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| + | |summary=The author states, "After picking up his concubine from his father-in-law’s house, a certain Levite settles in Gibeah for the night. The men of the city attempt to sodomize him, but end up raping the concubine until her death. As a response, the Levite dismembers his wife’s corpse and sends her body parts throughout the land of Israel. Who needs R or X-rated movies when you got scripture like this?" | ||
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===="I’m asked to believe in not only a part-time racist god and a part-time polygamous god but a part-time psychopathic schizophrenic one as well"==== | ===="I’m asked to believe in not only a part-time racist god and a part-time polygamous god but a part-time psychopathic schizophrenic one as well"==== | ||
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Revision as of 13:28, 3 October 2013
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Response to "Scriptures Concerns & Questions"
| [[../Science Concerns & Questions|Science Concerns & Questions]] | A FAIR Analysis of:
[[../|Letter to a CES Director]] |
[[../Other Concerns & Questions|Other Concerns & Questions]] |
- Response to section: D&C 132 [Work in Progress]
- Response to section: Numbers 31 [Work in Progress]
- Response to section: 1 Nephi 4
- Response to section: Exodus 12:12
- Response to section: Deuteronomy 21:18-21
- Response to section: Exodus 35:1-2 [Work in Progress]
- Response to section: Numbers 21:5-9
- Response to section: Judges 19:22-29 [Work in Progress]
- Response to section: "I’m asked to believe in not only a part-time racist god and a part-time polygamous god but a part-time psychopathic schizophrenic one as well"
Response Section
1 Nephi 4
Exodus 12:12
Deuteronomy 21:18-21
Numbers 21:5-9
"I’m asked to believe in not only a part-time racist god and a part-time polygamous god but a part-time psychopathic schizophrenic one as well"
== Notes ==
- [note] Hugh W. Nibley, An Approach to the Book of Mormon, 3rd edition, (Vol. 6 of the Collected Works of Hugh Nibley), edited by John W. Welch, (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book Company; Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1988), xii.