To: nobdysfool
They not only didn't have flush toilets, they didn't have steel pipe, but they still had the ability to discern between taking physical action resulting in the separation of the soul from the body and actions against a person without such a separation.
Those who didn't grasp that significance were no more Christian today from then. In some aspects, due to cloder familial ties and less transportation, the impact of bodily death on familial ties was more significant then than today.
116 posted on
08/15/2003 10:30:51 PM PDT by
Cvengr
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To: Cvengr; nobodysfool
:sigh: You don't get the fact that people had a very short lifespan in general (big families were a way to ensure ONE of the kids lived past the age of 5). And these were the first generation breaking away from a very corrupt RCC that did have a very active inquisition. Add to that the fact that the Servetus BBQ was at the behest of the CIVIL authorities (the folks who booted John Calvin a few years earlier), and that some nasty forms of warfare were the norm, the life of the average European 500 + years ago can be summed up as: Nasty, Brutish and Short. Your logic is flawed Cvenger. Nice try though
To: Cvengr
but they still had the ability to discern between taking physical action resulting in the separation of the soul from the body and actions against a person without such a separation. I wonder if Solomon was any less wise and a bloody murder for having Shimei killed because Shemei went to retrieve his servants?
How about Asa? He threatened to "seperate the soul from the body" for whoever would not seek the Lord whether they were great or small, man or women.
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