LiveJournal 9/10/2003 –
If, according to old testament law, you should kill someone working on sabbath, for example carrying something – then the person doing the killing is carrying a stone, and therefore must also be put to death. Since you cannot stone someone to death without someone doing the stoning, and since stoning itself represents work, then the natural solution to what Exodus suggests, if taken literally, is that the entire population of people who follow this law should whittle themselves down to one very righteous individual standing alone, holding a rock.
I love the Bible.
Very sarcastic way of trying to make a point. Of course, you have to understand that picking up a stone to kill someone for picking up something else during Sabbath would be an exception, since you are picking up the stone to fulfill an obligation. Your argument sounds more like when people say there is no such thing as absolute Truth, which by itself is an absolute Truth. Peace.
good stuff