I am taking it at face value. It says that if you have a disobedient child, then take that child to the priests, explain to them that your child is disobedient, and then take them to the city gates so they may be stoned to death. How is that not a passage saying to kill unruly children like you claimed?
Just because I don't have to jump through a hundred mental hoops to be able to believe that a passage in the bible doesn't mean what it means doesn't mean that I don't use reasoning when reading that passage. For some reason Christians have the hardest time accepting literal meanings of passages in the bible when those passages are inconveniently embarrassing.
Just because I don't have to jump through a hundred mental hoops to be able to believe that a passage in the bible doesn't mean what it means doesn't mean that I don't use reasoning when reading that passage. For some reason Christians have the hardest time accepting literal meanings of passages in the bible when those passages are inconveniently embarrassing.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.