Yahweh: The Volcano God?

by cameo-d 20 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  cameo-d

  12And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death:

  16And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.

  18And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.

  Was Yahweh the god of the volcano?

  Is this why he rains "fire and brimstone" on the wicked?

  (quotes from Exodus 19)
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  cameo-d

  Does this sound like a description of a volcano?

  6In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.

  7 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.

  8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

  13 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.

  14 Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.

  Is the "dragon" simply another metaphor for this volcano?

  (quotes from Psalms 18)
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  dissed

  Interesting, no?
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  glenster

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_(mythology)
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  cameo-d

  Glenster...

  Nothing at your link.

  Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name
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  glenster

  Copy and Paste the link to the address bar and it should work. I don't know why the link doesn't work here. The article is callled Vulcan (mythology).
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  cameo-d

  For the first time, scientists have been able to “see” and trace lightning inside a plume of ash spewing from an actively erupting volcano.

  When Alaska's Mount Redoubt volcano began rumbling back to life in January, a team of researchers scrambled to set up a system called a Lightning Mapping Array that would be able to peer through the dust and gas of any eruption that occurred to the lightning storm happening within. Lightning is known to flash in the tumultuous clouds belched out during volcanic eruptions.

  Lightning mapping arrays are increasingly being used by meteorologists to issue weather warnings, but have only been deployed at volcanoes twice before.

  http://www.livescience.com/environment/090408-volcano-lightning.html

  14 Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.

  That verse certainly seems to be poetically describing this particular scene. But guess you wouldn't know it unless you were this close to a volcano.
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  glenster

  Pele.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pele_%28deity%29
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  VM44

  "...whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death:"

  Typical Yahweh.
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  Wasanelder Once

  It makes me think of the volcano in the dentist's fishtank in "Finding Nemo". I think it was "Wanahockalugi". W.Once