(March 2, 2014 at 2:32 pm)bluemonday Wrote: 2 Kings 2:23-24, “Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the way, young lads came out from the city and mocked him and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead; go up, you baldhead!” 24 When he looked behind him and saw them, he cursed them in the name of the LORD. Then two female bears came out of the woods and tore up forty-two lads of their number.”
I love how the murderous, bloodthirsty bears are female as well. Females really can't do anything good in the Bible, can they?
I've heard Christians explain before that 42 is a large number of people, and so God sent the bears to protect the man. So...people are murdered and raped every day, and have been since time began, and yet we see no angry, mauling bears to protect these people?
May I also add, in the passage, the man does not ask for help from God in a frightened way - he curses them, which implies to me he did this in anger, not fear.
Also, how is it even possible that the bears caught ALL 42 of these kids? If two bears came out of nowhere and began to attack your group, wouldn't you run for safety?
The bears would have to be pretty bloody quick to kill 21 each before any of them had time to flee in terror. And we all know fear makes you run fast.
I know it sounds like I'm nitpicking but how can anyone possibly defend or explain this passage?
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THere are LOTS of things in the bible that make NO sense - and cannot be supported - even by the Xtians who claim it to be inerrant.
YOU do not have to nitpick to see them
WHy is the correct way to treat a son who disobeys is to STONE him to death?
Where did the god store the CHILDREN and INFANTS who could NOT have sinned (And if they have free will -then he cannot punish for something they did not do yet - because they can change their mind) - in the great flood?
Or in Sodom and Gomorrah?
What did the average Egyptian first born male do to deserve to be MURDERED in the passover - when the bible clearly says that they are responsible for themselves but not for the sins of their ruler?
Why should a person be HAPPY to crush the childrens of the Amaleks heads against a rock and kill them?
The bible is a horrendous and ruthless book - that should not be read by children - and if read - read the WHOLE book from front to back.
