"Christians": How do you justify worshipping a god who made this a law?

Question

Leviticus 20:9
"For every one that curses his father or his mother shall be surely put to death ..."

Care to guess how many kids were "put to death" because -your- god made this a law?

How do you justify worshipping a god who demanded this of his worshippers?

Answer 1

They will say "Oh that was the OLD law."

So, the point remains, how was this EVER moral? Do you use that as a justification for people who do other evils? "Oh, sure he killed his kid, but that was in 1650! It was fine to kill kids then!"

In addition, Christians claim "absolute morality." They say morals are unchanging. So how did it used to be moral to kill children and now it's immoral?

Edit: I came back to see if they did it - and they did! They think that saying "it happened a long time ago and it was moral to kill kids then" magically makes sense somehow. :)

Answer 2

That's a good question. The God of the Old Testament seems very cruel at times. This issue can be especially confusing when you understand that prior to gaining a physical body, Jesus Christ was the God of the Old Testament.

I don't know for sure, but I believe the answer is in one or more of the following:
- Translation mistakes. Hebrew was a dead language for many years. It would be easy for translation to occur that made the meaning seem far more harsh than the original thoughts intended.
- Some of the seemingly cruel laws were man's interpretation of inspiration from God.
- Some of the seemingly cruel laws wouldn't seem cruel by the culture at the time. God frequently works with us at our current level of understanding.
- The Israelites rejected the higher law (e.g., as taught by Christ) and were given a strict law of performances and ordinances to help them progress. Contrary to what many think, Christianity was taught to Adam and all subsequent prophets.

God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and I know He's loving, just, and in no way cruel. Everything He does, He does for our benefit, even when it's a punishment of some sort.

Answer 3

Now think of this: the same god who put so many innocent kiddos to death because of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time (not to mention the bears who tore to shreds some 40 kids that made fun of one of the prophets), makes people go totally frantic when we talk about the issue of abortion here.
What's worse then, killing a fetus who doesn't have any personality, perception, feelings... in a womb before it can know life, fear or anything else... Or taking a pre-teen child, tie it to a pole and brutally beat him to death or stone him to death, while the little one cries, pleas, bleeds, shrieks for mercy and wails with fear and roars with pain?

Of course, the first is completely immoral and unacceptable and the second is the holy and correct thing to do, because the bible says so.

Answer 4

This is/was part of the Mosaic Law, placed in front of the Israelites during Moses' time. It was rigid and highly structured. It was required for the needs at the time. Also note that there were laws at that time for "an eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth." It also required blood sacrifice. Due to the level of the Israelites back then, such rigidity was required for the development of their faith.

Christ has come to "fulfill the law" as he explained. (See Mathew 5:17-18; Luke 24:44; John 15:25 and Romans 8:4) The old Mosaic law is no longer necessary as Christ's sacrifice fulfilled the law. The Mosaic law was a type, or symbol of Christ to come. Now that he has come, it is no longer required.

Answer 5

Oh, I am SO SICK of hearing that "Christians follow only the New Testament." That's a load of bullcrap. If that were true, the OT wouldn't be part of every Bible, and the 10 Commandments would have no meaning for any Christian.

Christians believe that the God of the OT is the same God as the NT. That deity is supposedly unchanging, as are the morals he enforces. That's what they claim, anyway- - but we all know that's not true at all!

Answer 6

This law was made by Mose, and Jesus told us the truth concerning this law as He did concerning all the other false laws given by Moses

For the law was given by Moses, but grace and Truth came by Jesus Christ.
For Moses gave you not that bread from heaven, but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven.

As to worshiping a God that made this law ?
---- The God of Moses is Satan, ----- Jesus told us this in John 4:20-22. ----- Many of us try to hide the truth from ourselves so we make-up false truths and convince ourselves because everyone else also believes it that it must be true, but we don't have to take the words of Church leaders, we can read the same words for our self.

As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up.

Answer 7

Study up on curses. That law does not refer to simple "darn you" curses.

And what makes you think that God made that law? The New Testament repeatedly attributes the Law to Moses, and the ten commandments to God.

Answer 8

The Old Testament was God's plan of salvation concealed, while it was revealed in the New Testament.
The Old Testament was an example of God's judgment on humanity before Christ came into the world, literal physical death. Paul says, "The wages of sin is DEATH" so when you sin, you die. Maybe not physically but spiritually.
All those who died without having known Christ as a penalty for breaking the law in the Old Testament went to sleep in sheoul, but all those who die without Christ now are in hell, facing spiritual death.

Answer 9

You just don't get it, do you? The laws handed down to Moses regarded his generation and peoples. The ten commandments are impossible for a human to follow. God knew this ,he sent Jesus to come to redeem us. In the New Testament are two laws Love they neighbor and Love the Lord those are the two Jesus says are important. The new testament does iterate some of of the old testament taboos, which stress that certain behaviors are still immoral and unjust. Maybe when you see the light you will see the reasoning. I'll keep you in my prayers.

Answer 10

God Is Righteous and Holy! How do you (a man), justify questioning The Most High God Almighty? You who would carry the bags of an Earthly dignitary and seek favor among men. Yet you will not humble yourself and submit to the Creator of all that you know and don't know. How do you justify your own blindness?

Answer 11

the 1st Commandment (a minimum of the version in Exodus 20) implicitly recognizes that the classic proto-Hebrew human beings believed in and worshipped "different gods" - tribal gods, prolonged relatives gods, nature gods, relatives gods, and so on. the 1st Commandment says, "Thou shalt have not have been given the different gods till now ME," which ability, YHWH is the variety one god, and the theory in different gods, if it is allowed in any respect, could be subordinate to the worship of and obedience to YHWH. So the god of the Hebrew Bible did not tell the Hebrews that they might worship different gods. on the different, Deuteronomy specifies that folk who attempt to allure to others to worship different gods rather of YHWH are to be positioned to death. Deut. 13:12-sixteen and 13:7-11.