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ancianita

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5. That's a matter of interpretation. If you can cite it, all the better. But one passage does not a Law make.

Reply to BobTheSubgenius (Reply #4)

Tue Mar 26, 2024, 11:57 AM

Mar 2024

Nor a commandment. Stoning was for a hundred other crimes (see the Levites' -- priestly class -- rules in Leviticus) not a single one was ever for any woman's abortion.

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The Bible Does Not Condemn Abortion [View all] ancianita Mar 2024 OP

Why anyone believes that some carnival barker of a preacher has a direct line Gaugamela Mar 2024 #1

How does that relate to this video? Is there some preacher named that I missed? ancianita Mar 2024 #2

Sorry, I didn't realize what forum you posted this in. I assumed that it was general discussion Gaugamela Mar 2024 #3

In fact, there is a Bible passage that explicitly values prenatal life less than an autonomous person. BobTheSubgenius Mar 2024 #4

That's a matter of interpretation. If you can cite it, all the better. But one passage does not a Law make. ancianita Mar 2024 #5

This is the one that comes to my mind. LT Barclay Mar 2024 #6

The cite is Exodus 21:22-25. BobTheSubgenius Mar 2024 #7

But not stoning. Stoning is definitive about sine against God. Because there is no law for injury against woman/fetus, ancianita Mar 2024 #8

Website: www.biblegateway.com hvn_nbr_2 Mar 2024 #9

Thank you! BobTheSubgenius Apr 2024 #10