Interpretation of Texts (General)

by David Turell , Tuesday, September 28, 2010, 15:41 (5168 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

Of course the Sanhedrin abolished the death penalty. As I have repeatedly pointed out, and you have repeatedly ignored, the Mosaic Law covenant was done away with at Christs death according to the scripture. Also, "the wages sin pays is death". Regardless of whether a person dies by stoning or natural causes, according to the bible that is the price EVERYONE must pay since no one is perfect or blameless. Additionally, there are different ways to look at the damnation bit. First, according to the scriptures, hell doesn't exist, and neither does a soul that lives on past the body. *gasp* Genesis says that Adam *was* a soul, not that he *had* a soul. etc etc.. I have found that when you take the verses in their entire context, instead of picking and choosing, and you cross-reference them to the other text, it severely limits your ability to interpret them however you want. But granted, most people just pick and choose in order to get what they desire out of it.-Genesis in Hebrew says specifically that 'Adam (the human) became a 'living' soul'