Brian Ross wrote on Sep 30
th, 2013 at 10:04am:
brian,
I am not responsible for what you, or anyone else, chooses to believe.
We are instructed to search out the truth for ourselves.
2 Timothy 2:15
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
brian,
Why do
professing Christians open and read their bible,
so rarely 'today' ?
IMO, many of
professing Christians have been strangled by their cares the world.
Matthew 13:3
And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;
4 And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:
5 Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:
6 And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
7
And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:8 But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.
9 Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
....
22 He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word;
and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
If some chose to believe that the OT laws gave an authority from God [to those charged by God], to murder persons who were not in covenant with God,
then they were mistaken.
And if we were to act upon that mistaken belief, then the responsibility for the murders we commit, we must answer for.
".....I must assume that you're either lying, distorting the inconvenient truth or just plain ignorant. Which is it?"
God's OT law is quite clear.....
.....for anyone with eyes to see, brian
Exodus 12:49
One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.
Exodus 22:21
Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him...Exodus 23:9
Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger...Leviticus 19:33
And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.
34 But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself...n.b.
.....and thou shalt love him as thyselfLeviticus 25:47-49
[these verses clearly speak of [and reveal that it was entirely 'lawful'] for Hebrews [themselves] to become bond servants [slaves], to prosperous strangers living among the Hebrews.]
Deuteronomy 1:16
And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.
Deuteronomy 10:17-19
For the LORD your God... loveth the stranger, ...Love ye therefore the stranger:
for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 24:17
Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:
18 But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing.
Deuteronomy 27:19
Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger...