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You are shocked by this? You don't read or know the Bible?
I have read and studied it through several times. There is no story like this that shocks me. The Bible is a very real, gritty book about the terrible things that happen to a fallen world.
Okay, let's look at that.Oh. You think GOD demanded that sacrifice? No, Jephthah made a stupid vow. Judges is chock full of people doing really stupid things. Actually, the entire Bible is.
No, I realize I was being mean now and am trying to engage you intellectually.Just go back to spewing your profanity at me. You like it better and you make more sense.
I've read the Bible many times and I still think it's a horrible story.
Concerning foreign wives.
Ezra 10:2â3 ESV - And Shecaniah the son of⦠| Biblia
And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, addressed Ezra: “We have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from...biblia.com
Okay, let's look at that.
Jephthah made a vow that if God would give him victory over the Ammonites, he would sacrifice the first thing that he encountered when he came home as a burnt offering.
God gave him a victory over the Ammonites, and 30 Ammonite cities were put to the sword.
And the first thing that he encountered was his daughter. But this guy was so scared of God that he and his daughter agreed that they needed to go through with the human sacrifice!
Now, Jephthah might not have thought this thing through, but God is omnipotent and omniscient. He gave Jephy that victory he wanted. He knew his daughter would be the first thing that he encountered.
If anything, I would say God is more to blame.
Of course, this is a horrible story throughout. both the 30 cities put to the sword and the young girl who was butchered to appease a God. Jephthah would go on to nearly exterminate a fellow tribe of Israel in the story that followed. But in the New Testament, he is called a man of valor in Hebrews 11:32.
No, I realize I was being mean now and am trying to engage you intellectually.
Is having sex for pleasure only immoral????
Of course
Is having sex for pleasure only immoral?
I didn’t say anything about Matrimony.Not in marriage, no.
I didn’t say anything about Matrimony.
The point being what you quoted was not about gays. It was about anyone who is immoral.Well then I gave you a fuller answer than you expected.
You do realize that pagans sacrificed their own children, right?
To appease "gods", or so they say.
The point being what you quoted was not about gays. It was about anyone who is immoral.
Notice that they ignore that, while searching the bible for any passage they don't understand that sounds horrible at first glance. To me that is telling and significant.
Speaking of a self-absorbed narcissist, how are you doing?
Projectionist marchThe racist right is alive and well.
Projectionist forward marchRightwing racists gotta hate.
besides your end of the world fetish (why do you guys look forward to that, other than the ability to say "I told you so" to the sinners?) The point is God rewarded Jephthah's foolish action.Yes, war is horrid. Foolish actions reap terrible outcomes.
You realize that soon God will melt the universe away. He has the right to do it. He is Creator. He alone has the right to decide when anyone lives and dies.
But He does NOT require we sacrifice our children to Him.
besides your end of the world fetish (why do you guys look forward to that, other than the ability to say "I told you so" to the sinners?) The point is God rewarded Jephthah's foolish action.
He gave him victory over the Ammonites (people who only existed because Lot, the supposedly good person God had to save from Sodom, had drunken sex with his daughter.)
He accepted Jephthah's sacrifice.
Jephthah continued to be Judge over Israel with God's favor, even when he would go on to slaughter a fellow Tribe of Israel, the Ephramites, in Judges 12.
Seems to me he was fine with a human sacrifice.
You said homosexuality is a sexual sin. Why did you omit heterosexuality?Of course. Not just homosexuality but all manner of sexual sin, like adultery.
Imagine accusing the God of the Universe of all these things they accuse Him of. He is beyond truly Awe-some and is to be feared. But not the monster they dearly and desperately want Him to be.
besides your end of the world fetish (why do you guys look forward to that, other than the ability to say "I told you so" to the sinners?) The point is God rewarded Jephthah's foolish action.
He gave him victory over the Ammonites (people who only existed because Lot, the supposedly good person God had to save from Sodom, had drunken sex with his daughter.)
He accepted Jephthah's sacrifice.
Jephthah continued to be Judge over Israel with God's favor, even when he would go on to slaughter a fellow Tribe of Israel, the Ephramites, in Judges 12.
Seems to me he was fine with a human sacrifice.
