From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!CAD:tektronix!zehntel!zinfandel!steve
Newsgroups: net.religion
Title: biblical laws - (nf)
Article-I.D.: zehntel.892
Posted: Tue Mar 22 01:23:43 1983
Received: Sat Mar 26 06:07:13 1983

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zinfandel!steve    Mar 18 22:08:00 1983


Could one of the resident biblical apologists tell me what
year God decided that stoning adulturers to death was no 
longer necessary?  Whom did he inform as to the change in the law?
In the "divinely inspired" books of Leviticus and Deuteronomy the law
of the Lord meted out such horrible death sentences for offenses
such as adultery and the pretense of virginity.

Am I taking these "laws" out of context?  Is there a stock answer
to my question?  If the answer is that the laws are interpreted
according to the times, then, again, what year did God finally
decide that the times had changed, and tell someone that we don't have to stone
adulterers to death?  Or is such punishment still God's law but his followers
are a little too squeamish to carry out the law?

I suppose there are many laws in the Bible which don't make much
sense in modern society, and which are awfully inconvenient to follow.
But if not God himself, who is telling you which divinely revealed laws
you can ignore and which you must follow?

	decvax!sytek!zehntel!zinfandel!steve nelson