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Looking forward to some knowledgeable responses to this.
Hagar and Sarah
21 Tell me, you who want to be under the law, are you not aware of what the law says?
22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.
23 His son by the slave woman was born in the ordinary way; but his son by the free woman was born as the result of a promise.
24 These things may be taken figuratively, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar.
Galatians 4:21-24 NIV
Well all the racism was by his logic a allegory, but he himself was taking it literally, which is where it all went wrong for me, especially after professing at the start that taking the allegory literally was the whole problem.
Deuteronomy 7 New International Version (NIV)
Driving Out the Nations
7 When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girga#es, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you— 2 and when the Lord your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy. 3 Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, 4 for they will turn your children away from following me to serve other gods, and the Lord’s anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy you. 5 This is what you are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles and burn their idols in the fire. 6 For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.
Genesis 12 New International Version (NIV)
12 The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.
2 “I will make you into a great nation,
and I will bless you;
I will make your name great,
and you will be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you,
and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you.”
It would seem that the preacher took the Galatians verse a bit out of context.
A normal reading wouldn't result in the reader concluding that Paul was indicating that the Abraham story was allegory, but rather the circumstances of the two women could viewed as an allegory.
It would seem that the preacher took the Galatians verse a bit out of context.
A normal reading wouldn't result in the reader concluding that Paul was indicating that the Abraham story was allegory, but rather the circumstances of the two women could viewed as an allegory.
originally posted by: randyvs
a reply to: Wifibrains
The stele depicts Ramses crushing a Hittite fortress as it was found
in one of his temples.
Did you say something about psychopaths? If I came upon a people even slightly abusing children?
I'd go psycho ass happy on the whole lot of them as well. But these people were burning their own
kids. So God told the Israelites to get medevil on their asses. Because God is righteous not a psycho!
You must not worship the LORD your God in their way, because in worshiping their gods, they do all kinds of detestable things the LORD hates.
The devil and his temptations eh?
Lets not forget this same god righteously also demanded the death of babies.
This dispicable
world is the result of our dumb asses wanting to things
our own way.
So how could God be at fault? Or his
word be wrong?
He never asked for child sacrifices. But did He order the total destruction of some towns, every living thing in them? Yes He did, He surly did.