The Bible In A Year 127
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Judges 11-12, 1 Corinthians 11
39 thoughts on "The Bible In A Year 127"
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http://www.desiringgod.org/articles/creation-culture-and-corinthian-prophetesses
I found this article breaking apart 1 Corinthians 11 and speaking on the whole covering aspect and felt that it was helpful in understanding that a little better!
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Can someone explain the daughter of Jephtha to me?
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I don’t know if you’ll come back to see this. I really didn’t understand either. But when I scrolled up in the convo there are some very helpful words by Sarah written about 2 years ago. And the discussion even earlier did help me!
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I did some study on this and found that the text from the Torah does not say that he actually sacrificed his daughter by killing her. I thought it was interesting that the text focuses on the fact that she was a virgin and wanted to lament that with her friends in the wilderness for 2 months. In my research it said that this could be interpreted as her sacrifice was that she was sent away and her life was to be lived in celibacy, not that she was killed. It also states that the women who remembered her by going out into the wilderness did so because she was alive and that honoring act was not for people who were dead.
Also interesting to think about was because of Jephthah’s previous status of having no family honor (he was kicked out of his family) this victory for him would have given his family honor. But because his daughter was his only child and now she was sacrificing her future with a husband and children Japheth’s restored honor would die with him.
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If anyone, like me, goes to a church where women do not cover their heads and you are worried that you are dishonoring yourself, your husband, or God, I would like to share my thoughts. I had heard this was cultural and that it was mostly prostitutes that went without their heads covered in their society, but the way it is written sure doesn’t sound like it just based on this context. After doing a little research, though, I realized that Paul here implies that it is acceptable for women to pray or prophesy publicly while in 2 Timothy 2 he says he does not permit a woman to teach or have authority over a man. If a woman’s prophesy isn’t public, what good is it? This makes me think these instructions are based on cultural context, but I would love to hear others thoughts on the matter.
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Thanks ladies for the insight. I was taken aback by the human sacrifice thing because so much of what we’ve read lately is God speaking through someone warning the Israelites not to be like the people around them & worship in detestable ways. Human sacrifice seems pretty detestable to me! Like some of the others post, I too noticed that God didn’t require or ask it from Japheth, but that was what Japheth offered to do.
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Talking about communion. He actually says that some people are physically ill (& even dead) because they publicly professed to be right with God … when in fact they were flat out deceiving people. Importance of living an honorable and truthful life!
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So good, thanks for the comments ladies! They really helped my understanding! Amen!
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Wow this passage was very confusing for me but, as always, you ladies have shed light. I don’t understand the head covering and that women are the glory of man,
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Wow what a warning to not put the LORD to the test. As I was reading, I cringed as I could only imagine who was going to step out of the house- surely not an animal…and when it was his daughter…oh my heart sank. Keeping in the Word is the best and only way to not wander off the Way.
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