RE: How to Make God Laugh
November 30, 2017 at 11:18 am
(This post was last modified: November 30, 2017 at 11:24 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 23, 2017 at 12:04 am)vulcanlogician Wrote:(November 22, 2017 at 11:45 pm)pool the matey Wrote: God knows everything.
I never understood where people got this idea. A cursory reading of the bible reveals that God doesn't know a lot of stuff. He asked Adam if he had eaten the fruit. He should have already known! He asked Cain where his brother was. He experienced regret after the flood. He had to send angels to find out if there were really just men in Sodom. And that's just Genesis.
So why does God ask these things if he already knows them? Is he just fucking with people?
Yes, in the context of each of those stories you just referenced, he was humoring people.
Rather than simply adjudicate adams transgression, he provided the opportunity for Adam to pile on additional offense by lying to him. Wouldn;t have to be a god to know what happened anyway, the place would have reeked of sexytimes. Soap and showering weren't a thing yet.
He asked Cain where his brother was..knowing where Cains brother was..amusingly, Cain would not have known..because there had never been a death - "How should I know, am I my brothers keeper?" is the most honest statement in the whole of the OT.
Sure, he regrets after the flood. He regrets making Saul king..too, but only insomuch as his golems have failed his expectations for them in both cases.
He didn't -have- to send the angels, he already knew. He was heckled into negotiating with a jew on transactional grounds and, apparently, saw a way to create an evil race through incest which he would later use as a foil in a genocidal war of conquest while doing double duty as an exposition on the filthiness of women, another favorite target of his ire. Remember, it wasn't Lot's fault. He was under alot of stress, he lost his house when the market in Sodom went upside down, his nagging wife had just been turned into a pillar of salt. You know how it is, you wanna blow off some steam....you have a little too much to drink, and just can't help but engage in a threeway with your teenage daughters.
We've all been there.
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