Brian Ross wrote on Aug 7
th, 2014 at 11:27pm:
Quote:Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known;
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Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.
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[Deuteronomy 13:13-19]
My, reads very similar to the Q'ran, doesn't it? Lets see what else we can find in The Bible, shall we?
Quote:Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth;
Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him:
But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
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[Deuteronomy 13:7-11]
Oh, dear, God telling his followers to kill non-believers. Just like the Muslims!
Quote:........
Then the Lord said to Moses:
“Take the blasphemer outside the camp. All those who heard him are to lay their hands on his head, and the entire assembly is to stone him.
Say to the Israelites: ‘Anyone who curses their God will be held responsible;
anyone who blasphemes the name of the Lord is to be put to death. The entire assembly must stone them. Whether foreigner or native-born, when they blaspheme the Name they are to be put to death.
[Leviticus 24:10-16]
So, you're to be killed if you blaspheme? Just like the Muslims again.
Quote:But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, is to be put to death.
[Deuteronomy 18:20]
Quote:For six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there is a sabbath of complete rest, holy to the LORD; whoever does any work on the sabbath day shall surely be put to death.
[Exodus 31:15]
So, not much room there for accommodation of other religious beliefs, is there?
Plenty more of that sort of stuff in The Bible! Terrible!
Brian_Ross,
You are lying, or at the least,
misrepresenting the facts and circumstances.
Quote:"Oh, dear, God telling his followers to kill non-believers. Just like the Muslims!"
As i have argued and presented previously, on numerous occasions, here on OzPol....
There is a difference between;
1/ killing someone because he does not believe what you believe [
which is what ISLAM promotes - AND 'SANCTIFIES'],
AND,
2/ killing someone [as a punishment, however harsh that may seem to us] because he has broken a covenant
which he entered into, and understood.
The ancient Hebrews were
A COVENANT PEOPLE.
They had entered into
a solemn covenant with their God.
Yadda said.....
Quote:Exodus 19:5
Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
7 And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him.
8
And all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the LORD.
Leviticus 20:22
Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them:......
Leviticus 20:24
.......I am the LORD your God, which have separated you from other people.
Leviticus 20:26
And ye shall be holy unto me:
for I the LORD am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.
Those penalties were to be against
covenant breakers [among the children of Israel].
Against persons who
had made a solemn agreement to keep themselves HOLY [in the presence of their God], but would count their covenant with their God as of no important 'consequence', and not worthy of keeping.
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Is God unreasonable
- to require that people who have made an agreement with him [God], and then break their part of the agreement, be punished, be killed ?
Not in my book.
I don't like people who make an agreement with me, ....and then later, 'break their word' [when they no longer want to do what they have agreed to do].
People who 'break their word', are unreliable.