On Punishing ‘Immorality’ | |
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Leviticus 20:9 |
For anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood is upon him. |
| 20:10 | If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. |
| 20:13 | If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. |
| Deuteronomy 22:20-1 | But if the thing is true, that evidence of virginity was not found in the young woman, then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done an outrageous thing in Israel by whoring in her father’s house. So you shall purge the evil from your midst. |
| Exodus 35:2 | Six days work shall be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on it shall be put to death. |
On Destroying Other People | |
| Deuteronomy 7:1-2 | When the Lord your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than yourselves, and when the Lord your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them. |
| 20:10-17 | When you draw near to a city to fight against it, offer terms of peace to it. And if it responds to you peaceably and it opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall do forced labor for you and shall serve you. But if it makes no peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it. And when the Lord your God gives it into your hand, you shall put all its males to the sword, but the women and the little ones, the livestock, and everything else in the city, all its spoil, you shall take as plunder for yourselves. And you shall enjoy the spoil of your enemies, which the Lord your God has given you. Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not cities of the nations here. But in the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes, but you shall devote them to complete destruction, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the Lord your God has commanded. |
On the Evil of Biblical Law | |
| Ezekiel 20:25-26 | Moreover, I gave them statutes that were not good and rules by which they could not have life, and I defiled them through their very gifts in their offering up all their firstborn, that I might devastate them. I did it that they might know that I am the Lord. |
On Slavery & Subjugation of Women | |
| Ephesians 5:22-24 | Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. |
| Exodus 21:20-21 | When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged. But if the slave survives a day or two, he is not to be avenged, for the slave is his money. |
| 1 Peter 2:13-14 | Be subject for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme, or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good. |
| 2:18 | Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the unjust. |
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Leviticus 25:44-45 |
As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are around you. You may also buy from among the strangers who sojourn with you and their clans that are with you, who have been born in your land, and they may be your property. |
Jesus, on His Second Coming | |
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Matthew 24:29-34 |
Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the
moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the
heavens will be shaken. Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and
then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming
on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he will send out his angels
with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one
end of heaven to the other.
From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near. So also, when you see all these things, you know that he is near, at the very gates. Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place. (Emphasis added.) |
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16:27-28 |
For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done. Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom. |
Scientific Errors | |
| (1) Rabbits don’t chew cud. | |
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Deuteronomy 14:6-7 |
Every animal that parts the hoof and has the hoof cloven in two and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat. Yet of those that chew the cud or have the hoof cloven you shall not eat these: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger, because they chew the cud but do not part the hoof, are unclean for you. |
| (2) No insects (including grasshoppers) are 4-legged. | |
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Leviticus 11:20-22 |
All winged insects that go on all fours are detestable to you. Yet among the winged insects that go on all fours you may eat those that have jointed legs above their feet, with which to hop on the ground. Of them you may eat: the locust of any kind, the bald locust of any kind, the cricket of any kind, and the grasshopper of any kind. |
| (3) This is only possible on a flat earth. | |
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Matthew 4:8 |
Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. |
| (4) pi does not = 3. | |
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1 Kings 7:23 |
Then he made the sea of cast metal. It was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference. |
| (5) The earth moves. It does not have a foundation. | |
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Psalms 104:5 |
He set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved. |
Selected Contradictions | |
| (1) | |
| 2 Kings 2:11 | And as they still went on and talked, behold, chariots of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them. And Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. |
| John 3:13 | No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. |
| (2) | |
| Numbers 23:19 | God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it? |
| Exodus 32:14 | And the Lord relented from the disaster that he had spoken of bringing on his people. |
| (3) | |
| Ephesians 2:8-9 | For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. |
| James 2:14-17 | What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. |
| Revelation 22:12 | “Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, to repay everyone for what he has done.” |
| (4) | |
| Matthew 5:16 | “In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.” |
| Matthew 6:1 | “Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.” |
| (5) (Jesus speaking) | |
| John 14:27 | “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.” |
| Matthew 10:34 | “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.” |
| (6) | |
| Genesis 32:30 | So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, “For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered.” |
| Exodus 33:11 | Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. |
| John 1:18 | No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known. |
| (7) (Jesus speaking) | |
| John 5:30-32 | “I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me. If I alone bear witness about myself, my testimony is not deemed true. There is another who bears witness about me, and I know that the testimony that he bears about me is true.” |
| John 8:14 | Jesus answered, “Even if I do bear witness about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from or where I am going.” |