Can a fundamentalist please explain these bible verses to me?

Started by Sci Fi Fan, April 30, 2013, 11:01:46 PM

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Quote from: Moishe3rd on May 31, 2013, 07:19:42 AM
All of the verses lack the additional understanding needed which comes in what we call the Oral Torah, which is 3,000 years of transmission of G-d's Laws on how the Torah and Tanach (the "old testament") must be understood.

That would take a great deal of explanation.
On one side, the passages from the Torah regarding "rape" and "selling his daughter" are not translated correctly and, even with correct translations, do not mean what seems apparent from a simple reading of the Written Torah.  This is precisely why G-d provided the Oral Torah to the Jewish peoples.   The Written Torah could make no sense at all based on trying to understand the simple, literal meanings of words.

On the other hand, sometimes a person has to bow to a Higher Authority, in this case, G-d, and accept that He knows what He is doing.
In our contentious and "democratic" world, everyone thinks that they "know better" than their parents; or their boss; or their President; or their clergy person; or whomever...  We are pretty much "know it all's" when it comes to anything that we have difficulty accepting.
If a person accepts that G-d Created the Universe; the Earth and All that's in it; Mankind and every Life that every existed; and that G-d has a Personal relationship with each and every aspect of His Creation - one might have to accept that G-d Knows exactly what He is doing and that what we view as death and suffering of unimaginable pain, might be what is absolutely necessary for every individual involved and for all mankind.

Or, one can deny G-d and His Works because we do not understand... anything...
We have the Free Will to do so.
Interesting and well said, I always wondered what the translation was in all of this.
And definitely agree about free will. God created all there is, even the ability to procreate, giving other souls the opportunity to experience life, and it's those souls he allows the ability of free will, to control any aspect of human behavior would completely destroy the experience, the gift of freewill God gave us.
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