Just in case you’ve been backsliding on your Biblical obligations lately Steve Wells at Dwindling in Unbelief lists for you a few of the crimes punishable by death in the Bible:
- Fortune telling (Leviticus 20:27)
- Hitting a parent (Exodus 21:15)
- Cursing a parent (Leviticus 20:9)
- Not listening to a priest (Deuteronomy 17:12)
- Following another religion (Exodus 22:20)
- Adultery (Leviticus 20:10)
- Not seeking the Lord God of Israel (2 Chronicles 15:12-13)
- Fornication (Leviticus 21:9)
- Prophesying falsely (Zechariah 13:3)
- Who has to kill a false prophet? (Zechariah 13:3)
- Homosexuality (Leviticus 20:13)
- Blasphemy (Leviticus 24:10-16)
- Working on the Sabbath (Exodus 31:12-15)
- Having a few people in your town worshiping another god (Deuteronomy 13:13-16)
Serious stuff, all worthy of at least a good stoning.
And no fear arguing the Bible isn’t true and perfect. As Pastor Dr Jason Lisle at Answers in Genesis advises,
“1. If the Bible were not true, logic would not be meaningful.
2. Logic is meaningful.
3. Therefore, the Bible is true.”
Time to get out your bags of stones and start visiting those apostates, then.
10 comments:
HIV has put many a homo to death.
SIlly post, Peter. You know as well as I do that Jesus demonstrated that those laws were superceded by the higher law to love your neighbour (Rom 13:9). For a direct countermanding of the law of adultery, I suggest you read John 8:1-11. For the Sabbath laws try Mark 2:23-28.
And, Anonymous 9:45, HIV has put many a hetero to death as well. What's your point?
@MacDoctor: So your advice to impressionable youngsters when reading this vicious nonsense is "Don't read the sealed sections"?
@PC : No, my advice to impressionable youngsters is read the whole thing. Only strange people review a book based of the first three chapters.
And expect no equality here - no women at stonings, thank you.
@ Macdoctor: So your advise is read the whole thing, but disregard a lot of it? What critieria do I use then in deciding what to take note of, and what to disregard?
Is it a date thing i.e. whatever comes later supercedes the earlier stuff?
And if that's the case, why read the earlier stuff? Your suggestion that it should be read in its entirety implies it must have something of value - sets the context or something maybe?
I am not being sarcastic, I genuinly want to understand how you see this. I am often told by Christians that the 'answers' lie in the Bible - and I want to understand what they mean when they say that.
By reading the whole thing you'll see which parts become directives (Jesus' new commandment to love one and other) and which parts become historical (did you know people used to be punished for the sins of the times?)
Information can become instructive, but that does not imply it needs to be followed when countermanded later
Especially as the Bible consists of the first half being more a historical narrative than a "you must do this or that", and the second half brings the "good news", the way forward.
Some scientists thought about 70 years ago that "one hug per year" for a child was enough, if a child was to be raised by scientific principles.
If you put all that in a book, with the latest on attachment parenting at the end, are you going to do the first year of child rearing based on the first few chapters, or the last?
If you read about Noah, you don't conclude that if it starts raining you to are obliged to build an Ark.
@ ZenTiger: Thanks for the explanation.
So are you saying the first half is a literal/factual account of what has happened , and it's only the 2nd half that talks about what *should* happen (i.e. offers the moral guidance)? Is that right?
If so, is that interpretation what most other Christians believe? Is there a preamble or something in the Bible that make this clear?
This is not a post that seeks to understand, it's just gleeful prejudice and condemnation. Masquerading as civilized rationality.
Readers should recognize what the Bible actually is, and what Jesus taught, before treating it like some kind of KKK instruction manual. This post is equally as ignorant.
repaired link: What Jesus taught
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