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Storks are primarily carnivorous eating reptiles, small mammals, insects, fish, amphibians and other small invertebrates. It is perhaps this devoring of living things that Adam observed when he named the stork "not understanding holiness and mercy". These are the attributes of God, so he named it "Not understanding God". | Storks are primarily carnivorous eating reptiles, small mammals, insects, fish, amphibians and other small invertebrates. It is perhaps this devoring of living things that Adam observed when he named the stork "not understanding holiness and mercy". These are the attributes of God, so he named it "Not understanding God". | ||
The main purpose of God is to teach us that He is Holy <ref>Le 11:45 For I [am] the LORD that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I [am] holy.</ref>; He alone is God. He also teaches that He is Love. <ref>1Jo 4:8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.</ref> The Hebrew word for 'stork' means not understanding either 'holy' or 'mercy'. | The main purpose of God is to teach us that He is Holy <ref>{{bgw| Le 11:45 }} For I [am] the LORD that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I [am] holy.</ref>; He alone is God. He also teaches that He is Love. <ref>{{bgw| 1Jo 4:8 }} He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.</ref> The Hebrew word for 'stork' means not understanding either 'holy' or 'mercy'. | ||
* stork ''chaciydah'' החסידה - not understanding ה*ה holiness , mercy חסיד | * stork ''chaciydah'' החסידה - not understanding ה*ה holiness , mercy חסיד | ||
