canpakes...I read the entire chapter and as I said it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter which translation you use. It doesn't matter if that IS a recipe for abortion.
What I attempted to show you there is two-fold...1). That if you yourself were to try to use Jealousie Law as a defense for abortion rights as a protected human right under the U.S. Constitution, your argument would fall flat on it's face because my strategy would be to turn that back on you by shoving every bit of Levitical Law in your face, put you on the spot to make you accept any number of things under Levitical Law including a condemnation for same sex marriage and undo your argument in a NY minute because if you are going to support one Law, I would see to it that you will support ALL of the Law or be found a raging hypocrite for cherry picking one single aspect of the Law to make me accept abortion as a human right because
hey folks it's in the Bible, while ignoring all the rest, 2). and further...I would tell you that Christian's are not under the Law because Christ fulfilled the Law with all of it's prescribed offerings and sacrifices so you can take your recipe for abortion and stuff it.
THAT is why when attempting to engage a Christian on whatever it is that your relatives are forwarding, you go directly to the New Testament and use that as the basis for any counter argument you would like to make. You go to the New Testament and you go to Jesus. Do not pass go and
stay out of the Old Testament.
Example, the Israelites being held (did I spell that right? Autocorrect picked it up and now my head is spinning) Jealousie Law as the price of suspected adultery in the Old Testament....is then replaced with the story of the woman who was caught in the act of adultery, dragged out by a crowd to be stoned until Christ intervenes and instructs the crowd let he who is without sin cast the first stone and when they disperse (because ALL have sinned) he tells the woman to go and sin no more.
You use that
same type of technique when you want to engage a Christian making political claims that are NOT in keeping with the New Testament and the example of Christ in the New Testament, only you are not toggling back and forth between Old Testament/New Testament, you are pitching your tent in the New Testament and you're not breaking camp.
Is the mud muddier now? Because if their political claims do not match what is presented in the New Testament, they will be forced to abandoned the pretense that God is on their side of the argument...because if it's not in the New Testament, then it's not on their side.
Simply put: In the case of a self proclaimed Christian...go to the New Testament and Jesus, and
stay there.
YOU USE THE APPROPRIATE FOUNDATIONAL TEXT WHICH IS THE New Testament. And if you can't engage with respect, don't even try it.
If you can share a sample claim they are making (besides God is on our side!) I can try to show you that right here on the screen but only if I can counter it with the New Testament.
I'm freaking tired. Why are you doing this to me?