I just realized that there may be some crucial points that I did not explain in the past post.
(1) To get a better picture of the Torah, Hebrew Bible better to read Ehav's post. It talks about how to understand the Bible -from the perspective of the people who lived it.
(2) I was just over at Sara's Blog and a commentor commented how women take pain internally whereas the man deals with it in an external way. Women in general are inner, internal where as men in general are external
For this reason, when reading the Bible, the initial view will be the outer one. The man's. Deeper understanding -an internal compass- is needed to discover the portion for the women.
Thus far, we have only mostly dealt with the external of the scriptures.
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Speaking if inner and outer, when we look at the Hebrew Bible from the outer perspective, its like someone who doesn't know the goings on and just reporting. A harsh decree seems like a harsh decree. whereas if one can look at things from the inner perspective, like a confidant who knows what's really going on, one should know that God does not desire a wasteland. He wants to bestow good. The universe is not out to self destruct. And things that happen is usually to create a balance or equilibrium to life (as opposed to punishment).
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