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  • From: George F Somsel <gfsomsel AT juno.com>
  • To: peterkirk AT qaya.org
  • Cc: VadimCherny AT mail.ru, tladatsi AT charter.net, b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] children bear punishment for sins of parents - Examples
  • Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:42:49 -0400

On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 18:27:10 +0100 Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
writes:
> On 23/04/2005 18:25, George F Somsel wrote:
> >
> >I tend to think that you're trying to sanitize the account from a
> modern
> >Christian perspective. It would appear from the return to the them
> of
> >famine/plenty in the resolution of the famine through the harvest
> this
> >puts God's imprimitur upon it.
> >
> No, I don't think so. God demanded that something was done about
> this
> sin. In the Hebrew Bible context, according to Leviticus, sins could
> be
> dealt with by sacrifice, but sometimes various different sacrifices
>
> could be made. David had a choice of what sacrifice to make. He
> chose in
> effect a human sacrifice, and that sacrifice was enough to atone for
> the
> sin. But the sin could have been atoned for in other ways - perhaps
> by
> silver and gold, perhaps by animal sacrifices as well.
>
> --
> Peter Kirk
> peter AT qaya.org (personal)
> peterkirk AT qaya.org (work)
> http://www.qaya.org/
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Where do you find that in the text? It seems to me that silver and gold
are explictly ruled out of court.

george
gfsomsel
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