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Date Posted: 04:28:49 09/13/05 Tue
In reply to:
Tom
's message, "Re: If the forum gets out of hand...deletion?" on 21:07:51 09/12/05 Mon
>>Unlike "darwinism" [the Bible] teaches its ok to kill
>those who reject your god.
>
>I haven't run across that concept in the Bible yet.
>Perhaps I just missed that verse? Please do me a
>favor and find it so we can discuss it further.
Much of OT contains the killing of those who break the commandments, including those who don't follow the first "Thou shalt have no other gods before me."
Even in Revelations the non-believers get slaughtered.
I don't know how you missed it.
>God's commandment of "Do not kill." is as plain to
>understand as... well... "Do not kill."
Most Christians says its "Do not murder", murder is illegal killing. Killing isn't always illegal though, if it was even the bible god would be guilty of ordering his followers to sin.
>If a mob of
>people claiming to be Christians plundered and
>murdered an entire village, don't assume that the
>Bible advocates pillaging and killing. The Bible
>teaches what it teaches regardless of what anyone says
>or does, now, in the past, or in the future. So if
>you want to know your creator, go to the infallible
>source of knowledge. His word.
And Christians at the time have interpreted "his word" as to allowing these atrocities. Interpretation is the devils playground, nevertheless people still form their own interpretation.
>Lets say you are walking past a playground and you
>notice all the kids running around with scissors in
>their hands. Curiously, you ask one of the kids how
>this came to be, and he says their teacher allows them
>to run with scissors. If you are concerned for their
>safety, are you going to take the kid's word for it,
>or are you going to talk with the teacher personally?
>Naturally you seek the teacher because she is the more
>intelligent figure of authority.
Can the kids show me evidence of what the teacher said? Can they show me written permission?
>Likewise, you can observe the actions and words of men
>and make assumptions on what the Bible says based on
>that alone, or, you can read the Bible yourself and
>also find those who teach the Bible just the way it is
>written. Just as you would be concerned about those
>kids running with scissors, I am concerned about your
>eternal future. God already knows your fate, but you
>don't, and I don't. That's why nothing would be
>better than for you to confess your sins to Jesus,
>accept Him as your savior, and live and grow in the
>family of God knowing that your future is secured with
>His promise to you of eternal life.
Unless you are saying to take the bible completely literal, you have your own interpretation which you view as correct just as other christians have differing interpretations which they see equally as valid.
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