"The obsolete favorite Bible verse" by Stephen M. Miller Bible blog of award-winning bestselling Christian author, Stephen M. Miller. for Thursday, 21 April 2016
"The obsolete favorite Bible verse" by Stephen M. Miller
PRESIDENTIAL BIBLE VERSE. Republican front-runner for the presidency, Donald Trump, revealed his favorite Bible verse. It’s an ancient law of retaliation that involves black eyes and knocked-out teeth. I thought it might be a good idea to call attention to what Jesus had to say about that law. Caricature by DonkeyHotey, flickr, CC2.
DONALD TRUMP PICKED HIS FAVORITE Bible verse recently.
“Show no pity for the guilty! Your rule should be life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.” Deuteronomy 19:21
This law is actually older than Moses, the Hebrew lawgiver who some say wrote the book of Deuteronomy. The law shows up in wedge-shaped cuneiform letters chiseled onto an ancient stone from what is now Iraq. The set of laws is called the Code of Hammurabi, named after a Babylonian king. It’s on display in the Louvre Museum in Paris.
I don’t plan on dwelling on this, but that law is the absolute opposite of what Jesus taught:
“You know that you have been taught, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I tell you not to try to get even with a person who has done something to you. When someone slaps your right cheek, turn and let that person slap your other cheek.” Matthew 5:38-39
Jesus essentially declared the old law obsolete.
One of the New Testament writers made that exceptionally clear:
“When God speaks of a ‘new’ covenant, it means he has made the first one obsolete. It is now out of date and will soon disappear.” Hebrews 8:13
The reason I’m not going to dwell on this is because I already wrote an article comparing the quotes of Mr. Trump to the quotes of Jesus Christ: Donald Trump & the King of Kings.
Those quotes, like Mr. Trump’s “favorite Bible verse,” make him look a tad like an antichrist. Not the Antichrist. But someone whose ideas are anti-Jesus Christ. They don’t reflect the character that Jesus said he expects to see in his followers.
Just to get Mr. Trump’s latest reference to the Bible on record, here’s part of what he said when asked about his favorite Bible verse.
“…Look, an eye for an eye, you can almost say that….That’s not a particularly nice thing. But you know, if you look at what’s happening to our country, I mean, when you see what’s going on with our country, how people are taking advantage of us, and how they scoff at us and laugh at us. And they laugh at our face, and they’re taking our jobs, they’re taking our money, they’re taking the health of our country. And we have to be very firm and have to be very strong. And we can learn a lot from the Bible, that I can tell you,”
We can learn something from Jesus, in particular.
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"Masters Of War" WRITTEN BY: BOB DYLAN
Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build the big bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks
You that never done nothin’
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it’s your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly
Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain
You fasten the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you set back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion
As young people’s blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud
You’ve thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain’t worth the blood
That runs in your veins
How much do I know
To talk out of turn
You might say that I’m young
You might say I’m unlearned
But there’s one thing I know
Though I’m younger than you
Even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do
Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul
And I hope that you die
And your death’ll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I’ll watch while you’re lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I’ll stand o’er your grave
’Til I’m sure that you’re dead
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