Chronicles 15:13
All who would not seek the LORD, the God of Israel, were to be put to death, whether small or great, man or woman.
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Such irony. The likely author of this bit of Jewish historical writing (NEVER considered Biblical by Jews ) was Ezra. Ezra was an agent of Emperor of the Persians, Cyrus the great .. also called the “Messiah” by Jews. After his conquest of Babylon, the Messiah returned hostages taken by the Babylonians to found or refound their contrives. These countries became loyal allies of the Persians.
Cyrus appointed Ezra to lead the Jewish hostages. He is said to have “found” parts of the Torah in the ruins of the first temple. Large parts of post exile Judaism were borrowed from Babylonian and Persian culture .. including the idea of a Devil.
BUT then to the Xtians, scribbles of Jewish history are the word of their Messiah!
We worship an awesome God in the blue states.
@2 The Almighty Dollar?
Just more of God being a dick.
But at least God isn’t trying to hoard all the food like FEMA.
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Ummm Goldy this is 2nd Chronicles? I find the whole passage interesting but the previous passages shed light on the whole thing. Though I’m not getting just why they were fighting Ethiopians and the Ethiopians had chariots and apparently the Israelites had none. The Israelites miraculously win against three hundred chariots. Stil what does the Lord God need with seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep. Guess taking care of those Chariots god had built up an appetite. Or maybe he sent in his Angels who aren’t that kind of Angel.Well this Asa is one of the good guys, still the celebrations are a triumph of propaganda, maybe Adolf Hitler read the following passages and applied some of it at his parades.
While I in part disagree with God Spews in part I do agree that it’s possible that much of the writings of the bible appear just before the defeat of the Jews by Babylon or during their enslavement. It’s entirely possible that events described such as the flood didn’t happen or were borrowed from Gilgamesh and reinterpreted. Others such as all the fighting when the Hebrews enter in Canaan may be exaggeration. Such as the battle of Asa against a much superior force with chariots. Odd the account doesn’t describe how they or god defeat the Ethiopians ( a long way from home). And Asa was on the offensive. Then Asa decides to depend on the Syrians and god gets all upset. Gotta depend just on me King. Too bad Asa didn’t have the Righteous Brothers singing “Lean on Me” before sending all that gold and silver to the Syrians. No more really cool parades for Asa, and foot troubles.
Imagine a future religion based on “Good Morning Vietnam” or MASH!
“Good Morning Vietnam” interesting, still thinking on it since there would have to be clear strains of Eastern thought, and liberalism, and individual choice and rebellion. MASH a lot to work with still even withstanding nudists and nurses and a doctors looking at the world as it is, eventually it would become very Jobian in outlook. Is God capricious? The world is as God created follows sets of rules outside our human idea of the good. Or maybe God is a real SOB. Startrek gives us so much more to work with or perhaps Heinlein’s Lazurus Long. “A zygote is a gametes way of reproducing more gametes. This may be the purpose of the universe.”
@8 In the beginning, there was only green algae, and in the end, there will be only green algae. Homo sapiens is merely an intermediate and transitory bioform.
@9 Sounds about the same as ashes and dust.
Single cell organisms have been and still are the dominant life form on planet Earth. Though they may need us to help spread them and to add t their diversity.
Also when WWII ended a new religion was born in parts of the Pacific. The natives on many islands had gotten supplies from airplanes and supply drops. When the war ended this manna from heaven stopped, but the natives created large scale models of the air planes they had seen in the hopes the manna would continue. Unfortunately it did not.