abu_rashid wrote on Dec 22
nd, 2010 at 4:53pm:
Nice to see yet again you've completely ignored the Biblical quotes (got a knack for that don't ya?).
Quote:"A priest's daughter who loses her honor by committing fornication and thereby dishonors her father also, shall be burned to death." (Leviticus 21:9) This is the only religious text I've ever come across which CLEARLY promotes honour murders. Even though some ignorant Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs etc. might do it out of ignorance and backwardness, their religions do not condone it at all, unlike this text of yours which clearly does.
COVENANT BREAKER Quote:"But if this charge is true (that she wasn't a virgin on her wedding night), and evidence of the girls virginity is not found, they shall bring the girl to the entrance of her fathers house and there her townsman shall stone her to death, because she committed a crime against Israel by her unchasteness in her father's house. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst." (Deuteronomy 22:20-21)
COVENANT BREAKER Quote:"(Moses) stood at the entrance to the camp and shouted, "All of you who are on the LORD's side, come over here and join me." And all the Levites came. He told them, "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Strap on your swords! Go back and forth from one end of the camp to the other, killing even your brothers, friends, and neighbors." The Levites obeyed Moses, and about three thousand people died that day. Then Moses told the Levites, "Today you have been ordained for the service of the LORD, for you obeyed him even though it meant killing your own sons and brothers. Because of this, he will now give you a great blessing." (Exodus 32:26-29) Love thy neighbour? No! Murder thy neighbour, and thy friend and thy brother even!
COVENANT BREAKERSResponse...Numbers 30:2
If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.
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Abu, you like to quote the Old Testament, to try to show how unjust [or severe?] the punishments were, to try to shock us.
Or, to try to embarrass people like myself.
You will have to try harder Abu.
A lesson from the Bible Abu.
The Hebrew people, were chosen by God, to be a
separate, and holy people;
Leviticus 20:24
...I am the LORD your God, which have separated you from other people.
Leviticus 20:26
And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.
Deuteronomy 7:6
For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
It is recorded [in the books of Moses] that after being redeemed from bondage in Egypt, the Hebrew people entered into a covenant with their holy God.
Dictionary;
covenant = =
1 a solemn agreement.
2 [theology] an agreement held to be the basis of a relationship of commitment with God.The agreement [consent] of the people, was recorded;
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And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him.
And all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD hath spoken we will do...."
Exodus 19:5-8
As part of their covenant with God, God demanded that those children of Jacob [Israel], who were in-covenant, and who wilfully broke their covenant with their holy God, be killed, as covenant breakers.
Harsh?
Yes.
But any Hebrew could simply separate himself from his people [and,
separate himself from his God], and go into the world, and join himself, to the world.
But he could not remain among a holy people [the children of Israel] as a covenant breaker, because the covenant with God demanded that those who wilfully broke their covenant, with God, must be killed.
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THE HOLY LAND
The God of Israel also commanded the Hebrew people to kill the inhabitants of the land [the land the Hebrew people were given, in possession, by their God].
Why kill the inhabitants of the land?
The Bible says that it was so as to cleanse the land of the wickedness of its inhabitants.
Again, harsh?
Yes.
Leviticus 18:26
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments,
and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
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For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled![Wink Wink](http://www.ozpolitic.com/yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/default/wink.gif)
28 That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.
God gave no person, not even his 'special' Hebrew people [Jews today], a sanction, to murder people, or persecute people, because they were not Hebrews [or, Jews today].
It is clear [in studying the books of Moses] that the violent judgements in the OT [the books of Moses], were directed exclusively against;
1/
covenant breakers [i.e. only Hebrews], and,
2/ those people who are wicked, oppressors, common criminals [i.e. anyone, everyone, could be caught in this category,
dependant upon their conduct].