Avoid Wicked Customs
9 "When you come into the land which the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominations of those nations. 10There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, 11or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. 12For all who do these things are an abomination to the LORD, and because of these abominations the LORD your God drives them out from before you. 13You shall be blameless before the LORD your God. 14For these nations which you will dispossess listened to soothsayers and diviners; but as for you, the LORD your God has not appointed such for you.
A New Prophet Like Moses
15 "The LORD your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren. Him you shall hear, 16according to all you desired of the LORD your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, "Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, nor let me see this great fire anymore, lest I die.'
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YHWY is coming down for another look around!
Habakkuk 3
I have been criticized for suggesting that either God caused or allowed (your choice) 9/11.How can that be people ask?.God bless America is all over the place...
They need to read the OT to see how God deals with witchcraft and rebellion.
Here we are 6 weeks away from the worst tragedy this nation has ever seen,and we discuss how a little witchcraft can't hurt you.These are the same people that will ask God's protection when they step on a plane
0There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, 11or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. 12For all who do these things are an abomination to the LORD, and because of these abominations the LORD your God drives them out from before you.why oh why must fundies always end up quoting Deuteronomy?
It makes it just _too easy_ to send them up.
Some other observations from that book:
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God hardens King Sihon's spirit and then kills him and all the men, women, and "little ones" in his kingdom. 2:30-34
God delivers Og into Moses' hands, who then kills every man, woman, and child in every city. 3:3-6
Og, king of the giants, had a bed that measured 15 by 6 feet. 3:11
God will punish you for the sins of your great-great grandfathers. 5:9
God tells the Israelites to kill everyone in the lands that that they conquer and to "show no mercy unto them." 7:2
"Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart." 10:16
Kill any prophets or "dreamers of dreams" if they say or dream the wrong things. 13:1-5
Kill any friends or family that worship a god that is different than your own. 13:6-10
Kill all the inhabitants of any city where you find people that worship differently than you. 13:12-16
Don't "make any baldness between your eyes for the dead." 14:1
To God, bats are just unclean birds. 14:11, 18
Kill everyone who has religious views that are different than your own. 17:2-7
Kill anyone who refuses to listen to a priest. 17:12-13
Kill any false prophets. 18:20
Kill all the men and boys in the cities that God "delivers into your hands," but keep the women for yourself. 20:13-15
Kill everything that breathes in the cities that God gives you for an inheritance. 20:16
If you see a pretty woman among the captives then just take her home and "go in unto her." 21:11-14
Rules for a man with two wives: "one beloved, and another hated." 21:15
Kill rebellious or disobedient sons. 21:18-21
Women that wear men's clothing are an "abomination unto the Lord." 22:5
Don't "wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woolen and linen together." 22:11
How to dispose of a hated wife. 22:13-22
Women, be sure to keep the tokens of your virginity. Otherwise the men of your city may stone you to death. 22:13-21
Adulterers are to be killed. 22:22
Kill rape victims if they fail to cry out loud enough. 22:23-34
A rapist must buy his victim from her father for 50 shekels. 22:28-29
Don't discover your father's skirt. 23:20
You can't go to church if your testicles are damaged or your penis has been cut off. 23:1
A bastard can't attend church "even to his tenth generation." 23:2
God's rule for wet dreams. 23:10
How to crap in the woods so that God doesn't step in it. 23:12-14
How to divorce your wife if you find "some uncleanness in her." 24:1-4
You must cut off a woman's hand if she touches the "secrets" of a man who is fighting with her husband. "And thine eye shall not pity her." 25:11-12
The work of a craftsman is "an abomination unto the Lord." 27:15
"Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother" or that "removeth his neighbors landmark." 27:16-17
If you misbehave, God will make you eat your sons and daughters. 28:53, 28:55 28:56-67