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I actually really enjoy the OT. I read it for the first time all the way through while on my mission years ago. It helped me better understand the atonement. There are several awesome scriptures related to the atonement that don’t get the light of day in regular Sunday school which is rather tragic. Yes there are some stories in there that are quite odd and numbers is a beast but overall there’s some very inspiring scriptures. I do hate how we teach it though. I don’t think people can understand the New Testament, properly, without understanding the Old Testament, properly. It’s the “properly” that gets messy and tricky.
Like I say above, there’s some inspiring stuff in the OT, and also some good stories, as well as the genocide. and don’t forget Judges 19. I read the entire OT in seminary and somehow I must have read this chapter on Sunday afternoon after a big lunch and I read every word and comprehended zilch. Otherwise I am sure I would have been asking my seminary teacher about it. When people say that they world is going to hell in a handbasket, I can make them think about it a bit more after I read this to them.
Even if this was a different culture, that culture valued women VERY little. That bothers me immensely.
I’ve been teaching gospel doctrine this year plus taking a class in the old testament and if you set aside the part about the conquest of canaan by Israel after the exodus (there’s pretty good evidence that it didn’t happen the way the bible says God commanded), It’s pretty touching the way God deals with Israel. He tells them what they’ve done wrong, warns them what will happen if they continue, and reaffirms His love and commitment to them if they’ll repent. Seems pretty loving to me. Quote:Ezekial 18
31 ¶Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
GBSmith wrote:I’ve been teaching gospel doctrine this year plus taking a class in the old testament and if you set aside the part about the conquest of canaan by Israel after the exodus (there’s pretty good evidence that it didn’t happen the way the bible says God commanded), It’s pretty touching the way God deals with Israel. He tells them what they’ve done wrong, warns them what will happen if they continue, and reaffirms His love and commitment to them if they’ll repent. Seems pretty loving to me.
Quote:Ezekial 18
31 ¶Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
I really like Nehemiah 9 as illustrative of this point. It’s a prayer.
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