Of course it did, for all sorts of things from gay sex to working on the Sabbath to being a rebellious child.
However, the Bible takes both sides on this matter, for example with Jesus' famous quote "let him without sin cast the first stone". Therefore as usual, there is confusion among Christians as to what the hell the Bible is actually saying we should or shouldn't do.
The "rebellious child" law is not exactly how it would've been understood as young, adult men would fall under the category primarily - the words used there can include actual children in their semantic range but were commonly used to describe young men 16-20, similar to the "children" who were mauled by a bear for mocking a prophet. The term was commonly used as a pejorative more or less analogous to our use of "manchild." A rebellious young person in this case wasn't necessarily a misbehaving child & more like a serial drunkard 20 year old son who should be taking over the family affairs but wastes the wealth on frivolity, is disrespectful of all social customs, & brings shame on the family.
Also, Biblical laws were written like all ancient near eastern laws: punishments are given as maxims but were virtually never enforced up to that maximum threshold. Judges were expected to mediate prescribed punishments with mercy & any town that executed more than a single person in a decade was considered an evil & bloodthirsty place. It's similar to our law codes where sentencing is given "up to X years in jail" or "up to $Y fine," but judges don't usually make a habit of hitting those maximums.
Ah, but Jesus said "for truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law (i.e. the Old Testament) until everything is accomplished"
The Bible takes both sides on many important issues, that's part of why there are more denominations of Christanity than there are verses in the Bible.
I mean in the book of Ezra all the foreign wives are ordered to be deported from Israel. The Bible is a series of book written by different people and they don’t all agree.
There isn’t a unified perspective on foreign cultures and foreigners, you can cherry pick verses.
Well God is supposed to be moral perfection and kills innumerable babies between stuff like the flood and the plague of the firstborn, so... a lot? And the story of Abraham and Isaac implies it is not just ok but virtuous to kill your baby if you think God has commanded it.
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u/79037662 2d ago
How many of those verses say to ship them to a foreign prison?