Your assumption is that the instructions in Dt 13 &17 that is specific for those who are worshipping false gods is applicable to those caught in the act of adultery as well as all capital punishment cases yet you won't give the same value to Leviticus 24:13 & 14 since the instruction does not comply with your view. In a similar fashion you found fault with the Numbers passage that had the adulterous couple killed not by stones but by a sword or spear, yet even a third manner of punishment by drinking bitter waters is given in Scripture. Your jot and tittle view of only accepting one means of execution as instruction and dismissing the others as narrative accounts seems contrary to the teaching that all scripture is profitable for reproof and correction and if God allows these other means of correction and blesses them (Num 24) who am I to find fault with Him? Harry "Chad R. Bresson" <breusswane@...> wrote: >H Dorrington wrote: >Do you view it as a paraphrased handed down narrative? If you're asking whether or not I believe Genesis 12:1-3 is a sum total of every single word God used in his call to Abraham, no. I believe what we have is a God-breathed inspired narrative of what God wanted us to know about his call to Abraham. But I believe it was prescriptive to Abraham and Abraham alone. We are not called to leave our countries (although we are called to leave the kingdom of darkness) as he was. You've attempted to show that the Lev. 24 narrative about a woman and her son somehow negates the very prescriptive Deut. passages on witnesses and capital punishment. I grant that to Moses and the congregation it was prescriptive in the sense they couldn't disobey it. But as narrative it cannot define for us the norm for God's mandate on the witnesses being the first to cast stones. Even if I grant the prescription within the narrative is *different* (I don't.. I believe Moses is only telling us about what happened with the woman and son what God wanted us to know about the woman and the son), it would be God's perogative to "deviate* from the norm of Deut. 13 & 17 (which is *why* Carson would include the Lev. passage with the Deut. passages in his apologetic. Leviticus is complementary, not contradictory). Chad Richard Bresson Xenia, OH http://breusswane.blogspot.com/ -- Read the Sound of Grace pages at http://www.soundofgrace.com To unsubscribe, send ANY message to: soundofgrace-unsubscribe@... To view our online archive go to our web page at http://www.associate.com/groups/soundofgrace __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- Read the Sound of Grace pages at http://www.soundofgrace.com To unsubscribe, send ANY message to: soundofgrace-unsubscribe@... To view our online archive go to our web page at http://www.associate.com/groups/soundofgrace