There is a difference between love and mercy in the lower house
and love and mercy in the upper house.
What could that mean?
and love and mercy in the upper house.
What could that mean?
According to Islam... ~
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Well, buddy, what that means is that Xtians:
Slaughter Native Americans, enslave black people, murder Muslims, kill non-believers, hate Jews, and are complete assholes.
Count yourself in.
According to the Old Testament
According to the Old Testament
[h=1]Maybe you can help me understand Buddy - I'm not a big fan of the Old Testament because of passages like this. I asked a friend from my church Why God would be okay with people owning slaves. His explanation had to do with the current laws of the land and when this was written it was an accepted practice. Maybe you have a better answer because I can't wrap my head around this one. IMO - My God, if he interacted on day to day operations, would not allow this.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=NASB&search=Exodus+21:2-11
Exodus 21:2-11New American Standard Bible (NASB)[/h][FONT="]2 ?If you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve for six years; but on the seventh he shall go out as a free man without payment. 3 If he comes [a]alone, he shall go out [b]alone; if he is the husband of a wife, then his wife shall go out with him. 4 If his master gives him a wife, and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall belong to her master, and he shall go out [c]alone. 5 But if the slave plainly says, ?I love my master, my wife and my children; I will not go out as a free man,? 6 then his master shall bring him to [d]God, then he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him permanently.[/FONT]
[FONT="]7 ?If a man sells his daughter as a female slave, she is not to [e]go free as the male slaves [f]do. 8 If she is [g]displeasing in the eyes of her master [h]who designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He does not have authority to sell her to a foreign people because of his [i]unfairness to her. 9 If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her according to the custom of daughters. 10 If he takes to himself another woman, he may not reduce her [j]food, her clothing, or her conjugal rights. 11 If he will not do these three things for her, then she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.
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According to the Old Testament
[h=1]Maybe you can help me understand Buddy - I'm not a big fan of the Old Testament because of passages like this. I asked a friend from my church Why God would be okay with people owning slaves. His explanation had to do with the current laws of the land and when this was written it was an accepted practice. Maybe you have a better answer because I can't wrap my head around this one. IMO - My God, if he interacted on day to day operations, would not allow this.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=NASB&search=Exodus+21:2-11
Exodus 21:2-11New American Standard Bible (NASB)[/h][FONT="]2 ?If you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve for six years; but on the seventh he shall go out as a free man without payment. 3 If he comes [a]alone, he shall go out [b]alone; if he is the husband of a wife, then his wife shall go out with him. 4 If his master gives him a wife, and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall belong to her master, and he shall go out [c]alone. 5 But if the slave plainly says, ?I love my master, my wife and my children; I will not go out as a free man,? 6 then his master shall bring him to [d]God, then he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him permanently.[/FONT]
[FONT="]7 ?If a man sells his daughter as a female slave, she is not to [e]go free as the male slaves [f]do. 8 If she is [g]displeasing in the eyes of her master [h]who designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He does not have authority to sell her to a foreign people because of his [i]unfairness to her. 9 If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her according to the custom of daughters. 10 If he takes to himself another woman, he may not reduce her [j]food, her clothing, or her conjugal rights. 11 If he will not do these three things for her, then she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.
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- Exodus 21:3 Lit by himself
- Exodus 21:3 Lit by himself
- Exodus 21:4 Lit by himself
- Exodus 21:6 Or the judges who acted in God?s name
- Exodus 21:7 Lit go out
- Exodus 21:7 Lit go out
- Exodus 21:8 Lit bad
- Exodus 21:8 Another reading is so that he did not designate her
- Exodus 21:8 Lit dealing treacherously
- Exodus 21:10 Lit flesh
The answer your friend gave seems to parallel the commentary by Matthew Henry, a respected 18th century British Bible expositer http://biblehub.com/commentaries/exodus/21-2.htm . You assume that if God interacted on a daily basis he would not allow that to happen. What makes you think so? And who are we to know or expect what God will or won't, should or should not do at any given moment? What God does or does not do is his business. We are to trust and obey.
Mortals would be far better off to walk in fear of the Holy One.
Mortals would be far better off to walk in fear of the Holy One.
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So its all made up bullshit.
:shrug::shrug:
Why would you want to be fearful of something that does not exist?
