(February 24, 2017 at 11:23 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: And FFS, it was a bitter herb drink, it had bitter herbs in it, and the woman was supposed to drink it.
I would have become an atheist much sooner if I had been exposed to GC desperately dancing around this verse when I first started to doubt. It took 15 years for me to get from tongue-speaking Pentecostal to professed nonbeliever; GC could have saved me a lot of time, looking like such a blatant BS artist for Jesus. Can we pin this somewhere as a challenge to new Christians to see if any of them can do better than this?
Some don't dance. Huggy, for example, refused to read anything other than the KJV and then just said, oh look her "thigh rots" that's not an abortion end of story.
Aron Ra explains this quite well, he says that Talmudic legend holds that the fetus is just "water" for the first few weeks, and after that it is like an appendage of the mother (often referred to as a thigh). It is not until the baby is born and takes its first breath that it is considered alive because they thought that the breath of life was life itself, or spirit, or whatever, and when you weren't breathing you had no spirit.
But as I've said, this type of abortion still denies the woman choice so Christians should be ok with it.
Jesus is like Pinocchio. He's the bastard son of a carpenter. And a liar. And he wishes he was real.