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1 | if a son is rebellious should he be sto | Deut 21:1 | Jennyh61 | 232535 | ||
Is God saying that if someone is rebellious they should be stoned to death by the townspeople? | ||||||
2 | if a son is rebellious should he be sto | Deut 21:1 | RWC | 232555 | ||
Hi Jenny, The verses your question should be attached to are Deut. 21:18-21. The short answer to your question is "yes." That is exactly what God is saying. Of course we, in our culture, see ourselves as being somehow above such things and much too 'advanced' for that. But the reality is that *every* sin is in fact a capitol crime; a crime worthy of and punishable by death - not just physical death, but spiritual death meaning eternal separation from God and everything that is holy. The sin of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden was, by our modern standards I think, even less of a crime (sin) than rebellion, but even it was punishable by death. Something else died physically in their place that day, but they died spiritually that day and then later on physically as well. From God's point of view, the sin of rebellion is comparable to the sin witchcraft or divination (1Sa. 15:23), also punishable by death. I don't think the problem is that God takes sin too seriously. I think the problem is that we do not take sin nearly seriously enough. Having said that, we do not take our rebellious children to the edge of our towns and stone them to death any more (not that the people of Israel probably obeyed this law very often in the first place), nor are we required to do so. But that does *not* mean that it is any less of a sin. |
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