RE: How is Yahweh not immoral?
November 25, 2012 at 1:50 am
(This post was last modified: November 25, 2012 at 1:56 am by Ryantology.)
One imagines that the falsehoods referred to in that passage were not included in the Bible. Otherwise, why believe any of it?
Of course, directly preceding that passage is this, 22:17:
"Then the word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, the people of Israel have become dross to me; all of them are the copper, tin, iron and lead left inside a furnace. They are but the dross of silver. Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: ‘Because you have all become dross, I will gather you into Jerusalem. As silver, copper, iron, lead and tin are gathered into a furnace to be melted with a fiery blast, so will I gather you in my anger and my wrath and put you inside the city and melt you. I will gather you and I will blow on you with my fiery wrath, and you will be melted inside her. As silver is melted in a furnace, so you will be melted inside her, and you will know that I the Lord have poured out my wrath on you.’”
So, either verse 28 is contradictory or irrelevant. Whatever lies the priests tell about God, they aren't lying about the genocide. God definitely loves killing large numbers of people for stupid reasons.
Of course, directly preceding that passage is this, 22:17:
"Then the word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, the people of Israel have become dross to me; all of them are the copper, tin, iron and lead left inside a furnace. They are but the dross of silver. Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: ‘Because you have all become dross, I will gather you into Jerusalem. As silver, copper, iron, lead and tin are gathered into a furnace to be melted with a fiery blast, so will I gather you in my anger and my wrath and put you inside the city and melt you. I will gather you and I will blow on you with my fiery wrath, and you will be melted inside her. As silver is melted in a furnace, so you will be melted inside her, and you will know that I the Lord have poured out my wrath on you.’”
So, either verse 28 is contradictory or irrelevant. Whatever lies the priests tell about God, they aren't lying about the genocide. God definitely loves killing large numbers of people for stupid reasons.
