It has always bugged me when people quote mistranslations of the 6th
commandment saying that the Bible teaches "thou shalt not KILL" when in the
original Hebrew it says "Don't MURDER."  I just finished going through the
original Jewish Laws in the 1st 5 books of the Bible and found 52 places
where killing was commanded by God:

Death Penalty for Approaching the Tabernacle by non-Levites:
Num. 1:51

Death Penalty for Blashpheming God's Name:
Lev. 24:10-16, 23

Death Penalty for Breaking the Sabbath:
Ex. 31:12-17
Ex. 35:2-3
Num. 15:32-36

Death Penalty for Cursing Parents:
Ex. 21:17
Lev. 20:9

Death Penalty for certain Ethnic Groups living in Israel:
Num. 31:1-18, 35 (Midianites except virgin females)
Deut. 7:1-2, 16-24  (Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites,
Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites)
Deut. 9:1-4 (Canaanites)
Deut. 25:17-19 (Amalekites)

Death Penalty for False Prophets:
Deut. 18:20-22

Death Penalty for False Witnesses (in Death Penalty cases):
Deut. 19:16-19

Death Penalty for Harlotry by Priest's daughter:
Lev. 21:9

Death Penalty for Idolatry:
Ex. 22:20
Deut. 13:1-5 (those who advocate Idolatry)
Deut. 13:6-11
Deut. 13:12-18 (entire town)
Deut. 17:2-7

Death Penalty for Inhabitants of Cities which refuse to surrender:
Deut. 20:10-17 (except cities of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites,
Perizzites, Hivites, & Jebusites which are to be exterminated)

Death Penalty for Kidnappers:
Ex. 21:16
Deut. 24:7

Death Penalty for Murderers:
Gen. 9:5-6
Ex. 21:12-14
Lev. 24:17
Lev. 24:21
Num. 35:16
Num. 35:17
Num. 35:18
Num. 35:19-21
Num. 35:26-28
Num. 35:33
Deut. 19:11-12
Deut. 19:21

Death Penalty for Negligent Owner of an ox with a history of trying to gore
people if it kills someone:
Ex. 21:28-29

Death Penalty for Rebellious Sons:
Deut. 21:18-21

Death Penalty for Refusing to Abide by Judges Decisions:
Deut. 17:912

Death Penalty for Sacrificing Children to Moloch:
Lev. 20:1-3

Death Penalty for various Sex Crimes:
Lev. 20:10 (Adulterers)
Deut. 22:22 (Adulterers)
Lev. 20:11 (Sex with father's wife)
Lev. 20:12 (Sex with daughter-in-law)
Lev. 20:13 (Man who has sex with another man)
Lev. 20:14 (Sex with wife and her mother)
Lev. 22:13-21 (non-virgin brides)
Deut. 22:23-27 (man who lays with betrothed girl in country, both in city)
Ex. 22:19 (bestiality)
Lev. 20:15 (bestiality by a man)
Lev. 20:16 (bestiality by a woman)

Death Penalty for Striking Parents:
Ex. 21:15

Death Penalty for Witches:
Ex. 22:18
Lev. 20:27

     Genesis has plants created on the 3rd day.  Sea creatures and 
flying creatures both created on the 5th day.  On the 6th day, land 
creatures (including humans) were created.
     The paleontological record is quite different.  About 3.5 billion 
years ago, life began in the sea.  Roughly 450 million years ago, the 
first plants on land appeared.  370 million years ago the 1st amphibious 
creatures crawled onto dry land.  Flying creatures didn't appear until 
at least 164 million years after that.  Modern Humans date from between 
200,000 and 50,000 years ago, though Homonids have been around for a 
couple of million years.

GENESIS                                 FOSSIL RECORD           
1. Plants                               1. Sea Creatures
2. Sea & Flying Creatures               2. Plants
3. Land Creatures & humans              3. Land Creatures
                                        4. Flying Creatures
                                        5. Modern Humans

     You will also note that the plants are created before the sun, 
which did not appear until the 4th day.  I have heard theories that 
the sun was just not visible from the earth's surface until the 4th 
day, but wonder how well the plants could have managed without direct 
sunlight.

     Genesis 1:30 records that "And to ALL the animals on the earth and 
to every bird of the air and to everything that creeps on the ground - 
to everything in which there is the breath of life - I have given every 
green plant for food.  And it was so."  Do you expect me to believe that 
T-Rex was a vegetarian?

     According to a literal reading of the Bible, Adam was created roughly
6100 years ago.  If that is true, he was not the first man, since men
had been walking the earth for tens of thousands of years.

     The Bible states that people were made in the image of God.  Since 
our DNA is only 1.6% different from that of a Chimpanzee, does that mean 
that Chimpanzees were created in 98.4% of the image of God?

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