Someone once said..."A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still."
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Except that he has yet to convince anyone.
The link is higher up in the thread.
Then maybe someone else should come up with an explanation that has anything to do with the text. They won’t because they can’t but they should at least try.Except that he has yet to convince anyone.
I mean it is Biblical Families, not “I speculate wildly” families.
It would be much simpler to say that flesh means flesh and that is the baby and the "shall not divide assunder" refers to the typical child sacrifice.... but noooo, I go there and I am on the beach gettting ready to be kicked off the island! What's more Ez 16:8 refers to Yahweh making a covenant with the now grown orphan girl at essentially the same time as her "covering" but the actions are distinct from each other. Curious note though, ONE FLESH is not mentioned! V20,21 only later mentions slaying the children for passing thru the fire as was the practice for Molech.
Some of us find it reasonable to draw a conclusion from the examples given in the absence of a definitive mandate.
You seem to choose to declare a definitive mandate concluded from the lack of a definitive mandate.
Why is there an absence of a definitive mandate? Why is a matter of life and death left obscured? If there isn’t a definitive mandate then we have a major flaw in our scripture. Ergo the mandates that are there have to be definitive.
I don’t even have to address the “reasonable conclusions” of men. Every heretic, weirdo, false prophet and Catholic who ever existed said that they were drawing reasonable conclusions.
We've all heard you make the claim a thousand times, after all...
1And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as forthis Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
Yup, people get uncomfortable when something isn’t definite.
So they create something definite, and another human tradition takes form.
I would counter that “reasonable conclusions” is how traditions get started, not a slavish adherence to the text at all costs.
You’re not dealing in reality anymore Mark. I’m sorry but you’re just lashing out because you’re encountering resistance and you don’t have any answers.