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1 | Should Christians practice nonresistance | Lev 26:6 | EdB | 16055 | ||
Sir Pent Forgive my bluntness but unless I am reading a different thread you did say it was inconsistent to be against abortion and be for the death penalty yet that is exactly God’s position. He said thou shall not kill and yet prescribed a death penalty for those caught in adultery. By saying what you said isn’t that indirectly saying you judge God as being inconsistent? I’m not trying to put you on the spot or be belligerent here, but I am trying to make a point. People’s view of the death penalty is based on their sensitivities and not on the word of God. We hold life dear not because it has any intrinsic value (other than to us) :-) but rather because God says it has value. What I find to be the problem is we arel willing use God’s standard to put value on life but we refuse to use God’s standard to set penalties for crime. I’m not real sure what point your making about reading all you past post and whether I responded to them or not. And I’m not real sure what me liking or disliking your id has to do with this conversation. I apologize to you for anything I have said that offended you. I was not attacking you but rather the defense you presented of your position on execution. You may be the most God fearing person alive for all I know and I pray you are. However the position of comparing abortion and execution as you stated and to which I responded to, to me was in direct opposition to the truth found in God. I pray we are and remain brothers in Christ, and your right I did enjoy and in fact used the example you gave of the 10 fields. Again I was not questioning your Christian walk, I was questioning your support of abolishment of the execution for the reasons you stated. Ed |
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2 | Should Christians practice nonresistance | Lev 26:6 | Sir Pent | 16063 | ||
Dear EdB, There is a simple misunderstanding here. You believe that God's position is against abortion, and for the death penalty. Therefore, my statement that those positions are inconsistent implies to you that I believe God to be inconsistent. I can understand where you are coming from. The problem is that you don't seem to understand where I am coming from. I do not imply that God is inconsistent, because I do not believe that God is for the death penalty (at least to be carried out by humans) any more. Let me begin by granting that it is obviously scriptural that God supported the death penalty in the Old Testament (just like He supported the sacrifice system, and many dietary laws). We would all agree that after Christ the sacrifices of animals are no longer appropriate (not because God changed, but because the system changed). We would probably all agree that it is no longer a sin to eat pork (see Peter's vision of the sheet and animals in Acts). This also is not because God changed, but because the system changed. I tried to explain (in my post "death penalty in OT is good") that in a similar way, there has been a fundamental change in the system (not in God) that has caused the death penalty to no longer be appropriate for humans to commit. I think that this whole misunderstanding comes down to the fact that you are assuming (based on scripture of course) that God and you have the same view of capital punishment. What I am trying to communicate is that I believe this assumption to be incorrect, and I think that a good biblical case could be made that God is now against the death penalty. I have enjoyed many of your posts in the past (in fact I tried to keep your "using company computers" post alive). We seem to agree much more than we disagree (ie. the "who made God" thread and the "why is the word selah in the Bible" thread). I look forward to learning together with you on this forum in the future, with hopefully a greater understanding of each other. |
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3 | Should Christians practice nonresistance | Lev 26:6 | EdB | 16065 | ||
Sir Pent I fail to see how you reach your conclusions but in the spirit of brotherhood and with a certain trepidation of discussing such a delicate topic in the light of what has just happened I think it best to drop this. I too share your hope that we will grow and learn together. I have enjoyed much of our past discussions and find myself at a lost to understand this impasse. However I know there is a reason for all things. I still wish you would change your id :-) I really really hate snakes! My daddy always taught me there was only one good kind of snake, the kind that was in three pieces! Ed |
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