Monday, September 14, 2015

The Bible supports marriage equality

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As we can see from Lev 18:22 and 20:13, the bible does NOT prohibit homosexuality. It is concerned with the possibility that the possible ...
Saturday, September 12, 2015

The story of Ruth: same gender marriage (women)

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Al tifg’I vi leazvekh leshuv me’acharai’ikh.   Ki el asher telkhi elekh.   Uvasher talini, alin.   Amekh ami.   V’eloha’ikh elohay.    Ba’a...

Judges 10:1-30 Patriarchal narrative without Divine intervention

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Judges 19:1-30 is known as the story of the rape and dismemberment of the concubine.   It is an odd narrative.   It seems to be an encapsul...
Wednesday, July 15, 2015

The tale of Sodom prohibits bullying, not homosexuality

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* And two messengers (angels) came to Sodom in the evening.   And Lot sat in the gate of Sodom, and he saw and rose to greet them, and they...

Abba, in Aramaic, is NOT "Dad," So much for Jesus calling God "Dad."

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Post Vatican II doctrine holds that a salient aspect of Jesus' radicalism was that he had the audacity to call G-d "Dad." Th...

The notion that the pronunciation of the tetragrammaton was lost is fiction

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Popular wisdom has it that the pronunciation of the Name was "lost," but that it was pointed with the vowels for Adonay.  The tra...

The coda to Lev 20:13, "dying, they will die," is not necessarily a threat

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Lev 20:13 contains a coda that Lev 18:22 does not have:  מות יומתו דמיהם בם:  dying, they will die, their blood on/in them. That sounds di...