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2012-10-19
By the way, I don’t mean this as an insult towards transvestites. All the ones I’ve met have been super fabulous!
Anyway, Moses is finally getting around to anointing Aaron and his sons as priests… for the second time. That’s right, even though in Exodus 40:12-16, God told Moses to wash, dress, and anoint Aaron and his sons with oil, now in Leviticus 8:1-13, God is telling Aaron to wash, dress, and anoint Aaron and his sons with oil. I guess when you’re decked out in fancy fabrics, pretty jewelry, and special perfumes, you just want to be redressed over and over again! Can you blame them?
After Googling for apologist explanations for why these repeated passages keep coming up, I found another idea commonly used. It turns out God isn’t repeating his words, he’s amplifying them! Sure, this part of Leviticus appears to repeat Exodus, but there are minor variations. And while any rational person would see these variations as expected mutations in the copying process by Iron Age scribes separated by great distances, a True Believer knows that these variations are God’s way of updating his perfect word that was perfect before, and is still perfect after the additions were made. Hard to argue with that!
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Richard writes:
| "And now you must anoint Aaron and his sons purple monkey dishwasher, for I am LORD." |
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Baughbe writes:
| "Hard to argue with that." - True, you can't argue with crazy people, they simply cannot understand. Not that all believers are crazy, ..... Um, I got nothing to follow that up with.... |
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toutomoutochan writes:
| "one's" shouldn't be a contraction.
Sorry, don't have anything more pertinent or interesting to add. |
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TheAlmightyGuru writes:
| That's good enough for me! Fixed! |
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Belg writes:
| "Hard to argue with that." -dont argue with stupid people, because in doing so you lower yourself to their level, and they will win out of experiance! |
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Oh the irony!
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