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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (22338)	8/28/2005 10:48:53 AM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Eeek's Guide To The Bible ELEVEN JUST GO ON AS THOUGH NOTHING WAS HAPPENING! Today I wish to speak about sacrifice. Sacrifice is good only to the degree that something precious is given up to the Lord. It moves Him little to be offered baubles. Human blood and the life of your most Loved One. That is the ticket! Atheists (of course) pretend this practice is primitive and inhuman. Well then--they might as well pretend that the Lord in Heaven is primitive and inhuman. Do you see how barbaric their OWN thinking is?? This is one of many examples of human sacrifice in the bible. It is instructive; it is touching. In order to get a "very great slaughter" Jephthah allows the Spirit of the Lord to move upon him. He "vows a vow" that he will kill and burn the first living person who comes to greet him when he gets home from battle. He is more than a little surprised when his only child runs dancing from his home to greet him with joy. But notice her wonderful obedience! Does she try to weasel out of being murdered to honor the Lord? NO! She only asks a little time to bewail her virginity. Most atheists do not understand the importance of virginity. The point is that there is no sex nor marriage in heaven--as Mark makes it very clear. So being killed and burned for the Lord is more than a physical sacrifice. She must now remain a virgin forever when she goes to heaven up in the sky. Considering how long eternity is--2 months to bewail her endless virginity seems little enough time. This brave young girl just goes on as though nothing was happening. The only change she makes in her routine is to go up and down the mountains bewailing her virginity. She does not curse her father nor her God. She does not moan about her imminent slaughter. There are no remonstrances. She simply does (what any normal person facing eternity as a virgin would do)--she laments the tragic future before her. She does not try to escape the justice of her untimely death and her eternal virginance. This is the price of freedom. Jephthah demonstrates a remarkable understanding of what will most appeal to God if God is to give him a "very great slaughter". He knows that God values burnt humans as His favourite sacrifice. God keeps His end of the bargain and Jephthah keeps his end. Would that modern day people would honor THEIR verbal commitments to one another! Jephthah understood that God must be offered something of great value if He was to slaughter the people Jephthah wished to kill. "Kill everybody between first and 93rd street, and I will never drink again" does not cut it. But tell the Lord you will slaughter your daughter for His great pleasure--that is the ticket! Modern people do not get the concept. How fair is it to ask God to give you thousands of lives while you offer not even ONE life to Him in return?? This is atheistic thinking: SOMETHING FOR NOTHING. Well--it doesn't work that way. ________________________________ 11:29 Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over unto the children of Ammon. 11:30 And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands, 11:31 Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the LORD's, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering. 11:32 So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the LORD delivered them into his hands. 11:33 And he smote them from Aroer, even till thou come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto the plain of the vineyards, with a very great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel. 11:34 And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter. 11:35 And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the LORD, and I cannot go back. 11:36 And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the LORD, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the LORD hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon. 11:37 And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows. 11:38 And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains. 11:39 And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel. Bless Jesus! The atheist is refuted once again! EeekBaptist