(January 2, 2017 at 11:46 pm)Godschild Wrote:(January 2, 2017 at 11:41 am)Astonished Wrote: Just curious, were you not aware that these were only to apply to the Hebrews? Anyone not of their tribe was fair game. Not to mention the penalties for breaking rules like picking up sticks on the Sabbath.
You need to prove the commandment meant Hebrew's were not to kill Hebrew's only.
GC
(January 2, 2017 at 7:55 pm)Astonished Wrote: Deuteronomy Chapter 13
6 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which [is] as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;
7 [Namely], of the gods of the people which [are] round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the [one] end of the earth even unto the [other] end of the earth;
8 Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him:
9 But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
10 ; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
11 And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.
If you don't like telling the truth, just say so. It's all right. It's pretty easy to tell most of the time.
It seems you are struggling with the understanding of the OT laws. This particular law has a death sentence that goes with it. God wanted His people to stay pure in their worship of Him, there were terrible consequences for disobeying God on this point. Let's see if you know through the scriptures why there was terrible consequences. I'm not interested in what might pop into your head, I've heard all those tired arguments, go get it from the Bible if you are interested in discussing the scriptures.
GC
I'm not interested in discussing puerile nonsense. Just pointing out that you shouldn't base your life around it and display your staggering ignorance of it and then project your own intellectual inadequacy on someone right after they've demonstrated beyond dispute that you're just plain wrong about what you claimed.
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
---
There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
---
There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.