I apologize for the very dated response but I am interested in your thoughts as it relates to your observation that "...today we have better knowledge" and would like to ask you a question within that very context. There is no need to convince you of the unknowable brilliance of God but regardless of the awe that brilliance engenders...could it be that an intellect that can bring into being a book that is as important today as it was thousands of years ago, and laid the foundations of western civilization, also intended the story of Lot to be examined again through the contemporary lenses steeped in the science that was unknown when the story was first written; a most brilliant double entendre?
The point I am making concerns the contortions Torah scholars have engaged in for centuries to explain the incestuous encounter and the purpose designed by God himself. Christian are trapped within the same contortions given the lineage through Ruth to David to Jesus. Both the Judaic and Christian apologetic are well presented above but the impact on the average person does nothing but cause a great deal of snickering on one hand or head scratching on the other. Could it be that through the lenses we have at our disposal there is another explanation?
I am of the mind that God fully intended the debate to occur with the message being to question scripture through the lenses we do have at our disposal including the contradictory moral and genetic/scientific aspects. Could it be that God intends us to question all of scripture, be it Jew or Christian, to identify the crumbs that may lead us out of our darkness and back to the author himself? If so, the scriptures are more important today than anybody has estimated them to be in the past thousands of years.
In reply to <p>Well today we have better by Robyne
I apologize for the very dated response but I am interested in your thoughts as it relates to your observation that "...today we have better knowledge" and would like to ask you a question within that very context. There is no need to convince you of the unknowable brilliance of God but regardless of the awe that brilliance engenders...could it be that an intellect that can bring into being a book that is as important today as it was thousands of years ago, and laid the foundations of western civilization, also intended the story of Lot to be examined again through the contemporary lenses steeped in the science that was unknown when the story was first written; a most brilliant double entendre?
The point I am making concerns the contortions Torah scholars have engaged in for centuries to explain the incestuous encounter and the purpose designed by God himself. Christian are trapped within the same contortions given the lineage through Ruth to David to Jesus. Both the Judaic and Christian apologetic are well presented above but the impact on the average person does nothing but cause a great deal of snickering on one hand or head scratching on the other. Could it be that through the lenses we have at our disposal there is another explanation?
I am of the mind that God fully intended the debate to occur with the message being to question scripture through the lenses we do have at our disposal including the contradictory moral and genetic/scientific aspects. Could it be that God intends us to question all of scripture, be it Jew or Christian, to identify the crumbs that may lead us out of our darkness and back to the author himself? If so, the scriptures are more important today than anybody has estimated them to be in the past thousands of years.