Exodus 4:24

Originally posted by stoker
As stated that was OT not NT teachings. You are responsible for your sins not your parents etc.

Was it a different God?

Originally posted by FMF
How would Suzianne know that the person telling her [to her face] to do something was God?

I am not aware of that happening and I doubt that was what she meant. I understood her comment as referring to Moses.

Originally posted by RJHinds
I am not aware of that happening and I doubt that was what she meant. I understood her comment as referring to Moses.

You are mistaken. Her "I think if God told you to your face to do something, you should probably do it" comment was directed at twhitehead, and as such, can justifiably be directed back at her too.

Originally posted by twhitehead
Was it a different God?

no.. but things changed after jesus, tried to make it simple

Originally posted by Suzianne
It wouldn't have been the first time, nor the last.

I think if God told you to your face to do something, you should probably do it.

It's good that you recognize that the child was innocent. As such, if he was killed, he'd probably get an express trip to Heaven. The time the kid spent on Earth wouldn't even be a blip in his memory before too long.

Not to be facetious but do we know why God decided that foreskins were a no no?, and what changed from when God designed us with one?

Originally posted by stoker
no.. but things changed after jesus, tried to make it simple

So was it a reasonable moral stance by God at the time?

Originally posted by Suzianne
It wouldn't have been the first time, nor the last.

I think if God told you to your face to do something, you should probably do it.

It's good that you recognize that the child was innocent. As such, if he was killed, he'd probably get an express trip to Heaven. The time the kid spent on Earth wouldn't even be a blip in his memory before too long.

It's good that you recognize that the child was innocent. As such, if he was killed, he'd probably get an express trip to Heaven. The time the kid spent on Earth wouldn't even be a blip in his memory before too long.
I see! 😕

Well by that logic I expect you would agree that child murderers are doing their victims a great kindness - I mean, afterall...they do get an express trip to heaven don't they!? Oh...my bad...attrocities are only ever good if "God" commits them.

Originally posted by FMF
You are mistaken. Her "I think if God told you to your face to do something, you should probably do it" comment was directed at twhitehead, and as such, can justifiably be directed back at her too.

You always were a big fan of tangents, though.

Originally posted by kevcvs57
Not to be facetious but do we know why God decided that foreskins were a no no?, and what changed from when God designed us with one?

he didn't. the foreskin hacking thing was something the hebrews came up with to distinguish themselves from the other similar cultures around them; so apparently it was a part of biblegod's "covenant" with abraham or maybe it was with israel. not important which.

Originally posted by VoidSpirit
he didn't. the foreskin hacking thing was something the hebrews came up with to distinguish themselves from the other similar cultures around them; so apparently it was a part of biblegod's "covenant" with abraham or maybe it was with israel. not important which.

Cheers, I would like to have been a fly on the wall at that committee meeting.

Originally posted by VoidSpirit
he didn't. the foreskin hacking thing was something the hebrews came up with to distinguish themselves from the other similar cultures around them; so apparently it was a part of biblegod's "covenant" with abraham or maybe it was with israel. not important which.

Why do Arabs circumcize?

Originally posted by Suzianne
You always were a big fan of tangents, though.

OK, dodge the question by all means.

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
Why do Arabs circumcize?

This would be because their history and lineage come through Abraham through Ishmael, his son with Hagar.

From Wikipedia:
"According to the Hebrew Bible (Genesis 17:10-14) God commanded the Biblical patriarch Abraham to be circumcised, an act to be followed by his descendants:

10 This is My covenant, which ye shall keep, between Me and you and thy seed after thee: every male among you shall be circumcised. 11 And ye shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of a covenant betwixt Me and you. 12 And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any foreigner, that is not of thy seed. 13 He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised; and My covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. 14 And the uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken My covenant."

I took this quote from Wikipedia and posted it here also to further explain your other thread about why did God want to kill Moses' son.

EDIT: D'oh! This IS that other thread. LOL

Originally posted by Agerg
[b]It's good that you recognize that the child was innocent. As such, if he was killed, he'd probably get an express trip to Heaven. The time the kid spent on Earth wouldn't even be a blip in his memory before too long.
I see! 😕

Well by that logic I expect you would agree that child murderers are doing their victims a great kindness - I mean, aftera ...[text shortened]... to heaven don't they!? Oh...my bad...attrocities are only ever good if "God" commits them.[/b]

Well, to be fair, I spoke thus without knowing all the facts.

I wasn't fully aware of this "circumcision covenant" between God and Abraham. It doesn't have all that much import for me, being not Jewish nor Arab, and not male. I probably have read about it in the past, but I don't think I retained much about it. Now I get it.

Originally posted by FMF
OK, dodge the question by all means.

It's a tangent because in my statement, it was a given that it was God talking and that one would know it was God. Certainly Moses knew it was God.