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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=550097" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Deeds And Relationships</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Deeds that you perform have life<br>like living beings. Every action <br>is virtually the deed’s midwife<br>whose job is to prevent retraction<br>of something that may either lead<br>to benefit or punishment, <br>the punishment part of the deed, <br>like an investment, spent<br>long after it has been performed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We reap from deeds what we have sown<br>not as a measure made for measure, <br>but because the deed has grown, <br>and finally provides displeasure<br>if the deed was wrong, and when<br>correct and virtuous can provide<br>a benefit like interest men<br>deserve––and God does not deride.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Relationships are forms of deeds––<br>we reap what’s sown in them, the joy<br>or pain that they provide not seeds<br>but capital that we enjoy.<br>For what is wrong in them we must<br>not judge, but must remember they<br>are built with tendencies to bust, <br>like people whom God built from clay. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Inspired by Klaus Koch’s explanation of retribution (“Is there a Doctrine of Retribution on the Old Testament? ” in James L. Crenshaw, ed. Theodicy in the Old Testament (Philadelphia: Fortress Press,1983) ,57–87, p.59, cited in Vince Endris, “Yahweh versus Baal: A Narrative-Critical Reading of the Gideon-Abimelech Narrative, ” JSOT 33(2008) : 173–95, p.187. Endris writes: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">While modern views tend to believe that actions are judged (by Yahweh) either good or bad according to a previously established norm, in the Israelite understanding there was no ‘norm’ and actions were not judged. Rather, there was a built-in and inherent connection between an action and its consequences’. Yahweh’s role, then, is not as a judge who ‘deals out reward and punishment on the basis of an established norm, but rather somewhat like a “mid-wife who assists at birth” by facilitating the completion of something which previous human action had already set into action’.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>1/21/09</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gershon+Hepner">Gershon Hepner</a><div class=q>
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is virtually the deed’s midwife
whose job is to prevent retraction
of something that may either lead
to benefit or punishment, 
the punishment part of the deed, 
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