Chili

It is a priviledge to be judged because that is when heaven begins and the rest is metaphor.

Chili

Some pple here are burned-out born again christians that have an ax to grind.
Many have studied the bible for 40 years and sacrificed most of their life preaching the gospel that they no longer believe in.

Chili

How about 'the bilble is all metaphor'?

Let me put it this way, if Genesis is written for us to come full circle in there sure is no history there. I actually think that slavery has never been worse than it is today and that includes rationalism among males, which probably is exactly what the biblel slavery parables are trying to curb.

Johnny Skeptic

Please stay on topic. What is happening today does not have anything to do with the opening post. My intent in the opening post was to show that some texts endorse the wrongful abuse of non-Hebrew slaves during that time period.

Whatever you meant by your gibberish, if you want to discuss it, please start a new thread. Your communication skills are next to non-existent, and needlessly complex, and will therefore be of no use to most people. Perhaps your intention is not to benefit people with your posts, and you only want to entertain yourself. You are obviously titillated by expressing yourself in terms that show an infatuation with myths and metaphors, but your poor and needlessly complex ways of explaining myths and metaphors will continue to be unpopular. I doubt that any fundamentalist Christian would ever be influenced by anything that you say, that is, if they were able to understand what you say, which would of course leave out most fundamentalist Christians.

Chili

My third option was offered as a possible alternative and, at least from my perspective, that makes you the slave driver of goat humpers (to be very graphic about it) by exposing the rational non-Hebrew interpretation of the text wherein only Hebrews were like sheep that know and understand the voice of their G-d in faith. To be sure that you understand and not feel intimidated let me add that there is consolation in faith but not in doubt wherefore the wrath of G-d is upon doubt in the absence of faith where eros instead of agape is the nourishment provided, which then is already confirmed in the wording itself.

ETA. Right Johnny, and this is based on love being the continuity of life with eros being the opposite of love wherein only opposites are known to provide pain in the absence of love and this is confirmed in John 21:17, to be exact, where agape was exposed to be the nourishment of faith.

Johnny Skeptic

I will not reply to that unintelligible gibberish. Your communication skills are next to non-existent, and you must have designed them to make sure that as many people as possible do not understand what you are talking about. The English language is obviously a foreign language to you.

Chili

I'll help you out here by adding that non-Hebrew slaves represent doubt much in the way that Thomas was doubt as the twin of faith in the mind of Jesus who was not raised until they have been dealt with in full and therefore get much more attention to find peace on earth. This would be why Jesus was disrobed prior to crucifixion and Peter left stranded without a cloak on their next fishing trip.