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Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa
First your wife's Jewish upbringing is separated from Biblical Israelism by about 2,000 years. I don't know what kind of "Jew" she or her people may have been, but actually Judaism today, modern Judaism is as Biblical as Heaven's Gate Cult and Marshall Herff Applewhite, Jr. It has about as much to do with the Bible as the Book of Mormon. They use the tradition of the elders
which were rebuked by Jesus, Matthew 15:1-20. They had a total overhaul from the days of Rabbi Akiba to the Medieval times where your buddy Rambam and before that Rashi really turned up the volume. So, close to everything they do has been blended through their Medieval filters and Mysticism. Nude mikvah? John was performing Mikvahs, we have nothing concerning a crowd of nudists marching towards the Jordan. Nude swimming? Martha, Mary, Jesus, and Lazarus wading around nude? Sure makes the whole thing about Romans stripping a victim bare and nailing them to an open shame have sort of a different meaning. The Crucified man in the loin cloth which hung on the wall of the Roman Church was crafted for modesty. The real crucified victims were totally naked, put to an open shame. If these desert hillbillies were rising up to play NAKED. I guess God and Moses got upset for nothing? Adam? What was he hiding for? What's up with the fig leaf belt for he and his wife only covering the reproductive organs? Naked for the fisherman was his undergarments, his fisher's coat was the outer apparel.
Jesus help you sweetly but help me even more.
Good GOD from ZION!  |
I was just sharing my understanding. They might have had embroidered baptismal robes out in the wilderness where John Baptized and at the Temple mikveh pools. Regardless, it really doesn't matter to me if they stripped down nude, or only their inner garment (which is still considered nude in some contexts), or went into the water in their full layered attire. And all homes could have had a complete plumbing systems with private baths. Besides, they'd need wash machines to wash all those Livies jeans. Anything to keep our conservative friends sensitivities from being upset.
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