Why does God want cuts in tax rates for high income earners and capital gains?
This is verging on political discussion, but lets just say, I don't claim to speak for God. IMO the Bible clearly bans abortion and it at least theoretically supports Capital Punishment, but other than that, Christians can take any position and be valid, and even on Capital Punishment I know many Christians who totally reject it.
God rained fowls for them to eat, but punished them 500 years later.
This was not an issue of eating fowl being a sin (It wasn't) but greed and unwillingness to be satisfied with what God provided for him.
Studiose: Two sons of Eli the high priest made the sacrificial meat to be cooked in one manner rather than another. They were met with death. (1 Samuel 4:11)
Because there were specific laws on how to cook the meat.
His father Saul commanded no food to be taken before the evening.
And, as the Bible is clear on, Saul's command in this instance was wicked.
Ardenter:
His punishment was that he found no place for repentance.
First of all, I don't agree with that. Esau's punishment was loss of his birthright, NOT his "Place in Repentance." Esau was unsaved because he did not REPENT of his sin, not because he sold his birthright....
perhaps Catholics wouldn't "bring catholic dogma" onto this thread if you didn't do the same in regards to whatever variant of protestantism you adhere too on the Ask a Catholic thread.
Perhaps practicising the same as you preach instead of reeking of hypocrisy would prevent such intrusions onto the ask a protestant thread. (It is difficult not to at the best of times).
If I have done this, I apologize, though I do not recall to doing so.
Right, yesterday we just celebrated the 50th anniversary of my maternal grandparents and my grandfather makes no major decisions without consulting my grandmother.
Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head
-Chinese proverb
Interesting and I agree.
not all Protestants hold the slaughter of the unborn as a sin
Sadly this is true.
If people are in power because god wants them to be (as Paul implies), then what do you think of pro-democratic revolutions? Isn't such rebellion un-Biblical?
I don't think so necessarily, though some Christians disagree with me. While I agree that in general we should obey our government, I also think "For everything there is a season" applies to fighting and revolution as well. Every Christian must consult their own conscience and the Lord God and make up their own mind.
This thread still needs a title-change, but "Ask Domination" is verging on being a personal thread.
Not really.
As you're so fond of quoting, Paul says that ALL scripture is God-breathed. The Qur'an was apparently sent to Earth by Allah (God), so is that not inerrant and unquestionable?
APPARENTLY is the key word. It was not valid Scripture.
However, questions about Islam aside, if ALL scripture is God-breathed, so is the Apocrypha. It is considered deuterocanonical, but it is most certainly ancient religious literature of the Christian faith and should qualify definitely.
The fact that it is deuterocanon is considered by most Protestants as evidence that it isn't Scripture.
That said, these questions are better suited for Plotinus. I don't know everything about the history of my faith. In Ask a Theologian I'm sure you'd get a better response.
