Maggie H asked:
I have a billion of these free bibles lying around, and was wondering if it’d be offensive to use pages for origami. I’m not trying to be disrespectful to anything, I just want to make a paper elephant. I promise I’m not gonna draw satanist stuff on it or anything.
Brian
I have a billion of these free bibles lying around, and was wondering if it’d be offensive to use pages for origami. I’m not trying to be disrespectful to anything, I just want to make a paper elephant. I promise I’m not gonna draw satanist stuff on it or anything.
Brian
Tags: Arts And Crafts, Blasphemy, Free Bibles
Knock yourself out.
Pages of the Bible are no more sacred than toilet paper.
You can use them however you want.
waste not want not.
I wouldn’t call it blasphemy, since I’m not religious. Yet in may be seen as disrespectful to those they do believe. But there is no law against it, so it should be OK. =/
No worries, go ahead and if you have any left over, use them for toilet paper
How would God answer if you asked Him this question?
Hell no. They make great paper airplanes, too`.
Use for TP if you wish, it’ll put them to good use.
I’m a Christian and I dont see why not. Go for it.
I think you don’t have to promise anything, at least not to people in YA, you don’t owe anything to any of us. However I think you owe everything to God, starting with the fact you are alive. If you had any gratitude towards HIM, you’d also be respectful to HIS word and would not even be asking this. We all have free will, but at the same time, must of us have used it in the wrong way. Take care.
Some people might look at is blasphemous, but I wouldn’t. I’m a Christian. I worship God, not a book. In my opinion, some people treat the Bible with a level of superstition that borders on idolatry. Actually, I’m not big on defacing books, but I’d regard using a Bible for origami the same as I’d regard using any other book for that purpose. If the book is worn and has no other use, it might as well be recycled in some sort of meaningful or artistic way.
back in the day (decades ago) I used to use pages of the new testament to roll joints with when I ran out of rolling paper which wasn’t often. I remember it being an extremely harsh smoke on the throat though.
I guess you could use it for making paper elephants. Remember that elephants live in family groups though so make more than one.
No, but paper is cheap.
Rather go give those Bibles to people who would appreciate them.
If you’re not a Christian– go ahead. If you are, it’s major blasphemy in Christianity.
To be honest, some Christians would be pretty offended by this and see it as disrespect. Most Christians believe that the bible is sacred, etc etc. Others believe that the bible is only a book, and wouldn’t see it as disrespect.\
Curious though– why do you have a billion free bibles?
You don’t have to answer; I just found it peculiar.
Maggie it would be a shame to rip up a perfectly good bible just to do something like that. Perhaps you could copy the page you want to use on a copy machine and use that instead of ripping up the bible.
Is it rude & disrespectful to use love letters from your boyfriend or husband as scratch paper? Even if you’re not trying to devalue those letters?
Well if you have a lot of them, I’m sure you could give them to someone =) I mean after all, someone might read it & see you in heaven & be like, “hey, because I got that Bible, I’m here today…thank you so much” I mean ya never know! :]
idk if it’s blasphemy, but remember John 1? “[v. 1] In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God….[v 3] All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. [4] In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. … [v 14] And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.” God’s Word is the Bible, right? And those verses are talking about Jesus. So I wouldn’t if I were you =]