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> Regardless, that’s not murder but capital punishment for a certain offense. That's exactly the point here. The article claims that the commandment is "do not
by lalaland1125 5y ago
> Regardless, that’s not murder but capital punishment for a certain offense.
That's exactly the point here. The article claims that the commandment is "do not kill", when the actual Biblical law is "do not murder". Per the Bible, there is a whole list of people you can legally kill (men who have sex with men, people from certain tribes, etc).
> There are no records that capital punishment was actually ever delivered
Do we have records of any of the "normal" executions carried out by the ancient Hebrew state while it was a theocracy (in the time of the first temple)?
It seems like it's so far back that we wouldn't get records of them executing gay people, even if it was actually happening.
- SnowHill9902 5y agoYou couldn’t even legally kill those people yourself. It was aimed at leaders and judges. What’s written is only a tiny small part of the whole legal and ethical system. You can’t try to understand it by reading a literal translation of just the written part.
- lalaland1125 5y agoYes, there is a process and you wouldn't have been able to kill them yourself. If you wanted to kill a gay person, you would have had to collect evidence of them having gay sex and then present that to the court so that the court can kill them for you. Civilization!