Musings

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Deuteronomy

There are many quotes from Deuteronomy in the book "America's Prophet" and because of that I decided to reread that book in the Bible. I was amazed at the redundancy. It is as if it was written for a small child. Also, the number of times that there is a reference to: "because you were also aliens in a foerign land" it seems that it is on every page. The whole book is only 33 pages long, but a lot of instruction is in that space. A full reading also provides the answer to the question of: "Why did God call the Israelites a stiff-necked people?" It is amazing that they cannot follow what God wants them to do when they see what he does for them every day. It is possible to see where some of the laws of Islamic Sharia Law originated. Many of them are there in Deuteronomy for all to see. It makes me give a sigh of relief that we are Christians and are no longer subject to that Law.