I have noticed that the foolishness of Jephthah's vow to sacrifice his daughter gets bandied around a lot as somehow approved of by God. I never could understand how people could come to this conclusion. If I wrote about something terrible that my son had done, that doesn't mean that I am for that thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16Q0_ca4nXE&list=RDCMUCrHADU8H0P2Q_79sAhYjlGA&start_radio=1&t=100
Jephthah's Daughter
by Sea Breeze 26 Replies latest watchtower bible
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Sea Breeze
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cofty
God accepted the sacrifice of the girl. You can't quote later texts to prove god doesn't approve of human sacrifice. In Judges he approved of it.
Nowhere does the bible present a consistent position on anything. It is a story of hundreds of years of human interactions with a deity. In many places - and this is a classic example - the god of the bible is a moral monster and unworthy of our respect.
In the older parts of the OT Yahweh is the source of BOTH good and evil. Dualism - and the convenience of a nemesis to blame for bad things - does not appear until after the Babylonian exile. The Jews adopted the idea of a Satan from Persian Zoroastrianism.
I see you have swapped Questions From Readers for Got Questions. Still letting others do your thinking for you.
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Sea Breeze
God accepted the sacrifice of the girl.
Source please.
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the girl next door
Because he had the power to stop it and chose not to. Like he has the power to end human suffering and chooses not to.
Why?
Because he is like Santa Clause. A figment of the 5 year old's imagination promulgated by lying parents.
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Sea Breeze
Hi Girl Next Door,
Good point. But, if you think about it; God could end evil and suffering by tomorrow morning if he wanted. All he has to do is forcibly take away our free will.
Just make us pre-programmed robots and that would be the end of that. -
the girl next door
That is fine with me. Please do so immediately and also end these stay at home orders. I will never be the same after all the shit I have watched on Netflix.
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Sea Breeze
Lockdown ended here in large part. Gym opened up today here. It was by appointment only and I had to wear gloves. But, freedom (and sentience) is a good thing even if it is costly.
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the girl next door
Hospitals here are posting public announcements begging people to come to the hospital because the hospital is empty. Yet we are still on about 90% lockdown. Crazy isn't it.
Scare people enough and they just refuse to attend or walk through those pearly doors of salvation.
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Sea Breeze
Cofty, do you have a source for your view that God accepted the sacrifice or just offering your opinion?
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dropoffyourkeylee
So was it a human sacrifice, or a devotion to the Lord, like the WT maintains?