-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] >> I am playing the Devil's advocate here. So I might as well fulfill my >> role. So, you're saying God was merciful on Isaac because a lamb was >> sacrificed instead. Fine. So God demanded cruelty to an animal, which >> is also against our modern laws. > > Cruelty? Where does that come from? > > Or are you a vegan?
No, but I don't think it is right to kill an animal for any purpose than to eat it, or perhaps to end it's suffering. But, that's where we can come in and say: Ah, but to kill it does relieve its suffering because by definition living is suffering if one does not have the intelligence of a human being. Actually that brings us also to the point of euthanasia and it not being legal in your "free" country. > >> Either way one looks at it, the Bible is condoning behavior that is no >> longer accepted as being morally just. Or perhaps it is just telling us >> what happened, so we can learn from the past. I can't say that seems >> very evident looking at many of the things that happen today. > > Shedding the blood of animals to *cover* human sin was what YHWH > demanded. > I just don't get how killing something else can atone for your sins. penitence must occur to oneself, not to another being. > Jesus' death and the shedding of His blood permanently *washed* away > all human sin. > > Note the different words I used: *cover*, which is temporary and why > Jews had to make yearly sacrifices, and *washed* which is permanent. > The Law is now fulfilled, and now all that is left is for man to > believe. > > That, at least, is the way I was taught it by the Assemblies of God. > >> I really just wish that Christians would adhere to the lessons that they >> so firmly believe in. But alas, we have a whole lot of people that seem >> to do well on Sunday and forget about the rest of the week. > >> Is it a turn the other cheek world we live in or is the eye for an eye >> world? So which world do you think we live in? Joe - -- Registerd Linux user #443289 at http://counter.li.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGQuhxiXBCVWpc5J4RAi2cAKDC700iTubIR/EdYAGBdaYvlG4yUgCfYDo9 ejRb+7L8/HcFQJYMpYvRL5U= =DJFl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
