RE: A Levite and his concubine
November 11, 2014 at 4:42 am
(This post was last modified: November 11, 2014 at 4:44 am by Wyrd of Gawd.)
(November 10, 2014 at 10:50 pm)Drich Wrote:
In both cases what you failed to grasp is that the 'host' was looking to save their respective cities from judgement. Or did you not turn the page on the story of lot either?
So in the book of JUDGES (where examples of Israel/a given tribe commits a horrific sin, and God send a Judge to punish the wicked as per chapter 20 in your case) and in lot's case the two hosts were trying to save their whole cities/tribe from God's wrath and judgement.
Would you be willing sacrifice one life in desperation to try and save everyone else in your city? In your race? Not that either of these men did what they offered, they were just desperate and threw it out there in hopes that the evil they were trying to gaurd against would be quenched.
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The problem with the stories of the dummies being willing to sacrifice children and women to protect strangers is that they had no real right to do that. Sure, they considered children and women as being nothing and they thought that they could treat them anyway they wanted to, even kill them if they wanted to. But by doing that they were being as sinful as the mobs were who were trying to attack the strangers.
If they wanted to sacrifice anyone they should have sacrificed themselves. Instead they eagerly tossed their own household members to the pack to be abused. In effect they were committing the graver sin.
Mark 8:36 (NLT) = "36 And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul?"