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In order to illustrate its principals, the Biblical text records vivid events and laws narrated that are endorsed or prescribed by God himself, or carried out by certain people in the Bible. Judaism teaches that the Torah (i.e. the ''Pentateuch'') contains 613 Eternal Commandments , many of which deal with Law and Punishment , on the personal, national and global scales. Christianity has also adapted and adopted many of these directives. To illustrate the power of the God, the Bible openly records what befell nations or individuals as a Moral lesson: IN THE BOOK OF GENESIS Adam and Eve were expelled from the garden of Eden when they eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. (i would check your sources and discuss your theories with a pastor before you make statements like what was previosly on this page.) {Link without Title} #God decides to destroy the world he created during the 's family, and that therefore they were punished accordingly. # Sodom And Gomorrah are destroyed because they acted in a cruel manner to the strangers who had come to visit Lot , Abraham 's nephew: "...They had not yet gone to bed when the townspeople, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house - young and old alike - all the people from every quarter. They called out to Lot and said, 'Where are the strangers who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we may know (i.e "rape") them!'...They pushed against Lot very much, and tried to break down the door." Genesis 18:20-19:20 (this forces God to kill, via a fiery, horrible death, all the children and babies of the city, who shared in the communal guilt) [http://bible.ort.org/books/pentd2.asp?ACTION=displaypage&BOOK=1&CHAPTER=19 IN THE BOOK OF EXODUS #), and after first being the option of freely letting the Israelite slaves go, God hardens Pharaoh's heart, so that Pharaoh does not agree to let the Hebrews leave, then God sends various disasters onto the whole of Egypt, the cycle ends with the story of the killing of every firstborn child in Egypt as the final punishment for having afflicted the Israelites with deathly punishments. (Exodus 6-14) IN THE BOOK OF NUMBERS #The nation of 25:1-2 In response Moses conducts war against the Midianites (Numbers 31:13-31:18)[http://bible.ort.org/books/pentd2.asp?ACTION=displaypage&BOOK=4&CHAPTER=31 . In retaliation for the immorality, Moses and his warriors kill all males and capture women and children. Then Moses orders killing of all women and male children, and the fate of female children was "But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves" OTHER PUNISHMENTS
EXAMPLES OF THE DEATH PENALTY The Bible prescribes the death penalty for the following activities
CHALLENGE TO MODERNITY It is true that in an environment of Political Correctness , those imbued with Western Culture will see some stories as samples of Mutilation , Rape , various Curse s, Slavery , Capital Punishment , Animal Cruelty , Misogyny , Child Abuse , Homophobia , and so forth. These events are sometimes labelled "Bible atrocities and absurdities" by critics of , voiced by Thomas Paine in ''The Age Of Reason''. "Bible difficulties" is an alternative term used by believers and Apologist s to describe these passages, although the phrase also covers alleged or apparent Contradiction s in the Bible. REFERENCE
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