Posted on 02/10/2015 3:46:50 PM PST by Laissez-faire capitalist
>>But, there are radicals in other religions today who would say the same as you are here.<<
Just what is it that you think I am saying here? What you are asserting is totally foreign to what I think and what I wrote.
>>nor behind and barbaric verse in the Pentateuch.<<
What "barbaric verse in the Pentateuch"? I have no idea what you are referring to.
Which is what i dealt with at length, which you simply ignore. This misappropriation of Divine authority to engage in holy war is dealt with by God providing the unique attestation of His reality and leading, by which Abraham gave birth to what would become a nation, and which saw God unmistakably substantiate His leadership of them, confirmatory of the faith and virtue of Abraham and Moses, and with the latter providing express written revelation which became the standard for obedience and testing Truth claims.
No radical today who claims Divine authority for bloody holy war can invoke the Divine attestation given to Moses and Joshua for their wars of conquest, and which means of warfare is manifestly contrary to what is written.
You are always going to have competition on earth, and the first 3 miracles of Moses were duplicated by the magicians. But the answer is not to dispense with miracles, nor exclude God from taking life as well as giving it.
Yes, the people living in the Promised land were degenerate, but God would never say kill the babies that lay in their mothers arms or condone it. Only a cruel god would say that.
Really? Based upon your supreme superficial morality and omniscience? For indeed, how can this be unjust if it prevented those innocents from becoming like their fathers and suffering their damnation? Of course you problably have a problem with that as well, correct?
Atheists themselves ask why God does not just take all babies to Heaven at birth, which He could do, rather than letting them choose to do evil and suffer damnation, but when He does do that in certain cases they rail at Him for being cruel. But at least they deal with the Bible as wholly being the Word of God, unlike you.
Moreover, in the light of eternity you have no idea how God makes such warfare to work for the Good of those who obey the Light, and love God. You are simply presuming to know more than God from your darkened room this side of eternity, and thus need to answer all the questions asked of Job, after God allowed all his kids and livestock to be consumed.
Thankfully, Moses did not write what was said in those verses in Deut. . Truth [lie] be told, what was written down in those chapters in Deuteronomy came at a much later time by the hands of scribes through the JEDP format. God is not a blood thirsty god. Yes, there was an exodus, but it was no where near as large a multitude as the account in Exodus...scribes wrote parts later to justify the taking of the Promised land through a “by whatever means necessary” theology
So rather than God of the Bible being what we mean on FR as pro-God, and Moses writing Deuteronomy as the Lord and NT writers affirmed, then then we have a bona fide liberal who subscribes to the liberal discredited JEDP theory, which is part of a slippery slope which leads to gospel accounts also being the work of latter writers inventing things. Instead, both the OT and the NT itself testifies to the veracity of Dt and the Pentateuch and of Moses being its author.
and even most evangelical theological seminaries readily agree with this.
Then they are simply not evangelical in the historical sense of the word, while are not a RC?
Well done! Thank you.
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