I've seen this excuse several times. God wanting you to kill someone for working on the sabbath is because he loves you as a parent loves their child and parents have to lay down rules because of that love.
Hey guys, I've got three kids that I love very much. They have rules, but that doesn't include having them killed for not cleaning their room. In fact I have never had and never will have, cause to hit, spank or strike my children in anyway.
If God's gotta have his children killed for working on the sabbath, doesn't that make him a lousy parent?
2007-04-08 01:51:43 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
An example of the killing bit is Exodus 31:15
2007-04-08 01:54:18 · update #1
Whoever you're talking to needs to bone up on their theology. Christians are exempt from observing the Sabbath and God doesn't want us to kill anyone.
2007-04-08 01:56:15 · answer #1 · answered by Cybeq 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That is not the killing which God have done b but it was a covenant between Moses and the Israel people in disobeying the law of God to observe the Sabbath day as it is Holy to God and it falls on the 7th day of a week.
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2007-04-08 09:00:17 · answer #2 · answered by Jesus M 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
My guess is that Christianity is essentially a primitive patriarchal culture trying to extend it's life via dogma. Patriarchy blames women for 'tempting' men, and sees any disobedience as an insult to the Father Figure (God).
In order to face fears and trauma of death, sexuality, unanswered questions, many people look to their imaginary father-figure for both the answer and question to everything that ever happens. It's also way of abrogating self-control, by believing that a greater power has it's sway over your actions.
Therefore, killing for 'God' became not only plausible, but practiced.
2007-04-08 09:06:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have never seen anywhere in the bible that states that working the sabbath should be punishable by death. You should site a source or reference because that seems like something you misquoted or made up. In the ten commandments it says you shouldn't work on the sabbath, but the ten commandments are just laws. If christians follow those laws they are better off, but if they don't they can be forgiven.
God doesn't kill people. Disease, murder, natural causes, catastrophes, etc. kill people.
2007-04-08 09:02:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
You are confusing the Old Testament with the New Testament. Christianity is New. Judaism is Old.
2007-04-08 09:04:47 · answer #5 · answered by CHARITY G 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
god doesnt kill people i doooooooo.
2007-04-08 08:59:04 · answer #6 · answered by Dhpo 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋