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How can our religion is peaceful religion ,and call for death as punishment
For many offences the punishment is to be "cut off." This
sometimes means death (e.g. Ex 31:14, Lev 20:2-3, Deut 18:10-12),
but sometimes it is apparently only banishment from Israel.
Death for adultery (Deut 22:22-24, Lev 20:10). But Jesus forgave one adultress (John 8:1-11).
Death by stoning to a bride who is not a virgin (Deut 22:20-21).
Death by fire to a harlot whose father is a priest (Lev 21:9).
Death to a witch (Ex 22:18 ).
"Cut off" for consulting a witch (Lev 20:6, Deut 18:11).
Death for blasphemy (Lev 24:16).
Death to a non-Levite for approaching the tabernacle (Num 1:51).
Death by stoning to a child who curses a parent or is rebellious (Lev 20:9, Ex 21:17, Deut 21:18-21; affirmed by Jesus, Matt 15:3-9).
Death by stoning for cursing (Lev 24:14, 23).
Death to the owner of a goring ox (Ex 21:29).
Death for disagreeing with a judge's sentence (Deut 17:12).
Death for not "hearkening" to a priest (Deut 17:12).
Death to a false prophet (Deut 13:5, 18:20).
Death for teaching a different religion (Deut 18:20, 13:1-10;also Gal 1:8-9).
Death by stoning for apostatizing from the true religion or practicing a different religion (Ex 22:20, Deut 17:2-5).
Total destruction to any city if any of its citizens apostatize (Deut 13:12-17).
Death to male homosexuals (Lev 20:13).
Death for bestiality, both to the offender and the animal (Lev 20:15-16).
A woman who assists her husband in a fight by seizing his opponent's sex organ shall have her hand cut off (Deut 25:11-12).
Sex during a woman's period: both shall be "cut off from among [the] people" (Lev 20:18; but cf. 15:24).
Death by stoning for gathering sticks on the Sabbath, or any work on the Sabbath (Ex 35:2, 31:14-15, Num 15:32-36).
God will cause cannibalism as a punishment for sin (Jer 19:9, Lam 2:20, Ezek 5:10, Lev 26:29, Deut 28:53-57, Isa 49:26, Rev 16:6).
God will cause adultery as punishment (Deut 28:30).
God will cause drunkennes as punishment (Jer 13:12-13).
God will "spread dung upon your faces" as punishment (Mal 2:3).
Illegitimate children and their descendants are stigmatized, not allowed into the congregation (Deut 23:2).
Abortion: punishable only if accidental, caused by a fight, and only by fine; i.e, it is not the same as killing a human being (Ex 21:22-25).
Whipping, up to 40 stripes, for losing a lawsuit (Deut 25:1-3).
" Cut off " for mixing perfume for yourself according to God's special formula (Ex 30:37-38 ).
"Cut off" for eating fat or blood (Lev 3:17, 7:23-27, 17:10-12).
"Cut off" for eating leaven, or even having it in the house, during Passover (Ex 12:15, 19).
For a description of hell, see Rev 14:11, 16:9 For a long and descriptive list of God's punishments see Deut 28:15-68, Lev26.
God uses his chosen people to punish other nations (Ps 149:5-9).
God will punish "seven times" (= sevenfold? Lev 26:28 ).
God punishes many for the sins of one, the innocent are punished for the guilty, especially their guilty ancestors (which punishment is "forever," Deut 28:41; Gen 9:24-25, 20:7,18, Ex 12:29, 20:5, 34:7, Num 16, Deut 5:9, 23:2, 28:32, 41,Josh 7:8-26, 22:20, 2 Kings 5:27, Isa 14:21, Ezek 23:25, 46-47, Mal 1:2-4, Jer 31:29-30, Hos 2:4-5, Rom 5:14, also Adam's Fall generally in NT).
God will punish the men by causing their wives to be ravished and their children to be "dashed to pieces" (Isa 13:16, 18, Zech 14:2, Nah 3:10).
God's punishment of entire nations or cities by destroying every living thing naturally includes the destruction of babies and unborn embryos (e.g. Isa 34, the Flood, the plagues on Egypt, Sodom; Jesus also: Matt 11:20-24).
An eye for an eye, etc. (Ex 21:24, Lev 24:18-20, Deut 19:19, 21, Matt 7:2; contra: Matt 5:38ff, 7:12, Luke 6:31).
God will punish any animal that kills a human (Gen 9:5), although God sometimes punishes humans by having animals kill them (e.g. 2 Kings 2:23-24, where 42 children are killed by bears; 1 Kings 20:35-36, where a man is killed by a lion for disobedience to a prophet).
Slavery for stealing (Ex 22:3).
Marriage is the punishment for seduction of a virgin (Ex 22:16).
Whoever divorces his wife and marries another or who marries a divorced woman commits adultery (Matt 19:9, Luke 16:18 ).
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How can our religion is peaceful religion ,and call for death as punishment
For many offences the punishment is to be "cut off." This
sometimes means death (e.g. Ex 31:14, Lev 20:2-3, Deut 18:10-12),
but sometimes it is apparently only banishment from Israel.
Death for adultery (Deut 22:22-24, Lev 20:10). But Jesus forgave one adultress (John 8:1-11).
Death by stoning to a bride who is not a virgin (Deut 22:20-21).
Death by fire to a harlot whose father is a priest (Lev 21:9).
Death to a witch (Ex 22:18 ).
"Cut off" for consulting a witch (Lev 20:6, Deut 18:11).
Death for blasphemy (Lev 24:16).
Death to a non-Levite for approaching the tabernacle (Num 1:51).
Death by stoning to a child who curses a parent or is rebellious (Lev 20:9, Ex 21:17, Deut 21:18-21; affirmed by Jesus, Matt 15:3-9).
Death by stoning for cursing (Lev 24:14, 23).
Death to the owner of a goring ox (Ex 21:29).
Death for disagreeing with a judge's sentence (Deut 17:12).
Death for not "hearkening" to a priest (Deut 17:12).
Death to a false prophet (Deut 13:5, 18:20).
Death for teaching a different religion (Deut 18:20, 13:1-10;also Gal 1:8-9).
Death by stoning for apostatizing from the true religion or practicing a different religion (Ex 22:20, Deut 17:2-5).
Total destruction to any city if any of its citizens apostatize (Deut 13:12-17).
Death to male homosexuals (Lev 20:13).
Death for bestiality, both to the offender and the animal (Lev 20:15-16).
A woman who assists her husband in a fight by seizing his opponent's sex organ shall have her hand cut off (Deut 25:11-12).
Sex during a woman's period: both shall be "cut off from among [the] people" (Lev 20:18; but cf. 15:24).
Death by stoning for gathering sticks on the Sabbath, or any work on the Sabbath (Ex 35:2, 31:14-15, Num 15:32-36).
God will cause cannibalism as a punishment for sin (Jer 19:9, Lam 2:20, Ezek 5:10, Lev 26:29, Deut 28:53-57, Isa 49:26, Rev 16:6).
God will cause adultery as punishment (Deut 28:30).
God will cause drunkennes as punishment (Jer 13:12-13).
God will "spread dung upon your faces" as punishment (Mal 2:3).
Illegitimate children and their descendants are stigmatized, not allowed into the congregation (Deut 23:2).
Abortion: punishable only if accidental, caused by a fight, and only by fine; i.e, it is not the same as killing a human being (Ex 21:22-25).
Whipping, up to 40 stripes, for losing a lawsuit (Deut 25:1-3).
" Cut off " for mixing perfume for yourself according to God's special formula (Ex 30:37-38 ).
"Cut off" for eating fat or blood (Lev 3:17, 7:23-27, 17:10-12).
"Cut off" for eating leaven, or even having it in the house, during Passover (Ex 12:15, 19).
For a description of hell, see Rev 14:11, 16:9 For a long and descriptive list of God's punishments see Deut 28:15-68, Lev26.
God uses his chosen people to punish other nations (Ps 149:5-9).
God will punish "seven times" (= sevenfold? Lev 26:28 ).
God punishes many for the sins of one, the innocent are punished for the guilty, especially their guilty ancestors (which punishment is "forever," Deut 28:41; Gen 9:24-25, 20:7,18, Ex 12:29, 20:5, 34:7, Num 16, Deut 5:9, 23:2, 28:32, 41,Josh 7:8-26, 22:20, 2 Kings 5:27, Isa 14:21, Ezek 23:25, 46-47, Mal 1:2-4, Jer 31:29-30, Hos 2:4-5, Rom 5:14, also Adam's Fall generally in NT).
God will punish the men by causing their wives to be ravished and their children to be "dashed to pieces" (Isa 13:16, 18, Zech 14:2, Nah 3:10).
God's punishment of entire nations or cities by destroying every living thing naturally includes the destruction of babies and unborn embryos (e.g. Isa 34, the Flood, the plagues on Egypt, Sodom; Jesus also: Matt 11:20-24).
An eye for an eye, etc. (Ex 21:24, Lev 24:18-20, Deut 19:19, 21, Matt 7:2; contra: Matt 5:38ff, 7:12, Luke 6:31).
God will punish any animal that kills a human (Gen 9:5), although God sometimes punishes humans by having animals kill them (e.g. 2 Kings 2:23-24, where 42 children are killed by bears; 1 Kings 20:35-36, where a man is killed by a lion for disobedience to a prophet).
Slavery for stealing (Ex 22:3).
Marriage is the punishment for seduction of a virgin (Ex 22:16).
Whoever divorces his wife and marries another or who marries a divorced woman commits adultery (Matt 19:9, Luke 16:18 ).
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