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Post by michelle on Mar 12, 2007 19:27:33 GMT -8
But life is in the blood, and you must not eat any meat that still has blood in it. Genesis 9:4 (CEV)
Has anyone ever heard of anyone using this verse as a guideline for ordering steak??
You and this woman will hate each other; your descendants and hers will always be enemies. One of hers will strike you on the head, and you will strike him on the heel." Genesis 3:15 (CEV)
Did this give influence to the Greek myth about Achilles and his heel being his week spot?
Then the LORD said: Abram, you will live to an old age and die in peace. But I solemnly promise that your descendants will live as foreigners in a land that doesn't belong to them. They will be forced into slavery and abused for four hundred years. But I will terribly punish the nation that enslaves them, and they will leave with many possessions. Genesis 15:13 (CEV)
Genesis was compiled after the Exodus actually happened, right? Is this something that could have been inserted into the traditional story to give credibility to Abraham? I'm not doubting that God could or did reveal this to Abraham, but it seems a little "placed" in my opinion.
(I told you they were random questions).
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Post by Josh on Mar 12, 2007 20:09:33 GMT -8
I've often felt that the prophecy in Gen. 15:13 and much of the prophecies in Gen. 48 and 49 seem hard not to see as "prophecy ex eventu" (prophecy after the fact). I mean, there were written down so much later, they are so precise that it seems that prior knowledge of them would have had some great affect on how the history played out, etc.. These are some of the harder texts for me to swallow from a rational viewpoint. I hover between finding some way around them, or just being okay with them being some kind of narrative invention. That said, smack dab next to (Gen. 18:18, 22:18) or even in the middle of these prophecies (Gen. 49:10) are some powerful prophecies concerning Christ and Christianity. I've found this odd juxtaposition of hard-to-swallow apparently "ex eventu" prophecies right next to stunningly accurate prophecies especially in the book of Daniel, which is a huge subject I hope to avoid for a couple more years (you don't want to get me talking about Daniel.....)
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