RE: Genocide in the Old Testament
September 19, 2013 at 11:37 am
(This post was last modified: September 19, 2013 at 11:39 am by John V.)
(September 19, 2013 at 11:32 am)max-greece Wrote: Brilliant - we can therefore imply perfection without defining it - thank you.<sigh> A perfect human is not a jealous one, and so on - although as already noted, the seven deadly sins are not a biblical concept, so I don't even know that this is correct.
So:
Jealousy is one of the seven deadly sins.
Implication - a perfect being is not a jealous one.
(September 19, 2013 at 11:34 am)Stimbo Wrote: So biblical authority, or at least your espousing of it, hasn't even caught up to the Civil Rights Movement of the 60s. I'd have liked to think we were a bit more enlightened than that as a species.Nothing like the smell of atheist desperation in the morning.