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Originally Posted by martinguerre
Phage, you misquote me. The quoted material is my response to your first selection from Romans 6 by stating that you are not reading that from the passage, but into it.
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Well it is hardly my fault if you cannot be bothered to state what you are talking about. Anyway, the point of my interpretation of Romans 6:23 was that God considered the appropriate punishment for sin to be death; this implies that God does not consider execution itself to be immoral. Linking the practice to be acceptable for men needed a different quote.
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Originally Posted by martinguerre
Your last line is both insulting and ill-informed. My argument begins with my assumptions (my confession of faith) and procedes from there, like any other argument ought to. The readers of TFP deserve more? That's a snide and snotty thing to say when you aren't even responding to the content of my postings.
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Your argument might follow the correct pattern, but I refuted it simply by pointing out that your assumptions are by no means universally agreed on. The TFP is a multinational, multicultural, and most relevantly a multireligioned group. An argument that is based on assumptions many would not agree with is going to be useless to many on the forum, and I was suggesting that you find one with a more universal appeal.
In any case, we are moving far off the focus of the thread. My argument against your stance is that not only do I not agree with your line of reasoning after your assumptions, but that your assumptions are not always valid.