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- From: ksand@apple.com (Kent Sandvik )
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: Violence in the bible?
- Message-ID: <ksand-301292133045@wintermute.apple.com>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 21:31:48 GMT
- References: <1992Dec25.165133.9059@prime.mdata.fi> <1992Dec28.174526.915@linus.mitre.org> <schnitzi.725571303@eola.cs.ucf.edu> <1992Dec29.200705.22493@arden.linet.org>
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- In article <1992Dec29.200705.22493@arden.linet.org>, joeb@arden.linet.org
- (Joe Beiter) wrote:
- >
- > In article <schnitzi.725571303@eola.cs.ucf.edu> schnitzi@cs.ucf.edu (Mark Schnitzius) writes:
- > >Interesting! So, in summary, the Bible calls for the death penalty
- > >in these cases:
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- > >o Murder
- > >o Witchcraft
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- > This applied to the jews for the jews to carry out. The jews were to be
- > submissive to the law. A death sentance is not 'murder' but justice.
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- I remember that someone important in Christianty told his followers
- that he didn't come to break any existing laws. The question is how
- Paul got by with the legal trick to suddenly defining a new covenant
- with God, where the originator's words were twisted...
-
- Kent
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