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- From: mam@jcnpc.cmhnet.org (Mike A. McAngus)
- Subject: Re: Violence in the bible?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.031410.22192@jcnpc.cmhnet.org>
- Organization: Homebrew Virtual Reality Labs
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- References: <1992Dec28.004645.15537@prime.mdata.fi>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 03:14:10 GMT
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- Iikka Paavolainen (iikkap@mits.mdata.fi) wrote:
- : In article <1992Dec27.173134.4956@jcnpc.cmhnet.org> mam@jcnpc.cmhnet.org (Mik
- e A. McAngus) writes:
- : >Iikka Paavolainen (iikkap@mits.mdata.fi) wrote:
- : >: I remember someone saying (in this newsgroup) that in some part of the old
- : >: (or was it new?) testament god commanded some people to kill or destroy ot
- her
- : >s.
- : >: Where was this exactly in the Bible?
- : >
- : >Dt 7:1-2, Dt 7:16-26, Dt 21:10-18, Jos 7:20-21 followed by Jos 8:1-2. There
-
- : >are other references to the populations of entire cities being executed, but
-
- : >these are places where god is reported to actually have commanded the
- : >slaughter.
- : >
- : >Jos 11:16-23 is also relevant.
- :
- : Thanks. Dammit, just a day too late (not your fault, though, I posted a bit
- : late). I just had a debate with a very religious relative of mine, and one
- : thing she said is that there is no God-commanded violence in it.
- :
-
- Well, I just came off of "iq<->religion connection" in which you flamed Stephen
- Doe and myself for not doing research. A Bible and Concordence are all you
- need to find such references.
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