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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1179.1 | ??? | POWDML::FLANAGAN | let your light shine | Fri Nov 10 1995 08:02 | 4 |
| Who are these women at the entrance to the tent of meeting?
Are they temple prostitutes? Is the tent of meeting associated with
the cult of Yahweh?
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| 1179.2 | | OUTSRC::HEISER | watchman on the wall | Fri Nov 10 1995 11:08 | 1 |
| What makes you think YHWH worship is a cult?
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| 1179.3 | | POWDML::FLANAGAN | let your light shine | Fri Nov 10 1995 11:15 | 14 |
| Mike,
I believe the oldest strain of Yahweh worship seen in the earliest
writing contain in the historic books and in some of the Psalms
support the idea of a Yahweh cult.
Miriam's Dance in Exodus,
The Ark story in 1Samuel 4-6
The cult at Shiloah as shown in the quote just posted?
What makes you think that the earliest forms of Yahweh worship was not
Cultic in nature.
Patricia
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| 1179.4 | one and the same | OUTSRC::HEISER | watchman on the wall | Fri Nov 10 1995 14:14 | 3 |
| Christianity must be a YHWH cult since we worship Him as well.
Mike
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| 1179.5 | | COVERT::COVERT | John R. Covert | Fri Nov 10 1995 15:48 | 18 |
| Mike, don't get overly upset at the word "cult".
Usually it is used in a negative sense, but it also has a very proper
usage simply meaning "honor".
So, yes, it is very proper to say that Christians and Jews practice the
cult of YHWH. Here it means the honor associated with worship.
It can also be used for lesser honor, such as that due to a great person
who has died, e.g. someone like St. Francis of Assisi. Those who felt that
he should be honored in a special way because of his great service to Christ
can be said to practice the cult of St. Francis.
And thus you have expressions such as "a local cult" which, for example,
your own church might practice for a former pastor who died, by simply
remembering him, collecting his sermons, and praising God for his ministry.
/john
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| 1179.6 | | CSC32::J_CHRISTIE | Ps. 85.10 | Fri Nov 10 1995 18:06 | 16 |
| On cults:
I once checked out a book from the public library entitled something
like _Cults_and_the_Occult_. Therein I was astonished and amused to find a
whole chapter on Quakers!
On Eli's sons (1 Samuel 2.12-17, 22-26):
It just goes to show you, though they say the apple doesn't fall far
from the tree, the ways of one's children can sometimes stray sharply from
the ways of the parents. William Penn's offspring, for example, were quite
unscrupulous and self-serving.
Shalom,
Richard
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| 1179.7 | | MKOTS3::JMARTIN | I press on toward the goal | Mon Nov 13 1995 10:01 | 5 |
| This is very true. Consider Hezekiah who was amongst the more Godly
kings. He had a son named Manassah who was probably the most wicked
King in the history of Israel!
-Jack
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| 1179.8 | | MKOTS3::JMARTIN | I press on toward the goal | Mon Nov 13 1995 10:02 | 4 |
| Didn't Eli's sons actually die horrible deaths in their youth? I
believe it was actually prophecied.
-Jack
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