flintface wrote:Really? Where is it recorded that the offender was warned multiple times not to gather sticks?
I take what I said back earlier. The man would have been warned multiple times, unless he was the equivalent of the
Torah's "bubble boy" or he lived in a secluded cave somewhere and just happened to miss the parting of the Red Sea,
Mount Horeb and Yahweh's ten sayings, the valley by the river Jordan where the entire Israeli nation finally made
the covenant in front of Moshe.
Not to mention having to hear and recite the Torah whenever they would go to the synagogue and upon Yahweh's
seven feasts. There were warnings every where.
It reminds me of the story of the male child of the Jewish woman and Egyptian husband who was also put to death
for blaspheming Yahweh and Noah's youngest son looking upon Noah's nakedness when he was passed out drunk.
My guess since we don't have the details is that there was something more going on then just "looking upon,"
"blaspheming," and "picking up sticks." Also Moshe issued the death sentence upon Yahweh's authority. Moshe
the guy who stood up to Yahweh to keep him from destroying Israel at Mt Horeb. Moshe who time and time again
pleaded for Yahweh to spare Israel. I really doubt Moshe would be so shallow and callous to put a man to death
for just picking up sticks.
My speculation is that this man didn't consider it work, just like James doesn't consider repainting his house
on the Sabbath to be work. He probably stood his ground that he wasn't doing anything wrong and maybe even tried to
convince others to do the same. He probably vowed to continue, despite of what should have been obvious that he was in
deep, deep trouble and having the opportunity to offer a sin offering and be made right. Again, my speculation.