With passages like this in Deuteronomy that everyone rejects, how can we embrace other parts of the bible?

Question

6: If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;
7: 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;
8: 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:
9: 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.
10: And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

chapter 13, sorry

Answer 1

Don't worry -- the godders will come up with some reason why that passage no longer applies, or doesn't apply to them, or only applies on alternate Wednesdays, or some other convenient explanation.

Answer 2

Interesting how, oh my hatred and murder are preached where, in the Bible?! Shhh Don't tell the rest of the world, we would be extremist fascists and terrorists. I need to add here because I read some of the others, Jesus was not put to death because of any one ppl. From the very beginning of the Bible, it has been extended that no matter how many or simple the rules of God, no one can get to heaven by themselves and that is why Jesus died, for the Jew, the Christian, the Muslim, the Wicca, the Zionist, the Catholic everyone. It was a matter if you believe it or not and that was the difference. Deuteronomy was under the law before Jesus. It also says, " where with all shall a young man cleanse his way. By taking heed there to according to thy word. Have my whole heart have I sought thee, oh let me not wonder from thy commandments. Blessed art thou oh Lord, teach me thy statutes." This all means to take it personally, to listen and adjust, not fake it but change and learn. God will you all stop listening to tele-evangelists.

Answer 3

Have you read up on some of the practices of those people who were living around them? First of all they practiced child sacrifice. The first girl of every family had to be thrown into the fire. To appease the fire God. They used children as temple prostitutes to serve the men. Male and female.
They had sex orgy's and disease ran rampant thorough the communities. Remember when they were about to enter the promise land. 24,000 young men went to a party that included sex with multiple partners. They were stoned which sounds harsh but VD was a weapon of mass destruction.
today not near as many people die in war as die from sex diseases. AIDS has killed over 50 million alone.
They wanted to subjugate them and so probably sent women they knew were infected with disease. Then they take it back to there wives and walla the nation is gone. They practice germ warfare even back then. Knowing women infected would be a shuttle killer. Gongarea, sillifis would kill without modern medicine.

Answer 4

It was a specific command to the Israelites. It's a part of the laws that God gave the Israelites so that they wouldn't worship false idols. We don't do that anymore because, because of Jesus' death, we live under grace. We can ask forgiveness nowadays for worshipping false idols and get back to God without being punished to that degree. Before Jesus, though, there was no grace; since we could not be washed of our sins, the only way to pay for our sins ("the wages of sin is death"; once a sin is committed, it must be paid for) was to be punished. Because of this, severe punishment would be meted out because justice would have to be swiftly delivered in order to pay for sin. Thankfully, Jesus changed all that, and we no longer have to be stoned to death for worshipping false idols; we can just ask for forgiveness.

Answer 5

Jesus was put to death because the Jews did not want to worship God via Jesus. Jesus was a blasphemer and deserved death. Jesus fulfilled the above saying and many other sayings regarding his death.

When Jesus rose from the dead and ascended into Heaven, the Romans destroyed Jerusalem less than 40 years later. Those who practice Judaism discount Jesus. Those who are Zionists worship Satan - in those two examples, nothing has changed.

Answer 6

YES CHET HAS IT RIGHT, BUT i MIGHT ADD THAT THE JEWS WERE JUST RESCUED FROM THE EGYPTIANS AND NEEDED SEVERE LAWS IN PLACE TO PREVENT THEM FROM SLIDING BACK INTO IDOLATRY AS THEY HAD DONE WITH MOSES.

THIS WAS A NEW FAITH AND AS ANY TEACHER WHO GETS A NEW CLASS HAS TO BE VERY STERN AT THE EARLIEST POSSIBLE TIME SO THAT THE CLASS WILL REMEMBER FOR A LONG TIME WHAT THE RULES ARE.

YOU WILL NOTE THAT THE JEWS AT LARGE HAVE NOT FALLEN INTO STRONG IDOLATRY

Answer 7

what chapter in Deuteronomy?
I want a reference for the next time someone says muslims are supposed to "kill all unbelievers"
Please provide the chapter?
I will put this question on my watch list because it's one of the best (if not THE best) question I have ever seen on yahoo answers

Answer 8

Number 23:19 God is not man, that he should lie,
or a son of man, that he should change his mind.
Has he said, and will he not do it?
Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?

Answer 9

If the Kings of Israel would have kept that law, instead of building temples to strange gods for their many "wives", they might still be a strong nation today.....

Answer 10

For the time and place where that was written, sounds good to me.

Doesn't really apply now however; that law isn't needed.

I eat crab and lobster too btw. Will I burn in hell for it? lol no