Comments on: God Will Kill You For Spilling Your Seed

By: Clint

Clint — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 08:12:00 +0000

Im a Christian.

Sex outside of marriage does seem to have been permissible, especially early in human history.

The first man was killed because he was evil. Not incredibly strange. The second man was killed because he had a cultural family obligation to fulfill that he did not. Think of it like this; He didn’t protest having sex with her, just getting her pregnant. So he used her for sex and denied giving her a child which was obviously very important for her to have. He kinda deserved what he got too.

By: White Knuckle Driver

White Knuckle Driver — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:43:00 +0000

Sounds like the devil at the podium in front of a group of lukewarm Christians.

By: validatedself

validatedself — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 05:10:00 +0000

His concern is for the good of his creation, not laws per se, ancient or modern. It makes perfect sense for the creator of the universe to take the life of a defective creature. What is difficult to comprehend is why he would voluntarily endure the consequences of his creatures’ moral failures in their stead.

By: Michael Suede

Michael Suede — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 02:11:00 +0000

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If you cared to educate yourself on the historical cultural context you would recognize that the action of Er was a very cowardly, malicious neglect of familial responsibility and rightful compassion.”

No, it makes little sense that the creator of the universe would kill him for not blowing a load in his dead brothers wife.

By: validatedself

validatedself — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 20:43:00 +0000

If you cared to educate yourself on the historical cultural context you would recognize that the action of Er was a very cowardly, malicious neglect of familial responsibility and rightful compassion. It makes little sense to you simply because you observe and opine from a position of ignorance, and you make yourself out to be a fool while doing it in such a public fashion.

By: Christian

Christian — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 01:15:00 +0000

And God saw that the
wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of
the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. Genesis 6 5-6

By: Michael Suede

Michael Suede — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 05:53:00 +0000

Oh, well then thank god God changed his mind about what constitutes a sin. I guess he made a few mistakes the first time around.

By: Christian

Christian — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 03:05:00 +0000

This was all before the law was given to the people by Moses.

By: James Clark

James Clark — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 01:52:00 +0000

Of course these characters are members of a royal dynasty. You will also find OT stories justifying incest, and the infiltration of foreign royal dynasties with secret usurpers, despite other bible verses prohibiting such things.

Such stories are of the Patriarchs – the royalty. The entire bible was never meant to be read by the illiterate commoner, only select verses – much of it was supposed to be somewhat esoteric. The Ten Commandments are laws meant to engender public order – to allow the rulers to keep a lid on things. It is evident in many Old Testament stories that Yahweh expects very different behaviour from the royal patriarchs than from the ordinary person.

By: Michael Suede

Michael Suede — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 22:31:00 +0000

I’m working on correcting my deficiencies in this area.