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In reply to the discussion: This will offend some people, and for any offence I apologize. [View all]ExWhoDoesntCare
(4,741 posts)21. LOL You really think that he was against harming children
Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying, Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
Matthew 15:1-8
So he's saying, you can't talk to me about the laws about washing hands when you're not following the laws about killing disobedient children.
And before you try the, He was pointing out the hypocrisy gambit, then know that he also had this to say about the laws, that every liberal christian out there refuses to admit is in the book, in bright red letters:
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Matthew 5:17-18
Among those laws is indeed that one must murder bratty kids.
Here:
For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.
--Leviticus 20: 9
And here:
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
--Deuteronomy 21:18-21
Those are the laws he's talking about that will last as long as the earth does, if he has anything to say about it.
But maybe your idea of "not harming" children is different from mine.
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Thank you for being so considerate of other people's feelings! But NO apology is necessary.
calimary
Jul 2023
#8
Yes. Because I know the difference between the Old Testament and the New Testament.
TigressDem
Jul 2023
#29