on sabbath breaker

Saturday, May 2, 2009 7:19 PM
From: "Carlos Burman"
To:
Good Evening eiko,

With regards to your question that you posed me..." why was a sabbath breaker executed by stoning and not by hanging or being stabbed to death?"

The question is valid, since of course ,there are countless ways to kill a human life.

However,with logic in mind, if you faced the death penalty and you could choose between dieing by hanging,being stabbed to death or being stoned...which would you choose??

I personally would like to have the quickest form of death, with the least pain possible..

Of course, Jehovah, the creator of all humans, knows that humans have physical and emotional feelings...feelings of pain being one of them.

would you not say that death by stoning would be the way of dieing that was least desired out of all the ways that you mentioned ,of being executed?

Today,various countries adopt different ways of executing a criminal...hanging, electric chair, lethal injection and firing squad.

These ways of putting to death a criminal was not the way that God wanted evildoers and sacred law breakers to be dealt with,since most of these ways of execution result in fairly quick or immediate death, just as being hanged and stabbed to death does.

Notice what Deuteronomy 13:10,11 says: "And you must stone him with stones,and he must die,because he has sought to turn you away from Jehovah your God,who has brought you out of the land of Egypt,out of the house of slaves.
Then all Israel will hear and become afraid, and they will not do anything like this bad thing again in your midst".

Yes, all Israel would hear of this kind of punishment,and it would instill FEAR in their hearts.

Hearing of such a terrible way to die would surely put the majority off from disobeying Jehovahs SACRED laws ,which actually benefited the Israelites anyway.

Who would like to die a fairly slow and extremely painful and demeaning death??

Jehovah really wanted the Israelites to see how greatly important his laws were and that his laws should not be treated with little significance.

For the ones who went ahead and stoned an evildoer, it showed they were zealous for true worship,anxious that no reproach came on Jehovahs holy name.

Just one further piece of logic and scriptural understanding...

An inventor of a new car has the right to do anything he wants to the car..he designed it..he made it..its his money and materials that created it..he can improve it..and he can destroy it.....what ever he desires, he can do.

Likewise,Jehovah as recorded at Revelation 4:11 says of angels in heaven singing :" you are worthy, Jehovah,even our God,to receive the glory and the honor and the power,because you created all things,and because of your will they existed and were created".

Yes, Jehovah God has the right to make any law he likes.

However,balancing this out..Jehovah will never act viciously or without self control..he doesnt want people to have pain..

Please read what Exodus 34:6 and 7 says about Jehovah...Jehovahs predominant quality is Love.(1 John 4:16)

Thus, as Abraham said at the imminent destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah many centuries ago..."Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" ( Genesis 18:25)

Thus, even though we should be submissive and accept Jehovah's ways of doing things ,they also are quite evidently logical as to why he does them.

Carlos



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Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 08:14:43 -0700
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Subject: One Sabbath breaker
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Hello good evening Br Carlos,



>Matthew completed his account about 41CE, only 8 years after Jesus death,while Marks was completed about 25 years later and Lukes 28 years later.

It was only Johns that wasnt completed until 98CE.

This is a very useful information.



>Admittedly, this account seems quite unbelievable to say the least.

Nebuchadnezzar issued a decree which is all people should worship his statue. But idol
worship is prohibited in Jews. Three young men didn't obey his order, then they were thrown into furnace. They never changed their faith in the face of their life and death. Their firm faith impressed the King a lot, so after this incident he never force Jewish people again to worship his statue.

Bible mentioned three were all saved by angels and they went to other places for their jobs later in their lives, which means in my view younger Jewish people other than three could enjoy their lives without breaking Jewish law or worshiping idols any more.

There were many wise prophets but Daniel was wiser than others. He not only invented a King's dream but also interpreted it favourably to King so that he couldn't deny. Regrettably three young men were wise but martyred on account of their faith. They are entitled to be called one of the earliest Jehovah's Witnesses.

Bible describes one Sabbath breaker was stoned to death. He was executed not by hanging, stubbing, but by stones. Why?


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