And your children cursed you, would you put them to death?
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear. -- Deuteronomy 21:18-21
He that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death. -- Exodus 21:15
He that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death. -- Exodus 21:17
2007-10-06 04:46:12 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The question here is, would you EVER?
2007-10-06 04:46:54 · update #1
Answer my question. "Jesus changed all that," is not an answer, but that obviously infers no. My second question is, does it not bother you that the almighty creator of the universe would ever or would have ever advocated killing your children because they got out of line?
2007-10-06 04:58:46 · update #2
No, really, do you honestly think God--allegedly the pinnacle of morality--would have ever had such a "program" to begin with?
2007-10-06 05:03:21 · update #3
@dirtdoc6...: Another religious fanatic that claims evolution isn't true? What is the place coming to? Look, go ahead and capitalize THEORY, like that somehow invalidates it. Just like the THEORY of GRAVITY, right?
One single shred? Are you mad? No real scientist denies that evolution occurred. The only dispute is how the process went.
2007-10-06 05:08:25 · update #4
No. And the notion that some sort of god commanded this, or even exists, is totally without support.
2007-10-06 04:53:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not me sir we have modern day things such as programs to help us with situations like this. There is no way I would want to do such things or even have them done unto me. I don't know if I could live in a time or bring back such an era where stoning to death would always be the answer to everything even the smallest ones.
2007-10-06 04:56:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
1) I'm a real and practicing scientist and I dispute macroevolution. Genuine science can only be truly practiced if anything and everything can be questioned, otherwise we end up repeating the Galileo syndrome but in a secular version as we have today. The Atheists have made Science their Religion instead of a tool for a legitimate inquiry of everything.
2) God is the Author of life and what life He takes He can also restore. It is the Atheist who fears the finality of death.
3) Capital punishment is just.
2007-10-06 08:19:04 · answer #3 · answered by neofreshmao 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Always amazes me that people want to claim God isnt real, that he hasnt been proven, and all this type of stuff. You apparently havent truly kept up with science. The THEORY of evolution has in fact NEVER had ONE SINGLE shred proven. IN FACT, its theory changes from year to year. The Bible has remained the same. if you dont like what it says, that is your choice. But to try to make your opinions facts based on pure ignorance is true stupidity. Even christians know God made things evolve as needed.
in reference to the question, the time and place this scripture occured was when the people of israel were very much consumed with the worst of humanity. God required them to give up all forms of evil in order to inherit the promise of freedom. keep in mind, God could have chosen other people on earth to be his sacred people. He brought them out of bondage, yet they wanted to remain in it.
2007-10-06 05:03:25 · answer #4 · answered by dirtdoc6550 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Isn't it odd that Christian people want their children to believe in something as repulsive as the Bible!
Please help spread the word that god is a fairy tale so we can all live better and more freely.
2007-10-06 04:54:04 · answer #5 · answered by Dave W 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
If you were a jew, you would. This IS Gods program for Israel in times past and in ages to come. They signed up for the law program and knew what they were gettin into when they did it.
Today we are not under that program but under GRACE. The fact is that God isnt requiring these things from anyone in this , the dispensation of the GRACE of God and the "preaching of Jesus Christ ACCORDING TO THE REVELATION of the Mystery..." Romans 16:25
We have to be sure we understand what program God is currently IN, so that we can cooperate with Him IN IT.
I , for one, am thankful that God changed programs, arent you?
By the way, evolution IS only a theory, or haven't you heard?
Just as I thot...this question was asked by another disgruntled UNBELIEVER....sigh.
Your question is a stupid one and really didn't deserve an answer.
2007-10-06 04:51:35 · answer #6 · answered by goinupru 6 · 0⤊ 6⤋
thou shalt NOT kill is the COMMANDMENT. I would not trust ANYTHING that demands you to violate the commandments, be it in the bible or the torah. Who are you to deny a person the chance to rectify their sins? Your own child, for the sake of God?
2007-10-06 04:55:08 · answer #7 · answered by Brent 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I bet more people would walk a strait line then
2007-10-06 04:55:25 · answer #8 · answered by M-S 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You cannot understand this without studying the gemara in Tractate Sanhedrin.
After you have done so, please contact us for a fruitful discussion.
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2007-10-06 09:32:09 · answer #9 · answered by Ivri_Anokhi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus changed ALL that!
2007-10-06 04:51:48 · answer #10 · answered by Premaholic 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋