老鼠穿过你的路什么也代表不了——但圣经中确实提到了老鼠

  • 老鼠横穿你的路径没有任何意义。圣经并未赋予动物遭遇任何意义,并明确禁止占卜(申命记 18:10-14)。
  • 原因并非未来不重要,而是上帝直接赐下他的话语,而不是通过需要专家解读的暗示。
  • 老鼠确实出现在圣经中:非利士人在夺取约柜后遭受灾难,便“照非利士首领的数目,用五个金痔疮像,五个金老鼠像”送回(撒母耳记上 6:4)。
  • 他们是真诚的人,尽其所能地处理预兆,并设计了一个用两头未负轭的母牛进行的测试,以检查以色列的上帝是否在背后主导这一切。
  • 以色列人从未被告知要这样做。他们有上帝的话语。

A rat crossing our path means nothing. Scripture assigns no significance to animal encounters, and reading omens in them is one of the few things the Bible explicitly forbids. Rats are in the Bible, though — in one very strange chapter — and the story is worth knowing, because it is about precisely this: people trying to work out what a disaster meant. Does the Bible say anything about animals crossing your path? Nothing, except that we should not read…

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