(April 29, 2017 at 9:25 pm)Luckie Wrote:(April 29, 2017 at 8:52 pm)SteveII Wrote: Your hypothetical is impossible, so an answer is just nonsense.
It wasn't impossible in the OT, when they were doing it, so why isnt a practice in your religious beliefs as a hypothetical, irrelevant? I hear Christians ask all the time, "would you have done this.. or that.. if you were in X situation in the OT" and quite often it's something that reflects well upon the Christian. "I wouldn't have sold Jesus out! How could Judas have done that having seen the miracles of God?!" , or, famously "I probably could have made it through the tests of Job."
Why is answering my question nonsense then?
Drich you are getting a response. I'm just waiting for Steve and Lek to weigh in.
I'm a Christian, not an OT Jew who is a citizen of a Theocracy in a story that was written down centuries after the fact. If you have read the NT, then I don't need to point out the hundreds of passages that instruct peacefully living with everyone, turning the other cheek, loving your neighbor as yourself. That is the covenant we find ourselves under and not the theocracy that ended 3100 years ago and so, it is impossible that such a command be issued under the current covenant so therefore an answer would be nonsense.