Sentences with phrase «testament goes to some trouble»

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Since most people have not studied the New Testament with their adult minds, and probably have not read it as a whole for many years, they are only too ready to accept someone else's disparagement of the Christian position without going to the trouble of examining the relevant documents for themselves.

The story goes that a young girl was very much troubled by some passages in the Old Testament where God, for example, commanded Saul to smite the Amalekites, and «not spare them, but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.»

(I Samuel 26:19 [Marginal translation]-RRB- Indeed, the whole complex of taboo, custom, and rite, revealed in the Old Testament, went back originally to this primitive desire to do something, however non-moral or bizarre, so to Yahweh's taste that it would ward off the troubles that he held in his control.