Posted on 03/15/2005 10:00:29 AM PST by mojito
> This was a punishment for rape.
It was also a punishment for smacking your father. Or even giving him lip.
Now, do you think it'd be ok if someone killed their child for sassing them?
Interesting. Thanks for the help on that one.
It sure would get the OTHERS attention: don't you think!
Tradition says that the death penalty was never exercised for that particular offense. Though, it probably would have prevented a lot of other crimes if it had been...
I think that killing your child; JUST BECAUSE IT'S GOING TO BE BORN; is legal in this country.
Now then; let's make some MORE comparisons; shall we??
OK. Exodus 31:15: Whosoever doeth any work in the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.
What did you do last Saturday?
>Response 2: So... breeding better moo-cows is a sin? How about dog breeding? <
I looked up the passage in my Amplified Bible and it says:
" ... You shall not let your domestic animals breed with a different kind [of animal]; ..."
The Amplified version of the Bible is to reveal an English meaning equivalent to each key Hebrew/Greek word.
Rabbit-human chimeras were made years ago.... Pass the Minotaur gravy.
> " ... You shall not let your domestic animals breed with a different kind [of animal]; ..."
OK, so instead of breeding a good milk cow with a good meat cow, they're talking about breeding a cow with a horse.
Ummm... ever known a cow to breed with a horse?
> Tradition says that the death penalty was never exercised for that particular offense.
If tradition trumps the word of God, then something is wrong somewhere...
ROFL!
Agreed. The parents were too lenient. Like today's parents, only hopefully not as bad.
According to 'Unlimited Access', Hatellary Rodhamster was the original chimeric 'mad cow'.
I don't believe that Jesus declared that the old law would apply forever. How could He, when at the last supper He declared that "this is the New Covenant in my blood...". If He declares that a new covenant is coming, He must mean that the old one is passing away.
If you're thinking of Matthew 5:18 ("For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass away from the Law, until all is accomplished."), then I would like to point out that "all" was accomplished, when Jesus died on the cross.
If that's not what you're thinking of, I'd like to know where in the Bible Jesus says that the Law would apply forever.
TChris is correct when he says that the Law was given to a "particular people" (the Israelites) "in a particular time" (the time from the giving of the law to the death and resurrection of Christ).
This could work better than freezing your head after you die:
Once someone is terminally ill, have scientists take a sample of his genetic material to make a chimpanzee they can transplant his head to until the day science can make you a new human body for him.
> If you're thinking of Matthew 5:18 ("For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass away from the Law, until all is accomplished."), then I would like to point out that "all" was accomplished, when Jesus died on the cross.
And did heaven and Earth pass away? I seem to have missed that.
Of course, there're also this nuggest of forever:
Deut 18:19 All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee.
And one must explain away Jesus saying:
Luke 16:17 And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.
No, heaven and earth have not yet passed away, but the whole law was fulfilled in Jesus. What He was saying was that the Law was more "solid" than even heaven and earth, and would last until He fulfilled it.
Numbers 18:19 uses that "covenant" word again. You know, the one that was dissolved when Jesus died and rose again? With the demise of the old law, the system of sacrifices and the office of an Aaronic priesthood were done away with. We could, therefore, conclude that "forever" meant for as long as God chose to sustain the Aaronic priesthood, and that the terms of the agreement were fulfilled.
Luke 16:17 His assertion was that it would be easier to destroy heaven and earth than it would be to cause God's Law to fail. The law did not fail. Jesus fulfilled the old law and gave us a new covenant in it's place.
A world turn upside down.
Well, sheesh yourself. This is a horror and a cruelty; not a medical treatment.
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