> "Uncle Davey" <noway@jose.com> wrote in news:cpct53$mjk$0@pita.alt.net:
>
> >> Uncle Davey,
> >>
> >> Why you would even try to twist out of this one is beyond me. Even
> >> if it
> > is
> >> not the "official" ten commandments, God still is credited for this
> >> list. How putting "Thou shalt worship no other God" in the same list
> >> as "don't boil baby goats in their mom's milk" is supposed to make
> >> any sense, especially supposedly coming from the almighty alpha and
> >> omega ulitmate omniscient omnipotent being, is beyond me.
> >>
> >> WTF does God care about such things? REALLY? If you say that maybe
> >> there is some health ramification of boiling a kid in goats milk,
> >> note that it doesn't say not to boil the kid in goats milk. It says
> >> don't boil it in
> > its
> >> _own_mother's_ milk. Maybe some biochemists out there can tell us a
> > reason
> >> why there would be a difference between its mom's milk and some other
> > goat's
> >> milk... cause I can't imagine what it would be. And if its not for
> >> health reasons, then it just seems like a really arbitrary thing for
> >> The Almighty to take the time to speak up on. Especially when he did
> >> not speak up on important issues like abortion, democratization, and
> >> being against
> > slavery.
> >> Could it be that this is just a snapshot of the bronze age customs of
> >> a small group of herdsmen rather than the COMMAND OF THE MOST HIGH?
> >>
> >
> > I don't know, but maybe it was an expression for "don't add insult to
> > injury".
> >
> > Uncle Davey
> >
> >
>
> So if that part of the Bible is not to be taken literally, why expect
> the rest to be taken that as literal? Maybe the entire Bible should be
> taken as allegory? Including the flood.
>
I think the chances of a sentence like "don't seethe a kid in its mother's
milk" being a figure of speech are a lot higher than a couple of chapters of
account in historical prose backed up also by babylonian histories and
aboriginal tales from around the world.
When we say "don't throw the baby out with the bath water" most of us know
that no literal baby is meant. If we read in the newspaper about a woman who
jettisoned her baby in a bath next to a nunnery, then we think a literal
baby is meant. Why is that?
Uncle Davey
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