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Author Topic:   Cherry Picking the Bible- Leviticus and Other OT Rules
Nighttrain
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Message 12 of 82 (321654)
06-14-2006 11:19 PM


Always thought that if people are flat out remembering and adhering to the Ten Commandments (Mark One), it would be wishful thinking to lay out another 613 ordinances. Makes YHWH seem like anally retentive or a nit-picker par-excellence.

  
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Message 41 of 82 (322417)
06-16-2006 8:24 PM


Euphos
Nah, 'one flesh' is just a euphemism for 'the beast with two backs':-p

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Nighttrain
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Message 49 of 82 (326296)
06-26-2006 2:31 AM
Reply to: Message 47 by mjfloresta
06-21-2006 5:59 PM


Re: Bump for mjfloresta
1But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 2At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. 3The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group 4and said to Jesus, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. 5In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?" 6They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.
But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. 7When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her." 8Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.
9At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. 10Jesus straightened up and asked her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"
11"No one, sir," she said.
"Then neither do I condemn you," Jesus declared. "Go now and leave your life of sin."
Most scholars contend that the pericope de adultera is an interpolation. They are hammering it out at present over at Infidels. Ever wonder why the adulterer (male) never got a mention?

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Message 61 of 82 (328355)
07-02-2006 8:58 PM


Life among the Ignorami
I studied, off and on, with JW`s over twelve months (yes, I`m into pain ), and regardless of how you pointed out the flip-flopping on their beliefs over the last hundred years, the selectivity of picking only those verses that supported their take and ignoring others, they wouldn`t admit a single mistake. They covered their asses by the classic--'The vision is becoming clearer with time'.

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Nighttrain
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Message 63 of 82 (328377)
07-02-2006 11:15 PM
Reply to: Message 62 by ramoss
07-02-2006 10:59 PM


Re: Life among the Ignorami
No different, Ram, just pointing out the solution that one branch of Christianity (?) uses to combat the charge.

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Message 67 of 82 (328471)
07-03-2006 8:10 AM
Reply to: Message 66 by ramoss
07-03-2006 6:12 AM


Re: question
One of the traditional methods of studying talmud emphasis's this. Someone will have a passage opened up, and then surround the passage with the various commentary, and then follow the various commentary, so the meaning 'opens up like a flower'
So the pesher technique as outlined in the Qumran Scrolls is correct for mainstream Judaism? That it operates on two levels, one as a commentary relating past Scripture to current events. And it also provides two methods of instruction, one to the lay reader and a secondary (primary (?)) message to initiates?

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Nighttrain
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Message 72 of 82 (328870)
07-05-2006 2:22 AM
Reply to: Message 71 by ramoss
07-04-2006 9:58 PM


Re: question
Thanks, Ram. I am still trying to get my head around whether the 'Seven Signs' of Jesus carry a pesher message or not. Or even if they refer to events happening during His life.He throws up lots of odd numbers that seem to be referring to something beyond our understanding.
Edited by Nighttrain, : edited to add divinity

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Message 81 of 82 (382295)
02-04-2007 6:11 AM
Reply to: Message 75 by Greatest I am
01-30-2007 2:10 PM


Re: Leviticus
God is a God of Love not Hate.
How come he created so many evil, disfiguring diseases, huh?
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