Hi Guys... Dont forget Numbers, I believe 6 or so through 11. If you suspect your wife of being unfaithful, you take her to a priest who administers the bitter water, and if she was, the baby will wither in her womb! Sounds like the fundamentalists should be pro - cooersive abortion! Well, as being pro choice I would be against cooersive anything, so I would still be on the other side of the fence, however, seems to me, the allies of Ashcroft are quick to interprit, when it comes to ambiguos statements such as choose life, but not when the message is a clear statement, on slvery or abortion, this is why I am much more of a Pharacy then a Saducy (I know I cant spell... stone me...) as like Hillel I chose to see torah in the message do unto others nothing that is abhorant to one's self and the rest of the torah is comentary.
Hillel as in the pharasian tradition believed that text should be interpreted, where as the Saducian tradition was fundamentalist. Christ was a rabbi in the Pharasian tradition (if one ignores the editing by Paul and look at his actual teaching) in fact in the Hillelian tradition. This is why I find it amazing that there are Christian fundamentalists. Well, the more time goes on, the more we argue the same stuff, eh?
No offence to my fundamentalist brothers and sisters, we all wander through this world seeking by our own light.
Pax
Larry