(July 8, 2013 at 6:24 pm)Consilius Wrote: An insult is used to make someone feel below you. We have 42 pagan men who were jeering at a prophet. They knew he was a prophet because he just performed a miracle in the name of God. They did not respect him for the reason that he was God's prophet. They were trying to show Elisha that their gods were more powerful and could step on his. God proved otherwise.
Does it make sense now?
Consilius, my friend, you have an author of a fairy tale about a god and his prophet. This author knows the script, so if he says that Elisha was a prophet, then that's who he was.
In the author's mind, Elisha is completely justified in cursing the children/men/circus clowns/village elders, and god is in his rights as Jahweh to send she-bears amongst them and rip them up for jeering at this man.
If this event even happened, and if this god is real, any outside observer will still view this as an evil act. If the crew of SNL makes a parody about Barrack Obama, then the U.S. government doesn't set a pack of hungry mountain lions loose in their changing rooms to teach them a lesson.
No matter how the scriptures justify its heinous acts, the acts are still heinous, and this god is always going to be on trial by the critical thinker.
