Detailed response to CES Letter, Scriptures

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A FAIR Analysis of: [[../|Letter to a CES Director]]

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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:

1. Murder (Exodus 21:12-14)
2. Striking your parents (Exodus 21:15)
3. Kidnapping (Exodus 21:16)
4. Cursing your parents (Exodus 21:17)
5. Bestiality (Exodus 22:19)
6. Divination (Exodus 22:18)
7. Sacrificing to false gods (Exodus 22:20)
8. Violating the Sabbath (Exodus 35:2)
9. Rebelliousness (Deuteronomy 17:12)
10. Incest (Leviticus 18:6-17)
11. Homosexuality (Leviticus 18:22)
12. Human sacrifice (Leviticus 20:2)
13. Adultery (Leviticus 20:10-21)
14. Premarital sex (Leviticus 21:9)
15. Blasphemy (Leviticus 24:10-16,23)
16. False prophecy (Deuteronomy 13:1-11)
17. Rape (Deuteronomy 22:25-27)

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