Worship Warriors Posted July 18, 2019 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 10 Topic Count: 83 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2,220 Content Per Day: 1.17 Reputation: 4,858 Days Won: 3 Joined: 02/18/2019 Status: Offline Share Posted July 18, 2019 (edited) Mutation of the body. I once saw a video on you tube. This guy was reading from the Quran but inside the Quran was a bible. He was in fact quoting from the bible and interviewing Christians about what they thought about this verse : Then you shall cut off her hand, your eye shall not pity her. (Deuteronomy 25:12) Thinking it was from the Quran, those Christians were all speaking negatively about the Quran. Middle east culture Mutation of the body was very common in ancient time. David cut off Goliath head. 2 Samuel 4:12 David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up. This is our beloved David. The bible is written within the context of the history and of the culture of that day. When the OT was written this was the ancient laws at that time: However the difference between the Quran and the Torah is that this Law was given to the judge to administer. The Torah put a limit on the extent of mutation a judge or a king could administer: an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth (Exodus 21:24, Leviticus 24:20, Deuteronomy 19:24). The punishment must fit the crime and not be excessive. If you have taken an eye, your punishment must be limited to an eye. In this way, the Law protected both parties. The innocent party is fairly compensated. It protected the evil doer, his punishment is limited to his crime, it can’t be too lenient, and it can’t be too severe. But with the Quran, a man who is hungry may steal a loaf of bread and they would cut off his hand for stealing. This punishment is too severe for the offense he has committed. missed opportunity to be a witness This video went viral on you tube. This is what happened when christian don't know their bible. They missed the opportunity to be a witness on how righteous the Laws of the bible are compared to that of the Quran. another example is with revenge killing. revenge killing is very common in middle east culture. But with the bible, God placed cities of refuge throughout the land of Israel to protect the innocent party from the avenger of blood. https://worshipwarriorsministry.com.au/ Edited July 18, 2019 by Worship Warriors Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeauJangles Posted July 18, 2019 Group: Royal Member Followers: 44 Topic Count: 229 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 10,900 Content Per Day: 2.93 Reputation: 12,145 Days Won: 68 Joined: 02/13/2014 Status: Offline Birthday: 08/14/1954 Share Posted July 18, 2019 5 minutes ago, Worship Warriors said: Mutation of the body was very common in ancient time. David cut off Goliath head. 2 Samuel 4:12 David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up. This is our beloved David. The bible is written within the context of the history and of the culture of that day. When the OT was written this was the ancient laws at that time: Then there were the cases of King David's other dealings with the Philistines. I'll not mention the subject, as one can read the scriptures submitted for themselves. 1 Samuel 18:25-27 2 Samuel 3:14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Still Alive Posted July 18, 2019 Group: Royal Member Followers: 4 Topic Count: 13 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 3,024 Content Per Day: 1.33 Reputation: 1,224 Days Won: 3 Joined: 02/05/2018 Status: Offline Share Posted July 18, 2019 I'd cut the Christians that criticized it some slack. The reason is simple. Words really don't have much meaning unless you give them a context. And context means, among other things, this: Who said it. What they said before and after it. What the volume it is in is trying to say (is it a legal document, an historical document, a love story, fiction, a true story, etc. When was it written. From what culture was it written Who was it written to. So, when someone falsifies any of that contextual information, they are altering how a person SHOULD interpret the words. It's because the person rightly infers many other of those attributes listed above. If the bible says "kill the rabbit" it is different than if it turns out it was Elmer Fudd who said it. Different time, source, audience, text genre, etc. And yes, the OT is not written to us. It is written to the people who would have understood it at the time and were within the culture in and for which it was written. It was a different world. It speaks to why the US wanted all the immigrants it could get at one time, but the world has changed. Different times, different culture, different goals, different methods. In a real way, the Human race can be seen as a single entity. And in OT times, it was "pre-teen". 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Who me Posted July 19, 2019 Group: Royal Member Followers: 5 Topic Count: 17 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 3,299 Content Per Day: 1.72 Reputation: 1,685 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/27/2019 Status: Offline Share Posted July 19, 2019 Like 'still alive' those Christians are not entirely at fault. But they should have asked for the context and they should not have been rude about the quran. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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