Yeah...... they just better hope they are world class stoners, because science has given me a tiny super sonic metal stone propelled by a magical device called a GLOCK. LOL! peace axeman
As I'm sure you're aware, the Old Testament has several groupings including Genesis, the Torah, Histories and Prophets. The Christian is not under obligation to follow the Law that is primarily in the 2nd grouping that I mentioned. Acts 15:29 Here the Gentiles are very specifically only given four items to follow of the Law including abstaining from meat offered to idols, strangled or blood and fornication. Rom 7:6 "Now we are delivered from the Law..." Paul spends three chapters in Galatians arguing aggressively against Christians being under the Law. (Gal 3-5) Gal 5:18 "But if you are led of the Spirit, you are not under the Law." Again, I can think of fewer more clear doctrines in the New Testament than we are not under the Law. That's why you would be hard pressed to find any Christian that lives under Jewish Law. (I have never even heard of a cult doing this...)
Of course not! As I've stated many times, the Jewish Law was for a specific nation in a specific period of time.
AAAaah ok I see.... so since PAUL, a human said we are no longer under the law, we can all just ignore gods commands? Yeah yeah... all of gods commands came through humans, so Pauls writings are gods word... yeah right. Ok... lets assume this is true. Now please explain why god is such a psychopathic idiot who thinks its ok to stone children to death during one period and then does a 180 and says... ok NOOOOOW we no longer do that. All of this doesnt make sense at all because its obviously a bunch of made up man fabricated crap. Could it be any more obvious Shoe?? This points to two possibilities above all others. 1) God is a bi-polar psycho path who believes in bashing children in the head with stones until they are dead because they misbehaved. 2) Man made all this nonsense up and thats why it doesnt make any sense at all. If god is so perfect... why is it that his laws CHANGED??? Huh Shoe? Did he originally make an ERROR hmmm??? The deeper you look into this stuff, the more completely silly it becomes. peace axeman
I am only responding because there may actually be someone out there who actually takes you seriously. The Law you cited was obviously not intended for every little disobedience of a child. There would be no Jewish nation if they killed all their children for every disobedience! It was clearly meant for the most extreme of cases. God created one of the most successful nationalities in history in the Jews and then changed the course of history by creating a gospel ideal for the Genitles. You can criticze Him for this, but the fact is that it has been wildly successful.. As I have pointed out before, the it's working: the gospel is going like wildfire throughout the non-Caucasian planet. All you're arguing is that you don't like the way God did things. But the fact is that it has been wildly successful.
Stop splitting hairs Shoe. So you actually think its OK for the JEWS to stone children to death "in the extreme cases"????? Do you??? Fine... ill use your wording instead: WHY did god command people to STONE TO DEATH "the most extreme cases of misbehaving children" only to do a 180 in the future and command NOT to do this anymore?????????? Further, even if we accept your ASSERTION that it was "wildly successful", the ends do not justify the means. THE POINT IS.... god did a 180 on his laws. WHY??? WAS HE IN ERROR THE FIRST TIME AROUND???????????? Not only do I REJECT the WAY he did it, I reject your claim that it was wildly successful, and I offer as PROOF of an IMPERFECT god, the fact that he so COMPLETELY changed his laws! God apparently is seriously screwed up in the head. He cant decide what is right or wrong, because it OBVIOUSLY changes over time, even if he IS a perfect being. HUGE contradiction... BZZZZZZZZZT... next excuse please. peace axeman
I definitely believe in capital punishment. I definitely believe in capital punishment. I would have no problem, for example, with the 16 year old boy who serially killed all those people in the DC area being executed.
Why do you think?!? Because, contrary to what you think, God is practical. Christians can't go in and change the laws of a nation in which they're a small minority! That's a death wish in most countries and you know it...