2007-12-17 09:28:43 · 18 answers · asked by Lancaid 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
So it would be ok to kill a prisoner.
2007-12-17 09:42:25 · update #1
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2007-12-17 09:42:49 · update #2
The Old Testiment was concerned with dishing out rightful Justice. If you are a witch, you absolutely deserve to die.
Right after it it mentions if you have sexual relations with an animal, you should be put to death.
Right after that, it says whoever sacrifices to any other God other than the True God shall also die.
It was a heck of a time before God allowed us to understand His Amazing Grace (in the New Testament) wasn't it?
If it wasnt for Jesus... we would all need to immediately be put to death. Yes me. Yes you. Yes even the Pope.
We can't even begin to measure up to the 10 Commandments.
Now perhaps you are on your way to better understanding why mankind is/was in such a dire need for a Savior... and we have one in Jesus Christ.
God Bless You.
2007-12-17 09:44:15 · answer #1 · answered by John W 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A lot of people seem to believe that quite literally. They're also the ones who don't know that King James changed that from the original verse - "Thou shalt not suffer a poisoner to live." King James was terrified of witches. Not sure why he wasn't terrified of poisoners, but apparently witches are scarier to some people than people who like using strychnine and arsenic to kill people.
2007-12-17 09:44:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hi, brother.
Nope. That's one of those laws that just reinforces my opinion of a "loving" god.
Also in the "absolute truth" of the bible. The original text was: Thou shall not suffer a poisoner to live" but King James had a particular dislike for witches so his translators made him happy.
2007-12-17 09:46:04 · answer #3 · answered by Aravah 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's that exact verse that has gotten people arrested in New Orleans -- They used it as justification for death threats against some of the Tarot Card readers (who quite understandably called the police)
Sadly though, most people don't know that the ORIGINAL text said something differant -- "Thou shalt not suffer a POISONER to live" (Something that even many Witches could agree with)
2007-12-17 09:35:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anne Hatzakis 6 · 5⤊ 2⤋
The Old Testament is God's revelation to the Jews, so these laws were intended for the land of Israel, a theocratic society. Since Jesus came to spread the Gospel of salvation, to the Jew first and also to the Gentile, the Old Testament Laws are no longer in effect. If they were still in effect, they would be in effect for Jews living in Israel, and for no one else who lived anywhere else.
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2007-12-17 10:07:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I interpret the Bible via God is Love, the previous testomony interior the easy of Christ and His Church and reason organic regulation and Apostolic Oral custom and, for that reason, we won't be able to kill witches
2016-11-03 21:30:53 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Another reason to not take the KJV Bible as the final authority on anything... or any Bible really.
It's not that Bibles bother me. They don't. It just bothers me when people's only justification for something is "the Bible says so".
2007-12-17 10:00:30 · answer #7 · answered by xx. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And they say that the bible teaches about love and understanding.
This one line has lead to the deaths of many, many people. Just because they were accused of being a witch, whether it was true or not.
I knew someone would trot out the "mistranslation" argument. So that means that there is error in the bible. A mistranslation is an error. I guess this goes to show that the bible is capable of being in error which shows it to be of human making and not something divine. If a god is all powerful then why can the god not make a book that is error-proof? How do we know there are not several other "mistranslations" in the bible? How do we know that it was not completely rewritten by people with personal interests centuries ago?
Now someone has pulled out the old testament is not valid. I guess those 10 commandments are no longer valid either. Those came from the old testament. Also, exactly where in the bible does it say that all of the laws of the OT are not valid? In fact, Mathew 5:17 seems to indicate that the old laws are still in place.
2007-12-17 09:32:30 · answer #8 · answered by A.Mercer 7 · 5⤊ 7⤋
It originally said "thou shalt not suffer a poisoner to live". It was changed to witch by King James.
http://www.draknet.com/proteus/Suffer.htm
http://www.religioustolerance.org/wic_bibl2.htm
2007-12-17 09:33:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
Bible (the King James Bible) was translated so they translated the word chasaph--which is Hebrew for poisoner-- to mean "witch" instead. If you don't go around poisoning wells NO.
2007-12-17 09:33:33 · answer #10 · answered by PROBLEM 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋