by highdose 18 Replies latest watchtower bible
this is always a passage in the bible that puzzeled me, the Isrealites wanted meat, so god gave them quail and then killed them for eating it!?!?!
if there is an explanation i certainly never heard it from the WTBS!??
i might also point out that when i listened to the bible drama recordings of this passage as a child, it sounded like the narrator was saying "whale" not " quail"! For years i really belived that god made the winds blow whales out of the ocean... into the dessart!!!
For years i really belived that god made the winds blow whales out of the ocean... into the dessart!!!
For years I really believed that a snake talked to a naked woman and convinced her to eat forbidden fruit.
For years I really believed that a man built an ark and saved every species of animals from a worldwide flood.
For years I really believed that a young virgin gave birth to a baby that was God's Son.
All things considered, blowing whales into the desert isn't any more farfetched.
I think the watchtower's take on it is they were killed because they were "selfish" and not content with "Jehovah's provisions".
Although If I ate only manna every day my doctor and dietician would give me proper shit. That's not a healthy diet.
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If I ate only manna every day my doctor and dietician would give me proper shit.
ahahaha... but eating manna every day would not give you proper shit
Wait - I thought that they only got sick from eating too much quail all at once...honestly, I never took this to mean that anybody got killed.
Can you imagine any decent parent feeding their kids a single flavor of babyfood for years on end - let alone 40? Even if mana supplied 100% of our dietary needs... that's just cruel and uncaring. Was it that freaking hard for God to make mana taste like something else on occation, or have a different texture? How about "Mana is nutritious chocolate cake on mondays, steak and potatoes on tuesdays, crispy pizza rolls on wednesday, and fridays are sloppy joe days!" Now thatis an awesome God. None of this concentration camp food nonsense.
Good parents act nothing like God. They aren't cheap, they don't lothe the physical needs of their children, and they don't rebuke a child for making a reasonable request. "Dear God, dyhydration can kill us within hours in the desert, can we have some water?" is hardly something for God to get angry about. Some parents even like to see their children smile and be joyful on occation.
- Lime
I do not understand all the umbrage over fairy tales.
It's just allegory- not much different than a Grimms fairy tale. I suppose, it kept the Israelite kids in line who complained about, mutton, mutton and more mutton.
What bible book is this in.
elder-schmelder
All I can conclude from that account was that God was a real nasty son of a bitch.
