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Re: The Brick Testament parts the Red Sea
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Wed, 4 Dec 2002 02:23:11 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Nathan Todd writes:
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> I can answer much of this, including your examples, (though you may call
> it my opinion), but I wanted to ask before I interrupt someone else's debate.
Sure, jump in! There's a reason we're debating in a public forum and not
just over e-mail.
> It may be of interest that like many christians I stand by the *whole* old
> testemant and of course the new. I believe the old testemant is
> understandable and does not show God as something he isn't in the new. The
> only difference is the different covenants operating. You must have come
> across this in the Bible.
OK, so would you say his first covenant, that of the Old Testament, could be
accurately summed up by "Israelites, do what I say, or I will kill you. In
fact, don't even question or complain, or I will kill you."? If you go by
my examples, this seems to be God's operating procedure.
But I would be interested in hearing your defense of God's actions in the
ten examples I gave, and how this God is compatible with a forgiving,
merciful, and non-homicidal, loving God.
And I'm also curious why an all-knowing, all-powerful God would drastically
change his policies over time (ie., regarding genocide, gentiles, etc)?
> God Bless, (yes I believe in God, his son Jesus who died for my sins,
> and the holy spirit.)
May Maury the Talking Kangaroo watch over you in the night!
-Rev. Smith
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| Rev, I think you need to get working on fleshing out the Good Book of Maury. Sounds like a hoot. Then again, all you'd have to do is change a few words/names/phrases across the Bible, and it would probably work well enough. But if you take some real (...) (22 years ago, 4-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| I can answer much of this, including your examples, (though you may call it my opinion), but I wanted to ask before I interrupt someone else's debate. It may be of interest that like many christians I stand by the *whole* old testemant and of (...) (22 years ago, 4-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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