@juboner @The_Beanster @LiquidGold For someone who doesn't appear to like Catholics, you sure are making a lot of Catholic argument with this whole "you need a pastor to explain..." reasoning.......
@LiquidGold @The_Beanster Your post appears based on two premises:
1) Everyone reacts to the Bible the same way you do
2) God would theoretically communicate in perfect prose/language/etc
#1 is nonsensical and #2 posits a different God than the one in the Bible and therefore is nonsensical for a discussion of the way in which the Bible communicates
@LiquidGold I didn't say that. I'm merely wondering what you hope to achieve by grabbing random quotes and posting them.
All I can think of is that you think you're going to shock and awe someone who hasn't actually read the Bible and thinks it contains nothing but nice stories about David leading sheep around or something.
@LiquidGold I tell you that your reading makes no sense of the text itself. It ignores the text's genre entirely as well as ignoring what comes immediately after in v. 37-38
#2) There is nothing in the narrative that indicates one should interpret that action as a positive norm
#3) The indication in the narrative is actually as you would expect - that such a thing is immoral and wrong. The result is that two enemy people groups are born against Israel (the Moabites and Ammonites).
And you can get all that without even once looking at the Hebrew.
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