APL, please answer GC's question. Would you, like Moses, obey Jesus' command to execute capital punishment and kill enemy combatants? Or, would you, like King Saul, refuse to comply with Jesus' command? Would you obey or disobey?

MM - I answered the question. Shall I quote my answer? How does God talk to us? By His word. That is what I will do by the power of God, because in me, I can do nothing.

What did the children of Israel say that they would do? Exodus 19:8 "And all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD has spoken we will do." This was Israel saying that THEY would do the work. It was a law of works. It could not save them, and it was a testimony against them. You are asking me to give an answer to repeat the problem the children of Israel had. Of myself, I can do nothing. The question is a misleading question, in that none of us can keep any part of the law (God's commands) by ourselves. Only by faith are we saved (justified/sanctified/...)

APL, the question is very simple. You didn't answer it. You went off on a tangent.


If Jesus commanded you to kill criminals and combatants would you, like Moses, obey? Or, would you, like King Saul, disobey?

I have given you my answer. Move on.

As for "And all the people answered together, and said, All that the Lord hath spoken we will do", what did Israel almost immediately do?

Are you suggesting you would say, "All that the Lord hath said I will do" and immediately thereafter worship a golden calf?

This is what the children of Israel did. They refused to follow God. God continued to work with them, even when they did fight. But they were never supposed to fight.

"All that the Lord hath spoken we will do" Exodus 19:8. Obey My voice. Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart" Jeremiah 11:7-8.

The people did not fulfill their promise, and they therefore did not receive the blessings God wished to bestow on them. By following their own impulses, they pursued a course that disqualified them for being recognized as God's peculiar treasure.

"But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be My people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you. But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all My servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them" Jeremiah 7:23-25. [Q]

Then I'll also answer yours in like manner.

Blessings,

Green Cochoa.

I'm still trying to discern your answer to GC's question. For the life of me I cannot figure out how you answered his question. If Jesus commanded you to kill criminals and combatants would you obey? Perhaps you believe Jesus would never command you to do such a thing? However, for the sake of discussion, put yourself in Moses' shoes. Would you obey like Moses did? Or, would you try to plead with Jesus to rescind His command (like Moses did when Jesus threatened to wipe out the Jews and start over with Moses)?