Just why did He create Mosquitoes? (page 2)

glenster

The Abrahamic God isn't meant as an all-beneficent God: any example of some-
thing other than people living forever in heavenly circumstances, or of scrip-
tures of God not loving things, would be indications. Love provided/found in
life for believers is like that provided/found in the good and bad of life for
non-believers.

The JWs leaders' collection of forced points, evidences omitted, and mis-
characterizations about the Bible requiring followers to abide by their blood
rule is mainly wrong as a case of the leaders feigning exclusiveness over a
faith matter to make money despite human deaths caused.
http://glenster1.webs.com/gtjbrooklynindex.htm

The JWs leaders don't have a stance to be faulted about how their blood rules
relate to a regard of mosquitoes and other blood-sucking parasites that cause
death...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito-borne_disease
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquitoes#Disease

...however, the JWs leaders do share a resemblance to them except, being
people, they're more culpable.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcTyAT4QJxY
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansquito

wha happened?

I've heard the argument about lions being able to survive on grass, but these other creatures only survive on blood.

Christ Alone

Just to state the obvious that the covenent of the respecting of blood was only given to man. I don't agree with WT policy either. But just sayin...it's a little silly.

No Room For George

Glenster beat me to it, I was just about to mention Mansquito as that's a GREAT Syfy film. If God didn't create Mosquitoes, that film would have never come to fruition.

cofty

Vampire bats are also very sociable about sharing their blood feast. If an individual doesn't find blood during its evening foray a neighbour will regurgitate blood for it in the roost. If the recipient doesn't reciprocate when required it won't get help by the rest of the community in future.

cedars

Yes, I had difficulty with the mosquito thing...

God believes blood is sacred
God believes the only use of blood is sacrificial
God creates something that intravenously extracts and digests the blood of living things. What??!!

Mosquitos also pose another biblical question, namely their survival of the flood. Imagine you were Noah, and you saw 2 mosquitoes buzzing around in your room on the ark...

.....I know what I would have done.

Mind you, mosquito larvae are water-based, so maybe the ark was surplus to their requirements....

Cedars

glenster

OT: it was a symbolic ceremonial way for followers to honor God as the
ultimate life giver/taker--followers were to only take life as prescribed in
their rules.

(One theory about Mosaic food rules is similar: that they were a ceremonial
way to honor God by basing rules on the Genesis descriptions: aquatic life that
swam could be eaten, not shellfish. Birds like storks that spent too much time
in the fishes domain couldn't be eaten, etc.)

It wasn't a total ban on the substance for everybody/everything--Mosaic law
followers were to give animals found dead (not drained by slaughter) to others
as food (Deut.14:21).
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+14%3A21&version=NASB

(The latter may be used to occasionally PO a JW who isn't prepared for the
question about it.)

Like various other Mosaic rules, it set the followers off from everybody else
who didn't have the rule. That, and unclean people/things rules that put an
unfortunate crimp in socialization, were dropped in the NT.

SweetBabyCheezits

BroDan/Christ: Just to state the obvious that the covenent of the respecting of blood was only given to man. I don't agree with WT policy either. But just sayin...it's a little silly.

Hey, it's BroDan!

Which part is silly again? The part where the WT misinterprets and enforces an ancience convenant on blood? Or that ridiculous part of the Bible between Genesis and Revelation?

Christ Alone

The WT policy and questioning why there are creatures that eat blood. There you go sweetbc

SweetBabyCheezits

Heyyyy, you didn't play the game right, Dan. But you're right- that part is silly, too. Haha, those crazy dubs believe all kinds of ridiculous things, unlike true Christians, eh?

Just why did He create Mosquitoes?

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