Jude
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Interpretation
Contradictions
Absurdities
Injustice
Prophecy
Language
Cruelty and Violence
Intolerance
Homosexuality
Sex
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Jude for Skeptics

No one knows who wrote this epistle, but whoever it was liked to call people names. Ungodly men ordained to condemnation, filthy dreamers, defilers of the flesh, ungodly sinners, murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts, mockers walking in their own ungodly lusts -- all in just 25 verses!

Here are some highlights:

  • God pre-ordained that certain "ungodly" men would deny Jesus. 4

  • "The Lord ... destroyed them that believed not." 5

  • "The angels which kept not their first estate"
    The angels that Jude refers to here are the "sons of God" that had sex with human females to produce a race of giants. 6

  • God sent "eternal fire" on the people of Sodom and Gomorrah for "going after strange flesh." 7-8

  • Michael the Archangel argued with the devil about the body of Moses. This story is taken from the non-canonical book, The Assumption of Moses. 9

  • Enoch, "the seventh from Adam", prophesied that God would come with 10,000 of his saints "to execute judgment upon all." But this prophecy is from the Book of Enoch, not from the Bible. 14-15

  • "Remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles" ... that they told you there should be mockers in the last time."
    The author of Jude thought he was living in "the last time." 17-18