I spent 15 years translating the Old and New testament, did not do it all, the Aramaic books of the Old testament i did not translate. I used the oldest copies of original manuscripts that I could find, want to get as close as I could to the originals. One of the things that struck me was there was a lot of dogma being taught in the "church" that was not supported by scripture, not in the least. One of those was about sex, the church teaches that only sex between a man and a woman if they are married. How ever there is a whole chapter in Leviticus about sex, and if the dogma was correct, then there only needed to be a single line, sex between a married man and woman. PERIOD. There is not that single line, or any line like that at all that I could find.
the dogma about abortions, could not find anything at all, the closest that I could find was a law about a pregnant woman that gets injured by another person. If the baby dies or is injured the woman can decide, yes the woman can decide, what the punishment of the offending party shall be, up to an eye for and eye. It is the woman's choice, not her husbands or person that impregnated her, her choice. From there you can go where you want to, but do not add to the laws handed down and claim God says this when there is no record of it.
Could go on about other issues of dogma, but will not.
great insights, things I had not realized from where I sit at the edge of the world. It is like a pendulum that has swung to its apex and now must return. will post more later, dinner time and espadon to cook.
Your insight is exactly right.
We were lazy and we wanted someone else to deal with the crazies.
Then they went way too far and we were shocked that no one was stepping up to deal with them.
So we had to dig deep and find our courage.
We're kind of like a flash mob now. We're not synchronized yet but we're in tune.
I spent 15 years translating the Old and New testament, did not do it all, the Aramaic books of the Old testament i did not translate. I used the oldest copies of original manuscripts that I could find, want to get as close as I could to the originals. One of the things that struck me was there was a lot of dogma being taught in the "church" that was not supported by scripture, not in the least. One of those was about sex, the church teaches that only sex between a man and a woman if they are married. How ever there is a whole chapter in Leviticus about sex, and if the dogma was correct, then there only needed to be a single line, sex between a married man and woman. PERIOD. There is not that single line, or any line like that at all that I could find.
the dogma about abortions, could not find anything at all, the closest that I could find was a law about a pregnant woman that gets injured by another person. If the baby dies or is injured the woman can decide, yes the woman can decide, what the punishment of the offending party shall be, up to an eye for and eye. It is the woman's choice, not her husbands or person that impregnated her, her choice. From there you can go where you want to, but do not add to the laws handed down and claim God says this when there is no record of it.
Could go on about other issues of dogma, but will not.
Kathleen! Your insights and rational optimism are completely fortifying. Thank you so much for this post.
great insights, things I had not realized from where I sit at the edge of the world. It is like a pendulum that has swung to its apex and now must return. will post more later, dinner time and espadon to cook.