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16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
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In order to be profitable, you should reach a greater understanding; to comprehend the reprimands, you will have to distinguish between that which is good from that which is not. Otherwise, you have failed to be corrected, and there is nothing righteous.
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Originally Posted by jimmiej
Give me an example of scripture that is not good.
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Prostituting themselves to Moloch.
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What about it?
Lev. 20 1-5 God spoke to Moses: “Tell the Israelites, Each and every Israelite and foreigner in Israel who gives his child to the god Molech must be put to death. The community must kill him by stoning. I will resolutely reject that man and cut him off from his people. By giving his child to the god Molech he has polluted my Sanctuary and desecrated my holy name. If the people of the land look the other way as if nothing had happened when that man gives his child to the god Molech and fail to kill him, I will resolutely reject that man and his family, and him and all who join him in prostituting themselves in the rituals of the god Molech I will cut off from their people.
6 “I will resolutely reject persons who dabble in the occult or traffic with mediums, prostituting themselves in their practices. I will cut them off from their people.
7-8 “Set yourselves apart for a holy life. Live a holy life, because I am God, your God. Do what I tell you; live the way I tell you. I am the God who makes you holy.
Matthew Henry's Commentary
Verses 1-9 Are we shocked at the unnatural cruelty of the ancient idolaters in sacrificing their children? We may justly be so. But are there not very many parents, who, by bad teaching and wicked examples, and by the mysteries of iniquity which they show their children, devote them to the service of Satan, and forward their everlasting ruin, in a manner even more to be lamented? What an account must such parents render to God, and what a meeting will they have with their children at the day of judgment! On the other hand, let children remember that he who cursed father or mother was surely put to death. This law Christ confirmed. Laws which were made before are repeated, and penalties annexed to them. If men will not avoid evil practices, because the law has made these practices sin, and it is right that we go on that principle, surely they should avoid them when the law has made them death, from a principle of self-preservation. In the midst of these laws comes in a general charge, Sanctify yourselves, and be ye holy. It is the Lord that sanctifies, and his work will be done, though it be difficult. Yet his grace is so far from doing away our endeavours, that it strongly encourages them. Work out your salvation, for it is God that worketh in you.
Remember, who it is that accuses him of crucifying/sacrificing his own son.
There is no such thing as "the Bible God." There is a record of the various perceptions about God in the OT ranging from anthropomorphic to some very good insights in Jeremiah and Micah and culminating in the revelation of Jesus.
And my point is that the Bible doesn't give ONE consistent perception/picture of God so it is really impossible to claim a "Bible God."
I agree that there's only one God. Still, Zman constantly disses the God of the Bible (and the Bible itself), and then quotes the Bible to describe "the god I know".
Why do you pretend you have not been told this many, many times, jimmie???? God IS agape love and the characteristics of His Holy Spirit have been described in detail by Jesus. Read 1 Cor 13, Galatians 5, and the Sermon on the Mount to refresh your memory and stop pretending you have never been told!
Remember, who it is that accuses him of crucifying/sacrificing his own son.
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So people acted badly. How does that nullify that scripture?
If scripture is given by the inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness. Then, according to your scriptures, He should be stoned to death for a propitiatory child sacrifice to appease his own wrath.
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