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shmuel-the-confessor
18th August 2010, 04:54 PM
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I watched this video from over at Stephen Ray's blog. One of the commentators posted a comment quoting this passage of Scripture. "But if … evidences of virginity are not found for the young woman, then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones…” (Deuteronomy 22:20,21)"

The video was sickening, I couldn't actually believe what I was watching. My question is, surely the punishment of death instituted by God for the Israelites was much more humane then this?

DavidObeid
19th August 2010, 06:37 AM
Killing someone is always brutal, be it murder or the just execution of a criminal.

I'm not sure how stoning was done in the Old Testament, but it would not have been pretty to watch.

Incidentally, the passage in Deuteronomy 22 isn't about stoning a woman for not being a virgin, but for dishonouring her father's house by being promiscuous while living there.