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====Exodus 12:12==== | ====Exodus 12:12==== | ||
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"God kills all the firstborn children in Egypt except for those who put blood on their doors? What kind of a god is this? Like the flood, what kind of a loving god would kill innocent children for the actions of others?" | "God kills all the firstborn children in Egypt except for those who put blood on their doors? What kind of a god is this? Like the flood, what kind of a loving god would kill innocent children for the actions of others?" | ||
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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." | + | *This had nothing to do with God deriving some sort of pleasure from killing "innocent children for the actions of others." The killing of the Passover lamb and the placement of its blood above the doorway represented how Christ would save us through his sacrifice. |
| + | *President Joseph Fielding Smith said: | ||
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| + | When the Israelites left Egypt, the Lord gave them the passover. They were to take a lamb without blemish; they were not to break any of its bones. They were to kill it, cook it, and eat it with bitter herbs and unleavened bread. This feast they were to remember annually thereafter until Christ should come. This was also in the similitude of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. If you stop to consider it, it was at the time of the passover that our Lord was taken and crucified in fulfillment of the promises that had been made that he would come to be our Redeemer. (Doctrines of Salvation, comp. Bruce R. McConkie, 3 vols. [1954–56], 1:22) | ||
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====Deuteronomy 21:18-21==== | ====Deuteronomy 21:18-21==== | ||
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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 [Work in Progress]
- Response to section: 1 Nephi 4 [Work in Progress]
- Response to section: Exodus 12:12
- Response to section: Deuteronomy 21:18-21
- 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]
Response Section
Exodus 12:12
Deuteronomy 21:18-21