Serious question for all believers...
The bible instructs you to stone to death anyone who should work on the sabbath day (even if they are just gathering sticks). My favorite part is that Jews and Christians can't even agree on which day is the sabbath.
"They found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day. ... And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones.... And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses." Numbers 15:32-56
Since I work at a portrait studio, and most of our business is on the weekend, I often work both weekend days, so either way you slice it (Jew or Christian) I would be violating the sabbath. I work this job to support my family, as the primary breadwinner.
Should I be stoned to death for trying to earn a living to feed my family, because I have violated the sabbath?
Most sane and rational people would say NO, of course I should not be put to death for the "crime" of working on the weekend.
If you are deliberately and knowingly disobeying God's order of stoning me then you are, in essence, saying that your morality is greater than God's. The same goes for anything else that you pick and choose in the bible. Acceptance of gays, eating pork, not stoning to death non-virgins... the list goes on.
This leads me to my question:
Even if you believe that a god exists, if our morality is greater than God's, why follow God at all?
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