Posted on 04/06/2008 5:27:22 AM PDT by SkyPilot
Amen.
Satan wants people to worship him also. He is consistent in his tactics too. He told Adam and Eve they would be as God if they disobeyed Him.
Humanity is still paying for that one................
Abraham went in to Hagar by Sarahs plan to have a child by her. It was not Gods command, and it has brought untold grief to the world. Those who put the stamp of approval on Abrahams deed to try to justify polygamy are sick to the point of wickedness.
So the all knowing God knew nothing about it?
After Sarah died, Abraham took another wife, Keturah, and had six sons by her. Isaac was the chosen firstborn of earth through whom the Holy One would come, however.
Gee, I'll bet she was much younger than he was, why are you not reviling him for that?
BTW, Sarah was the first wife, her first born would have inherited, no matter when other children were born, if he died, or hadn't been born then the first born of the second wife (Hagar in this case) inherited, if the second wife's son died, then next wife until we loop around and start all over with the second son of the first wife. This was the custom of the day. Much in the Bible is clearer if people actually take the time to read up on the customs of it's peoples.
In the NT, no one could serve in the office of bishop unless he was the husband of one 1 wife.
The Greek for that could just as easily be interpreted to be "At least one wife" the words in Greek used allowed for both meanings and everyone who spoke Greek would understand it that way. in translation, however, we often have a bit of interpretation, here is one instance where the bible was not "translated correctly".
Certainly no Levite in Israel is recorded in the Bible as having multiple wives.
This is called an argument from ignorance, or Argumentum ad Ignorantiam and is classical fallacy, "surely we would know" appeals to the vanity of those on one side of an argument but has no basis in fact.
And as the office of the Levitical priesthood served as firstborn before YHWH [priests to stand before Him, in ministry and intercession], and as the High Priest served in the ofice of Christ, by the Anointing of the oil which represented Christs office of Messiah, when He donned the Holy Garments to serve in that office [[which garments typed the second creation human being flesh of the Firstborn/High Priest/High King/Federal Head of earth who was to come -Jesus Christ], and because before donning those garments to serve in that office of Christs type and shadow, the priest could not come near his own wife for three days [and certainly not while wearing the garments of priesthood of Firstborn], then anyone who teaches that physical sexual union is somehow connected to any priesthood YHWH has ordained by YHWHs command, is most biblically illiterate [besides being most definitely not speaking for Him].
And that is the biggest load of hogwash having nothing what so ever to do with polygamy and it's acceptance in the Bible, if a priest can stay away from one wife, he can stay away from two or three... Was there a cogent point in that interesting if irrelevant pile of words?OK, I got your clue right here
Now what?
Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmm.............uhhhhhhhhhhh............look...........ahhhhhhhh...........you are just a Disruptor and hate the LDS faith!!! < / sarcasm >
I honestly don't believe that simply typing on a keyboard can "cause" carpal tunnel syndrome.
Also, if you had a carpal tunnel release, it is highly unlikely that genuine CTS symptoms would come back, especially in a year. The CTS release is done by cutting the tendon that runs across the top of the carpal tunnel. If what you had was carpal tunnel syndrome, then the numbness should have gone away when the swelling from the release went down.
It is quite possible that the numbness in your hands emanating from your neck, or it could be some kind of tendonitis which is causing swelling in your wrists which is compressing the nerve in the carpal tunnel. But that is tendonitis and not CTS.
Probably the best thing you can do is to cut out salt, maybe take a mild natural diruetic or eat more Celery seed (and plant), Parsley, Dandelion, Juniper berries, Asparagus, Artichoke, Melon, and Watercress.
And take some mild anti inflammatory drug such as OTC Motrin.
If you rest your hand on the desk when you type, you could be irritating the nerve at the entrance to the carpal tunnel. Make sure you have your hands in the air when you type.
If you are at all overweight, then losing weight will almost invariably relieve most of the carpal tunnel symptoms.
The fact is that if the carpal tunnel release didn't work, then you probably didn't have carpal tunnel in the first place.
Bingo.
The BOM plagiarizes the Bible some 25,000 times, and the King James version of the Bible that was widely used in American in the 19th century was first published in 1611 by the Church of England.
The problem is that the BOM was supposedly translated from plates written hundreds of years before even 1611.............so........"Houston, we have a problem."
I noticed that. Glad I wasn't the only one who found it so childish.
I developed Carpal tunnel, but not as badly as she seems to have, simply from using a mouse a lot. For me, getting a differently shaped mouse fixed the problem and it eventually went away.. but I have heard of some secretaries developing it from excessive typing.
Anything I post , anyone is welcome to comment on. I believe most people feel that way. I’ve only noticed a few Frs would didn’t want people posting to them without being posted to. Shrug
In the 1800s if you were not married by 16 you were an old maid, life spans were shorter then.
That just isnt true, the average age for getting married for women was about 22.
This study examined marriage patterns between ethnic groups in six counties in Texas in 1850, 1860, 1880, 1900, and 1910. Data were obtained from the census for 3 counties near the border and 3 counties in mostly livestock-raising areas. Average marriage ages in Texas were higher for men than for women and declined over time from over 26 years to 25.2 years from 1850 to 1910. Womens average marriage age increased from over 20 years in 1850 to 22 years in 1910.
“but it boils down to do the scriptures actually say Hagar was Abraham’s wife anywhere?”
She was just a sleepover, at Sarah’s insistence.
She became a reject, also, as a sleepover, because Sarah said to send her away. If Abraham was considered married to Hagar, as a second wife, then Abraham was a divorced man, and monogamous, after YHWH said to Abraham; “listen to Sarah, and send Hagar away”!
So to claim Abraham was married is to admit that Abraham was then divorced! -They can’t have it both ways.
Then, after Sarah died, Abraham took another wife, Keturah, and fathered six sons by her. But Abraham was monogamous even then.
LDS has no biblical support for polygamy for the priesthood, either, as the priests were under strict rules for marraige -all of which rules the LDS founders themselves broke to pieces while claiming a priesthood for themselves, which is non-existent in the Word of God.
“And guess who will get stuck for decades of paying medical costs for these poor infants?”
The same taxpayers who were stuck with paying for them before, of course -high time to get this welfare society cleaned up!
I get them mixed up sometimes too.
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