[Magdalen] A useful approach to the Bible

[Sibyl Smirl]

Sally?  Was this not fit to put on Magdalen or something?  Or why the 
"reply" with no comment, putting it on List twice instead of once?

On 8/29/15 6:15 PM, Sally Davies wrote:
> 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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Sibyl Smirl
I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
mailto:polycarpa3 at ckt.net