Maybe there is a critical misunderstanding, as I am sure many people will claim not to take the Bible literally, but what else is there? Metaphorically? Just like other fairy tales and poems.
Look at verse 29........
Leviticus 26:27 " 'If in spite of this you still do not listen to me but continue to be hostile toward me, 28 then in my anger I will be hostile toward you, and I myself will punish you for your sins seven times over. ***29 You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters. ***
2007-01-03 13:27:13 · 11 answers · asked by 42yxalag 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
A win-win situation for Christians. If they like it (Genesis or the resurrection, for example) it's the truth. If they don't like it, it isn't to be taken literally. Selective interpretation, selective belief.
2007-01-03 13:31:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They would enjoy blessings if they kept God’s commandments, but they would bring suffering upon themselves if they rejected his righteous ways. One of the terrible consequences was that the Israelites would be reduced to eating their own children. (Deuteronomy 28:1, 11-15, 54, 55; 30:1; Leviticus 26:3-5, 29) This actually occurred after God abandoned the faithless, disobedient nation into the hand of the Babylonians.
Describing the desperate situation of the Jews during the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem in 607 B.C.E., Jeremiah wrote: “The very hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children. They have become as bread of consolation to one during the breakdown of the daughter of my people.”—Lamentations 4:10.
2007-01-03 13:36:39 · answer #2 · answered by papa G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That was a prophecy that did happen for their idol and various other iniquities, they digressed into cannibalism..false worship..Read Deuteronomy 28: !5-32.. It is also recorded in other History books on Ancient history and people..
2007-01-03 13:33:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Leviticus is full of delightful stuff.
But there is symbolic cannibalism in the new testament as well. The Last Supper bit about eat this bread for it is my body, drink this wine for it is my blood. The communion ceremony at your local church is symbolic cannibalism.
2007-01-03 14:10:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes; God inspired the men who wrote the bible but don't forget the key word "men". God didn't physically write the bible, man did.
2007-01-03 13:32:36 · answer #5 · answered by booellis 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I love it when people just take something out of context.
He didn't force them, however, he did tell them that if they continued in their current course that that would happen.
You don't know the difference from a command and a prophecy?
2007-01-03 13:30:45 · answer #6 · answered by Livin In Myrtle Beach SC 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
people who say they take the bible literaly are hypocrits, and of course your going to get an excuse for everything and they are going to try and change the meaning and just about everything else in the book
2007-01-03 13:31:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lisa said it best. It's either a black and white, cut and dry issue or a grayish area where people can only speculate.
2007-01-03 13:34:50 · answer #8 · answered by emmie8750 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its pretty clear from this passage that eating the flesh of your sons and daughters is a pretty undesirable state of action.
2007-01-03 13:30:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
and you will be struck by lightening too!
2007-01-03 13:33:50 · answer #10 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋