what i mean is, start from the position that what God says had no fault in it. more than that, what God says, there is absolutely no way it could be better said than how He said it.
yes, these things were given in old Hebrew and old Greek and we can come closer to the exact thing being said by a more exact literal understanding of those languages, so translations into English may lack the nuance, and that is valuable
but overall, what i mean to say is recognize that this is perfect, omniscient God speaking. we must not, when we try to understand it, try to find a way to make it say what we think it should say. we must instead understand what it really says, and then try to find a way to change our own understanding so that how we understand, fits what God says - - never the other way around.
look at His words and sort out why He says what He does, instead of, as some people do, trying to sort out how to make what He says mean what we think He should have said.
He said what He should have said. of course He did, He is God!
How about listen, God still speaks, within people to them in truth of love for us all, done for all by Son in his death, then new life in the risen Christ given to us from God Father for us, to not count anymore sin against any of us any longer, as people still do that, not God. Wow! Thank you Lord. Listen for God to tell you. you will hear. I remember asking and not thinking about that asking, and went on in life. As I was going along, the answer came inside me from God in love to all, "I" just love you"
Amazing grace I have forgotten many times when I got mad over things going wrong, or so it seemed as were. When truth is they were not at all. God has proven this to me, personally, I have been like a Job in the book of Job, deeper to death willingly also
Willing is the key I see, never forced to drink or to obey as man continues under man laws
However God loves us all y'all time to respond and stop trying to create and play god.
A Psalm of Asaph. Psalm 82
God standeth in the congregation of the mighty;
he judgeth among the gods.
How long will ye judge unjustly,
and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
Defend the poor and fatherless:
do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Deliver the poor and needy:
rid
them out of the hand of the wicked.
They know not, neither will they understand;
they walk on in darkness:
all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
I have said, Ye
are gods;
and all of you
are children of the most High.
But ye shall die like men,
and fall like one of the princes.
Arise, O God, judge the earth:
for thou shalt inherit all nations.
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