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Originally Posted by $5 submissions
But isn't there always punishment in any spiritual code? The Torah and the New Testament has it.
In fact, the worst punishment I can think of is in the Bhagavad Gita and the Hindu Vedic scriptures... if you HURT OTHERS NOW (sin), you pay for it through CONTINUOUS REBIRTH. Considering how pointless life can be NOW, imagine having to repeat it INFINITE TIMES?
The concept of consequence and punishment (whether by stoning, crucifixion, hanging, burning, etc) has always been there....
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Deuteronomy 13:6-10English Standard Version (ESV)
6 ?If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife you embrace[a] or your friend who is as your own soul entices you secretly, saying, ?Let us go and serve other gods,? which neither you nor your fathers have known, 7 some of the gods of the peoples who are around you, whether near you or far off from you, from the one end of the earth to the other, 8 you shall not yield to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him, nor shall you conceal him. 9 But you shall kill him. Your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. 10 You shall stone him to death with stones, because he sought to draw you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.