by asilentone 16 Replies latest watchtower bible
This goes to show the tyranny of Jehovah. But David got away with it.
Tyrant David also got away with initiating the use of force in Jehovah's name to usurp land from people that were simply minding their own businesses, while those people whose crime was to mind their own business and not give everything to God all got murdered.
As long as the man and woman today fully admit their WT-defined sin to a judicial committee and accept the slap on the wrist they get
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as long as the illegitimate 'good' child is sacrificed in the way they claim Jephthah's daughter was sacrificed to the temple (they steer the illegitimate child toward baptism before 10-years-old and toward a life of service to the WTS somehow), then the child can live in misery.
But this is all contingent on all three of them never ever ever inhaling any tobacco smoke, which we all know is a much greater WT-defined "sin" than any adultery. That's why David and Bathsheba survived.
One more completely inexplicable example of Old Testament barbarity.
Good Lord, people - here we were just debating the outcome of Jeptha's daughter (as if it were so horrible to think she really got sacrificed) - and this little gem is staring us right there in the face.
Remember the WT articles on how everything was perfectly OK because David really really felt bad and repented?
Ya - shoooree.
Just so you'll know. Satanism is about legalistic technicalities. These questions could take centuries in the courts and take up everybody's time trying to figure them out. And ultimately some will have the opinion that God is responsible in the end for not foreseeing all this.
Well guess what?
God is pleading nolo contendere! ("I do not contend"). That's because we don't really want to hear all of it. So get this scene.
Satan is this huge pain in the arse up in heaven, right? So God proposes to get rid of Satan, to shut him up once and for all, he'd just kill EVERYBODY!
See? If you kill all your sons, good and bad, with no judgment involved whatsoever, then you get rid of Satan for one. And for two, you don't have to listen to any complaints or complicated legal issues of God's hypocrisy.
God played the ultimate card -- The LEGAL LIFESPAN card! Even Satan won't argue that the creator has the right to decide on the lifespan of his creatures.
So that's the game. EVERYBODY DIES. Everybody. Including God's beloved firstborn, yes, Jesus Christ, Michael the Archangel must die also.
So what has Satan got to say? NOTHING!
Only thing is. After everybody is dead, God can bring back whom he wants by resurrecting his favorites.
Guess whose not coming to dinner a second time?
So complain against God all you want. He's not going to contest one way or the other. When you're 80 years are up, see if you get invited back?
The angels and the elect were all glad to die for a short while if it would get rid of Satan. They were happy to die even if they were dead for an eternity, but God brings them back.
So in the end, it will be happ times, cocktails and pina coladas all day long for those who made the right choice.
In the end, the most valuable thing you could possess is God's gift of life to you. Without life, there is no you. Without life, there is no Satan.
LS
Satan is this huge pain in the arse up in heaven, right? So God proposes to get rid of Satan, to shut him up once and for all, he'd just kill EVERYBODY!
Someone irritates God, so God goes postal and kills everybody. Wow. Such divine wisdom. Certainly God is a just and loving creator.
See? If you kill all your sons, good and bad, with no judgment involved whatsoever, then you get rid of Satan for one. And for two, you don't have to listen to any complaints or complicated legal issues of God's hypocrisy.
Someone call the feds and make sure this poster doesn't own a gun. His reasoning and sense of morality scares the sh*t out of me.
God played the ultimate card -- The LEGAL LIFESPAN card! Even Satan won't argue that the creator has the right to decide on the lifespan of his creatures.
Translation: "Your life is just a game to me and my [imaginary] God."
So that's the game. EVERYBODY DIES. Everybody. Including God's beloved firstborn, yes, Jesus Christ, Michael the Archangel must die also.
Seriously, this is supposed to be the best solution an all-powerful God could come up with? "I know! I'll kill everyone! I'll even kill my own son! YES!! MWA HA HA!!!!"
Its like the hair-brained plot of a Mystery Science Theater movie.
- Lime
First of all the bible was written by humans, they are prone to errors. So if the whole Bathsheba thing really happened as it is said in the bible, I have to admit that I will never get along with Jehova. So what happenedto the victim? Was he in heaven accepting Jehova's actions? How could Jehova let someone like David continue to be king?
The Politcs of power hasn't changed much.. State Leaders can get a pass, whether you are King David or Henry VIII or Bill Clinton.
