The importance of the Bible (Calvinists, NYC, dinosaur, doctrine)
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And again, you didn't read or comprehend what I said. There is a difference between killing and murder. And yes, there are tares and wheat in each person. That is the microcosm view of the word. But there is a macrocosm view as well. Both witness each other, so you can't take one and call it righteous, and the other sin. Peace
Sure I can.
Killing someone and saying God told me to: EVIL.
Overcoming that within me which is the antithesis of love: righteous.
It was Job not God who said the Lord gives and the Lord takes away. You have to hand it to Job, no matter what he believed God was throwing at him, he was never going to curse him. I am pretty sure that eventually he understood that all that befell was down to himself........ That which i greatly feared has come upon me, he must have seen you cannot have an effect without a cause.
niiice. this is reflected in other places, as well. Just because God is anthropomorphised to make a point, does not mean that God has a personality as we understand it. You will never be able to sit down with God and have tea lol.
So, what you had was people anthropomorphizing God and SAYING that God told them to kill, to make themselves righteous in their own eyes. I agree. It had nothing to do with God.
likely completely true, or at least mostly. After all, the OT is clearly a record of failure.
Of course there is. God says "love your enemies." Their religion says kill infidels
i thought we cleared this up already. There is no "kill infidels" the way you mean it in the Qur'an. ps, no Muslims are drone bombing your nation, are they? You are...8 or 10 times more likely to be killed by a cop than a Muslim. actually i think the # is quite a bit higher. You might be characterized as inhaling the smoke being blown up your hiney here.
Obviously. But completely beside the point in this instance.
well, but before you know it, we can be talking about justified killing, and i will be making Rib's point. "Murder" is a subjective assessment, in the end.
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