Hey, Matt

So are you saying I talk alot even in e-mail?  Grin.  Yup, that's me.  Sorry about that.  You have confused a lot of different stories together and a lot of different folks.  The Tamar who got raped was never married before that, for example.  But I can't go into it all here.  As I said, you will do well to go through a step at a time and to forget the Old Testament for now and start with the Gospel of John, then Luke, then Acts.  What I forgot to say yesterday is that I'm not saying never read the Old Testament.  The Book of Acts has summaries of the Old Testament and explains what it means to Christians.  So that will be an important introduction before reading the Old Testament on its own.  And the Gospel of John and Gospel of Luke will be a good introduction to Acts.  Step by step.  Easy does it.  Grin.

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Dec 4, 2003 10:11 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: emotional issues, was Re: Dodie update

Hi Paul, you always say so much I can't take it all in and respond in one
sitting.
I did read through though and will study your advice as well as the other's
who gave me reading tips.
I haven't fully understood all about tamar yet.
Sounds like she started out well, her husband died and things got twisted
up.
I am not sure if the rape came first or the marage.
I did get that some guy pretended to be sick, invited her over and evidently
rapped her though.
Then I read elsewhere, that the brother of her dead husband wouldn't give
her a baby because he didn't want that baby squeezing him out of an
inharitance?
Is that what it was?
Then, think it was the same tamar who dressed up as a prostitute to deceive
her father-in-law into getting her pregnant?
I'll read through again sometime but think that's how it all plaied out.
Ruth is a storey of devotion isn't it?
I have been working on a wooden seat for Katherine to go on the bicycle so
am a bit dinged out just now.
None of this may make since.
I can't wait for the talking bible so that I can study this stuff without as
much trouble.

Matt