Yet you still can't answer, "What was that promise?" which comes as no surprise. Note ecco's reply above where he says,
"One does not have to be an English Major to understand those two statements,".
Nope, one doesn't. All one has to be is driven to:
Sorry for the loss of your integrity, nPeace.
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Tsk tsk.
You know what they say, "All bark and no bite."
Apparently that's all you have Skwim.
Bark -
Jephthah incinerated his daughter.
Sent packing with a bite - my
bite #1 - Nope.
The Bible does not say that.
I really thought you would have put up a fight, but since you don't want to answer my three questions, for obvious reasons, of course,..
I'll have no mercy.
Turning and fleeing will not save you, but the tail between the legs is perfect. It doesn't get in the way.
Take this other bite -
bite #2 Jephthah's daughter continued living all her days. Judges 11:38-40
38 At this he said: “Go!” So he sent her away for two months, and she went to the mountains with her companions to weep over her virginity. 39 At the end of two months, she returned to her father, after which he carried out the vow he had made regarding her. She never had relations with a man. And it became a custom in Israel: 40 From year to year, the young women of Israel would go to give commendation to the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in the year.
Jephthah kept, his promise. What promise?
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whoever comes out of the door of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the Ammonites will become Jehovah’s,
...and his daughter offered herself willingly. Deuteronomy 23:21-23
A human sacrifice can be made to Jehovah, in the context that the persons has made a dedication to serve God exclusively. God is pleased with such sacrifices.
Likewise, a burnt sacrifice.
You cannot just take a word or expression from the scriptures, and apply it however you wish, ignoring the context. That's unreasonable, isn't it?
For example, I could take this scripture John 16:23
In that day you will ask me no question at all. Most truly I say to you, if you ask the Father for anything, he will give it to you in my name.
... and I could say, Jesus said if you ask God for anything he will give it, so therefore, if I ask him to let me win the lottery, he should grant me that.
However, I ignore the fact that it is in the context, that it is
anything that is in harmony with God's will. 1 John 5:14
Now if anyone doesn't care about taking the context into consideration, whether it comes from the same verse or not, that person is simply being unreasonable, and doesn't care what the Bible has to say, but is happy to jump all over the Bible and pick out what he likes to criticize. How reasonable is that?
To me, that's the same as a man looking at a beautiful painting with a woman, whose hair is sticking straight up, and exclaiming, "What nonsense! How could this woman's hair be defying gravity?"
All the while he doesn't care about any other part of the painting, so he ignores completely, the large spinning fan at the bottom of the painting.
That's one closed-minded critic.
Should anyone care what he thinks about anything? I certainly don't.