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  • @[email protected]
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    52 years ago

    I mean the Bible in general is written in old language and meaning. Could it mean to support him and shoulder him as he grows older and can’t walk? Taking anything literally from the Bible tends to look strange as society has evolved over thousands of years since then

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    2 years ago

    “Who is this guy, and what is he doing in my court ?”

    “He is the witness in this trial, your Honor”.

    “Does that mean the ball is now in my court?”

    “Yep”.

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    692 years ago

    “The thigh was considered the source of posterity in the ancient world. Or, more properly, the “loins” or the testicles. The phrase “under the thigh” could be a euphemism for “on the loins.” There are two reasons why someone would take an oath in this manner: 1) Abraham had been promised a “seed” by God, and this covenantal blessing was passed on to his son and grandson. Abraham made his trusted servant swear “on the seed of Abraham” that he would find a wife for Isaac. 2) Abraham had received circumcision as the sign of the covenant (Genesis 17:10). Our custom is to swear on a Bible; the Hebrew custom was to swear on circumcision, the mark of God’s covenant. The idea of swearing on one’s loins is found in other cultures, as well. The English word testify is directly related to the word testicles.”

    https://www.gotquestions.org/hand-under-thigh.html

    • @[email protected]
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      212 years ago

      “The thigh was considered the source of posterity”

      More like the source of posterior, amirite? 😛

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    182 years ago

    “All I have in this world is my balls and my word.”

    That’s as close to relevant as I can get.

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    2 years ago

    People swore oaths in their testicles. The words testimony, testes, and testament all have the same root. Thus the Bible is composed of old balls and new balls.

    Edit: spelling.

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        32 years ago

        It is. Before my deconverting I was going to study it professionally. You know what a profound moment for me was? I knew that latter authors/editors had changed the text. What dawned on me was that the reason they felt like they were allowed to lie was because they grasped that the people before them were lying as well. They weren’t doing some sorta Stalinesque rewriting of their history they were writing fanfiction.

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    242 years ago

    I’m sure it’s totally inno–

    Oh