To: SoothingDave
Dictionary.com:
The use of objects in making a determination or choice at random: chosen by lot.
"Random" is the key word here. Voting is not random, and lots are not ballots. They are the precursors of dice.
Dictionary.com is not the Bible, though I am not surprised you will choose a particular dictionary meaning over Scripture. "Casting lots" has several different meanings in Scripture and Mathias was not chosen by "the luck of the draw".
51,420 posted on
05/05/2003 8:22:14 AM PDT by
OLD REGGIE
((I am a cult of one! UNITARJEWMIAN))
To: OLD REGGIE
Dictionary.com is not the Bible, though I am not surprised you will choose a particular dictionary meaning over Scripture. "Casting lots" has several different meanings in Scripture and Mathias was not chosen by "the luck of the draw". Textual support? Am I to believe that the Centurions voted to see who would get Jesus' cloak? Or is that when it means gambling?
SD
To: PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain; SoothingDave; All
Paul says
Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh (Romans 1:3)
How was Jesus "made of the seed of David" if the Holy Spirit, rather than Joseph, was his father?
51,422 posted on
05/05/2003 8:42:06 AM PDT by
malakhi
(Sola Torah, baby!)
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