Disregard it.
I'm saying if you want to build a city and so forth, it can't stop at the first brick. Creation evolves into more creation. The bricks pre-existed so the building was formed into being not created from nothing. Although the term sustainer sounds off putting, I like that word...
I'd have to come back but it looks like there's a debate on the nature of genocide in the OT.
Violence against the Canaanites in Deuteronomy and Joshua Reconsidered
Sometimes I think some interpretations are biased. For example, jesus being killed because the government agreed with hesitance...
This is why I say you are missing details.
1. The land is not theirs.
2. The owner of the land is giving it as an inheritance to those he wants to.
3. The ones who are being dispossessed are being driven out, because of their practices.
How is that wrong?
Where did that come from? No one made...
If you dont care what Paul says why would you care what you think Peter says
Anyways we Christians are to be kosher
2 COR. 6 [16] And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I WILL...
To God it does:
2Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out. 23And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and...
Are you Jewish?
Here's the context for those passages - note the highlighted bits:
Leviticus 18:1-5
Leviticus20:22-26
Both of those prohibitions on male-male sexual activity are in the context of commandments to the people of Israel specifically. They are given specifically for the...
"I would not go as far as to say that the soldiers stabbed the babies" ---- LovePeaceHappiness
God said put them to 'death', which did not specifically means by stabbing. More likely, death could have come to the children by slicing like at the throat like a man would do during a sacrifice...
As a former born again christian i find a lot of what conservative christanity says is heavily biased. the utimate
basis of understanding the bible is based upon interpritation, and as anyone knows. the problem is, if you read
the bible in the fullness of itself it is a dimensional document. it...
Hello angellous_evangellous,
When I offered:
And God's Commandment [as "spoken" to Moses] of "Thou shalt not kill" appears only twice in Scripture (Exodus 20:13; Deuteronomy 5:17). That one made God's "Top Ten" list. I would consider that accounting to be "only a few isolated passages of...
But I also said on that same post:
And now we have an example as to what I was referring to:
Repetition is an indicator of importance, but something does not need to be repeated for it to be important. What is useful in repetition is clarity. If something is not clear the first time, it...
Hello sojourner,
After angellous_evangellous replied to you:
You said [to angellous_evangellous]:
I stand by my statement.
angellous_evangellous (a self-identified Christian) seems to concur with my statement.
Aren't you now going to characterize angellous_evangellous as being...