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    Scriptures I Don't Believe

    Actually I'm not going to give you a list but I just thought this could be an interesting topic.

    Reading some of the threads recently I see some comments and think "Don't you believe scripture where it says ..... (something that contradicts what they say)?"

    The response tends to be though that the scriprure doesn't mean what the words of the scripture say.

    Perhaps the topic should be "Scriptures I Only Believe When I Give Them a Different Meaning to the Usual Meaning of the Words".

    Trouble is I can't see the topis not degenerating into a "You don't believe" as opposed to "I don't believe".

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    There are lots of OT scriptures we no longer believe like stoning for adultery

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    This sounds like the kind of thread that is either ignored or the responses are some kind of tongue in cheek. Here is my version :

    Scriptures I Only Believe When I Give Them a Different Meaning to the Calvinistic Meaning of the Words
    Ok, whatever

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cardinal TT View Post
    There are lots of OT scriptures we no longer believe like stoning for adultery
    Could that be put as "we don't believe scriptures that tell us we actually have to punish people for doing wrong"?

    The adultery one (and several others) were "to purge the evil from the land". Do you think we'd be facing all the sexual deviancy we have around us if we'd the courage to get rid of evil when it first rose it's head?

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    Quote Originally Posted by FunFromOz View Post
    Could that be put as "we don't believe scriptures that tell us we actually have to punish people for doing wrong"?

    The adultery one (and several others) were "to purge the evil from the land". Do you think we'd be facing all the sexual deviancy we have around us if we'd the courage to get rid of evil when it first rose it's head?

    If we stoned, executed, burnt people for every OT requirements there wont be many people left on earth

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cardinal TT View Post
    If we stoned, executed, burnt people for every OT requirements there wont be many people left on earth
    At the moment given how wide spread (and approved of rather than being seen as evil) sexual sin is, no. But there are not that many capital crimes.

    But like everything, if you nip the problem in the bud it never becomes a big problem; which it has in the west.

    I've read that punishments like "stoning for adultery" were the maximum with the victim deciding the level of punishment and it applying equally to all involved, so you couldn't forgive your spouse while stoning the person they sinned with.

    On adultery, if getting stoned was a possibility, and it occurred sometimes, and if people understood that if they were divorced for adultery then any sex after that would also be adulterious and equally liable to being stoned for then there may be a bit less of it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FunFromOz View Post
    The response tends to be though that the scriprure doesn't mean what the words of the scripture say.
    Ok, here's one for you. Do you believe this without having to qualify the scripture in any way?

    John
    16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

    Whosoever means whosoever, right?

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    Whosoever means whosoever, right?
    Of course, as far as I know no one has a problem with that.

    However as I'm not felling well though fighting it spiritually and medically I'll just ask this and maybe return in a day or two.

    How many medals have you won at the Olympics in Rio so far?

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    Quote Originally Posted by FunFromOz View Post
    How many medals have you won at the Olympics in Rio so far?

    He won the gold for eating 5 kg of pulled pork in 60 seconds

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    Quote Originally Posted by FunFromOz View Post
    Of course, as far as I know no one has a problem with that.

    However as I'm not felling well though fighting it spiritually and medically I'll just ask this and maybe return in a day or two.

    How many medals have you won at the Olympics in Rio so far?
    Which town in Georgia called Rio are you referring to ?

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