not if Mary was a virgin
was it Mary or Joseph that descended from David? I forget
I think it was both and they were distant cousins.
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Aren’t we all…
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Well I’ll be a monkey’s uncle.
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I’m sure WE could check (there’s an app for that) and I’d bet probably. There are a few people in my ward (congregation) that are fairly close relatives but most are like 8th-15th cousins usually multiple times removed. It is fun when we all get the app out at the ward linger longer after church and a few couples find out that their closest relative in the ward is their spouse.
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This is why I was never asked to participate in Bible Bowl: because all that shit is confusing af. Well, that and we never went to church - but I’m sure if we had, my questioning of things in the Bible like all of that stuff would have gotten me kicked out quickly.
And maybe the time we divided into teams during a scholastic bowl practice and after the other team [made up of all the people who were Christians that went to church] called itself “Heaven’s Angels” I named our team “Satan’s Heathens.” That might have cinched things.
Or “Satan’s Little Helpers”
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I love, having born into Lutheranism and memorizing the Catechism, diving into the Old Testament which was largely ignored except for select pieces and occasional readings in church.
I fully get the OT/NT split where Jesus altered the deal, but just the OT has such a wealth of contradictions, as well as the fun genocides (you must destroy all the peoples God gives to you, etc.), priest-administered abortions… It’s a great read, except for Numbers.
My rabbi once gave a sermon on the topic “it’s a good thing all the Amalakites are gone, because otherwise we would have a biblical commandment to commit genocide”.
(The Amalakites probably weren’t all killed by our ancestors, they probably just were absorbed into other ethnic groups, like the “lost tribes of Israel”. Still… )
Based on a super-quick reading (I always do some skimming before posting half-baked Biblical information), it appears that “destroy all the peoples” is also interpreted as “consume all the peoples”, so would not be surprised that they conquered and assimilated other peoples.
I don’t recall if we thought about that one, but ‘heathens’ was specifically chosen so that on team-based responses, we could say 'the heathens are ready to answer."
In Ancient times (several centuries after the Amalakites), victorious armies would use captured prisoners as slaves or as warriors to fight a different enemy. Killing all of them would be wasting a good resource.
Sounds like the unsullied in George Martin’s series.
So Hannibal Lecter could have been on a mission from G-d, when not sending love letters to Donald Trump?
Depends on which gospel you read. Some don’t mention Jesus coming from David at all.
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I assumed there had to be something forbidding cannibalisms in the Bible but it seems I was wrong!
God specifically curses the enemies of Israel to eat their own more than once (I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh because their enemies will press the siege so hard against them to destroy them). He also threatens Israel that if they disobey him he will cause women to eat their own children.
But legitimately, I only find scholars saying this or that verse hints at cannibalism being bad, and even they acknowledge it’s not directly mentioned but implies such (and I find their arguments weak.)
For some reason I’m seeing Biblical scholars point out that some pagans do ritual cannibalism and therefore it’s bad. Like, have you heard of the pagan holiday on the Sunday after the first full moon following the vernal equinox? Or the celebration of Saturnalia which includes gift-giving in late December?
I wasn’t aware of any explicit prohibition of cannibalism in the Bible (but I’m not a biblical scholar; I’m just someone who (ab)used the Bible in my youth to win arguments and annoy fundamentalists), but I think a prohibition can probably be extrapolated from kashrut.
I thought Jesus turned bread into his body and then his followers eat it something
transubstantiation
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Jesus also did away with the Kosher laws, so I guess anything goes
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