Friday, November 6, 2009

Stoned to Death

Islamists in southern Somalia have stoned a man to death for adultery but spared his pregnant girlfriend until she gives birth. "He was screaming and blood was pouring from his head during the stoning. After seven minutes he stopped moving," an eyewitness told the BBC.

The ancient punishment of stoning mentioned throughout the Torah/Teaching was seldom accomplished because the judges were commanded to find a loophole; the Talmud-Book of Law says that if the judges put to death more than one person in 70 years the judges were considered murderers.

When they did execute a person the law was adamant, there could be no pain. According to the to the Talmud a tall platform was built and the condemned who was drugged was thrown off the tower dying on impact–only after the person was dead were stones thrown upon the body. The punishment of stoning effects the soul not the body.

The laws of heaven are very strict but pain is not part of the punishment; there is enough pain in life without melting out more. There is no pain in the spiritual world, only justice. It does not mention stoning in the Koran and those who try to ignorantly apply the law by turning to the Torah sorely misunderstand the intention of the law.

God loves creation and waits for the children of man to return to the way of peace and respect.

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