5th mo. 2013 Blog Posts (65)

Daily Old Testament and Early Christian Writings: Leviticus 24-25 and Irenaeus Selections

Leviticus 24 –A perpetual flame of olive oil shall burn regularly in the lamp-stand of the sanctuary.  “It shall burn there before YHWH from evening to morning continually. This is a perpetual law for your descendants: Aaron is to see to the lamps on the pure lamp-stand before YHWH, continually” (24:3-4).

 

Showbread of fine flour shall be baked into twelve cakes and put in two piles on the gold table that stands before YHWH (24:6). On each row, there must be…

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Added by Irene Lape on 5th mo. 3, 2013 at 6:18am — No Comments

Solipsist Quakerism

Because I have dared to name the danger facing our society in general and Quakerism in particular, I offer a definition of same. "Solipsism" is the theory that the self can be aware of nothing but its own experiences and states.

For society, this translates as David Byrne's "Once In A Lifetime" with people mourning their own situations in light of unrealistic expectations. For Quakerism, founded upon honoring personal experience as a means of continued revelation, the deck is stacked…

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Added by Clem Gerdelmann on 5th mo. 2, 2013 at 8:30am — 3 Comments

Daily Old Testament and Early Christian Writings: Leviticus 22-23 and Irenaeus Book I [1 - 3]

Leviticus 22 – Priests must respect the offerings made by the people by remaining clean, sacred.  Laymen may not eat of the sacred offerings.  Such offerings—holocausts, votive offering or free-will offerings—must be unblemished males, at least eight days old.

 

Leviticus 23 – The holy days that must be observed are listed in this chapter:

 

Sabbath – “You may work for six days, but the seventh must be a day of complete rest, a day for…

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Added by Irene Lape on 5th mo. 2, 2013 at 8:12am — No Comments

Making Myself Weak

Below is an excerpt from a message ESR student Brent Walsh delivered in Earlham School of Religion Worship on Thursday, April 25, 2013:

 In 1 Corinthians chapter 9, Paul says something very interesting. He says, Though I am free and belong to no one, I have made myself a slave to everyone, to…
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Added by Earlham School of Religion on 5th mo. 1, 2013 at 8:28am — No Comments

Daily Old Testament and Early Christian Writings: Leviticus 20-21 and Justin Martyr's First Apology 67-68

Leviticus 20Penalties for sins: If you offer your children as a sacrifice to Molech – death.

 

Consulting fortune-tellers – this is called “spiritual prostitution” and is punished by cutting them off from the community.

 

 If you “act as mediums or . . . consult the spirits of the dead” (20:27), then you must die by stoning.

 

Dishonoring father or mother – death.

 

Adultery – death for…

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Added by Irene Lape on 5th mo. 1, 2013 at 6:32am — No Comments

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