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To: etabeta; CharlesOConnell; left that other site
If pressed to name my favorite picture on this post, and essentially I have been, it would indeed be #3, Chassériau's nude of Esther. She literally slept her way, à la Kamala, to the Queenship as part of the debauched king's demonic lottery.

The point is: SHE DID NOT NEED TO COOPERATE! Like Bathsheba, like Rahab, like Sarah in offering her servant, she willingly acceded to, and thus promoted, man's basest drive. Yes, it was a patriarchal culture, but God transcends culture. That picture, in my view, forces us to focus on this otherwise-unstated issue.

As it does so often when relating these real-life stories, the Bible leaves it to us to ponder on God's truths. Why, when the Gentile Ruth was so desperate, didn't she simply offer herself to the fieldhands? Now there is a woman who earned her crown in Jesus' ancestry. Rahab came around, and she's in it, too.

Esther finally shaped up, too, so we have her story, and some now call her "saint." But let's not forget how it began.

20 posted on 12/29/2020 12:38:47 PM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD? Then SEEK HIM!)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

Every Saint starts out as a Sinner.

However, not all sinners end up as saints.

It’s a Narrow path.


21 posted on 12/29/2020 12:51:07 PM PST by left that other site (If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all. (Isaiah 7:9))
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