Do I need to be saved again?

[austin316]

Hello, fellow Christian here I’ve been baptized before and follower of Christ. My concern is I’ve always been ampitredextrous and in i was a left handed quarterback and could throw the football over 60 yards. I write with my right hand. Should I be concerned about my relationship with Christ since I have a rocket for a left arm?

[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

Re: Do I need to be saved again?

STOP! Right there, son. The right hand is God's favorite hand so why would you spit in his face by using the left?

[Dana723]

Re: Do I need to be saved again?

Don't you know the left hand is evil and the right hand is pure?

Ecclesiastes 10:2 (King James Version)
A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.

[Dr Laurence Niles]

Re: Do I need to be saved again?

Hello, fellow Christian here I’ve been baptized before and follower of Christ. My concern is I’ve always been ampitredextrous and in i was a left handed quarterback and could throw the football over 60 yards. I write with my right hand. Should I be concerned about my relationship with Christ since I have a rocket for a left arm?

I have never trusted left handed people. They make a lot of noise about nothing and claim that they should have crazy things like left handed tennis balls or left handed shoes.

This culture of entitlement goes straight against the grain of the words of Jesus Christ, Himself.


2 Thessalonians 3:10 - For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat

YIC

[MitzaLizalor]

Re: Do I need to be saved again?

..the left hand is evil and the right hand is pure?

Ecclesiastes 10:2 (King James Version)
A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.

Sometimes people set up special regiments of unusual other people for various purposes.

Whatever the reason was there, doing battle was not one of them. The Bible teaches about historical examples of unusual people assembled for military purposes. People who play musical instruments, such as King David, can play melodies using either hand with very little difficulty regardless of how they'd normally be played and of course King David was an accomplished swordsman. Definitely better than Saul.

I Samuel 18:7 And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.

Racking up cadavers by the myriad is some going yet David still found time for the practice necessary to play his harp, an activity requiring ambidexterity and augmenting cadaver production one may assume.

The Benjaminites had been doing some recreational raping-unto-death and were ready to defend themselves. The victim's owner didn't bother waking up during this because they had wanted to rape him and had even knocked back his host's daughter. She struggled to the doorstep, scratching there with almost lifeless fingers and even refused to get up and get going in the morning when everyone (else) had had a good night's sleep oh yes because she died on the doorstep scratching for her life. Her owner chopped her up and sent various bits out.

Judges 20:4-6 I came into Gibeah that belongeth to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge. And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, and thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead. And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.

Phew! That was close! The other Israelites decided to attack the Benjaminites who were considerably outnumbered. The Bible explains that of the millions residing in the area 26,700 were Benjaminite soldiers and 400,000 were the other soldiers. That's 426,700 altogether so if we allow 10% to be soldiers of the whole population that's 4,267,000 Israelites.

The approximate population of Israel today is 8½.million among whom some 6½.million are actually Jewish so the numbers are comparable. We know not all locations were Israelite back then, either.

Judges 19:1–20:17 excerpt He rose up and departed, and came over against Jebus, which is Jerusalem; and there were with him two asses saddled, his concubine also was with him. And when they were by Jebus, the day was far spent; and the servant said unto his master, Come, I pray thee, and let us turn in into this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it. And his master said unto him, We will not turn aside hither into the city of a stranger, that is not of the children of Israel; we will pass over to Gibeah.

Among the Benjaminite troops were seven hundred unusual people selected for their dexterity. And very proficient they must have been since they carved up the other Israelites. God had decided just to send a twelfth of the total available up at a time, so successive routs against the attacking force were more or less guaranteed. The Bible explains it this way:

Judges 20:15-21 The children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men. Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss. And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these were men of war. And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the LORD said, Judah shall go up first. And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah. And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight against them at Gibeah. And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men.

The folly of relying on left-handed champions is clear here and confirmed by God in Ecclesiastes.


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