nordlead said:
I sort of skimmed through the entire article, but being strict != psychopath. The penalty for adultery was stoning to death which is equally as brutal. The old testament laws more point out how sinful we as humans are and that God can not stand sin. The only way to fix the problem was to kill/remove the problem which is pretty extreme in almost every case. God new that no human could ever live up to such standards and sent Jesus to die on the cross. We were never expected to live by a impossible to live by set of rules. Even in John 8 you can read that Jesus himself did not put an adulterous woman to death by stoning. Jesus' death on the cross offered us forgiveness for our sins so we do not have to live by strict rules and execute such extreme laws to remove the sin from God's sight. Jesus did that for us. Also, it isn't that I "don't care what hte old testament has to say" rather than I understand that the punishment for the old laws does not apply. |
I agree with you that strict and psychotic aren't the same thing, but the rule in question seems to be thus: that if a woman defends her husband from attack by grabbing the genitals of the attacker... that the woman's hand should be cut off.
That seems more than "strict" to me. You don't agree?
