Please read the post you are responding to. You simply ignored it. The scriptures posted in this post you ignored is Gods Word and it is in disagreement with you. If you disagree that the post and scriptures you are refusing to address does not disagree with you then please address my post and scripture showing why you are in disagreement. If you cannot what is your argument? You have none. You simply have chosen to ignore the scriptures that are in disagreement with you that have already answered you.
Here let me post it again here so there is no wiggle room for you so it is easier for you to address...
As posted above in the post and scriptures you did not respond to and ignored, earlier according to the scriptures, you are trying to read into the scriptures what is not written in the scriptures leading you to not understand what the scriptures are saying. Here let me prove this claim to you by comparing what you are saying above to what the scriptures are saying that you posted. Notice that I am adding the completed context around these scriptures you quoted earlier that you were already corrected on from Deuteronomy 13:13-15.
- Deuteronomy 13:6-18 6, If your (Israel believers) brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, which is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known, you, nor your fathers; 7, Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, near to you, or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth; 8, You shall not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him: 9, But you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. 10, And you shall stone him with stones, that he die; because he has sought to thrust you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the 11, And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you. 12, If you shall hear say in one of your cities, which the LORD your God has given you to dwell there, saying, 13, Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known; 14, Then shall you inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is worked among you; 15, You shall surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword. 16, And you shall gather all the spoil of it into the middle of the street thereof, and shall burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD your God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again. 17, And there shall stick nothing of the cursed thing to your hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion on you, and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers; 18, When you shall listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep all his commandments which I command you this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD your God.
FROM THE SCRIPTURES ABOVE
- These are Gods command to His people Israel for those Israelite's who seek to turn the people away from God to idolatry (Deut 13:6-18)
- It includes anyone from your own family or friends that entices a believer into idolatry (Deut 13:6-7)
- The believer should not listen or go with these people to practice idolatry (Deut 13:8)
- The believer will be the first to put them to death and then the rest of Israel by stoning (Deut 13:9-11)
- It punishment of idolatry included all of the cities of Israel that practiced idolatry should be put to death (Deut 13:12-15)
- This included utterly destroying all the belongings of this people (Deut 13:16-17)
- Gods mercy and favor was conditional on Gods people not practicing sin and keeping His commandments (Deut 13:18).
NOTE: For a whole city of Gods people to be engaged in open idolatry, to serve other false gods of the nations around them that God destroyed (put to death) for these sins would be a serious sin in Gods eyes because Gods people understood directly from God spoken and written words what sin was so they had no excuses to practice sin as they understood what the penalty of sin was. If the children were participating with the sins of the parents they are also sinning against God and would die in their own sins which is in agreement with the the scripture I posted you earlier from Deut 24:16 showing that we all die for our own sins. Remember here Deut 13:13-18 included the whole city not some of it. All of the above here is in agreement to what was shared earlier with you from the scriptures showing that the wages or penalty for sin in both the old and new testament is death. In the old testament torah this same death penalty was given to anyone who was caught publicly breaking anyone of Gods 10 commandments and included;
- 1st Commandment, Thou shalt have no other gods before me (Exodus 20:3; Deuteronomy 17:1-5; 14:6-10; Exodus 22:20);
- 2nd Commandment, Exodus 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any idols (Exodus 20:4; Deuteronomy 27: 15);
- 3rd Commandment, Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord in vain (Exodus 20:7; Leviticus 24:16);
- 4th Commandment Sabbath Exodus 31:14-15; 35:2;
- 5th Commandment honor your father and mother (Exodus 20:12; Exodus 21:15-17);
- 6th Commandment thou shalt not kill (Exodus 20: 13; Leviticus 24:17; Numbers 35:31-33);
- 7th Commandment thou shalt not commit Adultery (Exodus 20:14; Leviticus 20:10; John 8:3-5);
- 8th Commandment thou shall not steal kidnapping (Exodus 21:16);
- 9th Commandment thou shall not bear false witness (Deuteronomy 19:15-21) and the
- 10th Commandments thou shall not covet (Joshua 7:21-25)