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To: Antonello

You Said:
" Have you read the bible? It does the same thing (Exodus 23:20)"

Ummm Hellooo, Exodus is in the Old Testament, try reading the New Testament, for if you had you would realize the difference but I suspect you do not know the difference as your ignorance on this topic here shows us.


381 posted on 07/08/2005 4:57:03 PM PDT by Sonar5 (60+ Million have Spoken Clearly - "We Want Our Country Back")
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To: Sonar5; Antonello
LOL!!

Alright, you two great Bible scholars, siddown and listen.

First, this is not a New Testament/Old Testament issue. It has nothing to do with differences between the old and new Covenants.

Second, Exodous 23 has something inherent to it that the Koranic passages do not. That thing is a limit. The directives issued in Exodous 23 were to specific group of people regarding inhabitants of a specific area of land, and came with a "sunset clause": when Israel had fully occupied the land, the directives were intended to expire. Isreal would have, completed (ended, finished, accomplished -- all PAST tense) the conquest of the "Promised Land."

Third, read to the end of the chapter and tell me who, exactly, is actually ridding the land of these people groups? Is it not God, Himself?

v20 ...I will cut them off.

v27 I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.

v28 And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.

v30 By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.

Note in particular, the "sunset clause" in verse 30 "...until thou be increased, and inherit the land."
There it is. Until. It defines the conditions upon which the foregoing activities would end. That end is noted in Joshua 11:23 where it reads

"So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war."
Israel, and Jews worldwide, do not, therefore, have a standing directive from Heaven to lay waste to all non-Jews.

However, the same cannot be said of Koranic passages calling for the destruction of infidels. The passages I have read come with no limiting clause EXCEPT one: When Islam has overrun the Entire world and all the infidels have either converted or been laid in the dust, THEN the Koranic directives officially expire.

417 posted on 07/08/2005 6:58:46 PM PDT by HKMk23 (A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. -- Robert Frost)
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