"This is how Christians know you have not read the Bible"
Only dozens of times! Why do you even try those fake responses on this thread? I've been boxing your ears for years whenever you try to fake out those on this thread who don't read the bible. You should know by now that I'm going to give a direct quote which will expose you and leave you as naked as David and Jonathon:
(Numbers 15:32)
"Now while the sons of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering wood on the sabbath day. And those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation; and they put him in custody because it had not been declared what should be done to him. Then the Lord said to Moses, "The man shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp." So all the congregation brought him outside the camp, and stoned him to death with stones, just as the Lord had commanded Moses."
We will let the comments of a Christian (undisputed by the Christian community as an expert in biblical exegesis) confirm my statement that this violated the so-called Moral Precept--Matthew Henry:
Those are to be reckoned presumptuous sinners, who sin designedly against God's will and glory. Sins thus committed are exceedingly sinful. He that thus breaks the commandment reproaches the Lord. He also despises the word of the Lord. Presumptuous sinners despise it, thinking themselves too great, too good, and too wise, to be ruled by it. A particular instance of presumption in the sin of sabbath-breaking is related. The offence was gathering sticks on the sabbath day, to make a fire, whereas the people were to bake and seethe what they had occasion for, the day before, Exodus 16:23. This was done as an affront both to the law and to the Lawgiver. God is jealous for the honour of his sabbaths, and will not hold him guiltless who profanes them, whatever men may do. God intended this punishment for a warning to all, to make conscience of keeping holy the sabbath. And we may be assured that no command was ever given for the punishment of sin, which, at the judgment day, shall not prove to have come from perfect love and justice. The right of God to a day of devotion to himself, will be disputed and denied only by such as listen to the pride and unbelief of their hearts, rather than to the teaching of the Spirit of truth and life. Wherein consists the difference between him who was detected gathering sticks in the wilderness on the day of God, and the man who turns his back upon the blessings of sabbath appointments, and the promises of sabbath mercies, to use his time, his cares, and his soul, in heaping up riches; and waste his hours, his property, and his strength in sinful pleasure? Wealth may come by the unhallowed effort, but it will not come alone; it will have its awful reward. Sinful pursuits lead to ruin.
"Killing people for gathering sticks for cooking or staying warm on a Sunday is a moral precept???" LOL!!
"I don't believe that and have never said anything close to that."
WRONG! You've argued it consistently for YEARS on this thread. You are trying to reduce the meaning of my statement because I did not put it into ten paragraphs of explanation. You don't believe the relative and subjective systems practiced by various tribes and groups in various times and places on earth exist independently of an Absolute Morality communicated by God THROUGH HOLY WRIT and (as a back-up :-)) ...embedded by God in the human heart(for those gazillion people throughout time and place who have never heard of the tribal stories of a tiny group of families wandering in the desert when baby goats tasted great boiled in the mothers milk. |
