The idea of whether or not to obey government authority when asked to put chemicals into the air that would harm the health of people was discussed today in a class and reminded me of this Milgram's Obedience Experiment. You could reenact this experiment in your church or school or home and report the results. There have been several videos repeating this. Is there a theory or a law taught here? What would you have done? What does this say about our military forces? Which if any of God's Commandments have been violated? Who violated which commandment? How are these ideas being used to control people in your town? This is what makes the fields of psychology and sociology interesting. It is also when there is a great need for Christians to take these fields captive to the obedience of Christ as the authority, not only over Christians, but over everyone.
There are two more parts to this last video if you are interested. Would/should a Christian conduct such an experiment? Why or why not? Should US soldiers obey authority if they are asked to put a known toxic chemical into the air over an American city? What Biblical principles justify your answers?
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Karissa Baker · 713 weeks ago
Brittany Bloom · 713 weeks ago
Most of those people "killed" the student, and some without questioning at all!
Although this is completely morally and ethically wrong, rather your a Christian or not, it really has me thinking. If I were put in this same situation, as the teacher who inflicted pain upon others, how would I react?? Would I continue on because it was "absolutely necessary" for the experiment to work, or would I act against the authority for what I knew was right.
This is all terrifying to me. The fact that in every day, kind, normal people, there is a dark side that has the ability to put physical pain on others.
Am I beyond this behavior because I am a Christian?
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Karissa Baker · 713 weeks ago
Did you ever wonder if unicorns are real?
Probably not. As a little kid you may have believed in them, but then you were told they were myths, and stopped believing, probably never reaching the questioning age as to whether or not they are real. Now, you probably are definitive in the fact that they are myths.
Allow me to make you wonder…
First off… how would anyone ever come up with the idea of a horse with a horn on it’s head… what would they use it for, to pick apples off of really tall trees?
Okay, on a more serious note, unicorns actually do hold a place in some translations of the Bible. Job 39:9 says “Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?” in the King James Version of the bible, which was the first legal version of the English bible, made legal by King Henry the 8th of, well, England. The same verse in the 21st century King James Version, reads the same. Okay, the next translation is going to be the Luther Bibel 1545; Job 39:9 “Meinst du das Einhorn werde dir dienen und werde bleiben an deiner Krippe?” This is Dutch, and is roughly translated “Do you think the unicorn will serve you and will stay at your crib?” Did you catch it? Einhorn – Unicorn. And that’s in another language.
My next two verses have been nominated to be; Number’s 23:22, and Numbers 24:8. Which read; Numbers 23:22 “God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.” And, Numbers 24:8 “God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.” Okay, those two verses are identical in the versions I will be using with the exception that one only contains the first part, so I’m only going to be inserting the translation for Numbers 23:22. Numbers 23:22 “Бог, що вивів був їх із Єгипту, Він для нього, як міць однорожця!” In the Ukrainian Bible, roughly translated “God brought them out of Egypt, He hath the might as the unicorn!” Tricked you, you thought I was going Dutch, when I went Ukrainian. By the way, it’s unicorn in the Luther Bibel 1545 as well, I just want more translations.
Okay, I will give you that in Contemporary English version, and some others, it says wild ox, but you also have to realize that in the Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition, and in the Biblia Sacra Vulgata (Latin) versions it says rhinoceros, and in the La Nuova Diodati (Italian) version it say’s buffalo.
Okay, so obviously people can’t agree what say’s there… is it a unicorn, wild bull, wild ox, buffalo, or a rhinoceros. Also, if you can’t come up with a translation, then you would ask for help, and depending on who you ask, you’ll get a different answer. About the only thing that people agree on is that it was a mammal with horns. I opt towards a unicorn, wild bull, or rhinoceros. I partly think wild bull because it is so common, rhinoceros because it is the strongest of all of these, and it talks about their strength and might, and I think unicorn partly because I want them to be real, and partly because they are a calmer animal, and because God can use whatever He wants to. I specify that they are a calmer animal, because I wouldn’t want a real rhinoceros standing by my crib, as in Job 39:9.
-Karissa Baker
In case you are wondering, no I don’t speak Dutch or Ukrainian, Google translate helped me out with that.
Some other verses mentioning unicorns are Isaiah 34:7, Psalms 92:10, Psalms 29:6, Psalms 22:21, and Deuteronomy 33:17.