RE: How do you feel
November 21, 2014 at 2:53 pm
(This post was last modified: November 21, 2014 at 2:57 pm by Godscreated.)
(November 21, 2014 at 11:08 am)JonDarbyXIII Wrote:(November 20, 2014 at 9:39 pm)Godschild Wrote: Notice anything there about children, the word children is not used once, and why are the girls not included in these verses?
(November 18, 2014 at 9:16 pm)Godschild Wrote: The scriptures never call for children to be stoned and the others were given to the Israelites.
(November 20, 2014 at 9:39 pm)Godschild Wrote: Notice anything there about children, the word children is not used once, and why are the girls not included in these verses?
The verses may say "sons" and not "children, but that is far from the only issue at hand.
-If anyone in your town converts to any other religion, you must lead him to the city gates and kill him (Deuteronomy 17:2-5) - Have you killed all the non-believers in your town?
-If a man tries to convert anyone in his town to any other religion, you must slaughter the entire city--man and animal. Then you must burn the entire city to the ground. (Deuteronomy 13:12-16) - Have you ever slaughtered an entire city and set it on fire?
-If anyone is ‘presumptuous’ and won’t listen to the priest or judge, you must kill him immediately. (Deuteronomy 17:12) - I don't suppose you've done this either.
-If anyone in your family tries to convert you, you must kill them (Deuteronomy 13:6-10)
-If anyone blasphemes the name of God, you must stone him. (Leviticus 24:16)
-If anyone steals anything, he must be put to death. (Exodus 21:16)
-Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death (Exodus 21:17 Leviticus 20:9)
-Anyone who works on Saturday must be put to death (Exodus 31:15; 35:2)
-Anyone who consults the spirits of the dead must be put to death (Leviticus 20:27)
-Anyone who prophesies against God (or for another religion) must be put to death (Deuteronomy 13:5)
And you seemed to ignore the others that were mentioned:
-Anyone who commits adultery must be put to death (Leviticus 20:10)
-Homosexuals must be put to death (Leviticus 20:13)
And as for the girls not being mentioned, Deuteronomy 13:6-10 and 17:2-5 (already listed) does say "man or woman" However, you might say, "this says women, not girls." So how were girls treated?
-Midianite girls were to be kidnapped and raped (Numbers 31:17-35)
-In battle, girls could be taken as plunder--again, presumably to be raped (Deuteronomy 20:14)
And there are several other similar verses that talk about kidnapping and raping women, but since they had been ordered to kill any woman who was not a virgin, this pretty much leaves only the young girls.
The point is that God has ordered you to do certain things that you evidently have no intention of carrying out. Can I assume that you think it would be wrong to kidnap, rape, and kill people?
Congratulations, you are more moral than your God.
Those are commandments that were given for a certain time and for the Israelites. They were to rid the land they were to posses of all the bad influences that would lead them from the living God of creation. You cherry pick through the scriptures, no you look up online what others have cherry picked and try to use deceptively these verses. You ignore all the things going on at the time and you ignore the reasoning behind these commandments. Why don't you read and study the scriptures, that's only proper if you are going to argue what the Bible says. The advent of Christ changed these laws, and if you would study scripture you would find these laws were given only to the Israelites, no other peoples of that time were required to live by them. Also I see you didn't try to answer my question, even thought it was meant for someone else, can't you answer it, you took it upon yourself to get involved with this.
GC
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.