05-06-2011, 12:00 AM
LOL.....and the walls came down in Jericho...with the trumpets resounding.
Interesting, isn't it? That the Israelites stood at the boundary of Canaan and were terrified to enter and take the land. Fear of the unknown keeps us secure in our state of misery...just because its familiar. So more wandering in the desert for Abraham's people....more time to become convinced that repetitive, looping, lost enmeshment in our own self-reflective limbo is not worth the thin comfort of familiarity. i.e.....if you're jaded, then go for it....launch into unbending silence and inward discovery. Even if it means shitting your pants, its better than the smouldering boredom of the social drone. Glance,
After crossing the Jordan and taking Jericho it was not more wandering in the desert as it had been for the 40 years. There was some initial disobedience, things under the “Ban” were taken. But basically the people learned to be faithful. After Jericho they were prepared for battle and slowly but surely took the land. The men were recircumcised and faithfully carried out all the genocidal demands of their God and the Lord gave them rest from their enemies and they renewed their covenant with Him. The mindset of the people after crossing the Jordan was not the same as those who died in the desert. To force the interpretation you have upon the text seems more to do with your own loops, or connecting disassociated dots, than with representing the mindset after crossing Jordan and taking Jericho and the promised land.
Glance is there another point you are trying to make? Could you be more direct and if possible relate it to this thread?
Interesting, isn't it? That the Israelites stood at the boundary of Canaan and were terrified to enter and take the land. Fear of the unknown keeps us secure in our state of misery...just because its familiar. So more wandering in the desert for Abraham's people....more time to become convinced that repetitive, looping, lost enmeshment in our own self-reflective limbo is not worth the thin comfort of familiarity. i.e.....if you're jaded, then go for it....launch into unbending silence and inward discovery. Even if it means shitting your pants, its better than the smouldering boredom of the social drone. Glance,
After crossing the Jordan and taking Jericho it was not more wandering in the desert as it had been for the 40 years. There was some initial disobedience, things under the “Ban” were taken. But basically the people learned to be faithful. After Jericho they were prepared for battle and slowly but surely took the land. The men were recircumcised and faithfully carried out all the genocidal demands of their God and the Lord gave them rest from their enemies and they renewed their covenant with Him. The mindset of the people after crossing the Jordan was not the same as those who died in the desert. To force the interpretation you have upon the text seems more to do with your own loops, or connecting disassociated dots, than with representing the mindset after crossing Jordan and taking Jericho and the promised land.
Glance is there another point you are trying to make? Could you be more direct and if possible relate it to this thread?