Give me a greeting when you visit. I appreciate nice-ness.
You can address another blogger ... and even disagree with them, that is fine. All I ask is that you leave censure and hand-slapping to me.
Speak up ...
about the posts.
Be nice!
Earl - As I write, teach Sunday School, I think of people like you in my audience. It gives me a sanity check of what I am saying. Would what I say pass the "crap" or sanity check of you or others that I know?
KC -
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Colin Maxwell -
I enjoyed your post and desire to think these things out.
Loren - Your posting is full of many thought provoking points and excellent, searching questions ... you're really a very profound thinker.
Earl - You have a fun blog!
I really appreciate what you're doing.
Joe - You are my favorite theological blogger.
Jeremy - Good job ... Bye.
Todd - With blogs like this one there is plenty to be hopeful for in the blogsphere.
Matthew - Its nice to read an edifying Christian blog ... You are so level-headed.
Mark - You're real! The blogosphere needs more real people like you around.
Loren - I'll bet you stay up late nights thinking about all the theology that must be swimming through your head. I just want to say that it's great to see the ways in which God is challenging you, and using you to minister through your blog. The things you, and others here, have shared, are very thought provoking!
Come now, and let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
(Isaiah 1:18)
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Nice of you to put in a link here, Rose.
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Matthew Celestine, at 12/10/2007 3:11 PM
Very interestin!
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Anonymous, at 12/10/2007 5:33 PM
Hey Rose! How's it going?
I have read many of the arguments for Jephthah's daughter's 'perpetual celibacy,' from numerous authors, and they just aren't convincing.
If Jephthah's vow was to offer a burnt offering, and it says that he did to her as he vowed, then the obvious import would seem to be that he did in fact offer her as a burnt offering.
The fact that she bewailed her virginity means little. The fact that this story makes mention of her virginity underscores not that she was a perpetual virgin, but that she died without having any children- which underscores Jephthah's commitment to his vow, since he would fulfill it even though it meant the end of his family's line forever.
Given the proclivity for rash vows in the OT, and the general state of moral anarchy within this period in Israel's history, the fact that a human sacrifice would show up isn't all that surprising.
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Anonymous, at 12/10/2007 6:37 PM
Deviant Monk, you are welcome to come and share that view on my blog and read some of the comments there.
God Bless
Matthew
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Matthew Celestine, at 12/11/2007 4:46 AM
Rose, are you feeling rash today?
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Matthew Celestine, at 12/11/2007 4:46 AM
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