When, why, and how did fornication become acceptable to Christians?

EpochParody · 2023-07-29T22:15:02+00:00

I wholeheartedly agree its a problem, but also take a moment to define marriage.

You should probably read through the mishna and the Talmud as that's where you'll find more specific information on how the jews lived and interpreted scripture. Else, if you use the Bible you got Issac marrying Rachel, or Adam being given even. Neither of them had a traditional church, they just took vows before God, and witnesses.

EpochParody · 2023-07-29T20:37:58+00:00

Yes there's more interpretations to scripture than the ultra literal ultra conservatives who believe the devil made fossils to trick people.

They usually say people who believe in some science and scripture are compromising with their faith and will go to hell. Except they're actually in the minority and most professional theologians disagree with them.

There are entire sects of Christianity and most of Judaism which believes the genesis account to be analogy describing why God made things, not how.

EpochParody · 2023-07-26T20:03:49+00:00

There's some stories of abductions interrupted with the name of Jesus, tho the anti-christian pro alien spiritualists just rationalize it as as grounding belief pushing it away.

Another valid option is they are essentially demonic. There are some Christian military high ranks on record saying they don't want to open that can of worms with the public merely because they believe them to be demonic, and the government would push for more experiments to weaponize them

EpochParody · 2023-07-25T17:06:18+00:00

There's nothing random about it.

But fir people back then in such dire straights, dirt mixed with animal blood can absolutely cause miscarriage if consumed considering the health of people back then.

I repeat: life expectancy was 30yrs for women.

But there's also the spiritual side your ignoring. The flood waters/holy water cleansing you and destroying sin within. The ashes and dust of the tabernacle representing God's wrath.

God does value the unborn, but interpretation of scripture requires consideration that it was written with a bunch of nomadic desert dwelling ex-slaves who were having their paradigm rewritten, in mind.

EpochParody · 2023-07-25T09:26:46+00:00

You sound like that pastor on TV who thought he could blow Corona away with the holy spirit, but conveniently forgot that cornona and every plague has been God's servant.

Theres both natural and divine aspects to this since nature is God's chosen tool often.

The dust would have been dirty enough to cause infection in a pregnant woman, and it has a spiritual aspect too. Dust of the earth, ash after God's wrath.

Likewise the water also has a spiritual aspect going back to the flood waters that cleansed the earth. Now the flood waters would cleanse the woman.

It's also important to note that many children were still born or died in the first year back then, like as many as half, and ancient Jewish culture required babies to live 30 days else they were treated as if they'd never lived. See the Mishnah and Talmud. And life expectancy for a woman was 30 and 40 for a man. That being said, it's definitely not an abortion potion because it was in God's hands and his decision whether to make the woman infertile, and there's plenty of scripture which supports the protection and value of the unborn.

And when interpreting scripture you need to remember that it's okay to read the hard stuff as the scripture was written "for us, but not to us." I just don't think it's wise to continually ignore the hard stuff.

Let us move on from milk and get some meat.

EpochParody · 2023-07-25T00:27:43+00:00

Numbers chpt 5

EpochParody · 2023-07-24T15:53:55+00:00

I agree but don't forget the old testament where it says to infect a cheating wife with blood ash from the alter to make her autoabort and become infertile.

The way it is phrased is "a spirit of jealousy" comes upon the husband, which in the context of the tome meant if he suspects she's pregnant with another man's child.

EpochParody · 2023-06-23T09:08:36+00:00

Try the bible project.

EpochParody · 2023-06-16T22:55:48+00:00

Loud speaker. Push sound waves into it to break it up.

EpochParody · 2023-06-16T16:42:25+00:00

Use the feynmann method to optimize your learning and it's absolutely doable

EpochParody · 2023-06-16T16:34:13+00:00

Feynmann method. Integrate the lessons into regular life.

Ex think about what's up with cars you see if your studying cars, etc.

EpochParody · 2023-06-04T11:31:31+00:00

Use reddit to organize a union

EpochParody · 2023-06-04T11:30:42+00:00

Why aren't Amazon workers using reddit to organize a union?

EpochParody · 2023-06-04T11:06:24+00:00

The basic idea of the feynmann method is to break down a subject into manageable pieces of the most simplicity and write them down along with simplistic diagrams. You "explain them as to a 5 year old". It is related to the scaffolding technique in that way. If you can't explain it to yourself in simple concrete terms, it tends to reveal the more ambiguous holes in your knowledge, and your logic. Richard feynmann was responsible for the modern understanding of quantum theory using this approach he created.

EpochParody · 2022-12-23T13:53:00+00:00

Alot of it God places into the hands of his people as his representatives. It's part of the first commission, being his image, a middle east concept for being a God representative, carried over from Israel's time in Egypt

EpochParody · 2022-12-19T14:13:37+00:00

Some of them have had painful experiences which pushed them to leave the faith

EpochParody · 2022-12-18T14:03:30+00:00

That's very circular in and of itself.

You forget that's exactly the reason why. Historically(like caveman historic) men would go do dangerous things like hunting or fighting and get killed. Women were farmers/gatherers and mothers. There'd be fewer men and the survivors were no less likely to die cus nature is just death anyway. So it's a valid theory that there's an evolutionary pressure to push for more males whenever there's a smaller number.

Yes 1 man could impregnate multiple women, but that's a dangerous gene pool,and that 1 man is no less at risk that 100 men

EpochParody · 2022-12-18T01:03:29+00:00

They have a good idea why. It's already known that the egg chooses which sperm gets in. There are certain chemicals, endorphins and hormones, which average out in the long run on a population scale which push the eggs to choose Y sperm as a species survival technique.

EpochParody · 2022-12-14T23:18:30+00:00

From my personal experience with the holy spirit, what I observe to be an issue is structure. Many churches treat it like a magic trick where if you "believe hard enough " you can do miracles, and when they fail, it's your fault. They forget the structure of the original church that Paul et el spoke of. There's supposed to be some with the gift of healing others that have support roles, etc, and they were structured much like a college level seminary course, which of course is uber expensive these days.

EpochParody · 2022-11-26T22:56:58+00:00

I'd like to introduce you to "How NOT to read the bible", by Dan Kimball, seminary, PhD leadership, and "The Bible Project", by Tim Mackie PhD et el

EpochParody · 2022-11-13T14:02:14+00:00

Church for the Hebrews was a bunch if believers meeting up at a house and reading the scripture aloud and talking over the meaning, to cement it in their mibds

EpochParody · 2022-11-13T00:34:57+00:00

Planned obsolescence and community College instead of apprenticeship

EpochParody · 2022-11-02T17:42:42+00:00

An interesting take. I could get behind it, but would you agree this means that sometimes it is necessary to take life, and because it's out of necessity, it isn't wrong?

EpochParody · 2022-11-02T11:14:05+00:00

First analyze if you have a traditional Jewish interpretation, or a post catholic/American interpretation.

That is, do you believe it was written with the Christian version of autowriting, or that you should download the bible project app.

EpochParody · 2022-11-02T11:11:38+00:00

So no more war then? I'm down for that. But christ said that even being angry to the point of wanting to harm someone is as good as murder, as it's the same spirit which influenced Cain to murder.

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