(May 1, 2016 at 4:31 pm)PETE_ROSE Wrote:(May 1, 2016 at 3:33 pm)ApeNotKillApe Wrote: How do you discern what is or is not a misguided Christian practice?
Is the practice based in scripture.
I can see why you admonished us not to bait you into trapping yourself with your words.
So if a practice is sound according to the Bible, that makes it a Christian and moral practice, right?
So if a man rapes a virgin woman, he can pay the father fifty shekels of silver and marry her to absolve himself (and gain a wife), right? If he rapes a married woman, kill him, unless she doesn't scream loudly enough, then kill them both (I forget if you're supposed to kill the husband, too, but probably). Soldiers may seize wives from conquered peoples, so our boys overseas should be able to have their pick of the brown women if they like. Eating shrimp is an abomination, though, so I'm going to Hell for working at Red Lobster.
Verbatim from the mouth of Jesus (retranslated from a retranslation of a copy of a copy):
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you too will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. How can you see your brother's head up his ass when your own vision is darkened by your head being even further up your ass? How can you say to your brother, 'Get your head out of your ass,' when all the time your head is up your own ass? You hypocrite! First take your head out of your own ass, and then you will see clearly who has his head up his ass and who doesn't." Matthew 7:1-5 (also Luke 6: 41-42)
Also, I has a website: www.RedbeardThePink.com
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you too will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. How can you see your brother's head up his ass when your own vision is darkened by your head being even further up your ass? How can you say to your brother, 'Get your head out of your ass,' when all the time your head is up your own ass? You hypocrite! First take your head out of your own ass, and then you will see clearly who has his head up his ass and who doesn't." Matthew 7:1-5 (also Luke 6: 41-42)
Also, I has a website: www.RedbeardThePink.com