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To: Colonel Kangaroo
As Deuteronomy 6:16 states: Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God
Yeah, and Deuteronomy also says the appropriate punishment for being a stubborn and rebellious son is to be stoned to death.
130 posted on 06/20/2005 9:27:25 PM PDT by anguish (while science catches up.... mysticism!)
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To: anguish

The law of the rebellious son was part of the penal code of Israel under the law of Moses. The Bible never applies this mankind as a whole. So if I were you, I wouldn't be worried about it being applied in our enlightened world today where juvenile delinquents terrorize their peers and society as a whole. And if you note the context of the verse, this isn't dealing with a little son who merely balks at eating his vegetables. There is a reference to the son as a drunkard. This appears to be like a hard version of the habitual criminal law that we in the West have. And you have to admit, this law was more effective than ours in eliminating a menace 2 society before he left a trail of mayhem and innocent blood.


131 posted on 06/21/2005 4:20:45 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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