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Yeah, a harmless drink which calmed the jealous husbands nerves while humiliating and scaring the crap out of his poor wife! Maybe the husband should have been given a special drink to calm his nerves. :^) It seems any attempted apologetic on this ...

This is one of those interesting texts that I have seen interpreted in so many weird ways. One interpretation was that this was a harmless drink that actually didn't do anything except calm the jealousy of a husband. On the other extreme, this was ...

Infidel, what you wrote reminds me of how freeing it is to be able to write off a passage like this, rather than trying to hold on to it somehow as Truth and allowing for the Mystery of God to somehow explain it.

Even as a believer this law/ceremony always bothered me. The wife is in a no-win situation. If she refuses, she's dead (figuratively, if not literally), if she accepts and gets sick (from god-knows-what, pun intended), she's dead. Her only hope is ...

 Prelude "If a man and a woman commit adultery, kill them both." Leviticus 20, (my paraphrase) Allegory A man accused his wife of cheating on him. "How can you say that?" she cried, "you have never had cause to doubt my faithfulness to you!" ...

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I remember experiencing something similar, realizing people change on their own, and with the help of others. And if the best argument for God's hand in the matter was providing other people to be around to help, that wasn't very good evidence for ...

When I think about how many prayers I prayed, days I spent fasting, times spent berating myself for "giving in to the flesh", they could not make that argument. Well, they could, but they would be wrong. Oh so wrong. I can't specify what ...

"The key is some people cannot express disagreement without attaching a value judgement." perpetualstudent, that's a good point. And it is really encouraged in evangelicalism, everything has to have a value attached to it. It is good to come across ...

infidel, I agree. I suppose fundagelicals would just say that at some level that individual was unwilling to accept the holy spirit, or not patient to await God's transformation, or living with the struggle is part of sinful humanity's plight on ...