Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!sun-barr!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: horsch@cs.ubc.ca (Michael Horsch) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Rocks (was Re: HEB 6:4-9 STUDY) Message-ID: Date: 18 May 91 04:49:07 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 39 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article jhaynes@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu writes: : :Exodus 17:1-7 [...] : This is the first account of where Moses was instructed to bring water from :the rock by striking the rock. : :Numbers 20:1-13 [...] : Here the people were in the Desert of Zin and Moses was instructed to : speak to the rock. But in his anger he struck the rock and brought the : judgment of God upon him. The blessing of the rock still flowed out : because the blessings from God are not restricted to the obedience of our : teachers. : :1 Cor 10:4 4 and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from : the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was : Christ. (NIV) The "spiritual rock" of which Paul speaks need not be the rock which Moses struck in the stories you mention. It could very well be the covenant God made with the Israelites. Even the rock which Moses struck can be interpreted as a covenant: a promise for salvation. And didn't Moses have to go back up the mountain because he smashed the first version of the commandments in anger? Another strike to the "rock". (This reminds me of a cartoon I saw: Moses, holding a tablet which states "Thank you for not sinning", says something like "I think you're going to have to be more explicit than this." Anyway, I liked it...) :In His Hands, : :Joel Mike (just ask me) -- Michael C. Horsch Department of Computer Science horsch@cs.ubc.ca University of British Columbia