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13 months ago  ::  Jun 01, 2012 - 9:23AM #1
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Many of you will find this disturbing while others especially alledged christians  with military background will find nothing wrong with it.

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13 months ago  ::  Jun 01, 2012 - 9:46AM #2
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Never mind the example given was before the dispensation brought by Christ.

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13 months ago  ::  Jun 01, 2012 - 9:50AM #3
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Jun 1, 2012 -- 9:46AM, TENAC wrote:

Never mind the example given was before the dispensation brought by Christ.



I hear Christians say that the OT doesn't "matter now": but then, I hear Christians say that Jesus said "I come not to bring peace, but to bring a sword."  Scads of Wingo-Christians love quoting Leviticus in re: "man shall not lie with man."  Wingoism, as ever, is a multifaceted, contradictory affair. 

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13 months ago  ::  Jun 01, 2012 - 10:01AM #4
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Jun 1, 2012 -- 9:46AM, TENAC wrote:


Never mind the example given was before the dispensation brought by Christ.


Don't tell us...tell the Good News Club. They are the ones that left it out of the curriculum.

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13 months ago  ::  Jun 01, 2012 - 10:42AM #5
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Jun 1, 2012 -- 9:50AM, mecdukebec wrote:


Jun 1, 2012 -- 9:46AM, TENAC wrote:

Never mind the example given was before the dispensation brought by Christ.



I hear Christians say that the OT doesn't "matter now": but then, I hear Christians say that Jesus said "I come not to bring peace, but to bring a sword."  Scads of Wingo-Christians love quoting Leviticus in re: "man shall not lie with man."  Wingoism, as ever, is a multifaceted, contradictory affair. 



Hello,


Just for sake of conversation I and my friends and many in the churches I have belonged to have never taught and suggested anything regarding the "OT doesn't matter now". Actually, in many of your posts in the past you teeter-todder on Doubt. And that's not good. Only here on Bnet have I heard this "OT doesn't matter now" stuff, usually from you. Someone polls a story and posts here on the forums and it's supposed to represent all Christians?  Maybe it's your denomination that teaches this "OT doesn't matter now". I have heard some who want to replace Israel with the Church as being more important to Prophesy--because of the NT, but not doing away with the OT. Clarify yourself please, if you may.


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13 months ago  ::  Jun 01, 2012 - 12:15PM #6
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First of all, this was an opinion piece, not a news story. Secondly, there is no discussion of genocide, there is a discussion of obediance to G-d.


Assuming any of this is true, then the curriculum needs work. G-d punished Saul for saving a king, like himself, thereby abandoning G-d; and the Amalekites were punished for attacking the Hebrews as they fled Egypt by attacking the elderly and weak.

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13 months ago  ::  Jun 01, 2012 - 1:43PM #7
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This thread was moved from US News & Politics.


I thought it might make an interesting discussion topic here.

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13 months ago  ::  Jun 01, 2012 - 6:53PM #8
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Jun 1, 2012 -- 12:15PM, aarroottoonn wrote:


First of all, this was an opinion piece, not a news story. Secondly, there is no discussion of genocide, there is a discussion of obediance to G-d.


Assuming any of this is true, then the curriculum needs work. G-d punished Saul for saving a king, like himself, thereby abandoning G-d; and the Amalekites were punished for attacking the Hebrews as they fled Egypt by attacking the elderly and weak.




I would really hope that no one, even an elementary school student, would think that the point of this lesson is that genocide is a good idea. Yes, the curriculum needs a lot of work...but I hate that some people assume that all Christians (and all Christian veterans) are like this...I don't know a single one who actually *would* think this is okay, and I know quite a few of both.

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13 months ago  ::  Jun 02, 2012 - 12:17AM #9
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Like, look at the entire Book of Joshua, folks and for that matter, Deuteronomy  chapter 7 and chapter 20 or Judges 19:1 to 21:25.


Are you afraid that we will shoot all the gays or maybe nuke India because it's a pagan country?


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13 months ago  ::  Jun 03, 2012 - 3:59PM #10
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I do not agree they were teaching genocide, I see them teaching the necessity of obeying God. Even so, I think they could have done a better job of that... there are many OT stories that are not appropriate in today's world. As a former Sunday school teacher, I found all kinds of things in Genesis that I would not teach grade school children. Juda and Tamar are just one of many stories I would not use for a Sunday School class.


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