THESIS 28: PATRIARCHS AND "ELDERS"

"Elders" existed before the giving of the law at Sinai,[90] and if they are not simply heads of Families[91] then they are the products of social/cultural impotence, political bondage, and the slave mentality acquired in Egypt.[92]

Exposition

Elders and Patriarchs

Implications

What this Thesis means; how it should affect your life; how our lives should affect the world.

Clarifications

What this Thesis does NOT mean; how it should NOT affect your life; how the Old World distorted the truth.

Confirmations

How "mainstream" evangelical or orthodox commentators have confirmed this Thesis (without accepting the overall paradigm)

Deliberations

Readers' questions, complaints, allegations, flames, threats

         -- answered, adjusted, denied, blessed, filed.

Prooftexts

90. Exodus 3:16

91. Exodus 12:21; 2 Chronicles 19:8

92. Exodus 5:6,14; Numbers 11:16

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