tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6564473.post116605699598426605..comments2024-01-15T05:32:24.873-05:00Comments on The Jon Rowe Archives: Jonathan Rowehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04079637406589278386noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6564473.post-1166214429907221862006-12-15T15:27:00.000-05:002006-12-15T15:27:00.000-05:00I dunno if the penultimate paragraph holds up. Th...I dunno if the penultimate paragraph holds up. There's nothing in the New Testament about persecuting non-believers, and the portions of the Old Testament you cite are before they were sent into captivity (which was decreed by G-d), and apply only through the end of the Davidic kingdom.<BR/><BR/>(And neither did Israel fully carry out the death sentences even then, which is a more delicate theological point---if the Jews wanted to solve the human condition and become pure, they must massacre the impure. But they did not.)Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.com