The Questions Thread

[Amazing-Grace]

Why won't the moles and groundhogs just do their job(irrigating) and move along? They turn into squatters and just tear up the ground. Then i have to be the mean guy, and go pour cayane pepper and jalpenio juce in the holes to chase them away. Why? i feel guilty but they can do some damage.

Move to Europe, we don't have them. We have to chase Muslims away here!

 

[Hizikyah]

I know that even the best read among us have the odd Biblical question they would like answered by other Christians so I thought I'd post a thread for this purpose and the greater purpose of helping each other grow in our knowledge.

I have a question myself that even my pastor cannot answer so it's a big ask lol so here goes...Why would a woman be more “unclean” (twice as unclean apparently) giving birth to a girl than if she were giving birth to a boy. Why would a woman be considered unclean from bleeding anyway? I find most of Leviticus 12 difficult to understand actually.

Anyway please feel free to post your own questions and answer mine if you can? LOL

So I cant say with 100% accuracy, because the Scriptures do not explicitly show the reasoning, howeverit seems women have a longer flow of blood after giving birth to a female, and it seems creating a life that can create life is more taxing on the body. Again not a be all end all answer, but a possibility...

 

[oldhermit]

I am currently reading Leviticus now. The question I always have is - how does this relate to the Lord Jesus Christ and what He has done?

I love how He touches the leper with His hands to heal him when the law of Moses says not to. Imagine how that leper felt to have someone finally be willing to even touch him - let alone heal him.

I love how the woman with the issue of blood who is not supposed to be out - touches the hem of His cloak and gets healed. Jesus didn't reprimand her about the law of Moses.

This is a pretty broad question. Are you asking how the Sacrificial System relates to Jesus in respect to the individual sacrifices?

 

[Grace777x70]

This is a pretty broad question. Are you asking how the Sacrificial System relates to Jesus in respect to the individual sacrifices?

No, it was just a broad question in general that I have within myself when I read the OT.

 

[oldhermit]

No, it was just a broad question in general that I have within myself when I read the OT.

That would make an interesting thread on how the individual sacrifices reflect some aspect of Jesus.

 

[resurrection33]

I know that even the best read among us have the odd Biblical question they would like answered by other Christians so I thought I'd post a thread for this purpose and the greater purpose of helping each other grow in our knowledge.

I have a question myself that even my pastor cannot answer so it's a big ask lol so here goes...Why would a woman be more “unclean” (twice as unclean apparently) giving birth to a girl than if she were giving birth to a boy. Why would a woman be considered unclean from bleeding anyway? I find most of Leviticus 12 difficult to understand actually.

Anyway please feel free to post your own questions and answer mine if you can? LOL

I think the Lord wanted to impress upon us that there are higher things in this life than sexual things.

 

[resurrection33]

That would make an interesting thread on how the individual sacrifices reflect some aspect of Jesus.

I think what the Lord really likes is obedience.

 

[Blain]

How on earth did Noah not only gett two of every kind of animal on a boat but be able to take care of them? have you ever been to the zoo? a family could not take care of them with feeding and cleaning up their poop and such and some animals require meat where did they get that? The story of Noah is sooo confusing to me

 

[resurrection33]

And...?

(Still not getting it. Please continue.)

I'm not getting it either. Let's you, me, and your hubby go out for supper tonight.

 

[dcontroversal]

New American Standard Bible
If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.

King James Bible
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

John wrote this under inspiration of the Spirit and INCLUDES himself by the use of WE and US......

What I would like to know is why can we quote this verse and agree with John, but those who claim to be sinless will say we are boasting of being the servants of sin, and LIE in the process which proves they are not sinless.......?

There are NUMEROUS on this site who do this!!

 

[resurrection33]

why can't I afford a maid?

I don't know. How big is your house?

 

[samuel23]

AG: Something that may help, the law was given to show us how sinful we really are. The woman was the original "man" to sin and part of her punishment had to do with child bearing. Other then that I have not got a clue.

 

[Amazing-Grace]

New American Standard Bible
If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.

King James Bible
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

John wrote this under inspiration of the Spirit and INCLUDES himself by the use of WE and US......

What I would like to know is why can we quote this verse and agree with John, but those who claim to be sinless will say we are boasting of being the servants of sin, and LIE in the process which proves they are not sinless.......?

There are NUMEROUS on this site who do this!!

I agree...we can do our best to keep from sin but our human nature makes it impossible for us to be sinless like Christ...until we are glorified. those who post on these forums and elsewhere stating they are sinless are deceived - they sin simply by making the statement for it is a lie.

 

[Amazing-Grace]

How on earth did Noah not only gett two of every kind of animal on a boat but be able to take care of them? have you ever been to the zoo? a family could not take care of them with feeding and cleaning up their poop and such and some animals require meat where did they get that? The story of Noah is sooo confusing to me

Yes and how did Noah and his family keep the animals from eating each other?

 

[MadebyHim]

How on earth did Noah not only gett two of every kind of animal on a boat but be able to take care of them? have you ever been to the zoo? a family could not take care of them with feeding and cleaning up their poop and such and some animals require meat where did they get that? The story of Noah is sooo confusing to me

Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. Genesis 7:2




God only took the unclean by 2, the clean He took by 7.


They have twisted and taken from as teachers, thats why we need to study diligently so we are not repeating false fable. Maybe the arc was like a lab, and the animals in jars, we don't know but God knew what He was doing and done it.

 

[Depleted]

why can't I afford a maid?

You can. In America, one month of Internet service, two weeks of Starbucks on the way to work, dinner for two at a nice restaurant, going to the movies for two, or five packs of cigarettes = a half a day of maid service. We rather have our luxuries than maid service. lol

 

[blue_ladybug]

Here's a question:

Why do people always try to hit me with a fly swatter? I'm a lovable ladybug..

 

[Depleted]

There were all sort of things that made one unclean under the law for both men and women. Coming into contact with a dead body, having someone spit in your face, menstrual bleeding, forbidden foods, skin diseases, emission of semen, childbirth, and even secondary contamination. These did not affect one spiritually but it did place one under certain temporary restrictions for coming into contact with others or to take part in certain worship activities until the time of purification was complete or until the requirements for purification were made. The time varied according to the type of uncleanness. The purpose of the recognition of uncleanness were in many cases to protect society from possible contamination. In other cases, it was simply to shame the individual for having rendered some type of offense such as a father spitting in the face of his child. The child would remain unclean for 7 days.

Nuts! Thought you knew the why for the women "issuing" parts. I can see the problem with menstruation. (Lots of viruses can be passed around from blood to blood, and no sewer system to take it away.) I don't get the baby girls being unclean longer than baby boys.

 

[resurrection33]

Here's a question:

Why do people always try to hit me with a fly swatter? I'm a lovable ladybug..

I don't think I ever hurt a ladybug, and I think we had lots of them back in Iowa, where I used to live.

 

[Depleted]

I am currently reading Leviticus now. The question I always have is - how does this relate to the Lord Jesus Christ and what He has done?

I love how He touches the leper with His hands to heal him when the law of Moses says not to. Imagine how that leper felt to have someone finally be willing to even touch him - let alone heal him.

I love how the woman with the issue of blood who is not supposed to be out - touches the hem of His cloak and gets healed. Jesus didn't reprimand her about the law of Moses.

Oh, I truly got into Leviticus. Jesus is the Holy of Holies. He is the cloud on the mountain. He is the lightning cloud protecting the people. That is him in perfected form. (When he was in human body form, the human body isn't perfected, so he lowered himself for that.) Sin is so against God's nature he cannot be around sin, nor sinner. So, we really have to scrub up to get to him. The tapestries? They stop people from even thinking they can just walk in on God in any old form. (Our sin would kill us just to be in his presence.) The outer court? Tells us "really get ready before going to God. Prepare with washing and sacrifice. And honor him in all ways." (Don't just bring a sacrifice when you're feeling guilty. Bring thanksgiving ones, and commitment ones, and...) Inside the tent? The priest just spent a week getting clean -- physically and mentally -- just to prepare the sacrifices. And because nothing apart from God is perfect, they had to wear specially-prepared clothes (even holy underwear) to paint the altar red with the blood of the animal. And in a precise way, because it's that important to obey God for the sake of others, and on specially made altars of gopherwood (which is a type of wood that can withstand the harsh environment of the wilderness), overlaid with gold, because even the sturdy wood isn't enough to cover the sins, and on and on it goes.

All of it is to show us for who we really are in front of God. UNWORTHY! He IS the sacrifice as well as the reason we need to sacrifice.

Only the chief priest could go in the Holy of Holies. Later on they took to adding a rope around his ankle, because the priest themselves were too defiled to do that, so they died in service. And, since no one else could go in there, the dead body would have destroyed the holiness of the place, so they dragged him out. You really didn't enter into God's presence lightly, even after trying to purify yourself.

That has not changed at all. The only thing that has changed was the perfect sacrifice came into the world and died for whosoever God chose. Jesus is the chief priest, the sacrifice to propitiate us from the wrath of God, and God. He is the whole of the tabernacle.

Heavy-duty stuff. All to show this really isn't some little game we're playing. It's very, very real.