(November 22, 2013 at 6:46 pm)Brakeman Wrote:Do you believe that law has ever been enforced? It contains so many stipulations because it is entirely for instruction. But I wouldn't expect a fundamentalist atheist to understand. "But it says! But it says!" You read but you do not understand....(November 21, 2013 at 7:37 pm)Godschild Wrote: You give me an interpretation of the stoning of children that disobey.Oh, really?
The verse you are using, trying to make God look like the bad guy is in actuality a cry from a distraught Israelite who was anguishing over the disaster of his people.
GC
Deuteronomy 21:18-21 expands on the law:
If any man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey his father or his mother, and when they chastise him, he will not even listen to them, then his father and mother shall seize him, and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gateway of his home town. And they shall say to the elders of his city, "This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey us, he is a glutton and a drunkard." Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death; so you shall remove the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear of it and fear.
That sure sounds like you have the super duper model of magic decoder rings. You couldn't stretch it that much without it!
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