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1 posted on 12/02/2018 4:04:12 PM PST by OddLane
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To: OddLane

The Hall of Fame in Hebrews gives hope for all of us.


2 posted on 12/02/2018 4:08:16 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: OddLane
There are two types of prostitutes. The physical ones who sell their bodies to men. And the spiritual ones who cavort with the devil and sell their souls to him.

The Great Whore of Babylon is of the second variety.

3 posted on 12/02/2018 4:19:20 PM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: OddLane

She was a Canaanite (Gentile). Even more important She was in genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, Matthew 1. Ruth, a Gentile was, also in genealogy of Jesus.

Gentiles were put in the genealogy of the Messiah for a reason.


5 posted on 12/02/2018 4:23:44 PM PST by Taxbilly
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To: OddLane

Pety compared to Moses the murderer.


9 posted on 12/02/2018 4:43:52 PM PST by DocRock (And now is the time to fight! Peter Muhlenberg)
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To: OddLane
He who is without sin may cast the first stone....

~Jesus

12 posted on 12/02/2018 5:10:44 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: OddLane
I have come to believe that there are several reasons.

1. Prostitution is hard to stay out of once its established from someone’s life - absent a miraculous healing from God. Unlike the sins of many in scripture it might have taken her a while to leave it completely. She must have persevered and left it for she married Salmon and was the mother of Boaz.

2. The name stuck because she lived in that sin for so long. God still chose her for the lineage of Christ, and that selection was a message to his creation about whom God desires to come to him and the completeness of the forgiveness of sin.

13 posted on 12/02/2018 5:11:01 PM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: OddLane
Then He said,

Go and sin NO MORE.

Forgiveness is a beautiful thing.

14 posted on 12/02/2018 5:11:52 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: OddLane

Some translations interpret her occupation as “innkeeper” albeit the vast majority “prostitute”


16 posted on 12/02/2018 5:25:22 PM PST by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: OddLane

Gosh - maybe they ought to redact the Bible so her reputation doesn’t stay on the low side.....3,500 years is long enough....


17 posted on 12/03/2018 3:11:12 AM PST by trebb (Those who don't donate anything tend to be empty gasbags...no-value-added types)
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