|
|
Post by jwolfe on Apr 27, 2014 15:58:50 GMT
6. If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;
8. Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him:
I think the same thing would apply that we should not drive people away from the truth, we should be very very caareful not to do that.
1. Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
what do you think it means do not make baldness between your eyes?
|
|
Lee
Administrator 
Posts: 1,047
|
Post by Lee on Apr 27, 2014 20:01:11 GMT
Deu 14:1 Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
Lev 19:27 Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
Lev 19:28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
These two verses are very similar, and make me think that there was a practice among the heathens of cutting their hairs in a particular way, particular to memorialize dead people. Dont let the heathen influence you. Dont assimilate their customs. makes me think of Christmas and Easter....
|
|
|
|
Post by jwolfe on Apr 28, 2014 0:58:05 GMT
and all the tattoos we see these days. It is cool to get a tattoo now.
|
|
|
|
Post by richard on Apr 28, 2014 5:11:38 GMT
In the reign of Ahab the whole house of Israel, with the exception of a very small remnant, had gone a-whoring after him. Jezebel, “that cursed woman,” who was the cause of the nation’s apostacy (1 Kgs. 16:31–33), maintained daily at her table four hundred and fifty of his prophets.—(1 Kgs. 18:19.) Between them and Elijah, there occurred that celebrated contest which resulted in their destruction and the return of the nation to the worship of the true God. The historian, in recording the proceedings on that memorable occasion, says, “they (Baal’s Prophets) took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even till noon, saying, O! Baal, hear us! But there was no voice, nor any that answered, and they leaped upon the altar which was made, and they cried aloud and cut themselves after their manner with knives till the blood gushed out upon them.”—(1 Kgs. 18:26–28.) By thus cutting themselves they showed their affection for Baal. A similar method of manifesting affection and excessive grief is still practised in the East. The following passages refer to this custom—Jer. 16:5; 41:5; 47:5; 48:37. The Jews were forbidden to imitate this practice. “Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you; I am the Lord.”—(Lev. 29:28.) “There shall be none defiled for the dead among His people . . . Nor make any cuttings in the flesh”—(Lev. 21:1–5.) “Ye are the children of the Lord your God; ye shall not cut yourselves.”—(Deut. 14:1). The cuttings which Baal’s prophets inflicted upon themselves would, of course, make their identification easy when the time of retribution came, and their slaughter was the punishment enacted by the law of Moses for those who lured the Israelites to the worship of strange gods.
(2001). The Christadelphian, 15(electronic ed.), 305–306.
very interesting article |
|
