by sabastious 130 Replies latest watchtower bible
Group A goes to war with group B.
Teh both pray to their deities and offer sacrifices.
Group A wins and slaughters group B, very common in those days.
Group A believes they won because God was on their side (their god of course) and was happy with them and what they did was his will.
Group B belives that their god was unhappy with them and their sacrifice and punished them accordingly.
Now you see WHY Jesus HAD to come.
I am not saying the accounts are NOT true
How are you not?
The Bible says GOD commanded the death of all Egyptian firstborns... if God didn't do it then the account isn't true...
-Sab
Now you see WHY Jesus HAD to come.
Yes to give us all the illusion that we are forgiven (because sin is a fabrication). So we'd all stop killing and "keep our eyes on the prize."
-Sab
The Bible says GOD commanded the death of all Egyptian firstborns... if God didn't do it then the account isn't true...
Now, that is THE question, isn't it?
Did God strike down the first born in ALL of Egypt?
I mean, such a horrific occurence must have been recorded, SOMEWHERE, yes ?
It didn't happen.
But that's not the point.
-Sab
The point I am making, is how is other scripture ("we are made in God's image") is affected by unrelated accounts that are proven untrue?
-Sab
Oh SOMETHING likeit probably did happen, plague tshat killed people were not that uncommon and it is very easy for ancient man to equate bad things happening to their enemy is "divine judgment" and to write it as such.
And perhaps it was divine judgment, I mean, the egyptions surely had MANY chances to let them go, they saw the plagues before that last one, they knew what was coming and they still did not let them go.
Still, if God wanted to make a REAL statement on Egypt, he would have wiped out the whole army and put Egypt at the mercy of their neighbours and not kill innocent children, though by first born it probably means they were the eldest obviously.
Personally, I think that the hebrews viewed these plagues as jsut that, divine judgment and they wrote them down as such.
Psacramento,
You need to find a God you don't always have to make excuses for.
Farkel
Have you yourself actually and in truth read for yourself the accounts written in Bible about how wicked the Egyptians and the inhabitants of Canaan were?
Inkie, yes, I have read those bible accounts. Based on what I read in the bible, Canaanites (not necessarily all) did evil things, Egyptians (not necessarily all) did evil things, and Israelites (not necessarily all) did evil things. Yahweh was no Gandhi either. If cleansing the land was his goal, surely an all powerful god could've executed his attacks with the skill and accuracy of a scalpel instead of a shotgun.
I see no justification for killing babies and children just because they were be born to heathen parents.
I see no justification for rape.
I see no justification for slavery.
I see no justification for wiping out entire nations.
BTW, speaking of disgusting atrocities of the OT, I thought it was funny that there are two very similar accounts in the bible (Judges 19 and Genesis 19) in which a man accepts visitors in his home and some of the townsmen come to his house and demand that he send out his male visitor(s) so they can rape them? But instead of, I dunno, say.... calling down evil on these sexual predators to have two she-bears tear them to pieces (that's silly, I know), the man of the house offers his virgin daughter(s) for the townsmen to have their way. The conclusion of Judges 19 account is especially gruesome when the Levite finds his dead, gang-raped concubine the next AM and cuts her into 12 pieces, Dahmer-style, and sends a piece to each tribe. But I suppose that's all poetry. Or or maybe the scribes or copyists added that in? Or maybe it was a mistranslation?
^ OH SNAP!
-Sab
