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NASB | Genesis 3:3 but from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat from it or touch it, or you will die.'" |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 3:3 except the fruit from the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God said, 'You shall not eat from it nor touch it, otherwise you will die.'" |
Subject: How can incest be forbidden? |
Bible Note: Doc While I have not met everyone, those that I have met that views the Bible as merely a textbook is very swallow in their walk with God. I'm not referring to anyone other than those that met that criteria. As far as your PS again I'm not directing it at anyone other than those that claim that criteria. Your right we can make assumations, however we should never let those assumations be the basis for our faith. Scripture is full of explicit truths and those are what we are to stand on. We have to very careful to judge motivatives as God has clearly told us only He can see the heart. Many may say they understand David's motivatives in his actions, however no one can say for certain were they human motivatives, or God directed or some combination there of. Further if we go back to and call them human motivates and explore the possibilities, we can see David may have been highly moralistic and acted accordingly. He also could have had a high degree of the fear of the Lord and acted accordingly. Or he could have been what we might call humanistic and have acted accordingly. Or it could have been the combination of all three. Therefore I stand on my original statement Scripture is living and the understandings we reach as we read it is God invoked. Passaged I read today will leave me with possibly far different conclusions and judgments of peoples actions and motivates than it will tomorrow. However of this I'm sure each new lesson is the one I need for this place and time. EdB |