The biblical shibboleth (Jesus, ritual, hell, mission, doctrine)

[Jayhawker Soule]

Originally Posted by AV1611

Deut, I know this is way off subject, but is there a reason you have so much contempt for God? I suspect your remarks are beyond intellectual dismissals.

But, in all truthfullness, your suspicions are driven entirely by your theism. I have no more contempt for God than for any other fictional character. My contempt for literalism, however, stems from a contempt for willful ignorance and the belief that your God is, in many ways, the projection of humanity at its worst, not its best. I must also admit that those who rail against science as they willingly and energetically embrace the biocide of the flood and the slaughter of the firstborn fill me with a particular loathing.

[Hythloday]

Oh, dear. I didn't mean to rattle anyone's cage. I'm just on a little fact-finding mission here. Can nobody answer my question? Thank you everyone for your (mostly) on-message replies, but I would really like to know why the biblical shibboleth story was included in the old testament. Is it a parable? Does it relate in some way to the tower of bable story?

[Jayhawker Soule]

Originally Posted by Hythloday

Oh, dear. I didn't mean to rattle anyone's cage. I'm just on a little fact-finding mission here. Can nobody answer my question?

Why not the more honest question: Can nobody reinforce my presuppositions by giving me the answers I want?

[Hythloday]

Originally Posted by Deut. 32.8

Why not the more honest question: Can nobody reinforce my presuppositions by giving me the answers I want?

I'm terribly sorry, but we appear to have got off on the wrong foot. I have no idea what I have done to incur your wrath. Please let me know what it is that I have done to anger you and I will endeavour not to repeat it. In answer to your previous comment, I have no 'presuppositions'. As if it wasn't blatantly obvious already, I am posting on this forum in order to find an answer to my original question. Just in case you didn't understand it the first time, I will repeat it: why is the shibboleth story included in the old testament?

[michel]

Originally Posted by Hythloday

I'm terribly sorry, but we appear to have got off on the wrong foot. I have no idea what I have done to incur your wrath. Please let me know what it is that I have done to anger you and I will endeavour not to repeat it. In answer to your previous comment, I have no 'presuppositions'. As if it wasn't blatantly obvious already, I am posting on this forum in order to find an answer to my original question. Just in case you didn't understand it the first time, I will repeat it: why is the shibboleth story included in the old testament?

As I said, it was a coup attempt that failed. God said BE SURE YOUR SINS WILL FIND YOU OUT, and this was recorded probably as a warning to future generations not to try something like that again, or God would do something worse.

[Hythloday]

Originally Posted by AV1611

As I said, it was a coup attempt that failed. God said BE SURE YOUR SINS WILL FIND YOU OUT, and this was recorded probably as a warning to future generations not to try something like that again, or God would do something worse.

Thank you.