dear tiger >>>>>"let the woman choose". Is that a lunatic claim?
The choice is to end the life of ones own child. I cannot comprehend how any sane person could make that choice. Is a person so devoid of love that they can kill their own child for convienence not be a lunatic.
An interesting post I read about a love and a Covenant and life.
Yes, knowing and understanding the Jewish customs, and language is
very important in understanding the bible. Whell.. after all, i was
written by them was it not? Understanding the Greek and Hebrew
language will make the bible so much more clearer. for instance in
the Hebrew language, there are five different words for "love" but
when translated into english, it is just our word love. before you
can argue aginst the bible you have to know what your arguing
aginst. When you read about how god made a covenant with
Abraham in the bible, it helps to understand what the covenants of
that time were composed of. when someone made a covenant with
another, they went though a series of steps. They usually would
have a celebration, they would also become "blood brothers" by
slitting there hands and putting them together, also they would
give eachother their sons. For instance the son of one father would
go to live with the other father for a certain time period and he
would raise him for that time. this form of covenant was just the
ritual of that time. Now, God made a covenant with Abraham and
said that if Abraham was to follow him, that though his seed would
all nations be blessed. But one day god told Abraham to go and
sacrafice his son I'saac. WHAT! whats up with that? Well as you
read the story, Abraham was angered but chose to follow the lord
because he trusted him. Abraham went ahead and was just about to
sacrafice his son when god stopped him, and said (paraphrased)
"stop Abraham, I can see that you love me enough that you were
going to give your only son to me". Well god saw that Abraham was
going to give his son, and when The Lord God gave his son Jesus
Christ, he fulfilled the covenant with Abraham. God gave his only
son, to where all nations could be blessed. and if you follow the
generation lines of in the bible, you can see that Jesus did come
from Abrahams seed, through his line.
So I would like to say that to fully understand the bible you have
to do your homework.
tom watson tosiwmee |
