Is God’s justice close to an eye for an eye?

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Is God’s justice close to an eye for an eye?

There are many references in scripture that indicate that an eye for an eye is good justice. This notion that a penalty should fit the crime has even been adopted by most legal system in the world.

Leviticus 24:20 Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.

This rather good policy is often contradicted in other scriptures that call for death to sinners who have done much less in terms of harm or sin than causing a death. We are told to stone unruly children, fornicators, witches and so on to a rather long list.

God himself has either killed or had killed many, even children and babies who in no way could have killed anyone.

Scripture tells us to revere life yet God and many of the laws attributed to him seem to ignore completely any reverence to life. In fact, to me, scriptures seem to make life an extremely cheap commodity even as it shows how important we are supposed to be to God. His greatest achievement in fact that even angels are to bow before.

Should an eye for an eye be re-written by God and the bible to read ------ an eye for whatever the hell God, Jesus and the scriptures say?
This immoral killing goes right back to Eden with God killing Adam and Eve for following scripture and emulating God.

Matthew 5:48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

When they did as asked, and this was recognized by God himself; Gen 3: 22 Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: He killed them by withholding the tree of life.

This issue of indiscriminate killing is an important contradiction in scriptures.

What do you think God’s law is?

An eye for an eye or the punishment should fit the sin; or, kill even if the victim to be has not come anywhere near killing?

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http://www.youtube.com/user/TurpisHaereticus#p/u/4/0ny-CDU4EFs

http://www.evilbible.com/god's not pro-life.htm
 
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God is a superior form of life just as humans are a superior life form to animals. Sounds like GIA doesn't like his position in the food chain....
 
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Greatest I am said:
Quite the statement.

Care to show how you know this to be a fact?

To me, it sounds like something you cannot prove, even to yourself, and is therefore a lie.

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Don't be coy GIA. You like to use the bible to try and concoct your silly premises. If you read the same book it describes God as the maker of heaven and earth. That alone makes God superior to humans, not to mention He created humans as well. This is just as much fact as your stupid premises.
 
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That makes no sense what so ever...

He doesn't believe in what the bible says and shows it's fallacies through it's writings. So you are going to turn around and show him where he is wrong by quoting from the same book he doesn't believe in?

You could also argue that aliens are superior to humans because H.G. Wells said so in War of the Worlds.
 
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Tim said:
That makes no sense what so ever...

He doesn't believe in what the bible says and shows it's fallacies through it's writings. So you are going to turn around and show him where he is wrong by quoting from the same book he doesn't believe in?

You could also argue that aliens are superior to humans because H.G. Wells said so in War of the Worlds.
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Typical Atheist bullshit. You like to setup double standards to sheild your crap from being challenged. Doesn't work like that. If GIA is using H.G. Wells book to concoct some hair brained premise then I can use that same book to show it as a hair brained premise. Reciprocity is fair play.
 
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BornReady said:
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. - Mahatma Gandhi
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An incredibly outstanding statement.

doombug said:
God is a superior form of life just as humans are a superior life form to animals. Sounds like GIA doesn't like his position in the food chain....
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First you have to believe in God as your religion claims God to be. Do you really think GIA has an inferiority complex? If you do it's a good example of your inability to understand what these conversations are really about.
 
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Minor Axis said:
First you have to believe in God as your religion claims God to be. Do you really think GIA has an inferiority complex? If you do it's a good example of your inability to understand what these conversations are really about.
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I am just offering an opposing view to GIA's premises. They don't stand up well to scrutiny.
 
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doombug said:
I am just offering an opposing view to GIA's premises. They don't stand up well to scrutiny.
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Unless you opposing view is grounded in some meaningful position, it's just noise. It's as if you feel like countering just to counter.

GIA's purpose is clear- It is to pick apart standards set forth in the Bible as truth and to logically question their foundation. So if you are going to counter, please take enough time to come up with something other than a wise ass comment in defense of the Bible. It makes you look like a defensive Christian. Is that what you are? You spend most of your time countering anti-Christian views without adding any substance.
 
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Minor Axis said:
Unless you opposing view is grounded in some meaningful position, it's just noise. It's as if you feel like countering just to counter.

GIA's purpose is clear- It is to pick apart standards set forth in the Bible as truth and to logically question their foundation. So if you are going to counter, please take enough time to come up with something other than a wise ass comment in defense of the Bible. It makes you look like a defensive Christian. Is that what you are? You spend most of your time countering anti-Christian views without adding any substance.
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Then he should apply it where it makes sense. Trying to show God's "character" in a negative light doesn't do anything but look foolish. It is easily rebutted with the very book he uses.

Perhaps you would like to take a break from attacking me and argue his premise.
 
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doombug said:
Then he should apply it where it makes sense. Trying to show God's "character" in a negative light doesn't do anything but look foolish. It is easily rebutted with the very book he uses.

Perhaps you would like to take a break from attacking me and argue his premise.
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You need to work on your reading comprehension. The original post in this thread asks specifically "Is God's justice an eye for an eye?" Then throws in some support for that premise, and ends by asking "what do you think God's justice is?" Instead of addressing these questions in any way meaningful, you chose to attack the author's motives. Is that easier than formulating an intelligent response?

As for me, there is no way of knowing what God's justice is. Only Christians claim to know that and that's who GIA, I assume is addressing.
 
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