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Do they mean like when their leadership is revoking student visas, going Leviticus 19:34 states: "You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself".
Leviticus is from the Jewish part, though, and is therefore inherently less valuable to Christians unless there's anything in there about murdering gays or treating women like property.
Man, these guys would love Islam.
I can hear it now
And what about the book of James which says the same thing in different words?
Bible says everything if you look hard enough. There's no point in argumenting this way.
Numbers 5:11 to 5:31 uh, fairly clearly explains that if a woman is suspected to be pregnant by 'not her husband', she is to undergo a ritual and drink a potion which will cause an abortion/miscarriage.
https://biblia.com/bible/esv/numbers/5/11-31
ESV uses a ... too literal translation to result into 'her thigh will fall away'...
https://biblia.com/bible/niv2011/numbers/5/11-31
But the NIV translators are capable of understanding context dependent modifiers and just directly uses 'miscarry'.
https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/numbers/5/11-31
NLT ends up with 'womb will shrivel/shrink'.
https://biblia.com/bible/nkjv/numbers/5/11-31
NKJ also goes for a very, word by word literal approach (what a surprise) and says 'thigh will rot'.
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So yeah, there you go, anytime you run into a bible thumper who proclaims that the ten commandments are the basis of western civilization, show them that the old testament also very clearly and explicitly ... not just condones, but mandates abortion in certain circumstances.
If they then say that we are under the new covenant, throw this at them:
https://biblehub.com/matthew/5-18.htm
Matthew 5:18
Jesus, the man himself, says to follow the Law (ie, the old testament, or at the very least the first 5 books, the torah, which includes the entire book of numbers) exactly, precisely, to the letter, to the 'jot and tittle'.
... Oh but also the Bible is inerrant and never contradicts itself, which must mean the old and new covenant have perfect agreement and never contradict, and are therefore identical, right?
Exactly. People who want to believe certain things will find them in the Bible and will disregard the rest that's also written there. Belief is, unfortunately, irrational.
I dunno about that, but there is a bit in there about burning bulls testicles to appease the lord god
I tried that, it works every time. The only problem is getting the bull's testicles. They object to it surprisingly strongly. Quite challenging. The Good Book offers no warnings or advice about that part.
Protip: Remove them from the bull before burning them.
the bull might not like that either though
That's a good tip, I'll give that a try.
No the testicles are on the other end.
I'm confused, Ive been kicked in the head a few times, as you can imagine.
Imagine being a supreme being, creator or the entire universe and everything in it, all life, the fusion in the stars, supermassive black holes sucking matter into them, dust clouds across the cosmos, and yet still for some reason being impressed by someone burning bovine gonads.
At one point he cursed the Phillistines with hemorrhoids until they made him some golden ones.
Musk has how much money and influence, but rages when people say a mean thing online. I see God as no different.
Big Skydaddy loves him some mountain oysters.
I understood that reference! 👌
so which part did jesus read then?
He was probably heavily influenced by the Essenes, so stuff very similar to the Dead Sea Scrollls.
I think the book of Tobit was also influential to historical Jesus’s thought, and maybe even 1 Enoch. If he didn’t read those texts himself, I think at least you can make the argument that he was influenced by the kinds of thoughts/movements those texts were associated with.
Authors don't read their own books.
um. ok. you’re clearly a theological scholar.
Wait, does this mean I'll have to jack off strangers?
Well, anything else just wouldn't be Christian, you know. I'd hate to have to report you..
Well, they also don't like the natives, or themselves, so honestly good work keeping true to the book. 🙃