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Originally Posted by ChileanWhore
human beings like you and me
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My understanding is that The Bible was written by human beings like
neither you
nor me. I would be flattered if I could attain that level of faith and understanding permitted, by God, to a Ruth or an Esther or even a Deborah. Let's start at the very beginning, a very good place to start. When you read you begin with A, B, C and right there in Genesis Moses has the history of Creation.
God's building blocks. But Moses was not at all like you.
1. Moses believed in God.
OK, right there: he did not sit down to write “a fake, wrong and satanic book” but accepted the Inspiration of The Holy Ghost.
II Peter 1:21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. KJV
By that means we have received God's instruction manual for life. God explains that mingling with inferior types is an abomination, and has backed up His Commandment in this respect with prolific plague. If it was just a made up fancy on the part of Moses, when The Israelites started with the mingling nothing would have happened. But something DID happen:
Numbers 25:9 And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand. KJV
Why?
Cavorting with inferior types.
Numbers 25:1 And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab. KJV
Now God knew what would happen and in His Great Love warned The Israelites but did they listen? No. They thought they knew better than God. Beslutment includes any form of association with people outside The Covenant whether prostitutes or not, although The Bible is clear: all heathens or pagans (such as catholics) are equivalent to prostitutes. God says so. In fact they are much worse than whores as we know BECAUSE all heathens are commanded BY GOD to be killed whereas the occasional harlot is spared or even praised (
Rahab for example).
But God loves His People and God knew just what to do. Having chopped up the miscreants the heads were separated out:
Numbers 25:3b-4…the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel. And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel. KJV
That is how much God loves us.
Nothing is too much trouble for Him to deliver us from the clutches of foreign. You can read the rest of this beautiful example of His Tendermercies
here.
The Israelites rejected God's Perfect Love but His Covenant endures.
Hebrews 8:10b-13…I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away. KJV
I know my faith is weak and incomplete. You have none at all.