We both agree that biblical eye for an eye justice implies the intent of equal justice, what it seems you do not accept or understand is that equal justice implies the principle of reciprocity, retribution, retaliation, etc..
Leviticus 24:17 Anyone who takes the life of a human being is to be...
So does this mean that all "sins" that God deemed is not worthy of death are not sins?
You know, like:
(1) Blinding or putting out of eyes in the case of captives (Judges 16:21 1 Samuel 11:2 2 Kings 25:7).
(2) Chaining by means of manacles or fetters of copper or iron, similar to our...
I think I asked you this before... the prophecy from Daniel that William Miller used to eventually predict that Christ would return in 1844... As I recall JW's had a few predictions of their own. What prophecies were they based on and what dates were thought to be the date of the Return of...
If you believe that the Bible is the word of God (or one of them) then if God's law through Moses demanded the death penalty for some capital offenses, does that mean that God is not as loving and kind as you think he should be? What does "just" mean in that context? The God of the Bible laid...
We really have to do this again? You can't see what I am going to do? Really?
OK here we go. . .
"An eye for an eye"
Whose eye? Do I get to choose? If you take my eye, can I take your wife's eye? What if I only partly damage the eye, is that OK?
"life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth...
Deciding who lives and who dies is sometimes part of it, but ok if you feel there is a difference.
Folks have to dictate their lives by something. If you had to make a choice between who lives and dies, someone is going to find fault with it.
Me, I'd make the choice based on what I feel is...
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I believe there never was a commandment as such. There were ordinances which are laws. The one in question when put in context was about a person doing harm to a pregnant woman. The loss of the child was to be recompensed by money but any other harm had to be commensurate to the...
Not so as you say. This law commanded "eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth". And this law is written also in Leviticus:
" And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour, as he hath done, so shall it be done to him; breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish...
I don't see Jesus saying anything that forbids the exaction of physical punishment. Are you referring to the interpolated Pericope Adulterae? Jesus says to never murder out of anger. I don't think you've actually read the gospels all the way through outside of a list of cherry picked verses...
Many laws of the Old Testament are contrary to the law that Jesus taught us in the Gospel because do not contemplate the mercy and forgiveness. Therefore, they are an unbearable burden. Here are some of these Old Testament laws:
"And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is infamy...
Whom hates who?
ANTI-SEMITISM IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
“The children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (Matthew 8.12)
“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and stonest them that are sent unto...
No you simply don't understand what Jesus meant. He was saying the Jews were misapplying it far too literally and strictly. Even today, Orthodox Jews don't apply it literally and strictly. When was the last time even the most Charedi of Jews ruled for someone to be beaten or maimed in a similar...
I think you are wrong. Te scripture dont´t talk about the money. Te scriptpure tell so:
"And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him; Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be...
I am so glad you brought this up and was waiting for someone to bring up this agruement which is a sound agrument, except you have made the mistake of putting every law under the moral law. The debate is about morality. God's moral law never changes. But There are three types of Old Testament...
If we are to take the Bible as literal history. And if we are to say that morality come from God. Then let's look and see if God morals are objective and absolute, or subjective to time, place and situation.
Exodus 21:7 lays down Gods laws on the proper way to sell your daughter into slavery...
God is one. He is not in parts. Granted that sometimes people perceive Jesus as a part of God but that is a false perception. Jesus makes this clear when He says:
Joh 10:30 I and the Father are one.
This is not a question of eternal superiority but of temporal superiority. IE. God does not...
When Jesus was on earth, persons would prostrate themselves before him to petition and to do obeisance to him, and he did not reprove them. (Lu 5:12; Joh 9:38) This was because he was the appointed King, the King-Designate, as he himself said: Gods royal majesty has approached (ED); The...
What Does the Bible Say About God and Jesus?
IF PEOPLE were to read the Bible from cover to cover without any preconceived idea of a Trinity, would they arrive at such a concept on their own? Not at all.
What comes through very clearly to an impartial reader is that God alone is the Almighty...
JESUS called God the only true God. (John 17:3) Never did he refer to God as a deity of plural persons. That is why nowhere in the Bible is anyone but Jehovah called Almighty. Otherwise, it voids the meaning of the word almighty. Neither Jesus nor the holy spirit is ever called that, for...