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We need not imagine such a country. We need merely refer to history.
If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her. (Deuteronomy 22:28-29 NLT)
They must be dividing the spoils they took: there must be a damsel or two for each man, Spoils of dyed cloth as Sisera's spoil, an ornate shawl or two for me in the spoil. (Judges 5:30 NAB)
The servant will be severely punished, for though he knew his duty, he refused to do it. "But people who are not aware that they are doing wrong will be punished only lightly. Much is required from those to whom much is given, and much more is required from those to whom much more is given." (Luke 12:47-48 NLT)
Slaves, obey your earthly masters with deep respect and fear. Serve them sincerely as you would serve Christ. (Ephesians 6:5 NLT)
Christians who are slaves should give their masters full respect so that the name of God and his teaching will not be shamed. If your master is a Christian, that is no excuse for being disrespectful. You should work all the harder because you are helping another believer by your efforts. Teach these truths, Timothy, and encourage everyone to obey them. (1 Timothy 6:1-2 NLT)
"When a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod so hard that the slave dies under his hand, he shall be punished. If, however, the slave survives for a day or two, he is not to be punished, since the slave is his own property." Exodus 21:20-21 NAB
Don’t associate with non-Christians. Don’t receive them into your house or even exchange greeting with them. 2 John 1:10
Would you be allowed to ;pick and choose?
If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her. (Deuteronomy 22:28-29 NLT)
They must be dividing the spoils they took: there must be a damsel or two for each man, Spoils of dyed cloth as Sisera's spoil, an ornate shawl or two for me in the spoil. (Judges 5:30 NAB)
The servant will be severely punished, for though he knew his duty, he refused to do it. "But people who are not aware that they are doing wrong will be punished only lightly. Much is required from those to whom much is given, and much more is required from those to whom much more is given." (Luke 12:47-48 NLT)
Slaves, obey your earthly masters with deep respect and fear. Serve them sincerely as you would serve Christ. (Ephesians 6:5 NLT)
Christians who are slaves should give their masters full respect so that the name of God and his teaching will not be shamed. If your master is a Christian, that is no excuse for being disrespectful. You should work all the harder because you are helping another believer by your efforts. Teach these truths, Timothy, and encourage everyone to obey them. (1 Timothy 6:1-2 NLT)
"When a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod so hard that the slave dies under his hand, he shall be punished. If, however, the slave survives for a day or two, he is not to be punished, since the slave is his own property." Exodus 21:20-21 NAB
Don’t associate with non-Christians. Don’t receive them into your house or even exchange greeting with them. 2 John 1:10
Let's get back to the OP. What would the U.S. be like if everybody lived by the Bible?
Does anybody have any guesses? I observe that there would be less rape, less pedophilia, less divorce, less male impotence, more sense of community, less suicide, more polygamy, less attacks from Islamic terrorist and less poverty if we implemented the Book of Leviticus as law of the land. Slavery would still be illegal and the U S still wouldn't be conquering nations.
Let's get back to the OP. What would the U.S. be like if everybody lived by the Bible?
Does anybody have any guesses? I observe that there would be less rape, less pedophilia, less divorce, less male impotence, more sense of community, less suicide, more polygamy, less attacks from Islamic terrorist and less poverty if we implemented the Book of Leviticus as law of the land. Slavery would still be illegal and the U S still wouldn't be conquering nations.
Umm, no. A rational person can use the heinous cruelties of the bibles to point out the amoral nature of gawds that is then asserted by religionists as a moral guide for human behavior. If one actually followed the examples of these gawds, there would be no end to the justification of execution that person would deserve. The gawds of the OT (stolen from Judaism by the inventors of Christianity), and the bibles are capricious, cruel, and as the "authors" of all reality, as evil can be (after all, they created Lucifer, we didn't, right?).
Let's get back to the OP. What would the U.S. be like if everybody lived by the Bible?
Does anybody have any guesses? I observe that there would be less rape, less pedophilia, less divorce, less male impotence, more sense of community, less suicide, more polygamy, less attacks from Islamic terrorist and less poverty if we implemented the Book of Leviticus as law of the land. Slavery would still be illegal and the U S still wouldn't be conquering nations.
Umm, no. A rational person can use the heinous cruelties of the bibles to point out the amoral nature of gawds that is then asserted by religionists as a moral guide for human behavior. If one actually followed the examples of these gawds, there would be no end to the justification of execution that person would deserve. The gawds of the OT (stolen from Judaism by the inventors of Christianity), and the bibles are capricious, cruel, and as the "authors" of all reality, as evil can be (after all, they created Lucifer, we didn't, right?).
What would you say if none of it was implemented by law but instead everybody followed it? Would it be any better?
This includes the shrimp prohibition, prohibition of mixed fabrics and the immediate reporting of rape.
Let's get back to the OP. What would the U.S. be like if everybody lived by the Bible?
Does anybody have any guesses? I observe that there would be less rape, less pedophilia, less divorce, less male impotence, more sense of community, less suicide, more polygamy, less attacks from Islamic terrorist and less poverty if we implemented the Book of Leviticus as law of the land. Slavery would still be illegal and the U S still wouldn't be conquering nations.
Umm, no. A rational person can use the heinous cruelties of the bibles to point out the amoral nature of gawds that is then asserted by religionists as a moral guide for human behavior. If one actually followed the examples of these gawds, there would be no end to the justification of execution that person would deserve. The gawds of the OT (stolen from Judaism by the inventors of Christianity), and the bibles are capricious, cruel, and as the "authors" of all reality, as evil can be (after all, they created Lucifer, we didn't, right?).
What would you say if none of it was implemented by law but instead everybody followed it? Would it be any better?
This includes the shrimp prohibition, prohibition of mixed fabrics and the immediate reporting of rape.
Help me out here. So I'm conflicted on how to handle a domestic issue, and the absolutely universal law of God is not making it clear how I should proceed.
Here's my conflict, from Leviticus 25:45-46
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"Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession."
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Here's my problem. One of the 4 year neighborhood children of the heathens around me actually has converted to Judaism. Now, technically the child is still heathen, at least by blood. Can I buy this child anyway, or does the conversion override the bloodline issue? I suspect that a 4 year old isn't old enough to make such a decision regarding their status, so I can buy and enslave him anyway.
Can you enlighten me on how to resolve such a conflict?
Thanks
imagine if we lived in a world without religion
The last sentence of that article says this, "We left a message for Anderson at his church but we're still waiting to hear back."
They must have waiting 5 minutes. Steve Anderson loves air time. That last sentence was a lie or an extreme exaggeration.
A situation like "He goes on to say killing gays is the way to an AIDS-free world by Christmas." is a problem for a psychiatric hospital. The problem "Aids and homosexuality" is by the way a problem of "Aids and anal sex" or "Aids and drugs". And anal sex or drugs is not only a problem of gay men but also of others. He has a lot to do if he likes to kill all men in the world until Christmas because he lives in fear on Aids. As I said yet: The best could be he restarts into a normal life in a psychiatric hospital under control of a professional team of doctors, therapists and care attendents.
I am confused. I think he only advocated for the death of ...
No Christian advocates for the death of anyone. We advocate for a sane lovely life of everyone in a hopefully wonderful comfortable atmosphere like in paradise. That's what we are looking for - not for death and destruction. What's not so good should remind us to find better ways, that's all. Death is no way - death is a bad result. We believe in life - even in eternal life - and not in death.
No Christian advocates for the death of anyone. We advocate for a sane lovely life of everyone in a hopefully wonderful comfortable atmosphere like in paradise. That's what we are looking for - not for death and destruction. What's not so good should remind us to find better ways, that's all. Death is no way - death is a bad result. We believe in life - even in eternal life - and not in death.
Did you listen to Pastor Steven Anderson's sermon on AIDS?
right. He wasn't advocating the death of anybody. The Levitical law and the 1st Chapter of Romans was doing that. ...
Instigators of very heavy crimes like murder are not in a good position.
Instigators of very heavy crimes like murder are not in a good position.
Pastor Steven Anderson wasn't advocating murder. The Bible wasn't advocating murder.
... In the video, Anderson cites a Bible passage he says is the "cure" for AIDS:
"Here's what the Bible says, Leviticus 20:13, 'If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.' And that, my friend, is the cure for AIDS. It was right there in the Bible all along."
His message is that killing gays is a divinely sanctioned way to rid the world of AIDS. ...
The last sentence of that article says this, "We left a message for Anderson at his church but we're still waiting to hear back."
They must have waiting 5 minutes. Steve Anderson loves air time. That last sentence was a lie or an extreme exaggeration.
A situation like "He goes on to say killing gays is the way to an AIDS-free world by Christmas." is a problem for a psychiatric hospital. The problem "Aids and homosexuality" is by the way a problem of "Aids and anal sex" or "Aids and drugs". And anal sex or drugs is not only a problem of gay men but also of others. He has a lot to do if he likes to kill all men in the world until Christmas because he lives in fear on Aids. As I said yet: The best could be he restarts into a normal life in a psychiatric hospital under control of a professional team of doctors, therapists and care attendents.
I am confused. I think he only advocated for the death of sodomites, adulterers and fornicators. That leaves all faithful married men alive and incapable of spreading AIDS.
AIDS cannot spread without sexual perversion. It is impossible.
These others that you describe are not two heterosexuals in committed relationships. Pastor Steven Anderson does not believe in gay men. According to scripture all gay men are actively bisexual. Of course others are affected but not all people are vulnerable.
The benefits of sexual purity isn't hard to understand but apparently it is easy to ignore.
The US did not get to the size it is today by God giving the USA all it's conquered territories, they were taken by death at the end of a sword or gun....These refugees are going to die if someone doesn't take them in. The general is giving the soldiers an incentive to provide for these girls for the rest of their lives so that they do not die in miserable poverty. If the United States engaged in conquering nations we would need a system similar to this in place too. Otherwise the welfare system would be too overloaded to function. Why did you bring this up? It isn't applicable to the United States. We don't engage in conquering nations. This brings up no valuable point for discussion.
Most Christians today have no clue what Christ was about.Why does this matter? Slavery is illegal. These scriptures do not apply to anybody in 2015. The Israelite tradition favors life over death. Their whole religion is based on that concept. It makes perfect sense for them to have a law discouraging the death of slaves. Even though they were considered property they still contained life which was paramount in the Israelite religion.
People act like the scriptures in the Bible pertaining to slavery are so morbid.
Slavery was a widely accepted institution even as recent as 1865. Whoop ti freaking do. Slavery was mentioned. Oh wow! The Bible says ass too. He he snicker snicker. I am a twelve year old boy.
Grow up. These scriptures have nothing to do with our modern culture.
Unlike 150 years ago, slavery is consider illegal and immoral today. The scripture that you are whining about has no bearing on anything going on today.
Try to shock us with something of substance. Most Christians know that slavery and donkeys were in the Bible.
The US did not get to the size it is today by God giving the USA all it's conquered territories, they were taken by death at the end of a sword or gun....These refugees are going to die if someone doesn't take them in. The general is giving the soldiers an incentive to provide for these girls for the rest of their lives so that they do not die in miserable poverty. If the United States engaged in conquering nations we would need a system similar to this in place too. Otherwise the welfare system would be too overloaded to function. Why did you bring this up? It isn't applicable to the United States. We don't engage in conquering nations. This brings up no valuable point for discussion.