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   Good to see you friend james after a long posting absence. You wrote:   
      
   >>In the whole Bible, there is only two references to imperfect men's   
   >>birthdays. One was the pagan Egyptian Pharaoh. And for his 'happy   
   >>birthday' he killed the chief of the bakers.(Gen 40:20-22)   
   >>   
   >>The second one mentioned was King Herod. And for his 'happy birthday'   
   >>he had the head of John the Baptist brought to him on a platter.That's   
   >>it!! None of Jesus' apostles celebrated their birthdays nor did they   
   >>of Jesus.So the Bible doesn't look favorably upon birthdays.   
      
   This is the logical fallacy of argument from silence.  There are many   
   things the jw vatican does or forbids on which scripture is silent.   
      
   The OT has a long and complex list of what 'incest" is and several examples   
   commited by OT figures held in high esteem.  The NT has only two mentions   
   from the list, one a brother's wife and a stepmother. This is the   
      
   The first example was king herod, the same above; who married his neice;   
   who was also his living brother's wife.  If his brother died the king was   
   expected to marry the wife.  In the OT a neice is not on the incest list.   
      
   Using friend james' logic of silence, the two NT examples are the only   
   incesst, all the other OT incest rules are not mentioned..  So he is free   
   to marry only a dead brother's wife or a neice; but not stepmother.  All   
   other relatives can be married..   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)