--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "BillyG." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ultimately, you decide whether or not your behavior is sinful. If you > forgo Scripture (the best external source) then you fall back > completely on conscience and intuition and nobody knows you better > than yourself. > > The hope is that your behavior is in accord with the laws of nature > (God) for ignorance of the law is no excuse, you suffer just the same. > God created the laws and it's his Universe.......
I pray that you do and remain well, given that you are working and writing on the Sabbath. Quite dasterdly punishment for that i hear. But I have a question. In reading scripture today, to gain guidance as to my behavior and to attune it with God's, and all that is Holy, I see that in Numbers 31:7-18 God commanded Moses to kill every Midian man ... all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man." I am perplexedeth here. Should I follow Moses's example? Is God, via the Bible, instructing me to kill every man. woman, boy and non-virgin girl. At least the Midian ones? What if they only have 105 Median blood, should i slayeth them also? And what pray tell, do I do with these virgin girls that I spare? And am I sinning by not taking many wives? I apparently am way behind the ways of sinless men. In Exodus 21:10, a man can marry an infinite amount of women without any limits to how many he can marry. In 2 Samuel 5:13; 1 Chronicles 3:1-9, 14:3, King David had six wives and numerous concubines. In 1 Kings 11:3, King Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines. In 2 Chronicles 11:21, King Solomon's son Rehoboam had 18 wives and 60 concubines. Some fool the other day tried to tell me I was quoting old testiment scripture, which was not to be believed, only new testiment scripture. But that is preposterous I told him. Jesus said: "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law (the Old Testament) or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke or a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law (the Old Testament) until everything is accomplished. (Matthew 5:17-18)" Wanting my blessed, God directed unions be holy and sanctified, and more important, in tune with God's thinking, God's will and the All the Laws of Nature, I am researching proper marriage rites. I am curious about the 7th and 8th marriage rites sanctified by Manu. They seem crude and barbarious by my "out-of-tune with the laws of nature ways," but they do seem efficient for getting those wife totals up where they should be -- if I am to be in God's Will. Manu said" "The forcible abduction of a maiden from her home, while she cries out and weeps, after (her kinsmen) have been slain or wounded and (their houses) broken open, is called the (7th) .. rite. When (a man) by stealth seduces a girl who is sleeping, intoxicated, or disordered in intellect, that is the eighth, .. " So before I start my holy pilgrimage to slay midians and to abduct, rape and thus marry -- an be praised by the lord -- intoxicated women, do you have any MORE suggestions on how I might get in tune with this God of yours and His Ways? I was skeptical at first Billy, but your wisdom has transformed my life. These Scriptures are bitchin! ----------------------------------- Numbers 31:7-18 They fought against Midian, as the LORD commanded Moses, and killed every man. Among their victims were Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur and Reba - the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword. The Israelites captured the Midianite women and children and took all the Midianite herds, flocks and goods as plunder. They burned all the towns where the Midianites had settled, as well as all their camps. They took all the plunder and spoils, including the people and animals, and brought the captives, spoils and plunder to Moses and Eleazar the priest and the Israelite assembly at their camp on the plains of Moab, by the Jordan across from Jericho. Moses, Eleazar the priest and all the leaders of the community went to meet them outside the camp. Moses was angry with the officers of the army - the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds - who returned from the battle. "Have you allowed all the women to live?" he asked them. "They were the ones who followed Balaam's advice and were the means of turning the Israelites away from the LORD in what happened at Peor, so that a plague struck the LORD's people. Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man."
