(June 16, 2021 at 5:10 am)Mercyvessel Wrote: Theoretically true, but in this case the Lord Jesus came as a fulfillment of the law - "in the volume of the book it is written of Me" - He declares. Essentially, He (having the authority to do so)
Again, maybe Jesus imaged himself to be that, but there was no reason for Jews to see him like that, nor were Jews particularly described as respectful towards that part of him.
(June 16, 2021 at 5:10 am)Mercyvessel Wrote: Rather than judgment - mercy.
Except when Jesus was not merciful, like when he said how he'll torture people forever. Or in Mark 7:10 when he said people should go back to Mosaic law of killing their own children.
Drich Wrote:the law did not allow sinners or people who qualify to be stoned to stone others.
Show me the verse in Mosaic law that states how only sinless people can stone other people.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
