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Hespera --- yes or no --- does the Bible support the burning of witches today?
The fact that you refuse to answer that question, then whine because we 'misinterpret you' is par for the course.
Another good question is: Is the Bible against the burning of witches today?
But if I can't get a straight answer to the first question, I'll withhold asking the second one.
But you don't bring up the Salem Witch Trials, the Crusades, or the Inquisition when someone is discussing how 'God is love' or 'God is the God of peace' --- or do you?Here is a question for you, AV.
Who gives a tinkers' cuss what the Bible says about witches?
And the answer: Not me.
But you don't bring up the Salem Witch Trials, the Crusades, or the Inquisition when someone is discussing how 'God is love' or 'God is the God of peace' --- or do you?
Thomas Malthus would disagree.
Passing the buck --- that's all they were doing.Nope. Why should I? But neither do I deny that the most obscene crimes have been perpetrated in the name of our faith, by representatives of just about every denomination except the Quakers.
we don't have any slaves because we have moved beyond the bible. over time a paradigm shift that was not in relation to the bible occurred. just as some Christians don't take genesis 1 literally any more, today Christians ignore the passages that leed one to believe slavery is ok.Forget history --- you guys today claim that the Bible supports slavery, and even wonder why we don't have any.
its bad press now. Thats why. You guys would be burning witches if you thought you could get away with it.You guys today wonder why we're not out burning witches.
ever read the old testament. You have written before that Any horrable thing one can think of is ok if god says to do it, so i dont know why your getting so defensive now. God says to do a lot of horrible things in the ot.You guys today claim that the Bible supports genocide.
lol really? you must have a strange view of trial.At least the Inquisition would have put us on trial first.
I guess if you mean by respect, that it makes you guys look bad in today's secular age, well its no wonder. At the time these events happened they were in respect to the bible.Here's the kicker --- did they do it in spite of the Bible, or in respect to the Bible?
actually you guys already did that so its a non issue. Christians already burned and hanged and slaved and destroyed the writings of other cultures to further their own agenda. I don't have to think about How i would act depending on how i interpret the bible because Christians have already shown me how they interpreted the bible. You are trying to revise history.If you say they did it in respect to the Bible, which is what I think you are saying, then that supports my claim that if you guys ran the world today, in respect to how you interpret the Bible, we would all be burning, hanging, slaving, or hiding.
Hespera --- yes or no --- does the Bible support the burning of witches today?
Another good question is: Is the Bible against the burning of witches today?
Fair enough --- so if you were in charge of running the world, and you ran it according to the Bible --- you would demand that witches be burned?The bible as a written supports burning of witches and is not against burning witches.
Regression ≠ ConversionThat's not what I'm talking about.
Forget history --- you guys today claim that the Bible supports slavery, and even wonder why we don't have any.
You guys today wonder why we're not out burning witches.
You guys today claim that the Bible supports genocide.
At least the Inquistion would have put us on trial first.Believe me --- I hear that every day.So those who find slavery, genocide, witch hunting, and incest in the Bible, and wonder why we might not be doing it today, are 'lying for Darwin'?Here's the kicker --- did they do it in spite of the Bible, or in respect to the Bible?
Please answer this.
If you say they did it in respect to the Bible, which is what I think you are saying, then that supports my claim that if you guys ran the world today, in respect to how you interpret the Bible, we would all be burning, hanging, slaving, or hiding.
But again --- I'm asking you to please answer that question.Yes --- however uncomfortable --- please answer it.
secular culture combined with a paradigm shift has led us to many of the values we hold today. many project these values on the bible when the bible really doesn't support these values.
The bible as a written supports burning of witches and is not against burning witches. This is the literal interpretation which many revise in today's age because they know its wrong.
sorry i couldn't help but answer. sorry Hespera
Hespera --- yes or no --- does the Bible support the burning of witches today?
Another good question is: Is the Bible against the burning of witches today?
Here is a question for you. Why is it that you feel free to make such ugly false accusations? I hope it isnt anything in your religion that encourages such bigotry.
How's this?No prob on the answer for me. I suppsoe the bible supports the burning of witches, and i guess elsewhere its against it. maybe AV could find the quotes that say it isnt good. Id be interested to see where is says not to do it.
Matthew 19:18b said:Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder...
Fair enough --- same question to you, then:Hespera --- yes or no --- does the Bible support the burning of witches today?Yes it does.
How's this?
Fair enough --- same question to you, then:
If you ran the world according to the Bible, would you demand the execution of witches?
Wont do at all. Murder and execution arent the same thing at all.
Atheism, on the other hand, does say something of God, and that something is unproven, and is said without evidence, but is based on belief. Which means that atheism is a faith, with a doctrine all of its own.
I say put them in a foxhole --- the agnostic would probably convert first, the atheist shortly thereafter.
--- Bingo!
Were those women in 1692 murdered or executed?
In your opinion.
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