God mauls little children with bears. (2 Kings 2:23,24) (page 5)

hotchocolate

Hmmm I dunno, I only marked you as one "apparently", no "evidently's", and not a "doubtless" in sight. Good effort though. :-P

DJK

Can two bears maul 42 children?

Its barely possible.

trevor

Even if it was one child it is appalling.

On the thread Atheist or Agnostic, talking of the God portrayed in the Bible, I said:

'How can mature people have a relationship with an immature petulant thug who is driven by wrath rather than love?'

Real one asked me, 'What are you talking about?'

I never replied but I hope this thread offers a clue.

trevor

MissingLink

CHOC: Thanks for the pointers. I'll try to do better next time. Evidently I'm not ready to join the GB yet.

TREVOR: RealOne is in his own Jesus cult mentality now. Evidence against his beliefs goes straight from one ear to the other. I dont think he'll ever see these things as a problem.

JCanon

What if they were older, teenage children? How could two bears kill forty-two of them? You'd think that they would have been bright enough to run away. There's no way two bears could catch and kill forty two children running in all different directions. It doesn't even make sense.

True! I thought the same thing! I agree! It does seem strange they didn't run away!! I TOTALLY AGREE.. Although,

If Jehovah waited until Elisha was in a point in the road that might have been lined with seep cliffs, like sometimes happens when you have a road going through a narrow trench with embankments on each side, then the children could have been trapped, with one bear coming from the front and the other the back. So those poor 7-year old goodfornothings (oops, I'm sorry, sweet little innocent darlings is what I meant to say) were trapped in a narrow gulch. So the bears just moved in from each end and stomped those little junvenile deliquents (oops! I sorry, I meant those kids being kids in harmless fun and games) to death. Ripped them to shreads!

But I think the important thing is, that the children were old enough to know and understand as their limbs were being ripped off that probably they should think twice about calling a prophet of God names.

Do you remember the movie starring Kris Kristopherson: "The Sailer who Fell From Grace With the Sea" where these really precocious but smart kids decided to kill the captain whom they considered a sort of icon, when he decided to leave the sea and settle down? I thik it was that kind of a situation. Wayward boys who knew what they were doing and thus were unruly.

Under the Law if a parent couldn't control their children and the parents brought them before the priests and said: "I can't control my child" then the congregation stoned them to death. (Don't laugh!!! This is not funny!) So much for a career as a Jewish juvenile delinquent. So maybe God saw these were clearly bad apples who would only get worse so he put them out of their misery only on.

So a very believable story is the place where this occurred was a narrow area of the road that was flanked by high ridges on both sides. Now if the Bible said just ONE bear came and killed them all, then you'd say, "Okay, why didn't they run out the other end!!" But with two, you see, they could corner them from either end.

But you know, I understand the EMOTION. Some things just push your button. Mine is graffi. People who work hard and try to have a business or build nice public areas for everyone to enjoy and then these knuckleheaded kids come by and spray paint and deface private and public property. I just can't get past it. I imagine myself catching a few of them spray painting some bridge or wall and me just grabbing an uzzi and mowing them all down in a spray of bullets! Just riff-raff in a human body of little use whatsoever. I wouldn't DO that, but I understand the emotion.

SO OUR MESSAGE HERE? If you're going to make fun of a prophet then make sure you're past puberty! Or is it: "If you're young and want to make fun of a prophet, make sure you have a quick exit strategy and don't do it in a tunnel. Or is it: "Don't f---k with God's prophets!"

JC

real one

Real one asked me, 'What are you talking about?'

I never replied but I hope this thread offers a clue.

Trevor, the reason I asked this question was because if you are not a believer then how do you determine what love is? God sets righteous standards for us to live by so how do people who don't worship him come up with righteous standards?

real one

TREVOR: RealOne is in his own Jesus cult mentality now. Evidence against his beliefs goes straight from one ear to the other. I dont think he'll ever see these things as a problem.

You are correct I will not see lies only the truth.

Galileo

"If you're young and want to make fun of a prophet, make sure you have a quick exit strategy and don't do it in a tunnel. Or is it: "Don't f---k with God's prophets!"

I think Elisha was a total asshole, and I find his bald head comical. I'm starting the bear watch now. I'll let you know when they show up.

dinah

3. Of course the children could not run away in different directions! THE LORD had them staked to the ground.

This made me spew Dr. Pepper.

keyser soze

If he was actually bald, then what is wrong with referring to him as "bald-head". It seems a harsh response for merely stating the obvious.

God mauls little children with bears. (2 Kings 2:23,24)

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