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Re: judging kings...heh (was Re: pick and choose)

Subject: Re: judging kings...heh (was Re: pick and choose)
From: "Peter T. Chattaway" <petert at interchange_ubc.ca>
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 14:33:33 -0800 (PST)
cc: Over the Rhine listserv <Over-the-Rhine at actwin_com>
In-Reply-To: <20011221230123.95875.qmail at web14506_mail.yahoo.com>

On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, J. Marie Hall wrote:
> . . . as for me and my house :), i'm goin' with infallibility even if i
> can't quite stand on inerrancy.

Um, what's the distinction?

> the chaos seems like just the basic fruit of disobedience--and searching
> for a king among men yet another characteristically stupid thing we
> humans do.

I'm not convinced that's how the author of Judges saw it, though.  Then
again, in chapter 9, he does paint a picture of a botched attempt to
install a king over Israel, which doesn't bode well ...

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