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Reply to "Clearing the air on the 10 Commandments"

Originally Posted by Unobtanium:
Originally Posted by Contendah:

Leaving aside those instances in the Old Testament that you have in mind (and which I am prepared to address, once your inquiry is fully formed), please expand your challenge to include some kind of description of where the New Testament "condones all kinds of horrible acts."

 

 

Contendah, that is an evasive answer.  The very simple question was, "Does your holy book condone the killing of innocents?"  

 

(Holy Book includes the OLD as well as new testaments, of course. Once cannot stand without the other)

It's really just a yes or no. 

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The term "your holy book" is your term, not mine.

 

There are indeed two distinct volumes in the Bible--the Old Testament and the New Testament.

 

You seem to understand this to some degree, since you said:  "Yes, of course the bible condones all sorts of horrible acts in the Old and New testaments." (emphasis mine).  Since you are thereby asserting that there are "all sorts of horrible Acts" in both testaments, one could expect you to serve up at least one such act from the New Testament, thus enhancing the dimensions of your inquiry by some small degree of ilustration.

 

In the Old Testament, there are many acts of God and God's people that involve the violent deaths of people, including some that would be regarded as "innocents."  The circumstances of these deaths vary by historical and theological contexts and the particular  human behaviors involved in them.   If you want a candid reply to your inquiry, will you identify two or three of these for discussion--more if you wish, but keep it reasonable; after a time you would be reinventing the wheel.

 

As to your sprawling generic question (" Does your holy book condone the killing of innocents?"), there are too many ways that you and other skeptics would be inclined to interpret a simple "yes or no," and I will not tempt you to such simplisms as would undoubtedly arise within your narrow theological perspectives, should I supply the simple one-word answer you demand.   


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