Welcome to the Congregational Church of Salem. This will be our Elders Bible Reading blog! We can't wait to be able to share more with you.
Dear Friends, Some times we forget that Moses wrote Genesis. Obviously, he did not have first hand knowledge of the events of creation. But God did and revealed them to Moses. The "story arc" is clear to Moses despite the millenia of history between Genesis and Leviticus. The plan for ultimate restoration is hazy, but God is at work repairing some of the damage. Blessings, Jeff What is the prohibition on child sacrifice doing in the list of prohibited sexual relations? Be fruitful and multiply - First commandment in Genesis. God made the world to be inhabited. Having children is how this was to happen. So child sacrifice was a direct violation of this first command to Adam and Eve. Marriage is one man and one woman is the creation order. Seems simple enough. I can imagine men thinking, Yeah but God didn't say which woman. I will do the one woman thing if she is my sister, or aunt or ….. So God gives all these examples of unlawful unions. To this day, man stil
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