RE: Where is the threshold of Dagon?
February 10, 2013 at 12:06 pm
(This post was last modified: February 10, 2013 at 12:08 pm by Brakeman.)
(February 10, 2013 at 2:28 am)Drich Wrote: .. Here is a commentary. READ IT, and THEN if you have any follow questions Based on the Commentary. I can answer those.
Having read the commentary you provided, It seems as though the apologist is saying that god was desecrating their Idol to the god Dagon. The commentator makes several forays to connect unrelated scriptures, but it doesn't seem to change the basics that the Philistines captured the arc, they took it to their house of worship, and because god was not content to be worshiped alongside other gods, jealous jewish god broke up their Idol by knocking off it's head and hands, an act that unsurprisingly resembles what a religious zealot would do today to vandalize an opposing god idol.
This story also underlines the capricious evil that is the jewish god. He allows heathen hands of the philistines to grub all over the arc but kills one of his own who touches it to try to save it from being smashed on the rocks due to a pothole in the road. (Uzzah).
God's reaction here is pretty pathetic. Pushing over a fish man statue is something we would expect of the woo fakers of the Paranormal séance spirit kind, you know, the bump the table kind of thing. Why do you suppose god did it during the night, when no one was around to see it, to make sure it wasn't just a crazy jew in their midst?
Lastly, why was god so interested in that Idol when there were undoubtedly hundreds of thousands in existence at that time? Why didn't god destroy all the idols of the "false" gods everywhere? Why just one that is nearby his alter? Supposedly a god aware of the immense universe would be be able to think in larger scale than a infinitesimally small pinprick of an area on google earth. The commentator claims that god failed to sway them with his lame "miracle" desecration of their one stature, which of course can't be confirmed by archeology.
God failed with his message here. It seems to be an undeniable failure. The intent in desecrating their fish god was to persuade the Philistines to see that their god was inferior and fake and that the jewish god was real. In this, jewish god had no success.
Why was god such a failure?
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