I am going through a college lecture series on ancient Greek history. In Greece, murder brought guilt on more than just the individual murderer. It could bring guilt on a family, household, or even the entire state. Reminds me of some points in the Law.

> Deut. 22:8: "When you build a new house, make a parapet around your roof so that you may not bring the guilt of bloodshed on your house if someone falls from the roof."

> Deut. 21:1-9: The process of elders of a town near a murdered body and with no suspects apprehended. The sacrifice a bull and then declare: ""Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it done. 8 Accept this atonement for your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, O LORD, and do not hold your people guilty of the blood of an innocent man."

I think there is somewhere else about the blood polluting the land.

We don't really have this concept in American law.

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Scott Roberts
Ruling Elder, Lakeside Presbyterian Church (PCA)
Southlake, Texas

Scott,

Antigone (and Seven Against Thebes) is especially illustrative here.

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Fredrick T. Greco
Senior Pastor, Christ Church PCA (Katy, TX)
Christ Church Blog

"The heart is the main thing in true religion...It is the hinge and turning-point in the condition of man's soul. If the heart is alive to God and quickened by the Spirit, the man is a living Christian. If the heart is dead and has not the Spirit, the man is dead before God." (J.C. Ryle)

Just read Antigone last week.

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Bobby Gawthrop, V.D.M.
licensed, ordained SBC, licensed PCA
Ph.D. student (Whitefield Theological Seminary)
"Every minister in those days had a V.D.M. degree: Verbum Dei Minister. When, therefore, I became a teacher of apologetics it was natural for me to think, not only of my Th.M. and my Ph.D., but above all of my V.D.M. The former degrees were but means whereby I might be true to the latter degree." Cornelius Van Til

Fred: I covet your classical training! And I will not repent!

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