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*[[Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director/Scriptures Concerns & Questions#"I’m asked to believe in not only a part-time racist god and a part-time polygamous god but a part-time psychopathic schizophrenic one as well"|Response to section: "I’m asked to believe in not only a part-time racist god and a part-time polygamous god but a part-time psychopathic schizophrenic one as well"]] | *[[Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director/Scriptures Concerns & Questions#"I’m asked to believe in not only a part-time racist god and a part-time polygamous god but a part-time psychopathic schizophrenic one as well"|Response to section: "I’m asked to believe in not only a part-time racist god and a part-time polygamous god but a part-time psychopathic schizophrenic one as well"]] | ||
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==Deuteronomy 21:18-21== | |||
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|claim=The author writes, "Got a rebellious kid who doesn’t listen? Take him to the elders and to the end of the gates and stone him to death!" | |claim=The author writes, "Got a rebellious kid who doesn’t listen? Take him to the elders and to the end of the gates and stone him to death!" | ||
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==Exodus 35:1-2== | |||
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|summary=The author states, "God commands death penalty for those who work on the Sabbath trying to support their families." | |summary=The author states, "God commands death penalty for those who work on the Sabbath trying to support their families." | ||
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==Numbers 21:5-9== | |||
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|claim=The author writes, "God doesn’t like to hear whining and ingratitude so he sends out a bunch of snakes to kill the people. When the people had enough of the snakes, they ask Moses to tell God to quit it. God decides Moses is persuasive and tells Moses to put a snake a pole and tell the people to look at the pole and they won’t die. So, the pole is built, the people look at it and they don’t die. The moral of the story? Don’t whine or God will send in the snakes." (Number 21:5-9: ) | |claim=The author writes, "God doesn’t like to hear whining and ingratitude so he sends out a bunch of snakes to kill the people. When the people had enough of the snakes, they ask Moses to tell God to quit it. God decides Moses is persuasive and tells Moses to put a snake a pole and tell the people to look at the pole and they won’t die. So, the pole is built, the people look at it and they don’t die. The moral of the story? Don’t whine or God will send in the snakes." (Number 21:5-9: ) | ||
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==Judges 19:22-29== | |||
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|summary=The author states, "After picking up his concubine from his father-in-law’s house, a certain Levite settles in Gibeah for the night. The men of the city attempt to sodomize him, but end up raping the concubine until her death. As a response, the Levite dismembers his wife’s corpse and sends her body parts throughout the land of Israel. Who needs R or X-rated movies when you got scripture like this?" | |summary=The author states, "After picking up his concubine from his father-in-law’s house, a certain Levite settles in Gibeah for the night. The men of the city attempt to sodomize him, but end up raping the concubine until her death. As a response, the Levite dismembers his wife’s corpse and sends her body parts throughout the land of Israel. Who needs R or X-rated movies when you got scripture like this?" | ||
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*{{Answer}} Some Latter-day Saints believe that God has more than one wife, and some do not. There is no official Church position on this subject. | *{{Answer}} Some Latter-day Saints believe that God has more than one wife, and some do not. There is no official Church position on this subject. | ||
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Revision as of 15:22, 16 May 2014
Response to "Scriptures Concerns & Questions"
| [[../Science Concerns & Questions|Science Concerns & Questions]] | A FAIR Analysis of:
[[../|Letter to a CES Director]] |
[[../Other Concerns & Questions|Other Concerns & Questions]] |
- Response to claim: "that Laban would send his servants after Nephi and his brothers is ridiculous considering that the same God who had no problem lighting stones and taming swarms of bees"
- Response to claim: "God kills all the firstborn children in Egypt except for those who put blood on their doors?"
- Response to claim: Deuteronomy 21:18-21
- Response to claim: Numbers 21:5-9
- Response to section: "I’m asked to believe in not only a part-time racist god and a part-time polygamous god but a part-time psychopathic schizophrenic one as well"
"that Laban would send his servants after Nephi and his brothers is ridiculous considering that the same God who had no problem lighting stones and taming swarms of bees"
The killing of Laban in the Book of Mormon
Jump to Subtopic:
- Jeffery R. Holland: "It is wrong to assume that Nephi in any way wished to take Laban’s life"
- Question: Did Nephi commit "cold blooded murder" when he killed Laban?
- Question: Could Satan have deceived Nephi into killing Laban?
- Question: Could the angel which came to Nephi have been a demonic "angel of light" sent to deceive him?
- Question: Was Nephi simply listening to "a voice in his head" telling him to kill Laban as the result of a psychosis or delusion?
- Question: Why didn't God simply preserve Nephi's life using divine power instead of requiring him to kill Laban?
- Question: Do the legal concepts in the Book of Mormon better match Joseph Smith's day, or the ancient world?
- Question: Since Nephi beheaded Laban, wouldn't there be a large amount of blood afterward?
- Question: Is the story of Nephi killing Laban and then putting on his clothes believable?
"God kills all the firstborn children in Egypt except for those who put blood on their doors?"
Why would a loving God allow the death of innocents?
Jump to details:
- Question: Why would a loving God would kill innocent children in the flood of Noah's day?
- Question: Why would a loving God kill the firstborn of Egypt? (Exodus 12:12)
- Joseph Fielding Smith: "This was also in the similitude of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ"
Deuteronomy 21:18-21
Numbers 21:5-9