[Vision2020] Re: Parasite?

[Carl Westberg]

Donovan, your point is well-taken.  I think this is what Sam Cooke was 
singing about with the great 60s classic "Ewe Send Me".                      
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                                             
                              Carl Westberg Jr.


>From: Donovan Arnold <donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com>
>To: Ralph Nielsen <nielsen at uidaho.edu>, Vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Re: Parasite?
>Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 07:41:32 -0800 (PST)
>
>Well Ralph, that punishment just doesn't make any sense to me. Just  like 
>when a man sleeps with a sheep the sheep is suppose to get the ax  too. 
>Why? What did the sheep do?
>
>   _DJA
>
>Ralph Nielsen <nielsen at uidaho.edu> wrote:
>You really must read your Bible more carefully, Donovan. I was
>referring to the Onan story in Genesis 38:8-10. It was not God who
>ordered Onan to get his brother's wife pregnant; it was his daddy
>Judah. Instead of death for disobedience, the usual punishment is as
>follows: "... then his brother's wife shall go up to him in the
>presence of the elders, pull his sandal off his foot, spit in his
>face, and declare: 'This is what is done to the man who does not
>build up his brother's house..'" (Deut. 25:9).
>Ralph Nielsen
>
>[Vision2020] Re: Parasite?
>Donovan Arnold donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com
>Tue Mar 14 14:42:39 PST 2006
>
>"Why God killed Onan for his disobedience
>instead of exacting the usual penalty (Deuteronomy 25:5-10) we are
>not told. But anybody who reads the Bible carefully knows that we
>can't trust in God."
>
>What a horrible thing to say! I trust in God more than myself.
>
>God took back Onan's life because God gave him a direct command to marry
>his dead brother's wife and give her a child and Onan openly defied
>God.
>
>The moral of the story here is, when God tells you to have
>sex with a woman and get her pregnant, by golly, you better do it! :)
>
>I was also unaware that Holy Water induced an abortion. I thought
>that only worked on vampires.
>
>_DJA
>
>
>Ralph Nielsen  wrote:  [Vision2020] Re: Parasite?
>
>
>Ralph Nielsen
>Many Bible commentators prefer the word "murder" instead of "kill." A
>Hebrew is specifically forbidden to murder a fellow Hebrew. Killing
>people for picking up sticks on a Saturday is commanded by God.
>
>Joan is correct, the word "abortion" is not found in the Bible. But
>God does speak of it in two places. Read my letter, the last one, in
>the Lewiston Tribune, Sunday March 12.
>
>According to God's law, in Leviticus 27:3-7, the lives of children as
>well as women are not valued as highly as those of adult men, while
>no value whatsoever is given to a child under the age of one month.
>There is no indication that a fetus has any status at all. So size
>and gender do matter to God.
>
>Onan's sin was not that of coitus interruptus. It was his refusal to
>impregnate his brother's widow in order to father a son for his dead
>brother (Genesis 38:8-10). Why God killed Onan for his disobedience
>instead of exacting the usual penalty (Deuteronomy 25:5-10) we are
>not told. But anybody who reads the Bible carefully knows that we
>can't trust in God.
>
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