Re: The Covenant of Blood
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Originally Posted by faithful_servant
Covenants were never entered into lightly, because to enter a covenant meant a commitment that you would die before breaking. Some covenants were established for set periods of time, some for the life of the people entering the covenant and some were for all time.
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Originally Posted by bossfan
Whew! That's a lot to ask of our throw away culture today, isn't it?
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It's one of the greatest shortcomings of modern society - the idea that your word is only good as long as it's beneficial to you. "Once your promise becomes a burden to you, you are justified in breaking it" has become the order of the day.
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Our nation has not always lived up to its ideals, yet those ideals have never ceased to guide us. They expose our flaws, and lead us to mend them. We are the beneficiaries of the work of the generations before us and it is each generation's responsibility to continue that work. - Laura Bush
God is a conservative -
Ecclesiastes 10:2--"A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left."
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