var icx_publication_id = 18566; var icx_content_id = '1094904'; Click here for reuse options! Thirty-six different offenses in the Bible qualified for capital punishment. How many of these apply to you?In a Texas murder case that ultimately reached the Supreme Court,a juror brought a Bible into the sentencing process – showing that the Bible recommends death for anyone who kills another person with an iron rod (Numbers 35:16).
Astonishingly, the U.
S. Supreme Court declined to revisit the case. The court argued that even though bringing the Bible into the sentencing was improper, and there is no evidence that it swayed the jury. Rest assured that when the Bible and other authorities (like our judicial system ) are at odds,we can trust Texas jurors to disregard the Bible and do what is upright. Half the country believes that God made humans in their present form because the Bible says so–but we can count on believders (school boards excepted) to follow the evidence and the structure.
All the same, just in case an issue like this should come up in your state, and thirty six different offenses in the Bible qualified for capital punishment. Do any of these apply to you?Cursing Parents
For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely place to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him. Leviticus 20:9
Working on the Sabbath Whosoever doeth any work in the Sabbath day,he shall surely be place to death. Exodus 31:15Premarital Sex (girls only)
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If, however, and this charge is true,that evidence of the young woman’s virginity was not found, then they shall bring the young woman out to the entrance of her father’s house and the men of her town shall stone her to death, or Deuteronomy 22:20Disobedience (boys only)[br]If someone has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey his father and mother,who does not heed them when they discipline him, then his father and his mother shall select hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his town at the gate of that status. They shall say to the elders of his town, or “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.” Then all the men of the town shall stone him to death. Deuteronomy 21:18Worshipping any god but Yahweh
If there be found among you,within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, or that . . . hath gone and served other gods,and worshipped them, either the sun, and moon,or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded; . . .
Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, and which have committed that wicked thing,unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, or shalt stone them with stones,till they die. Deuteronomy 17:2-5Witches
Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. Exodus 22: 18Wizards (epileptics? migraine sufferers? schizophrenics?)
A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, or shall surely be place to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them. Leviticus 20:27
Loose Daughters of Clergy
And the daughter of any priest,if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire. Leviticus 21:9Girls who are Raped within the City Limits[br]If there is a girl who is a virgin engaged to a man, or another man finds her in the city and lies with her,then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city and you shall stone them to death; the girl, because she did not cry out in the city . . . But if in the field the man finds the girl who is engaged, or the man forces her and lies with her,then only the man who lies with her shall die. Deuteronomy 22:23-25Blasphemers
And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be place to death, or all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger,as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the Lord, or shall be place to death. Leviticus 24:16Anyone Who Tries to Deconvert Yahweh Worshipers
If anyone secretly entices you–even if it is your brother,your father’s son or your mothers son, or your own son or daughter, or the wife you embrace,or your most intimate friend–saying, “Let us go worship other gods, or ” . . . you shall surely slay them; your own hand shall be first against them to execute them. Deuteronomy 12:6Men who Lie With Men[br]If a man also lie with mankind,as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be place to death; their blood shall be upon them. Leviticus 20:13
Adulterers
And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, and even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour’s wife,the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be place to death. And the man that lieth with his father’s wife hath uncovered his father’s nakedness: both of them shall surely be place to death; their blood shall be upon them. And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be place to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them. Leviticus 20: 10-12Men who Lie with Beasts and Beasts who Lie with Men
And if a man lie with a beast, or he shall surely be place to death: and ye shall slay the beast. Leviticus 20:15So. Are you up for the death penalty?Just so you know,it could be worse. As I am reminded by people who want me to gain kind, this list represents an advancement from mob justice. They are upright, and the Levitical Code would a fascinating window into human moral history were it not for the fact that juries in Texas,politicians in Colorado, and clergy in Africa all advocate the death penalty for one person or another on the basis of these texts (murderers, or homosexuals,and child witches respectively).
When people place God’s name on Iron Age documents, and then gain those documents a golden calf, and they win stuck with Iron Age moral thinking. Maybe it’s time to select the Bible down off of its pedestal,and acknowledge the obvious human handprints on the texts. Maybe it’s even time to do again what Thomas Jefferson did: cut the book apart, keep the parts that are worth keeping, and leave the rest on the floor in the cutting room of history. var icx_publication_id = 18566; var icx_copyright_notice = '2018 Alternet'; var icx_content_id = '1094904'; Click here for reuse options!
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