2 kings 2:23-24: The 42 children killed by bears.

by bohm 15 years ago 68 Replies latest 14 years ago jw friends

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  nancy drew 15 years ago

  The bible is so full of crazy stuff I just got tired of trying to find resolution.

  Balaams talking donkey

  God's golden hemorroids

  chopping up a woman and dropping off her body parts

  circle dance at shiloh

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  JWoods 15 years ago

  Besides balding people are almost holy for God.

  Unless, of course, they are skinheads. Skinheads are Nazi.

  BTW - it just occurred to me that the bear was the symbolic animal of the old Soviet Union. Is it possible that this had a modern-day prophetic fulfillment in our time?

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  cult classic 15 years ago

  Once, I saw two little boys - ages 5 and 6 - attack their mother and drive her out of her house. You would have had to see it to believe it!

  Sylvia that is hilarious! So wrong, I know, but still hilarious. One of my friends has 4 kids that are seriously off. They attacked her all at once and she had to spike their drinks with meds to knock them out so she could think. I totally believe you!

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  JWoods 15 years ago

  Sylvia - were those two kids demonized, by any chance?

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  snowbird 15 years ago

  Yeah, the two bears picture the now-defunct Soviet Union which will morph into the King of the North and put down 42 nations before undergoing its final demise.

  Syl

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  snowbird 15 years ago

  They were bad!!!

  Their father was a misogynist who allowed them to do whatever they pleased.

  They both ended up in the Big House.

  Syl

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  PSacramento 15 years ago

  Is there a plausible scenario in which two bears could kill 42 children standing outside, other than having them stand in a line waiting to be mauled?

  Well, maybe they were YHWH-inspired bears

  What kind of bears do they have in the ME anyways?

  I don't think they have big boys like our grizzlies, do they?

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  tec 15 years ago

  Syl is making me laugh today, too

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  PSacramento 15 years ago

  By the way:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Brown_Bear

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  Meeting Junkie No More 15 years ago

  Thinking like that eventually led the Millerites and Russell to 1844, 1874, and 1914. And we all know how well that came out.

  Jwoods, not to be persnickety, but see, I think the Millerites and Russell thought LITERALLY, whereas my point was the opposite - these numbers are symbolic - NOT TO BE TAKEN LITERALLY, so please be kind and don't lump my thinking in with that of the Pyramid measurers!

  The hebrew hard-on for numbers is well known, which doesn't make it right, just well known.

  LOL! Precisely!

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