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What Were the Urim and Thummim? (Messages from God?)

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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Is God Giving a Binary, Yes, No, This or That Answer?

If the translators of the greek septuagent were right, and the uriman thumim were being used when saul was trying to find out who sinned, then it appears that you could get binary answers from god. Are there cases where a more complex kind of answer is given? It depends on whether you think the urim and thumimwere being used whenever some one inquires of the lord. If that's the case, then we have more data, in fact, a lot more dataa and it does indicate that god could give binary, yes, no type answers.

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