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Offline The One and Only Mo

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7 Noahide Laws
« on: August 16, 2009, 01:08:57 AM »
   1. "Idolatry is forbidden. Man is commanded to believe in the One G-d alone and worship only Him." My question is, how can goyim be expected to observe this? Most of them aren't even taught a G-d exists, let alone to worship him. And all Christians worship Jesus anyways so are they going to hell?

   2. Incestuous and adulterous relations are forbidden. Human beings are not sexual objects, nor is pleasure the ultimate goal of life.

   3. Murder is forbidden. The life of a human being, formed in G-d's image, is sacred.

   4. Cursing the name of G-d is forbidden. Besides honoring and respecting G-d, we learn from this precept that our speech must be sanctified, as that is the distinctive sign which separated man from the animals.

   5. Theft is forbidden. The world is not ours to do with as we please.

   6. Eating the flesh of a living animal is forbidden. This teaches us to be sensitive to cruelty to animals. (This was commanded to Noah for the first time along with the permission of eating meat. The rest were already given to Adam in the Garden of Eden.)

   7. Mankind is commanded to establish courts of justice and a just social order to enforce the first six laws and enact any other useful laws or customs.


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Re: 7 Noahide Laws
« Reply #1 on: August 16, 2009, 07:52:13 AM »
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3. Murder is forbidden. The life of a human being, formed in G-d's image, is sacred.

What about self defense?

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Re: 7 Noahide Laws
« Reply #2 on: August 16, 2009, 07:57:02 AM »
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3. Murder is forbidden. The life of a human being, formed in G-d's image, is sacred.

What about self defense?

Self-defence is not murder. Murder is killing of the innoncent.
Do not put your trust in princes, nor in a son of man, in whom there is no help (Psalms 146:3)

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Re: 7 Noahide Laws
« Reply #3 on: August 16, 2009, 07:58:46 AM »
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3. Murder is forbidden. The life of a human being, formed in G-d's image, is sacred.

What about self defense?

Self-defence is not murder. Murder is killing of the innoncent.


Ok. Thank you