Bible Questions?

Would the excessive and probably unexpected mass culling have any effect on the local economy?

How many people attended the buffet after the sacrifice?

 

Hell yeah, like sponsoring the Olympics.

It was a wild time and I don't really remember, but this one dude got sick.

 

My bad, I thought you may have known of some passages that supported the festival after this animal sacifice, I always thought they were burnt offerings.

 

Isn't that only to indicate how God responds to humanity rather than stating that he is both a mother and a father? For example, saying he is a provider (father) while also a nurturer (mother) and saying like a mother and like a father to express a quality of himself rather than saying he's more than one thing - if that makes sense.

So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.

To me that's like saying that God split up his qualities among his creation of man, but that God is still both at the same time, so he is only one thing rather than two. In other words, his qualities is just that one part and that's what he is and he explains this to us by using those examples depending on the context.

 

All I asked was is there more than this skimpy evidence to prove Mary was sinless, no need to get snippy just because the evidence for it, in the Bible, seems non-existent.

 

No, God is not a mother in birth pangs, other than that, what are you talking about?

 

Doesn't this scripture talk about God as mother?

For this is what the LORD says:
"I will extend peace to her like a river,
and the wealth of nations like a flooding stream;
you will nurse and be carried on her arm
and dandled on her knees.
13 As a mother comforts her child,
so will I comfort you;
and you will be comforted over Jerusalem(Isaiah 66:12-13)

 

Isaiah 42:14 God as a woman in labor
“For a long time I have held my peace, I have kept myself still and restrained myself; now I will cry out like a woman in labor, I will gasp and pant.”

God as a husband
For your Maker is your husband-- the LORD Almighty is his name-- the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; he is called the God of all the earth (Isaiah 54:5)

Hosea is also a sign of God's love for his unfaithful children.

And you cannot deny that God is a spirit.


My point was that these images are all describing the same reality: God. The same can work in reverse, that a single image can have more than one meaning.

 

No it is not saying God is a mother, it is saying God is acting like a mother.

 

Again God is not a woman in labor but is like a woman in labor.

Of course God is a husband.

Of course God is a father.

Why would I?

Yes they are.

Yes it can. So?

 

The "Woman" in Genesis 3:whatever-verse-we-are-discussing can mean more than just God's heavenly corporation, or the Church, or Mary...It can mean all of these.

 

It could, it just doesn't. It takes more than just saying that a Scripture means something, one needs to show scriptural backing for saying so.

 

Remember when you told me that you...

 

Yes, I remember but do you remember what we where talking about? Don't you think that you might be taking it out of context?

 

I certainly do remember. And no I don't think so.

 

Okay.
You said:

which is talking about what is "customary".
To which I replied:

Which you applied to this:

Which was talking about the need for Scriptural backing for what you say, not about whether it is "customary to include a chapter and verse", when you make a statement.

Perhaps I should have said: "It takes more than just saying that a Scripture means something, one needs to be able to show scriptural backing for saying so." But one doesn't have to show "chapter and verse" every time they say something.

 

Judges

3:31 And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel.

One man, one cattle prod, 600 fatalities?

 

How would you like to see him in UFC mixed martial arts?

 

Ahh, but if you read back just a smidgen further you will see that I was merely asking you for some textual backing for this statement:

and not discussing customs. Either you really weren't smart enough to realize that's what I was asking for, or you just wanted to play games.

I asked you in a specific instance to demonstrate your ability to show scriptural backing and now you're talking about every time someone says something? Talk about lack of context ...

 

"Prodding" men is frowned upon during competition me thinks.