[Magdalen] A useful approach to the Bible

[Sally Davies]

On Sunday, August 30, 2015, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:

> On 8/27/15 8:11 AM, ME Michaud wrote:
>
>> Some people think every declarative sentence is prescriptive.
>>
>> If you're one of them, you probably should stay far away from
>> Scripture. It's dangerous for you.
>>
>> Scripture/prescriptive. Get it?
>> -M
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, August 27, 2015, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> You may have a point, but I don't think that line in the psalm is telling
>>> us it's appropriate to smash kids on the rocks. It's expressing extreme
>>> hatred for an enemy...not that this is appropriate either. It's part of a
>>> story.
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>
>>> On Aug 26, 2015, at 10:13 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
>>>>
>>> oppenheimerjw at gmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> No, when scripture says it is appropriate to smash children's heads on
>>>>
>>> the
>>>
>>>> rocks, that refutes utterly any claim to divine inspiration.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
> That particular line comes right after the line that explains it.
>
> It's saying "Give them what they gave us".  Hebrew children had their
> heads smashed against rocks.  So the Babylonian children will, and their
> parents suffer.  Which is happening right now, 60 miles from Baghdad, and
> the current Hebrews have no part in the doing.  Prophecy?  Or Instruction?
> If so, it's the Ishmaelites who are following the Instruction.  But the
> line is currently omitted from the American Psalm reading.  And some of the
> children are Christian, their mothers followers of the Hebrew prophet.  I
> forget, is ISIS Shiite or Sunni? Whichever, the parents are following the
> "wrong" Islamic prophet.
>
> Psa 137:7
> Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said,
> Rase it, rase [it, even] to the foundation thereof.
> Psa 137:8
> O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that
> rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
> Psa 137:9
> Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the
> stones.
>
> Kind of an interesting recount of today's news, but the liberals don't
> find it fit to read in church.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Sibyl Smirl
> I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
> mailto:polycarpa3 at ckt.net
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