The Prophetic Presbyterian & His Narrow Way

  The Sorrows of Zion 1  How lonely sits the city That was full of people! She has become like a widow Who was  once  great among the nations! She who was a princess among the  [ a ] provinces Has become a forced laborer! 2  She weeps bitterly in the night And her tears are on her cheeks; She has none to comfort her Among all her lovers. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; They have become her enemies. 3  Judah has gone into exile  [ b ] under affliction And  [ c ] under  [ d ] harsh servitude; She dwells among the nations, But  she has found no rest; All her pursuers have overtaken her In the midst of  [ e ] distress. 4  The roads  [ f ] of Zion are in mourning Because no one comes to the appointed feasts. All her gates are desolate; Her priests are groaning, Her virgins are afflicted, And she herself  [ g ] is bitter. 5  Her ad...

Deuteronomy 21: 18 - 21 18  If someone has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and motherand will not listen to them when they discipline him,  19  his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his town.  20  They shall say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.” 21  Then all the men of his town are to stone him to death. You must purge the evil from among you. All Israel will hear of it and be afraid. Village Skeptics & other critics of the Bible sometimes assert that Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 supports the stoning of children.      By way of reply… The Bible draws a distinction between the Moral Law of God (the Decalogue) & the civil code which is based upon it.    In context, Deuteronomy 21: 18 - 20 is part of the civil code, the body of Law based upon the Decalogue. It is therefore an ou...

The 1946 argument is just a distraction.       It amounts to looking at one or 2 trees in the forest & not the forest itself.       The argument centers on the meaning of 2 words in 1 Corinthians 6.     Those 2 words are derived from Leviticus 18, where the subject matter is most certainly homosexual behavior done in the service of one or more pagan pseudodeities, so the issue isn’t whether or not the words refer to homosexuality.   The issue is what sort of homosexual behavior are in view.  There’s a history to the translation of “maltakoi”    & “arsenakoitai,” in 1 Corinthians 6 & 1 Timothy 1.    Ask yourself what readers of the Geneva Bible thought the term “buggerers” meant or what “abusers of mankind” meant in the days of King James.      In other words, focusing on these 2 words translated as “homosexuals” in the ESV doesn’t really do anything to confute the tradition bound view e...