Deuteronomy 16:22 says, “Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy God hateth.” That would be any image as Exodus 20:4 says, “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.” God should have remembered what he told them.
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Freewill offering?
Deuteronomy 16:10 says, ”And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the LORD thy God, according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:” If god is commanding an offering how can it be by freewill?
God endorses slavery
Deuteronomy 15:12 says, “And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee. 15:13 And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty: 15:14 Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him. 15:15 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to day.” You would think that since god freed the Israelites he wouldn’t want they to buy and sell themselves. Slavery is slavery.
God forgets (I know) again…
Deuteronomy 15:11 says, “For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.” But didn’t god just say, Deuteronomy 15:4 “Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it:” If there is always going to be poor then when is this time when there will be no poor? I think god wasn’t paying attention to himself.
God chooses where you eat
Deuteronomy 14:23 says, “And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always.” God chooses where you eat? I never knew that. He must have chosen my couch because I eat there a lot.
God wants to endanger strangers
Deuteronomy 14:21 says, “Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.” Why does god want the Israelites to give bad food to people other than his? If an animal dies on it’s own I am assuming it is either old or diseased. Selling diseased meat would be very wrong. It could sicken or kill the poor unsuspecting stranger. What if they eat it with their family. Their children. God seems not to think about the fact that these are his creations also.
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