How old is Earth?

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At 07:58 PM 2/17/97 -0500, you wrote:
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>> Not a salvation point but then neither again is if Jepthnah litterally
>> sacrificed his daughter- just good start for discussion to show that the
>> Scripture is still true.
>>
>He didn't?  WHo do you know this?  I read this story a while back a it
>desturbed me, I didn't understand the whole purpose of it.  I couldn't
>understand the fact that God would actually want him to do it.
>
>

Actually, it was Jepthah's ignorance of the Scriptures that caused him to
sacrifice his daughter.  The Bible says that if a man sins through his
ignorance (as Jepthah did in this vow), he could offer a sacrifice and be
forgiven (and by implication released from the vow).  See Number 15:27.

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