Posted on 08/06/2006 10:06:36 AM PDT by truthseeker316
6 If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, "Let us go and worship other gods" (gods that neither you nor your fathers have known, 7 gods of the peoples around you, whether near or far, from one end of the land to the other), 8 do not yield to him or listen to him. Show him no pity. Do not spare him or shield him. 9 You must certainly put him to death. Your hand must be the first in putting him to death, and then the hands of all the people. 10 Stone him to death, because he tried to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 11 Then all Israel will hear and be afraid, and no one among you will do such an evil thing again.
Thanks for the ping!
BTW--did ya see the latest gold ping?
"Gold ping?" Do tell!
Yes, you should definitely kill your parents. Not because God says so. Because I say so.
This is an old testament command...and represents the judgment of God. It has nothing to do with "religion" but the rejection of God.
Hey, at least the Dumfart's lived a "ripe old age"...
I can't read that print...is that feeder of orphans or feeler of orphans?
I understand they're not, but...
;o)
Sorta like Supreme Court justices in the 60s & 70s, and even now?
A jealous God. A holy God. A righteous God. A God who is Creator and Governor of all that is.
You do not understand this because you do not understand the covenant between God and Israel, nor the consequences of disobedience. So the offense looks like nothing to you. But just view it like this: Unless you turn from your sin and worship the one true God, believing on His Son who paid the penalty of sin for you, then you, truthseeker316, will likewise perish. Not at the hands of man, but at the hand of the one who is, who was, and who is to come. You can stand before Him and be judged according to your own righteousness, or you can received the imputed righteousness of Christ through faith.
Hank Hanegraaff says this:
God demands that humankind must obey His righteous statutes perfectly and conform to His holy law in all of their thoughts, words, and deeds (Matt. 5:48). Furthermore, God's absolute wrath is promised on those who do not keep His law (Deut. 27:26; Gal. 3:10). Due to humanity's inherent sinful condition, we are unable to perfectly fulfill God's law, nor obtain eternal life by obeying His ordinances (Romans 3:20).
Therefore, God Himself took on human nature (John 1:1, 1:14), keeping the law perfectly in our place (Gal. 4:4-5). However, He paid the price for us having broken the law, though He was sinless (Heb. 4:15). Christ's active obedience (His life) and passive obedience (His suffering and death) effectively satisfied the demands of God's divine justice (1 Pet. 3:18) and won for us the Father's favor (Rom. 5:10; 18-19).
However, some have argued that while Christ's death reconciles us to the Father, His life is to be ascribed no redeeming value. This view misses the scriptural truth that God not only demands that those who break the law be punished, but that He also demands that His law be kept perfectly.
The apostle Paul teaches that Christ undertook the penalty due to us because of our transgressions in addition to keeping the law perfectly in our place: "For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life" (Rom. 5:10). By this way, God is truly reconciled to sinful humanity since our representative, Jesus, bore God's unabated wrath in addition to keeping His righteous commands and statutes.
Christ won, through His perfect obedience, life and forgiveness for sinful humanity; "For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man's obedience many will be made righteous" (Rom. 5:19). Viewed in this context, the righteousness of Christ literally is the possession of the believer, imputed through faith. "And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth" (John 17:19).
Love this one! LMAO!
AMEN!
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here ya go... 