Hey JanH:
Thanks for your response to the thread. Frankly you can keep your insults. I wonder why someone with as much "intellectual" capacity as yourself has to resort to insulting ppl simply because they don't agree with you. I am not the Watchtower Bible and Tract society. Neither am I a member. I wasn't on the committee that disfellowshipped, diassociated, or whatever in the hell they did to you. Therefore I would appreciate it if you refrain from insulting me simply because I don't the same "intellectual" capacity as yourself. Like you said this is a discussion board and I would be happy to continue to discuss things with ppl who have the capacity to participate in discussions, interchanging thoughts and ideas in a civil manner.
Where does it say in the account that David had no men with him. By with I mean that he was absolutely all alone by himself. Sure they may not have gone up with him to the tabernacle, but some men may have been there with him. It is likely that David went into the tabernacle alone as a representative of the group that he would neet up with later. I don't know, I wasn't there. But that seems like a totally plausible scenario.
Besides re read that account in Mark for yourself. Where did Jesus say explicitly that the men were with him "in the house of God"? To me, you can infer from the way the sentence reads that he gave it to them later. Like he gave it to them sometime after he recieved it from the preist. But that's just me. I may be wrong, but that's the way I see it.
And another point, where did Jesus say the high priest? He called him the "chief priest" in the NWT. Not the same as High Priest. Also, the loaves of presentation mentioned in the account were made with nearly 4.5 quarts of flour each! That's a helluva lotta bread for one guy. In my opinion anyway.
Peace,
Bigboi
"..... anyone who ignores everyday reality in order to live up to an ideal will soon discover he had been taught how to destroy himself, not how to preserve himself." The Prince. Niccolo Machiavelli.