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To: alancarp
Assuming Mr. Thomas is educated enough to find this thread, I need to educate him on at least ONE of his blatant errors:

He says (and I quote):

"Do you believe that a woman who does not marry as a virgin should be dragged to her father's door and stoned to death?

That's in Deuteronomy."

That's not in Deuteronomy. At least not nearly in the manner above - he's waayyyy out of context. The passage involved is Deut. 22:13-21, and involves a non-virgin given to a man (arranged marriages in that culture) as a wife when presented as if a virgin. God set out very strict rules for sexual sins, and this one involves a promiscuous daughter -- certainly not the innocent portrayed by Thomas).

Suggestion: Mr. Thomas should not write about things in which he possesses no knowledge. In fact, a bit of basic research would have cleared up a bunch of his bad ideas about religion AND history.

Regarding whether I as a Christian believe and follow that is irrelevant: the Mosaic Law was given to ancient Israel as part of being God's chosen people. That law was never given to the gentile Christians -- and Israel itself turned their back on it long before Christ. There are other factors, too, but if he's trying to draw a parallel here by calling God's Law "terrorism" - I don't bite: if I had God's instructions to do a certain thing like this, I would be obligated to obey. The Creator of the Universe certainly knows better than I.

I will concede but one point, however: having Jimmy Swaggert call anybody a sexual deviant (did he really?) would be a bit odd -- coming from him.

118 posted on 11/20/2002 12:39:37 PM PST by alancarp
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To: alancarp
You have a very good understanding of the issues.
120 posted on 11/20/2002 12:44:15 PM PST by Jael
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