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In this approach, which are the two or three witnesses that would witness to your approach in defining what type of relationship defines Ruth and Boaz? Does it begin with levirate and morph into its own specialized form? If so, what? Or is...

Yes, the key word there is also. I would say what I often say Legalism is easy. Very few doctrines are not clearly defined, I can’t think of any. It’s just that most of the reason that people disagree on doctrine is a failure to take all of...

Thank you. So then your approach is to also rely on God’s internal light that he gave in fashioning a mind of reason and discernment, and also Spirit led instruction? I’m sure there are folks on this forum who agree with your approach. To...

Thank you for refocusing this, I will rewrite it to reflect my beliefs. 100% so far. It was never intended to be completely exhaustive nor definitive on all matters. It was written to show principles and guidelines for us to learn from, but it...

You have a religion, I have a belief system.

I haven’t studied that part of it, but would the possibility exist that Obed wasn’t the first born? Even if he was, everyone would have accepted him as Boaz’s son and listing him as such could be very inconsequential. He would have been...

@steve Let me see if I’m understanding the underlying premise behind your inquiry. Common ground: We all find scripture authoritative, reliable and instructive. Where we differ: We don’t all find scripture to be completely definitive or...

Well that would explain the disconnect.

You have a religion, I have a belief system.

Proverbs 28:4 Those who forsake instruction praise the wicked, but those who heed it resist them. Genesis 15:16 After four generations your descendants will return here to this land, for the sins of the Amorites do not yet warrant their...

Correct, but a legalist cannot accept the idea of obeying the intent of the law even if it is not specifically enumerated that way.

You are not addressing marriage to Ruth being tied to the land. She offered herself to Boaz and he said that he couldn’t take her without being kinsman redeemer for her and the land. Where is that ever stated in Scripture?

As I like to say, legalism is easy. Yes, it doesn’t line up with the exact wording of the definition of Levirate marriage (a word that I couldn’t even find in the King Jim) So the question is, where does the concept of kinsman redeemer come...

Cut them a little slack, man. They are like a public defender for an accused bank robber who forgot to wear a mask, was caught on camera, cut himself and bled at the scene and ran into the responding officer while trying to make his escape… I...

We have a religion, not a menu.