Jehovah does not live by his own rules

by sinis 33 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  Doug Mason

  sinis,

  Any depiction of "God" reflects the culture that produced the depiction. It is their picture of God, but this does not mean that this image of him is true and correct. It is thus more of a description of their culture.

  You appear to work on the assumption that the Moses stories are factual accounts, rather than stories created to influence the community that the writers were living in. Some suggest that the Hebrews had always lived in the hills of Canaan, and that they used these stories of Abraham, Moses, Joshua and such with the purpose of saying that they were living in the land that God had given them, with the consequences that this brought. (A study of "Biblical Historiography" would not go astray.)

  Our contemporary image of God is largely influenced by the Pauline epistles of the Christian Scriptures (the NT) and by the standards of the community that we live in.

  BTW. I suggest to you that the "Ten Commandments" - the words originally written by God - appear at Exodus 34:6-28.

  Doug
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  agonus

  Like many folks, I've never been particularly fond of the OT Yahweh/Jehovah/YHWH/IEVE. But, in fairness, is he really any better - or worse - than any of the old pagan gods?

  I think Yahweh is just as human as any of them. Hence (possibly) his appeal.
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  dissed

  "Do as I say, not what I do" sayeth the Lord God Almighty. (God 1:1)
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  agonus

  Lars,

  We're all gonna die. Anointed or not (I speak as one who professed such). No question.

  A valid question would be... What then?
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  glenster

  He just wreaks havoc without the prerogative: that's not God--that's Godzilla:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6rDWqjnW7w

  Agree or disagree--you can't say I don't supply some tunes.
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  agonus

  "Jehovah" is not the god of the Jews. He's the bastardized American God of the Watchtower. The true God of the Jews has chosen to conceal the true pronunciation of His name (for the time being). They're smart enough to realize that when you use a clearly false pronunciation of the (as of 2009) Ineffable Divine Name, you dilute His essence and thus the material universe.
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  agonus

  Histoly show again and again that Natule point up the forry of men. GOJIRA!
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  Satanus

  If jehovah doesn't go by the rules he gives, it's because, at the end, they don't work.

  S
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  Mad Dawg

  First, they were to look at the serpent, not worship it. They took back land that was rightfully theirs in the first place. The caananites were sacrificing their own children and murdering Isrealites among other things. They were given 400 yers to stop and plenty of time to leave ahead of the Isrealites. But then it is too much to expect that you would actually look into the context of what went on.
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  HappyGuy

  Jehovah does not live by his own rules

  Since Jehovah's "rules" supposedly establish the ultimate moral code, and Jehovah does not follow the moral code, then Jehovah is amoral, that is a psychopath, which is the point I have been making all along. Thank you for clarifying that for us Deputy Dog.