Sunday Sermonette: More interior design

I ' ve done a little bit of reading to see if people have thoughts about why a book that presents some of its key events in a few verses goes onad nauseumabout the precise details of the tabernacle. (And soon to come the priestly vestments and various ritual requirements.) Well, for one thing, the text existed; it was available. Somebody saw this thing at some point and described it. Obviously it wasn ' t in the historical context described here, which fictitious, but the details get projected back to this time of lawgiving.And it was important in a way that the story of Cain and Abel and other events that get much shorter shrift were not. Maintaining the tabernacle and the priestly rituals were the most essential religious duty. It is a generalization that the outer trappings of faith are probably more important than moral instructions or even belief itself. We tell the religious communities apart by the design of their temples, the vestments of their priests, and the specific rituals they perform. You ' re a Lutheran or a Catholic or Armenian Rite Orthodox because of the building you enter on Sunday and the specific mumbo jumbo that goes on in it. Most of the faithful know little, if anything, about the theological differences among them.So the Hebrews demonstrated to the world, and to each other, that they worshiped this particular God, and were chosen of him, by following these instructions. However, it ' s incredibly tedious and I don ' t expect you to actually read it.2...
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