Ah, so you are saying that context doesn't matter.
Ok.
Nonsense, for I know very well what the context is but he is speaking of little children and if you will remember, the OT is full of narratives where God himself told Israel to go into these nations and slay everyone including little children, that is the Bible whether you like it or not.
Of course we don't do this in the NT because God has made a way now for them to be transformed but it isn't by changing the laws but rather by Jesus' sacrifice on the cross for their sins and the preaching of that gospel message.
That is what you would like me to be saying but you know good and well that it isn't what I am saying but rather that it isn't the business of the church to save people from being murdered and what we see in the history of the early church that was truly walking in the truth both in history and in the book of Acts proves this also.
You see, I was taught to actually read the bible for the purpose of understanding and learning.
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The very first verse in psalm 137 states the context.
By the rivers of Babylon,
There we sat down, yea, we wept
When we remembered Zion.
The author, whoever they were, was writing it at the time of their exile in Babylon.
The body of the psalm shows a despondency and depression.
Having read Jeremiah, Lamentations, Daniel, Ezekiel, Habakkuk and a handful of others, I see quite clearly that YHVH would judge the babylonians for the cruelty they perpetrated against Israel.
Sorry but the fact still remains that God many times told Israel to make war with the surrounding countries and slay everyone including babies.
That is a fact that you cannot answer to either.
So, while you may indeed think that it's a good thing to rape, pillage, murder and crush others, I don't.
And I don't because of what I read in 1 John 3.
Never said any such thing but you want to make it look like I did because that is what those
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I also have no problem with Roe v. Wade being over turned either, but only with those who claim to be Christians preaching and promoting law as the answer to this sin sick and dying world, for that isn't what the Bible reveals at all.
That is dishonest bunk, for right in my very first post and first statement, I said that I am against abortion and that no true believer should ever abort their children, for it is a sin against them and God also.
Psalm 137? The babylonians.
The judgment due sin on Israel was clearly stated in Deuteronomy 27-28.
And ? What do you think that does to prove what I am saying as wrong.
You have yet to show even one single verse that proves that God commissioned his true church to involve themselves in the politics of this world and the passing laws of the world to save the babies of unbelievers from physical death or even the unbelievers themselves either.
Where is your prove, for you quoted one that you thought was proof and I revealed that you were taking it out of Context.
I remember now.... are you from the God hates fags group out of the midwest? Westboro Baptist? Guy by the name of Phelps...
EDIT for I don't have a clue what you are talking about. I live in Florida and don't belong to any sec or religious group at all and the only one that I ever used to belong to was a mainstream trinitarian church and churches.
But not anymore, because I believe the true church is scattered Revelation 18:4 and just like Daniel 12 also revealed they would be towards the end, for God's remnant is being brought back to the faith that was once
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Nope. I actually know that the 2 Chronicles 7:14 passage was talking to the king of Israel, Solomon.
So, if you're having a problem, then take it up with the forum mgmt. I know for a fact that they take such matters seriously.
I agree but the point was, that
EDIT use this to speak of what God will do to day if we humble ourselves and pray that abortion and homosexual rights are done away with and it is a fact
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This just shows that they are in great apostasy from the truth,
They use scripture this way often also and another example is from Malachi when God makes a promise to that generation of Israel that if they will bring their tithes into the store house, that they would receive a blessing that they wouldn't have enough room to contain.
The fact is, tithing is not even a NT teaching at all and I even heard Bruce Wilkenson on James Robison's program say that Jesus taught tithing to the Jews but the NT didn't begin while Jesus was alive and teaching on this earth in the flesh, for it only began at his death and resurrection.
Then Bruce said that Abraham paying tithes was also proof that it is to be done in the NT, however that is also bogus nonsense, for God never instructed Abraham to pay tithes but Abraham did that out of his own heart and this is the reason why God also put it in the law as well.
But God requires much more from us than a tenth or anything but he requires our whole lives and all that we have., for that is what we owe him.
Then why did you quote it to be referring to the unborn babies of the wicked, for God never wrote any scripture to the unbelieving nations but but only unto the Jews alone.
Curious how you keep tossing that word, pharisaical around.
What did the Pharisees promote?
It wasn't the grace and mercy of God and salvation by faith but rather they preached the Law
EDIT and just like your apostate churches are doing today also, so there is your hint.
The reason why they are doing this however, is because they don't have he substance of true godliness working in their hearts to have a true effect for change in this world and therefore they are trying to do it by law because they are religious but don't have the true Spirit of God in their hearts.
Well then, you should stop talking to people who are already with Jesus and focus on those who are perishing.
I don't believe most of them are "with the true Jesus" however but rather with the spirit of antichrist posing to be the true Jesus, so there is your answer and I make no apology's for it either.
I am sure you don't know anything about this, but the majority are being conformed to the image of the beast instead of the image of the true Jesus Christ of the Bible and as per Revelation 13.
That is what the image of the beast is referring to and it is the false prophet who asks them to make that image within them also and it comes to live through them, they give it life by accepting and believing in it instead of the true Jesus Christ of the Bible.
That is what Jesus said.
He came to save sinners.
Exactly and that is what the church was commissioned to do in his stead also but the majority are not doing it but instead like the Pharisees and lawyers of Jesus' day, they are attempt to covert people by passing laws to make them obey God instead and it is never going to work either.