daugter instead of the one he promised to give him after the transaciton of 7 years' work was finished?

  We had an elder in our cong. who named his daughters Rachel & Leah. I wonder if they had any complexes over that?
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  OnTheWayOut

  I am going to change my answer, since I did not nominate Solomon afterall.

  Abraham:

  Drags his people away to the middle of nowhere because "God says so." It's kind of like taking your family to some jerk-water place to pioneer because "Watchtower says we should."
  
  Tells his wife he has to have a child with the servant because "God says my seed will spread." (What a scam he pulled on Sarah.)
  
  When he conceives a son with his wife, he ditches his servant and his own son so that his non-bastard child can be his heir. (Probably thought Hagar the servant was getting too clingy by then anyway, or Sarah wouldn't let him have sex with her anymore, so be gone.)
  
  He sends the woman and child out into the desert with just the food they can carry and a single animal-skin bottle of water, saying that "God promises they will live and be blessed." (He ditches his bastard son and the slave mother and doesn't give them a handful of servants and maybe some animals and a cart, and never sees them again- Be gone.)

  Even if you think Abraham was just following God's orders, Abraham still has a chance to be disgusting and shows it by going blindly too far. Even though he has always questioned God before, Abraham unquestioningly offers up his son as a sacrifice because "God says so."
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  Finkelstein

  
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  LongHairGal

  punkofnice:

  I was always disturbed by these sick and overly violent characters in the Old Testament and how the religion seemed to look up to them and how it all but ignores Jesus and the new covenant.

  vajeni82:

  I remember a few kids named after OT bible characters back in the day. In one neighboring congregation, there was a mentality of getting an "Old Testament" type of vibe going by certain aggressive elders. There was lots of stupid talk by certain people.

  I wondered just who these people thought they were and couldn't stand being around them!
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  jws

  I'm sure there's worse and many of them have been mentioned already.

  One that comes to mind is Noah, but not for the reason already mentioned.

  This guy gets shitfaced on wine and passes out naked. What he was doing naked while he was drunk, who knows?

  So his son Ham sees him naked and tells his brothers. That's all it says. The brothers do this thing of walking backwards with a sheet to cover him so they don't see him naked.

  Noah wakes up, finds out what happened and what does this asshole do? Apologize for getting so drunk he passes out naked? Nope. He curses Canaan, the son of Ham to be a slave to his uncles. WTF? Canaan wasn't even involved. His father Ham told his brothers about Noah being naked, not Canaan. Why not punish himself for getting so drunk? And if he's a little embarrassed, it's his own damn fault.

  And why all the uptightness about nudity? These people were supposedly on a boat for about a year. I'm sure every now and then all the men walked by and saw one of the others taking a whiz over the side of the boat.