(April 29, 2017 at 9:50 pm)SteveII Wrote: 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.
Yes, actually, you do need to explain why you disregard Jesus' edict per his own words. Why do "all the hundreds of passages" supercede what he himself said word for word?
My signature Wrote:“All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for refutation, for correction, and for training in righteousness…” (2 Timothy 3:16 NAB)
"Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest part or the smallest part of a letter will pass from the law, until all things have taken place." (Matthew 5:17 NAB)
"It is easier for Heaven and Earth to pass away than for the smallest part of the letter of the law to become invalid." (Luke 16:17 NAB)
Luke 12:51-52
51 "Do you suppose that I came to grant peace on earth? I tell you, no, but rather division." 52 "For from now on five members in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three"
“Know this first of all, that there is no prophecy of scripture that is a matter of personal interpretation, for no prophecy ever came through human will; but rather human beings moved by the holy Spirit spoke under the influence of God.” (2 Peter 20-21 NAB)
“Whoever curses father or mother shall die” (Mark 7:10 NAB)
I don't really know why it matters if you're a Mayan Warrior, an Orthodox Jew 3200 yrs ago, a soldier from WW2, or just some guy named Steve. Why can't you say irrefutably that you would not absolutely rip someone's child from their stomach, and smash its head over the rocks like this Servant of your god sings about in the OT?
OT Wrote:Anyone who is captured will be run through with a sword. Their little children will be dashed to death right before their eyes. Their homes will be sacked and their wives raped by the attacking hordes. For I will stir up the Medes against Babylon, and no amount of silver or gold will buy them off. The attacking armies will shoot down the young people with arrows. They will have no mercy on helpless babies and will show no compassion for the children. (Isaiah 13:15-18 NLT)
This is what the Lord of hosts has to say: ‘I will punish what Amalek did to Israel when he barred his way as he was coming up from Egypt. Go, now, attack Amalek, and deal with him and all that he has under the ban. Do not spare him, but kill men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and asses.’ (1 Samuel 15:2-3 NAB)
By the Rivers of Babylon Psalm 137:9
…8O daughter of Babylon, you devastated one, How blessed will be the one who repays you With the recompense with which you have repaid us. 9How blessedwill be the one who seizes and dashes your little ones Againstthe rock.
- In the end.. does context even matter when it comes to such atrocious behavior?
