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Does the Bible include Evil Moral Teaching?

June 22, 2021 by Randal

In this video, I argue that the mandate to punish people by pelting them to death with rocks is always immoral and I seek to appeal to the moral intuitions of others in support of this claim by way of an actual modern instance of stoning. If we agree that stoning is always wrong, we […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: biblical violence, stoning, torah

Should Christians defend parental honor killing? Many already do.

May 12, 2020 by Randal

Christians today react with horror and revulsion when they read of parents who kill their children in the name of parental honor. But the Law in the Old Testament also presents cases where parents kill their children in the name of parental honor. So should Christians revisit their principled moral rejection of honor killing or […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: biblical ethics, honor killing, stoning, torah

Jesus, execution and divorce

January 12, 2013 by Randal

In “Does Jesus commend the killing of children in Mark 7:10?” I argued that this verse (and the surrounding passage, Mark 7:9-13) does not provide warrant to think Jesus would commend (let alone participate in) the stoning of a child, even if the conditions for such a stoning as outlined in the Torah were met. […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bible, capital punishment, ethics, hermeneutics, Jesus, Old Testament, torah

Does Jesus commend the killing of children in Mark 7:10?

January 10, 2013 by Randal

In “Would Jesus stone a misbehaving child?” I argued that he wouldn’t. One of my readers, Jeff, responded as follows: “Jesus affirms in Mark 7:10 the practice of stoning rebellious children, and we don’t have any manuscript evidence (that I’m aware of, at least) that this is an inauthentic addition to Mark.” Jeff clearly believes […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Jesus, Old Testament, punishment, torah, violence

Why it is wrong to execute minors

December 18, 2012 by Randal

In the this and a following post I’m going to provide answers to some of the questions/comments in “Would Jesus stone a misbehaving child?” I will start here with a response to MaxVel. Let’s begin by quoting MaxVel’s comments in full: I think your attempted parallel here doesn’t work well because the original is in […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bible, capital punishment, ethics, morality, torah

Filicide in “biblical” perspective. But which biblical perspective?

December 16, 2012 by Randal

Now I’m slowly getting caught up on some of last week’s comments. In this article I address a comment in response to my essay “Should lazy teenagers be stoned?” I will then address the comments in “Would Jesus stone a misbehaving child?” Finally, I will address comments on morality and naturalism in “Can objective moral […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bible, capital punishment, corporeal punishment, ethics, law, torah, violence

Should lazy teenagers be stoned?

December 14, 2012 by Randal

“All your words are true; all your righteous laws are eternal.” (Psalm 119:160)   Imagine that you open up the newspaper one day and read the following article: Child publicly stoned to death (Kabul, Afghanistan) Yesterday reports surfaced of a public stoning in the city of Saidu Sharif in the Swat Valley of eastern Afghanistan. […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bible, ethics, law, revelation, torah, violence

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