felix dakat wrote:[q
Yes, you showed the opposite. So the opposites are both there in the Old Testament text. How shall we interpret that?
The way scriptures tell us to.
Test all concepts and hold to the good.
Regards
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1 Thessalonians 5:21. Good on ya! But does that mean that you're just going to excise verses like Exodus 20:5 from that Bible? How does that aid in understanding what the authors were getting at? Is it possible you don't care? You simply presume that your judgment is superior and that whatever is behind versus you don't consider good is merely an academic question? I'm trying to understand your POV on this point.
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I would not excise it. I recognize that scriptures can be made to say almost anything.
I would just put These quotes against yours and then ask that we test the competing quotes and decide which is the most just.
Ezekiel 18:20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Deuteronomy 24:16 (ESV) "Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. Each one shall be put to death for his own sin.
The declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral justice. [Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason]
I would also point out that for god to punish us at all for just following, as we must, the sin natures that he himself created in us and that would be quite unjust, --- because we cannot go against our natures.
Regards
DL