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Originally Posted by greatamerican128
How am I surprised at what I am seeing. A non-Christian attempting to demonize Christianity through the out of context use of various verses.
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If you read the full discussion, you would know I'm not attempting to demonize Christianity. I was pointing out that Christianity and Judaism have managed to find ways to ignore the violent verses in their holy book.
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Sure, God has justice in the Old Testament which may not match up with modern notions of justice.
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That was my point. It doesn't match modern notions, so we find a way to discard it.
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However, we cannot judge God's actions wrong, we are incapable of making such a judgment.
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Gotta disagree here. God is what he is, if he exists: But I can choose whether I want to worship him. I'm not going to worship a God that demands 20 human sacrifices a day, regardless of how "unknowable" he is.
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There is not one verse in the Bible which tells all Christians, past and present, to force the word of God on others. The verse you mentioned had to do with a specific people at a specific period in time.
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So that makes it okay then?
There are plenty of injunctions to go out and spread the word. The exact methodology has always been rather broadly interpreted.
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Also Islam's Allah is not the same as the God of Israel. They aren't even remotely close.
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According to Muslims, they are the same. Muslims just claim to have the most recent revelation.