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The Priest Made Missy Wet

Anthony's Lime Rickey

Anthony Cumia is a Pedophile
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it gives a bonus to your wisdom trait when you cast the hail mary. not really necessary until you get to catholic ng++
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fake Christian values faggot.
 

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It could mean that except six chapters later in the same book God commissions the ark. You say I'm reading more into it but you seem to want to ignore "for yourself" entirely. Why are those words included if they don't mean anything?
I'm not ignoring the "for yourself" line; I just don't extrapolate the same meaning from it that you do. It's a generic phrase that you could read a lot of things into.
Is the inconsistency in this case with the Bible or with the Israelites?
The inconsistency is with the Bible when you consider Deuteronomy 4:15 stating that God has no form therefore no graven images but then many images are later used in worship and are invested with divinity (1 Samuel 4:4 states that the ark actually carries the presence of God.)

You can see this in the story of the bronze serpent of Moses. In Numbers 21:8, a plague of snakes falls on the Israelites so God commands Moses to construct a bronze serpent which everyone must look upon to be healed of their wounds. Later, in 2 Kings 18:4, Hezekiah destroys this serpent in his crusade against idol worship. You may blame the Israelites for worshipping these images, but why is God's will so opaque? Why are images right in one instance and wrong the next?
If people were capable of perfect obedience we wouldn't need the Redeemer to begin with.
I guess this is the main difference between you and me. You have faith in the Bible as God's word so you see continuity through all the various books. I don't see that. I see a patchwork of documents that chronicle the evolution of the Jewish religion and demonstrate how their faith goes through cycles of strict adherence followed by the influence and intermingling of outside influences. Although I can't really prove a connection, it's probably not a coincidence that both the Egyptians and Babylonians both used snakes in their worship.
 

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Exodus 20: 4-5
You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. You shall not worship them nor serve them

It's almost as if the Bible is a collection of several different texts and traditions spanning thousands of years rather than a single coherent document.
Moreso a game of telephone by retarded desert Jews, until the more superior Phoenicians and Babylonians taught them how to write
 
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