Iskander

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outhouse

they were not odd to them though


these laws were borrowed used, from Egyptian and Mesopotamian sources, and taylor fit but this new culture over the years as issues popped up.



most of the levant in this time had these laws



odd for modern times yes

Iskander

The word “odd” is a very odd word to use.

Take superstition, this is what contemporary Americans are taught by the Roman Church:


Catechism of the Catholic Church

2111 Superstition is the deviation of religious feeling and of the practices this feeling imposes. It can even affect the worship we offer the true God, e.g., when one attributes an importance in some way magical to certain practices otherwise lawful or necessary. To attribute the efficacy of prayers or of sacramental signs to their mere external performance, apart from the interior dispositions that they demand, is to fall into superstition.

2138 Superstition is a departure from the worship that we give to the true God. It is manifested in idolatry, as well as in various forms of divination and magic.

2110 The first commandment forbids honoring gods other than the one Lord who has revealed himself to his people. It proscribes superstition and irreligion. Superstition in some sense represents a perverse excess of religion; irreligion is the vice contrary by defect to the virtue of religion.

sotto voce

The Roman cult is based on superstition, as everyone here surely knows. Though when you ask a typical Western Catholic about the official superstitions, they say they don't believe them. That includes their leaders. "Transubstantiation? Silly medieval superstition," to quote one such mentor of the flock.

So let's have no quoting of the cant of these worthless people. It could look like propaganda on their behalf. :frown:

In authentic BC&H tradition, the OP does not bother to quote. And nobody bothers to look up what the Bible actually says.

steve_bnk

Breaking a calf's neck when a murder is unsovleable is odd...religion and gods were the norm, and still are.

Net2004

your god in flesh tried to experience them in human flesh, he discovered how hard/harsh they were and told you to take the easy option by eating his flesh and drinking his blood.what i don't understand is why some christians mix blood in black pudding. i'm sure your gods "sacrifice" couldn't make blood clean from sin so thats why you guys aren't allowed to consume it.
blood 1 nil
jesus' death 0

steve_bnk

i found link for this.

http://www.freeratio.org/showthread....56#post7300856


For me the laws provide insight into who the ancient Jews were. The principles of civil liability, charity, a social compact, sexual protection of children, dealing witrh rape, structuring procreation and sexual relations in particular what is interesting is the injunctions for the courts to not be swayed by king or position high or low. Same for witmesses.

Something other than the usual portrayal of the ancient Jews as supertitious fools with no historical value worthy only of ridicule.

steve_bnk

Each law in the link links to the biblical text. Feel free to read the laws and post impressions.

sotto voce

Indeed. But not necessarily to what you wrote.

This sort of failure to deal with the actual Bible serves only to give the impression of complete conviction that the Bible is correct. As do most of the posts in the thread.

sotto voce

Have you read the whole passage?