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NASB | Exodus 28:35 "It shall be on Aaron when he ministers; and its tinkling shall be heard when he enters and leaves the holy place before the LORD, so that he will not die. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Exodus 28:35 "Aaron shall wear the robe when he ministers, and its sound shall be heard when he goes [alone] into the Holy Place before the LORD, and when he comes out, so that he will not die there. |
Bible Question (short): Is this just a fable or is there any sub |
Question (full): Is this just a fable or is there any substance to it? Yes thank you Ray, It has been asked, however it is good to consider why it is a popular tradition. I see that the answer.. It is tradition.. has been given but I thought someone might now more about it. By the way.. on a side note for all those that might read this post.. It would be helpful if you did not try and tell people to look up a verse .. it has been answered before... If you have noticed you will be doing that until Jesus Comes. People will ask the common questions and it is good to keep answering them in different ways. I know you do not think one or two answers is sufficient for most of the common questions, it that were the case the questions would not be nearly as common as they are. The benefit of this board is such that a large database of answers on a question can be built overtime, and one might read a wide variety of opinions. When you answer the question someone posts with.."search on such and such verse it has been answered before" ... you then remove the possibility of someone posting an answer that has different insight than those already posted. I would suggest you resist temptation to answer a question that you feel as been beaten to death and allow those that want to beat on it some more the opportunity to do so. Posting "this has been answered" is far more useless to the board than it having the question asked over and over and answered different ways. I am smiling so please do not take this as a rebuke, it is a suggestion to enhance the content of the board. Now concerning this issue of the tradition of the rope to pull out a dead priest... Is it possible that this is a harmful view of God and theology? I was considering the concept of a High Priest that might drop dead at any given point... Would you volunteer for the job? Knowing that we are to take serving the Lord with sober seriousness, and understand the eternal consequences of being faithless.. Is it God's character or are we to think of God as one that kills his obedient High Priest upon the smallest infraction of duties. I mean this rope tradition has us imagining the High Priest behind the veil while his fellow priest wait with rope in hand.. .if the bells stop, they are are ready to pull him out finding him toasted by the wrath of God. The idea of it being always done makes us think that it was common for High Priest to die. Now this is not the case. We know that we have stories of the "rebellious" getting smitten, and even in the New Testament we have Ananias and Saphira killed for lying to the Holy Spirit, but they are set forth as an example, many more have lied to the church since then and were not killed on the spot. I wonder if this concept of God is going to kill you if you mess up..instead of intilling the fear of God it rather makes one want to avoid the service of God? I have lost count of the young men that told me "I do not want to preach becuase the bible says I would receive greater judgement if I mess up" They clearly do not understand the point of that passage of which they refer, but see how this is NOT the fear of God? The Fear of God is going to make you steer clear of sin that is certain but it will drive you toward ministry because the Fear of God makes you want to be busy doing eternal things in the light of the soon coming of the Lord. This idea of drawing back lest you "mess up" is clearly other than faith and worse than messing up in our human weaknesses. God is full of mercy and Grace and I see that God did not kill men when they were of a heart of faith serving God in the Law, even the priesthood and even if they did not do it exactly according to the pattern shown on the mount. I can show these examples in another post if anyone is interested. |