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A: What is the meaning of the bread of the presence being changed out on a Sabbath?

What is the meaning of the bread as portrayed in Leviticus 24:5-8? What does this represent? The bread represents the twelve tribes of Israel. What is the purpose of the bread being renewed every Sabbath? The purpose of the bread, Challah, being renewed every Sabbath is part of a Jewish festiv...

I hope Caleb upvotes my answer.

@Amaterasu So, what's it like being raised Catholic?

@Amaterasu What type of 'Catholic' were you?

well, we were non-practicing

@Amaterasu Were you ever baptized in the Catholic Church, assuming you are referring to the Roman Catholic Church?

yes and yes

@Amaterasu Cool! Were you ever confirmed too?

nope

1:32 AM

@Amaterasu Oh. Did you experience your First Holy Communion, though?

nope

@Amaterasu OK. So, did your parents teach you how to pray the rosary?

nope

there were never any rosaries in the house

@Amaterasu Wow. You really were non-practicing. How did you observe Christmas and Easter then?

Christmas - family party lasting 2-3 days and Easter (still recovering from Christmas), used to be easter eggs and stuff, now it is just sleeping in and eating fish on Good Friday

we never went to church either

1:35 AM

@Amaterasu Hey, at least you kept the no-meat-on-Friday-pre-Vatican-II tradition!

we did just out of habit

and I eat fish anyway as the only meat - dietary concerns

oh and we don't pray at all really

@Amaterasu So, what did you do for fun on Sundays and Saturdays? Homework? Household chores? Gardening?

sleep in, visit family on Sundays, sport, movies, afternoon nap on Sturday

@Amaterasu Do you continue this habit?

@Amaterasu What makes you interested in church, even though you have been raised in a nonreligious household?

I can't sleep in any more - body clock slaps me awake at 5am-ish, I still do sport, family either too far away or dead,...

I am not interested in the church per se, I am interested in the archaeological, historical and scientific aspects of Biblical texts

1:42 AM

@Amaterasu Scientific?

yup

What do you mean?

e.g. Noah's flood - could have been caused by a cometary impact

as I wrote in my answer hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/2542/…

a meeting of historical, archaeological and scientific evidence to support what is written in the Biblical text

and the possibility of a volcanic eruption at Sodom and Gamorah... hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/8149/…

@Amaterasu Cool. What about historical, archaeological, and scientific evidence to negate what is written in the Biblical text?

@Anonymous that is definitely possible as well - but I see the Bible as a written history, where the descriptions are governed in a way by the linguistic tools and interpretations of the time of writing

1:48 AM

@Amaterasu It's interesting how ancient traditions, be they native american, ancient greek, or ancient hebrew, view the natural phenomena around themselves. It may be plausible to suggest that ancient peoples lack the appreciation for deep time or how they manage to keep and treasure traditional stories throughout the generations. :)

indeed - and it is interesting to see commonalities across the ancient cultures

I am very glad that my questions are on topic here (I use @Daи's flow chart in meta)

@Amaterasu I am just wondering, but... do you believe in God? The God of the Bible?

@Anonymous not really, I am an Atheist

@Amaterasu Oh, right. I forgot.

lol

tht's no problem

but I believe the Bible, alongside the Torah, Qu'ran and all religious books should be respected and studied extensively from all angles (for me - it is strictly the scientific, arcahaeological and historical aspects)

1:56 AM

@Amaterasu Me too. I have read an interesting book describing the Holy Trinity and the Holy Spirit. The author seems to be very clear, descriptive, and precise about the terms, which now gives me a better understanding of the terms. But even so, I still don't incorporate prayer into daily life, probably because I'm just not used to it.

interestingly and possibly ironically, I work in a religious school

they know I am Atheist and are more than okay with it - they employed me for my teaching ability

@Amaterasu Plus the cultural aspect.

@Anonymous absolutely!

@Amaterasu Have you ever heard the term "Christian atheist"? There is even a Wikipedia article on it! No kidding!

@Anonymous I have heard of that term indeed - I think I am beyond that

2:01 AM

@Amaterasu So, do you have any family values and traditions that you uphold?

For example, in many cultures, children respect their parents and elders.

yup, absolute rspect for my family, especially my parents, aunts and uncles (and for grandparents when they were alive).

absolute respect for authority (police, army etc)

@Amaterasu Aw, how sad. Your grandparents have passed away. :(

respectful behaviour, politeness, hard work and resilience are virtues I value highly

yeah, we lost grandpa (my last grandparent) just before Christmas in 2011

Jack Douglas is a member of the Stack Exchange Network too, and he once said that his parents taught him, in his own words, "self-sufficiency and a (false) sense of superiority." Indeed, he really says "false". I still can't tell if he's joking or not.

Although on one side Christian testimony stories can be inspirational, on the other side Christian testimony stories may be subject to distortions of what actually happened. As a student of memory and learning, I think it is natural for people to experience false memories, as it is extremely easy to create them.

Therefore, it is unsurprising that as Christians experience the "born-again experience," they say that their previous lives were full of sin, but when they had faith in Christ, they repented of their sin and renewed themselves by means of the Holy Spirit. As a way to be consistent with their self-image, it is only natural to think that they would say their parents had not taught them proper values of humility and cooperation.

human perception is a funny thing sometimes

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Q: Strong's is a concordance, not a lexicon

The Strong's Concordance is a helpful tool that lists every Hebrew and Greek lemma (root word) present in the King James Bible. Along with listing these, the tool also generally gives a 'gloss' for each word (some tools actually link Strong's Concordance to lexicons such as Thayer's Greek-English...

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Q: What is the meaning of the bread of the presence being changed out on a Sabbath?

I was looking at the following passage and have a question about a reference in the text: (emphasis mine) Leviticus 24:5-8 (HCSB) 5 “Take fine flour and bake it into 12 loaves; each loaf is to be made with four quarts. 6 Arrange them in two rows, six to a row, on the pure gold table befor...

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Question of the Day: Is Goliath a victim of acromegaly, or does God really help David win the battle against Goliath?

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A: How tall was Goliath?

Is there a canonical reference to Goliath's height? As others have said, there cannot be a canonical reference to Goliath's height because measures were not standardized and there is no conclusive evidence to calibrate the measurements given beyond giving us a rough range. As a matter of sp...

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@JackDouglas Would you use the historical past tense or the literary present tense in regards to talking about the biblical events?

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Can someone evaluate the current answer?

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A: What is the meaning of the bread of the presence being changed out on a Sabbath?

What is the meaning of the bread as portrayed in Leviticus 24:5-8? What does this represent? The bread represents the twelve tribes of Israel. What is the purpose of the bread being renewed every Sabbath? The purpose of the bread, Challah, being renewed every Sabbath is part of a Jewish festiv...

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