Point of view: this is a very important aspect of the assessment of the LORD’S actions, as in labeling them as being the cause of unnecessary collateral damage. This is also the logic that is applied to our assessment of when something is damaged. In the present day, we tend to see things from a present perspective, and shade them with modern hues of applicability, civility, and varying seriousness of moral disdain. Wherefore a great number of us try to apply modern rules to past events. Let us consider the hazard of doing that too freely. Let us look to Scripture, to evaluate this practice, as applied against some of the events that are deemed as being unacceptable to modern civilizations–of course, varying among the philosophies of the various cultures of the world.
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There are certain rules of avoidance that have been set in society, in general. Among those rules is the concept of incest. Today, as through most of our legal systems, we totally condemn a situation such as this one.
And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
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– Explore Collateral Damage and the Heart of God: Part Twenty-seven –