(September 25, 2012 at 3:37 pm)Drich Wrote:(September 25, 2012 at 2:16 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: Bring it on! Explain the Ezekiel passage!The Passage you referenced in EZK 20? Where God allows those who wish to worship other God the freedom to sacerfice their sons to them? (The other Gods?)
READ THE CHAPTER FOR YOURSELF! The Whole first half of the Chapter is God explaining all of the times the Jews betrayed Him and How they betrayed Him even after all that He had done. Verse 27 is God allowing the Jews who wanted to worship other gods the freedom to corrupt themselves by sacerficing their sons.
Try a different version of the bible if you are having a hard time understanding this concept.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?sea...ersion=NLT
Quote:25 Moreover I gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not have life; 26 and I defiled them through their very gifts in making them offer by fire all their first-born, that I might horrify them; I did it that they might know that I am the LORD.(bolding mine)
There is a difference between "allowing the Jews who wanted to worship other gods the freedom to corrupt themselves by sacerficing their sons" and "making them offer by fire all their first-born". The first implies that there is a choice, the second (from the passage) does not.
John Adams Wrote:The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
