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Existential Egoist
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Pennsylvania
Posts: 1,468
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1 " 'At that time, declares the LORD, the bones of the kings and officials of Judah, the bones of the priests and prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem will be removed from their graves. 2 They will be exposed to the sun and the moon and all the stars of the heavens, which they have loved and served and which they have followed and consulted and worshiped. They will not be gathered up or buried, but will be like refuse lying on the ground. 3 Wherever I banish them, all the survivors of this evil nation will prefer death to life, declares the LORD Almighty.'
Sin and Punishment
4 "Say to them, 'This is what the LORD says:
" 'When men fall down, do they not get up?
When a man turns away, does he not return?
5 Why then have these people turned away?
Why does Jerusalem always turn away?
They cling to deceit;
they refuse to return.
6 I have listened attentively,
but they do not say what is right.
No one repents of his wickedness,
saying, "What have I done?"
Each pursues his own course
like a horse charging into battle.
7 Even the stork in the sky
knows her appointed seasons,
and the dove, the swift and the thrush
observe the time of their migration.
But my people do not know
the requirements of the LORD.
8 " 'How can you say, "We are wise,
for we have the law of the LORD,"
when actually the lying pen of the scribes
has handled it falsely?
9 The wise will be put to shame;
they will be dismayed and trapped.
Since they have rejected the word of the LORD,
what kind of wisdom do they have?
10 Therefore I will give their wives to other men
and their fields to new owners.
From the least to the greatest,
all are greedy for gain;
prophets and priests alike,
all practice deceit.
11 They dress the wound of my people
as though it were not serious.
"Peace, peace," they say,
when there is no peace.
12 Are they ashamed of their loathsome conduct?
No, they have no shame at all;
they do not even know how to blush.
So they will fall among the fallen;
they will be brought down when they are punished,
says the LORD.
13 " 'I will take away their harvest,
declares the LORD.
There will be no grapes on the vine.
There will be no figs on the tree,
and their leaves will wither.
What I have given them
will be taken from them. [a] ' "
14 "Why are we sitting here?
Gather together!
Let us flee to the fortified cities
and perish there!
For the LORD our God has doomed us to perish
and given us poisoned water to drink,
because we have sinned against him.
15 We hoped for peace
but no good has come,
for a time of healing
but there was only terror.
16 The snorting of the enemy's horses
is heard from Dan;
at the neighing of their stallions
the whole land trembles.
They have come to devour
the land and everything in it,
the city and all who live there."
17 "See, I will send venomous snakes among you,
vipers that cannot be charmed,
and they will bite you,"
declares the LORD.
18 O my Comforter [b] in sorrow,
my heart is faint within me.
19 Listen to the cry of my people
from a land far away:
"Is the LORD not in Zion?
Is her King no longer there?"
"Why have they provoked me to anger with their images,
with their worthless foreign idols?"
20 "The harvest is past,
the summer has ended,
and we are not saved."
21 Since my people are crushed, I am crushed;
I mourn, and horror grips me.
22 Is there no balm in Gilead?
Is there no physician there?
Why then is there no healing
for the wound of my people?
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To understand this you may need a bit of background information. At the time the kingdoms of Judah and Israel were going through many "dynasty's" of kings who weren't following the Lord. That is what Jeremiah was criticizing. That was pretty much the dark ages of Israel.
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Luke felt the need to write another gospel even though "many writers have undertaken to draw up an account of these events" (Luke 1:1). Luke obviously felt that Mark's gospel was filled with errors and edited it freely. Not even Mark's account of the words of the dying Christ was left unaltered.
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Luke made a gospel from his perspective. Just because he didn't like the way Mark wrote it and the things Mark included, it still doesn't mean he didn't approve of it. Each gospel is each man's perspective with what happened. Put them all together and you get the real story.
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* How the author of Chronicles I & II white-washed earlier historical accounts of Saul, David, and Solomon.
* How the book of Ruth was written to challenge the growing racism of religious reformers of its time.
* How every apocalyptic book of the Bible struggled to reinterpret some earlier failed Bible prophecy.
* The war of "Wisdom" between religious teachings, pagan proverbs, and practical advice.
* The centuries long battle in the Bible between prophets and the Law of Moses, and even between the prophets and prophecy itself.
* How first and second century Christians interpreted the Hebrew Bible in a new way, to change it into a book that had "really" been written about Jesus.
* Jesus of Nazareth's philosophical conflicts with Jesus the son of Sirach.
* The battle between James and Paul--and their followers--for control of first-century Christianity.
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And here he goes again rambling without facts. Here is advice, don't mention it and if you aren't going to back it up.
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As Helms concludes, "Before the sacred authors were declared sacred, they were fair game for attack or revision. Not without reason did John the Relevator threaten with "plagues' anyone who 'adds to' or 'takes away from the words of' his book (Rev. 22:18-19), for such was all too often the fate of the 'little books' that eventually became our Bible."
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And how can you make that assumption. There are like 1,000,000 reasons he could have said that and you chose to pick one and think it is correct. Wow, and you didn't even tell us why.
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