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Originally Posted by ReformedDave
What do you do with all the capitol punishment in the OT? What about when God commanded the army to wipe out all the women and children too?
These people were sinners cut off from God.
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In the OT God was dealing with a national covenant. Any threat to the nation was to be dealt with severely. God HIMSELF can command the elimination of a nation. God's Laws were also structured to secure the spiritual purity of the nation from which he was to birth the Messiah.
The Messiah fulfilled the moral requirements of the Law and died in the sinner's place. Jesus died on the cross to even take the place of the homosexual sinner.
Now God's New Covenant is a covenant based on the individual...not the nation. God no longer orders a single nation to eliminate another via a prophet. God is choosing mercy and being long suffering through this dispensation so that all men have opportunity to hear the gospel, obey, and be saved.
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