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To: haqihana who wrote (79701)	5/23/2000 9:25:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I condemn everyone violent, in all times and in all places, including "Gods". What about Sodom? And the flood? As for the new testament not a lot of killing in it- but it sure inspired a lot of killers. That's enough to make it a bad book (imo).

To: haqihana who wrote (79701)	5/23/2000 9:39:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

There was one other startling story of violence in the NT ... in Acts. Ananias and Sapphira, if memory serves. Imo that was murder using (?) power-of-God. And for a peccadillo, really. "The careful application of terror is also communication." (source unknown)

To: haqihana who wrote (79701)	5/26/2000 9:07:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

"all of the harsh punishment in the Bible was carried out by the early Hebrews, the Egyptians, and the Babylonians. The only harsh punishment found in the New Testament was done by the Romans." I think you missed Herod the Great, an Idumean, who gets a lot of flack in the New Testament for slaughtering the innocents. The Jews in Stephan's case were a little harsh, don't you think? I think Jesus was a little harsh on those Gadarene swine, don't you -- not the mention that fig tree. You also missed the Assyrians and Seleucids in the OT.