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To: Steve Dietrich who wrote (154016)	2/6/2009 12:16:32 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Respond to of 173976

Condoned! Not condones. Why keep pretending you don't know that English has a present tense and a past tense? I think you're the one with the comprehension problem. Does the 6th Commandment forbid murder? Or did it once forbid murder long ago in the past? Thats an easy question to answer. The sixth commandment forbids murder in the present and future. The Bible condones genocide Condoned, once again. You continue to mislead by applying an incorrect tense. , so do you. Those statements are simple and true. Those statements are intentionally misleading. Both of you condone genocide because there is at least one specific genocide you both approve of. That's how the English language works. You used the word "is" in that sentence and that makes it incorrect. If the sixth Commandment forbids the Israelites from committing genocide, how is it they did commit genocide centuries later? Did they break the commandment? If not how can you possibly argue the commandment forbids genocide? Arguably they did break the commandment, though at the specific command of God, who as the giver of the sixth commandment presumably had the authority to override it on a specific occasion. This is all assuming you're an OT literalist, which I'm not. If you are and this disturbs you, when you get the opportunity, you can take it up with God. Do you condemn Saul and Samuel for committing genocide against Amalek? Do you condemn Moses for his murder of women and children prisoners in Numbers 31? Nope, not Alexander the Great either. I don't condemn people thousands of years in the past. Nor do I condemn God. You can when you meet him if you choose. How is something that happened thousands of years ago relevant to today? Ducking the question? I guess i don't blame you. Nope, asking one. It's relevant because genocide and the murder of women and children prisoners ought to be condemned by decent people. But in these cases, you can't do it. For you these crimes were just and righteous. I suggest you worry about things going on in the present and potentially in the future. What happened thousands of years ago (and btw, unless you're an OT literalist, you don't really know exactly what happened back then) is unchangeable. I doubt your motivation is noble. I don't think you're a sensitive soul worried about the Amalekites or Perizzites, peoples not named anywhere but in the OT, but are just a pretending in order to mount an attack on Christianity.