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Can Unbelievers be killed? Acts Chapter 3 v 23

Deleted from what? The New Testament has no single autograph to which one could compare. What you mean is that they made different choices than the KJV, which is to be expected in a new translation. If you're reading an authorized copy of the NIV, none of those verses are entirely unmentioned, you just need to look down at the footnotes, where they explain the multiple manuscripts problem.

The link is pretty funny, though! "Unspoken" indeed. As though the KJV-only crowd could ever be convinced to stop yammering about the scholastic superiority of Medieval witch-burners.
Point of order: The KJV was written in the Early Modern period, a couple of centuries after the end of the Medieval period; And nobody was ever burned as a witch in England (they were hanged).
 
Deleted from what? The New Testament has no single autograph to which one could compare. What you mean is that they made different choices than the KJV, which is to be expected in a new translation. If you're reading an authorized copy of the NIV, none of those verses are entirely unmentioned, you just need to look down at the footnotes, where they explain the multiple manuscripts problem.

The link is pretty funny, though! "Unspoken" indeed. As though the KJV-only crowd could ever be convinced to stop yammering about the scholastic superiority of Medieval witch-burners.
Point of order: The KJV was written in the Early Modern period, a couple of centuries after the end of the Medieval period; And nobody was ever burned as a witch in England (they were hanged).
As far as points of fact are concerned, you are right about one and partially wrong about the other, as it was most certainly common practice to burn witches in James' Scotland, albeit usually posthumously. Strangulation at a wooden stake, not hanging, was the preferred execution method; the burning was in lieu of burial and happened immediately after, so there are known historical cases where the strangling part was skipped. James himself was a proud anti-witcher, and commissioned a woodcut portrait of himself presiding over a torture proceeding that occurred just a decade before the commissioning of the Bible.
 
It comes down not to what religious texts say, it is what the religious do in the name of relgion in the here and now.

Look at the recent violence in Jerusalem between Muslims and Jews overw hat both consider a holy site. Madness to say the least.

As Politesse said, translations and interpretations have always served a power figure. It is an important point for the Christians who blindly quote scripture.

The gospels served a purpose, sensationalize a movement to attract converts.

Rather than theological differences, the conflict is territorial. The arguments may be religious, but the goal is to control Jerusalem. This is more similar to the Russian/Ukraine conflict.
I is about land, however the periodic violence in Jerusalem is about relgion. Netnyahu repreents the Jewish analog to the literal biblical Christian. Netanyahu said publicly Jews own Israel because god gave it to them. 2000 years ago Jerusalem was the capitol of Israel, so it must be so today.

Isreal is encting a slow motion ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem which is bible based. Like Christians Jews range from libera tolerant l to the carzy extemes.
 
But the NIV says:

“Anyone who does not listen to him will be completely cut off from their people.”
Shit, it sounds like Heaven is a timeshare thing, and you have to go to presentations... or you get destroyed.
 
The short answer is us infidels are not immortal, we can be killed.

I was having a conversation with an Evangelical after Obama was elected,. To him Obama was the anti Christ. In the course of the discussion the man said it is not given to us in the bible to 'take him out'. It gave me a chill.

From waht is comming out from the Jan 6 investgation is congressional republicans and others s got carried away ranting in texts about storming the beach at Omaha beach and the like.

It is a short distance to actual mass religious violence. Regardless of what the bible actually says, religions people will find a justification for killing. If nothing else the old standby 'I know it is what god want'.
 
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