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*[[Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director/Scriptures Concerns & Questions#"I’m asked to believe in not only a part-time racist god and a part-time polygamous god but a part-time psychopathic schizophrenic one as well"|Response to section: "I’m asked to believe in not only a part-time racist god and a part-time polygamous god but a part-time psychopathic schizophrenic one as well"]] {{InProgress}} | *[[Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director/Scriptures Concerns & Questions#"I’m asked to believe in not only a part-time racist god and a part-time polygamous god but a part-time psychopathic schizophrenic one as well"|Response to section: "I’m asked to believe in not only a part-time racist god and a part-time polygamous god but a part-time psychopathic schizophrenic one as well"]] {{InProgress}} | ||
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*This had nothing to do with God deriving some sort of pleasure from killing "innocent children for the actions of others." It was a representation of how God would sacrifice his own son for the actions of others, and how those of accepted this sacrifice of the shedding of Christ's blood would be spared from spiritual death. | *This had nothing to do with God deriving some sort of pleasure from killing "innocent children for the actions of others." It was a representation of how God would sacrifice his own son for the actions of others, and how those of accepted this sacrifice of the shedding of Christ's blood would be spared from spiritual death. | ||
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A FAIR Analysis of the online document Letter to a CES Director section "Scriptures Concerns & Questions"
- Response to section: D&C 132 [Work in Progress]
- Response to section: Numbers 31
- Response to section: 1 Nephi 4 [Work in Progress]
- Response to section: Exodus 12:12 [Work in Progress]
- Response to section: Deuteronomy 21:18-21 [Work in Progress]
- Response to section: Exodus 35:1-2 [Work in Progress]
- Response to section: Numbers 21:5-9
- Response to section: Judges 19:22-29 [Work in Progress]
- Response to section: "I’m asked to believe in not only a part-time racist god and a part-time polygamous god but a part-time psychopathic schizophrenic one as well" [Work in Progress]
Deuteronomy 21:18-21
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- The Law of Moses was a very strict law that was designed to teach the Children of Israel obedience. The following were defined as crimes worthy of capital punishment:
- Murder (Exodus 21:12-14)
- Striking your parents (Exodus 21:15)
- Kidnapping (Exodus 21:16)
- Cursing your parents (Exodus 21:17)
- Bestiality (Exodus 22:19)
- Divination (Exodus 22:18)
- Sacrificing to false gods (Exodus 22:20)
- Violating the Sabbath (Exodus 35:2)
- Rebelliousness (Deuteronomy 17:12)
- Incest (Leviticus 18:6-17)
- Homosexuality (Leviticus 18:22)
- Human sacrifice (Leviticus 20:2)
- Adultery (Leviticus 20:10-21)
- Premarital sex (Leviticus 21:9)
- Blasphemy (Leviticus 24:10-16,23)
- False prophecy (Deuteronomy 13:1-11)
- Rape (Deuteronomy 22:25-27)
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