Originally Posted by TF49
So, you do not understand.... or accept .... that the gathering of sticks is not the issue.

Can you not see that?

The transgression would be the deliberate and willful disobedience..... the issue of sticking the finger up.

I regard a certain amount of hardheadedness as a virtue, but.....Do you really not see that or are you just hard headed to the max?





Whether it was deliberate or not, it doesn't specify, the sentence and act of killing far exceeds the assumed crime of disobedience, which in turn contradicts the descriptions of God as being merciful. There is no mercy shown.