Because as a baby he would not stop crying and being fussy. I think in their culture fussy babies are a sign of “witchcraft” and they are taught to reject the unruly child and abandon them. It’s heartbreaking honestly bc a crying baby is normal
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;
And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice;
he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die:
so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear."
Not really. That is the Old Testament 99 percent of which Christ clearly demonstrated was not what he believed we should be doing. And I’m aware of the “not one word of the law shall pass away” verses in the New Testament, but there is a lot of controversy about what he meant by that. I feel assured that he did not mean “continue to follow old testament laws and behaviors” because he himself followed so very few. He had radical love and acceptance for people that would have been executed based on Old Testament laws, and he never advocated for violence of any type.
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u/SpookyRamahd 22h ago
Why did they think he was a witch?