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Ezekiel 43-45
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wolfpurplemoonIf Ezekiel shows the people of Israel God's architectural plans for a new temple, they will be ashamed for all their sins and start building it.
God's back to asking for animal sacrifices, the fact that God used to want all these sorts of things and then changed his mind really does nothing for his all-knowing reputation. It makes total sense if you realise that the bible was written by people over many centuries and their beliefs and needs changed over that time, but if you see it as the true word of an all-knowing God you have to make a lot of excuses to explain it away.
Something I should have pondered before in the books that first mentioned circumcision: when God says that the uncircumcised desecrate his temple if they are allowed to enter, does he mean to include women in that? Can women even enter into the covenant if they can't be circumcised?
God doesn't like sweaty priests, and they have to wear different clothes in the inner court of the temple and change when they go out to the people so they don't transmit holiness to the people, it does sound like a terrible thing to transmit to the people. It sounds back to front to me, if you have a place you wish to keep sterile then you clean yourself and change your clothes when you go in to stop bad stuff from entering the clean place, cleanliness can't contaminate other things.
God's back to asking for animal sacrifices, the fact that God used to want all these sorts of things and then changed his mind really does nothing for his all-knowing reputation. It makes total sense if you realise that the bible was written by people over many centuries and their beliefs and needs changed over that time, but if you see it as the true word of an all-knowing God you have to make a lot of excuses to explain it away.
Something I should have pondered before in the books that first mentioned circumcision: when God says that the uncircumcised desecrate his temple if they are allowed to enter, does he mean to include women in that? Can women even enter into the covenant if they can't be circumcised?
God doesn't like sweaty priests, and they have to wear different clothes in the inner court of the temple and change when they go out to the people so they don't transmit holiness to the people, it does sound like a terrible thing to transmit to the people. It sounds back to front to me, if you have a place you wish to keep sterile then you clean yourself and change your clothes when you go in to stop bad stuff from entering the clean place, cleanliness can't contaminate other things.
