Does the Bible use lan­guage not fit­ting for God?”

This was the ques­tion that a mis­sion­ary rhetor­i­cal­ly posed to his read­ers in an amus­ing but vain attempt to defend” the inap­pro­pri­ate and unnat­ur­al lan­guage of Ezekiel 23. The fun­ny thing that this author have noticed about his whole defense” (and which also prompt­ed this author to write this short com­men­tary) is that even though he open­ly accuse Mus­lims of being igno­rant” about the mat­ter, he reduced the whole pas­sage of Ezekiel 23 to a link and a short sum­ma­ry. Is the mis­sion­ary act­ing prud­ish” in try­ing to dis­miss the whole issue away so casu­al­ly ? It cer­tain­ly seems so to this author.

Ezekiel 23 And Its Problems

We wish to set­tle the mat­ter once and for all by pub­lish­ing in full the scans from the whole chap­ter of Ezekiel 23 so as read­ers may under­stand the Mus­lim objec­tion to this pas­sage. Please be advised that we do not rec­om­mend any­one who have not yet reached the age of puber­ty to read this dis­gust­ing and sor­did pas­sage.

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The mis­sion­ary has also made the accu­sa­tion that :

    “[i]t is only igno­rance of the inspired scrip­tures that results in such out­ra­gious [sic] claim.” 

On the con­trary, we object to the pas­sage not because of its main mes­sage, but because of its erot­ic imagery and inap­pro­pri­ate lan­guage. Fur­ther­more, it is described as a his­tor­i­cal event and the read­er would uncon­scious­ly form imagery which is unwor­thy of being attrib­uted to God Almighty. 

We would like to ask the read­er : would it be appro­pri­ate for a par­ent to rent a porno­graph­ic video and show it to his chil­dren below 8 years old, while all the time say­ing, Do not com­mit for­ni­ca­tion, it is an evil and a sin to do so”? Would any­one in their right mind do such a thing ? This is what the mis­sion­ary igno­rant­ly expects us to believe.

Mis­sion­ary Objec­tions And The Response 

He also expects us to swal­low the idea that the so-called strong imagery” of the fol­low­ing verse of the Qur’an is as objec­tion­able as the erot­ic pas­sage of Ezekiel 23 :

And do not spy, nei­ther back­bite one anoth­er ; would any of you like to eat the flesh of his broth­er dead?” (Qur’an, 49:12)

The Qur’an in this verse does not give a detailed imagery of how one eats the flesh of anoth­er. Rather, it sim­ply anal­o­gis­es back­bit­ing to the act of can­ni­bal­ism. It does not con­tain any objec­tion­able lan­guage, it does not describe how can­ni­bal­ism is attempt­ed in detail and most cer­tain­ly it does not emit erot­ic imagery not befit­ting of God Almighty.

In con­clu­sion, the Mus­lim objec­tion to Ezekiel 23 is a valid one. The Chris­t­ian mis­sion­ary should explain to his read­ers what ben­e­fit does the lan­guage of Ezekiel 23 offer, apart from incit­ing its read­ers to sub­mit to their erot­ic feel­ings to com­mit rape and fornication ?

Our Chal­lenge To The Missionary

It is also amus­ing that the mis­sion­ary decid­ed to quote the Prophet(P) and then con­ve­nient­ly” dis­par­age the late Sheikh Ahmed Dee­dat, the doyen of Mus­lim respons­es to Chris­t­ian mis­sion­ary attacks, of blas­phe­my. Our response to his alle­ga­tion is that we chal­lenge this mis­sion­ary to edu­cate his own chil­dren on the evils of for­ni­ca­tion by ask­ing them to act out the event live in a play or school dra­ma, word for word as per record­ed in Ezekiel 23. I would be most hap­py to lend a hand in writ­ing out such a script and will allow to let his own chil­dren to be the prin­ci­pal actors in such a play or school dra­ma for Sun­day school. Cer­tain­ly, this is not an out­ra­geous” demand if the mis­sion­ary him­self does not con­sid­er this to be blas­phe­my” or find any prob­lems with the text of Ezekiel 23. This chal­lenge is also open to his fel­low missionaries.

Until the mis­sion­ary or his cohorts have the courage to meet our above chal­lenge, we as Mus­lims will con­tin­ue to crit­i­cise the inap­pro­pri­ate and steamy lan­guage of Ezekiel 23, and object to its unnat­ur­al imagery. Such a pas­sage is most cer­tain­ly not inspired” from God Almighty. 

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Acknowl­edge­ments

The author would like to take this oppor­tu­ni­ty to thank Broth­er Shah Kir­it bin Kaku­lal Gov­in­ji for his input on the Chris­t­ian mis­sion­ary response to the Mus­lim crit­i­cism of Ezekiel 23.


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13 responses to “Ezekiel 23 And Its Dis­gust­ing Language”

  1. Zeik Avatar
    Zeik

    *Sigh*

    How about instead of attack­ing each oth­er we do as broth­ers due and give log­i­cal rea­son­ing for answers ?

    Yes, Ezekiel 23 may seem very immoral in itself just by describ­ing things in detail, that we may find improp­er but you have to remem­ber we are read­ing it in Eng­lish, not in Greek. It makes per­fect sense that the way it’s trans­lat­ed may seem dis­gust­ing but it’s very pos­si­ble to a Greek that the way it’s explained is fine. You have to also take into con­sid­er­a­tion the cul­tur­al dif­fer­ences. In cer­tain cul­tures there are cer­tain tra­di­tions that may seem very immoral, improp­er, and dis­gust­ing but to them it’s harm­less. You have to remem­ber, we are imper­fect beings cre­at­ed by god who were giv­en free will to do what we please. Just because god knows our future, does­n’t mean he’s the one who has cho­sen our fate, we are the fate wielders.

    Yes, I am a Chris­t­ian, a Gen­tile if you like. I have Mus­lim friends, and I debate with them in a polite man­ner as any­one else should. My friend who is indeed a Mus­lim would even agree with me on this his­tor­i­cal” doc­u­ment that it’s not authen­tic but is a copy of many copies in which it could be mis­trans­lat­ed. Point is, whether it is or not, the pas­sage Ezekiel 23 is try­ing to make has been made.

    Also, I’m not prop­er­ly equipped with enough knowl­edge to debate with every­one here, I was just try­ing to explain from a log­i­cal point of view the issue.

  2. shadowofears Avatar
    shadowofears

    Atleast Mus­lims will stop back­bit­ing when they imag­ine of eat­ing his own broth­er flesh but what about Chris­tians when they read such pas­sages would that stop them from involv­ing in sex.

  3. kk_jaguar Avatar
    kk_jaguar

    I won­der if God fell in love with these filthy girls know­ing not how they would devel­op and act in future, after all god is all-know­ing and all powerful…y could­nt he stop them. On the top of it, after what has hap­pened with God, he is com­plain­ing like a child what they did to me. This must be some dra­ma play­er god. God nev­er does any­thing like that. y??????? coz He is God.

  4. shadowofears Avatar
    shadowofears

    If Chris­tians want respect for them­selves they have to respect oth­er reli​gion​.It does­n’t trou­ble me if Chris­t­ian don’t believe in Peophet Muhammed but it does when they make fun of him​.Do Chris­tians think it is an insult to their reli­gion when Mus­lims write Peace Be Upon Him after Jesus name.There is no need for Chris­tians to trash oth­er reli­gions instead they should make more sense in ther doc­ter­ines they worship.

  5. DingDong Avatar
    DingDong

    Strong lan­guage is the sign of pro­found anger of God and utter cor­rup­tion and idol­a­try of Israel at that time.”

    My God dont use that kind of lan­guage. COME’ON.… Ezekiel 23 is BANNED in South Africa…it is cat­e­gorised as PORN.

    truth, if before you per­sist to argue any fur­ther, try to read­ing aloud this doc­u­ment (you con­sid­er as Word of God”) to your:-

    1. Nieces/​nephews, sons/​daughters
    2. Girl­friend’s younger sister/​brother..
    3. bet­ter still, her parents
    4. Busi­ness meet­ings… to bless the meet­ing, of course
    5. Din­ner with your Bud­dhist, Hin­du and Mus­lim friends (whom you are try­ing to convert)

    and, of course, with all of the above attending…

    6. your Church (please,please,please.… and video­tape it, please,please,please)

    truth”-or what­ev­er you wish to call yrself.. choose a hum­bler name like mine.