> Mind you it's been a while now since I've re-read any of the books, but if > I understood what it was saying (as opposed to what modern Christian > preachers say it says) the reasoning was this: That the dead are dead, and > necromancy doesn't work. If you do try to talk to the dead and some... > thing answers, it is not your deceased beloved but a demonic presence > *pretending* to be them. As to what it seeks to gain by this deception
No, I'm saying the exact opposite. Necromancy works and it disturbs the dead who are the ones your actually talking to (in most cases). > Again, mind you, this is simply how it read to me. Even if you can read > ancient Aramaic and Greek there are many sayings and general assumptions > whose context has been lost over the ages making it difficult to understand > what they are truly saying, especially when they take poetic license. (Such > as the phrase "40 days and 40 nights" -- supposedly this was simply a > common phrase that meant "a long time", and not necessarily 40 actual days. > I am amused, continuing on that point, that most people though think the > entire "flood" incident took 40 days. As I recall, it actually says from > the day Noah and kin got on the boat till they finally embarked was about 1 > year and 1 week.) Again, I disagree. My people have been discussing these topics non-stop for literally thousands of years. The ancient Aramaic you mention is taught to just about every Jewish teenager who goes to a Yeshiva. Yes, there are some terms that are used poetically but there are others that mean exactly what they say. > >In the Jewish realm of writings, there's a lot more dealing with necromancy > >and necromancers. A few pages of Talmud Sanhedrin (The Talmud is basically > >commentary on the oral law) deals with the punishment for necromancers and > >other places talk on the what and how of it. > > It's been many a year since I've read through the Jewish books... the one > with the talking mule(?) and the angel who stops in for a bite to eat come The part of Bamidbar (numbers) where God opened the mouth of the mule to speak to its master and the part in Berashis (genesis) where God has his angels stop by Avraham's tent on their way to destroy Sidom and Amora are taken quite literally. If God can create reality I have no problem with him doing the little things like making an animal talk. > One thing the Christian community could borrow from Jewish tradition is > semi-mandatory reading of the Bible as adults. Aside from preachers/deacons > I could easily count the number of people I know that have read through it > as an adult on one hand. We actually just passed the holiday of Simchas Torah, where we end the reading of the entire Torah for the year and start over again. I'd remove the semi-mandatory from your sentence above. :) ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
