(January 14, 2012 at 1:18 am)organiccornflake Wrote: The bible says "an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth." The slave would have deserved the beating for one of his actions. A punishment cannot be given unless justified.
The bible says a lot of crap. Why parrot any of it back here? It seems the bible gives you support for doing anything or its opposite. So in the end, don't you just do whatever it is you want and then find the verse that justifies your whim?
"Turn the other cheek" vs "an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth"
"Thou shalt not kill" vs "no blame on he whose blow kills a slave as long as the slaves death is slow enough"
No one here is impressed with this sort of reasoning. Figuring out what to do, let alone what to think, based on all the shit written in the bible is a fool's mission. Man up. Try thinking toward conclusions rather than from them.
