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There's this general thing about inappropriate mixtures. No mixed fabrics. No mixed seeds. No drowning things in the symbol of new life. I would presume this was a custom of neighboring kingdoms, which the priests found distasteful. Boiling a kid in mother's milk sounds like something an animal-sacrifing religion would come up with.
It certainly does sound that way, however 'Firstfruits' could refer to the firstborn, and boiling the kid in the mother's milk could refer to withholding the firstborn like Moses attempted to do when he refused to circumcise his sons. There's a law about honoring parents, so this could be a reciprocal law about rearing the children properly. There are other possibilities, too.
And from the Bible talking A no less. Ha
In Deut. 5 after Moses spoke through memory the Commandments, he says that the original Commandments that GOD had spoke were what was written on the Tables of stone.
In bold red capitalize no less! Wow!
What is written in Deutoronomy 5 is what god told Moses in Exodus 20, and that is exactly what Deuteronomy claims. It's what god said to Moses. However, Exodus 34 is where god commands Moses to make two tablets so that what was originally written on the first can be written again, with Exodus 34:28 concluding so he could write the 10 Commandments/Words.
I'm always fascinated and intrigued with how much a huge divide there is between Judaism and Christianity, despite them both claiming to follow Abraham's god and both using the Tanakh/OT. They both have the same characters and words (for the most part), but yet at times it seems they are just as different as Buddhism and Scientology.
And how, exactly, is this "listening and obeying God" accomplished? Surely you can't have forgotten that A&E had no Bible, so the assumption is that God just told them out of His own (probably metaphorical) mouth. Did so with Abraham, too, and as I'm reliably told, Moses -- which is the cause of this present thread.
I really do not get this “based on blood” thing. What does God need with blood? And why should Jesus blood be better than bulls, goats, sheep and doves? It’s all hemoglobin. Spirituality is not well served by killing things just to watch them bleed, in my view.
Only with too much eisegesis (reading in, the opposite of exegesis). You have to interpret Jeremiah’s words (along with Isaiah’s, by the way) of having meanings that neither prophet would have known the first thing about. I therefore reject such readings as fantasy.
So what? A covenant is a covenant, and whether it was weak or not, it was entirely at the whim of God. This was not like NAFTA: the Jews weren’t invited to the negotiating table to argue for the things they’d like in this covenant – it was just foist upon them and that was that. It wasn’t even a “take it or leave it” consideration. He’s God, after all. You just get on your knees and take it.
In which case, one would presume, you pay the penalty, you don’t get a new covenant! I can hear it now, as the judge says, “you have been found guilty of breaking the law of murder, and therefore the court orders the government to make a new law regarding this.” No, usually, the judge would just pronounce sentence and bang his gavel.
I find this to be quite specious. What is required for this “complete forgiveness of sin?” There was a time when you could buy it (the Catholic Church got quite wealthy selling indulgences, after all). The Christian view you espouse is the same, though. It just uses something other than money – the requirement for a very specific belief in something which is so contrary to common sense that it defies description. Heck, it doesn’t even require reparations – just belief! In my view, that’s not at all different from selling indulgences.
Paul was a Jew determined to sell a religion (his own, which Jesus himself would have spat on) to the gentile world. That makes him, in my mind, a non-observant Jew.
