[Vision2020] Re: Parasite?

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carl Westberg" <carlwestberg846 at hotmail.com>
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 9:29 AM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Re: Parasite?


> 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.
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>>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
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>>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
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>>
>>Ralph Nielsen  wrote:  [Vision2020] Re: Parasite?
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>>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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