Sticks & Stones will break your bones

Here's a nice little Bible story for the kids. (Numbers 15:32-36) While the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the sabbath day. They brought him to Moses who asked God what they should do with him. God said the congregation should stone the man to death. So they did as the Lord commanded.

So, apparently, the penalty for breaking the sabbath is death. In fact, the rule is spelled out in Exodus:

Exodus 31:15 Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.

And for the Christian apologists who claim that the New Testament waived the requirement that those who break the sabbath should be killed, here are the next two verses:

Exodus 31:16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

Exodus 31:17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.

Don't "perpetual" and "for ever" mean forever? Or did eternity end when the NT was written? And if it does mean forever, why aren't Christians stoning each other in the streets?

It's an abomination! (For more on abominations, see my last post.)

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