Interesting, too, to
read ancient law and to find that it sounds pretty much like something we might have come up with today: look at the the sentence at the end of the quote explicitly stating the «intent» of the law.
Not exact matches
What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the
laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist
reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a
reading that turns an
ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.
God was represented by one of the
ancient rabbis as saying, «When they
read before me the
laws about sacrifices, I will impute it to them as if they offered the sacrifices before me, and will have mercy upon them for all their misdeeds.»
and fyi, i have
read the koran, various
ancient commentaries on islamic
law and many of the Hadith.
If you want to believe in your god, then more power to you, but don't make yourself look stupid by trying to refute scientific fact based on what someone told you or what you've
read in an outdated book written to scare and control mankind though fantastical and highly embellished stories meant to inspire fear and obedience to
ancient laws and beliefs.
The Ordeal of Jealousy (5) and the
Law of the Nazirite (6) represent very
ancient belief and practice and ought not to be omitted in
reading.
«Should be required
reading» — Amazon.com reviewThe
ancient Babylonians were the first people to discover the universal
Laws of Wealth.
Many people have an aversion to
reading tax
laws (or even tax instructions) assuming that it's as obscure as
ancient greek.