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Bible Question:
My boyfriend was given this editorial at work by one of his co-workers. The question is why does God have conflicting commands? Letter to Editor of local newspaper: "Just imagine for a minute that the Hawaiian nation was given its sovereinty. King Kaipo Makua was chosen to rule his nation and within the Palace grounds was a cache of treasure that amounted to over 50 trillion dollars. Money was not an issue for King Makua. He had anything and everything at his disposal to thoroughly bless his people. It would be very easy to keep his nation prosperous. Continuing on this fairy tale trip, imagine the king establishing a bunch of laws. Among them he commands "thou shall not kill." Everyone agrees, this is a good law for it is better to be respectful of others and to cherish human life. Then a week or so after the king established well over 600 laws, statutes and commands, he issued another command that stated if anyone should speak evil against the king and his laws, that person shall be killed. Wait a minute, is he crazy? Is this real? Kill that person who speaks evil against the king? What kind of loving leader would issue a law like that? Isn't that what Sadaam, Mao, Hitler and Stalin all tried? With a seemingly unlimited budget to rule his people how could King Makua be doubtful that he could make everyone happy? Who in the world could, other than a robot or a puppet, endear to a leader like that? Was King Makua insane? Well, we all know how preposturous it would be for such a story to be true, yet this is exactly what the god of the Christian bible did. Deuteronomy 5:17, "Thou shall not kill." Deuteronomy 13:9, "but you shall surely kill him." When are the people of the real world going to realize that although some of the bible stories may be historically truthful, most of them are fairy tales that can't be taken seriously?" (end) My question is why is God contradicting Himself in Deuteronomy? How should my boyfriend explain this problem in order to share his faith? Aloha, kamschoolgrad |
Bible Answer: Hi kamschoolgrad: This question "IS NOT" a contradiction, it goes back to Deut. 5 but people of the world do not understand the things of God, His Holyness, Commands. They try to make him in the image of man, when he is the Creator of all. he doesn't have to explain why he does what he does, it's all his to do as he pleases. He set the Rules, telling the Jews that they are to Worship Him alone, and that he is a Jealous God. Vs. 9 is crutial, it says what he will do. Therefore It is "Not a Contradiction!" If they still beleive that it is, there isn't anything else that can be said. brackets have been added Look closely at them Deut. 5:6-10 6) (I am the LORD thy God,) (which brought thee out of the land of Egypt,) (from the house of bondage.) 7) (Thou shalt have none other gods before me.) 8) (Thou shalt not make thee any graven image,) (or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above,) (or that is in the earth beneath,) (or that is in the waters beneath the earth:) 9) (Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them,) (nor serve them:) (for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God,) (((visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,))) 10) And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments. Deut.13:4-10 4) Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him. 5) ( And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death); (because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God), (which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage), to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee. 6) If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; 7) Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; 8) Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him: 9) But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. 10) (And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die); (because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.) The person that seems to speak for God , to deceive the people , to lead his people away from the Lord God, to serve other gods, his blood shall be upon his own head. The people living around the Israelites, were the Cannanites, which God had told the Israelites to destroy, and take the land as their Inheritance, they did not destroy them. So the prophet or anyone else, that trys to lead the people astray, shall be condemned by the words of their own mouth, presuming to speak for God. In Gods Love Nevvvvine |