(November 28, 2013 at 5:02 am)Zen Badger Wrote:(November 27, 2013 at 7:27 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: I'm so glad you asked.
The punishment of stoning was prescribed for blasphemy (Leviticus 24:16) and for other crimes which represented the spiritual sin of falsifying truth. In the spiritual sense, "to commit adultery" means to adulterate the goods of the Word and to falsify its truths. In the Word, “virgins” represent communities that have false theological beliefs. In its positive form, “stones” refer to established, i.e. solid, truths. With respect to the specific commandment you quoted “stoning of the adulterous virgin” represents the extinction of a corrupt community’s false beliefs by overwhelming it with natural truths. In application this makes clear to deep reading Christians that rooting out the false ideas of various groups in modern society requires a concerted effort by many believers each presenting the firm truths of the Gospel.
The irony of your example is that it applies to the activity of Christians on AF. We tirelessly present biblical truths to a faithless community corrupted by materialism.
So you're saying that that women never got stoned for not being virgins?
That it is actually just a metaphor.
Got any prove of that?
Or is this just another of your feel good fantasies?
Its just total Bollocks dressed up to look like something meaningful.
Here's the thing - there's no way someone without the magic key could know that the story is allegorical - so they take it literally and start stoning any woman suspected of not being a virgin on her wedding night - following the word of God to the letter.
They are apparently in the wrong, but no blame gets attached to God whose commandments these are. Its not his fault that people follow his actual instructions.
What a crock....
Kuusi palaa, ja on viimeinen kerta kun annan vaimoni laittaa jouluvalot!