(September 3, 2010 at 7:52 pm)solja247 Wrote: If you open your Bible to 1st and 2nd Kings. You will see the amount of 'good' kings being rather small compared to all the 'bad' kings. The OT is a beautiful picture to show how patient God is. He dealed with these people for a couple of years! Who would seriously have that patience? It shows that God also has that much patience for us and that God is slow to anger. Not rigged as such, but God knew He was going to get His hands dirty, really dirty, asociating with a bunch of uneducated slaves...
Or, it presents a picture of how whoever wrote the Hebrew Bible instilled patience into their god, but it says nothing about such a being had this push and pull relationship with Israel in this first place. Doctrinally, yes, the game is rigged. Why would God consciously choose to get his hands dirty with a creation that he knew full well before creating it that the creation would be very slow to believe and obey. He knew the whole vale of woe before it happened and yet chose to set it in motion. For what purpose? And then, when the promise of the Old Testament never materialized as he said it would, he went to the pains of sending his son to enact a new law and new covenant, as it were, this time, more personal, and presenting a more brutal fate for those who didn't accept the fatuous story. Why did he bother at all. The whole things seems unnecessarily complicated and forced for the omnipotent creator of the universe and of us.
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea | By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown | Till human voices wake us, and we drown. — T.S. Eliot
"... man always has to decide for himself in the darkness, that he must want beyond what he knows. ..." — Simone de Beauvoir
"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again." — Albert Camus, "The Stranger"
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea | By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown | Till human voices wake us, and we drown. — T.S. Eliot
"... man always has to decide for himself in the darkness, that he must want beyond what he knows. ..." — Simone de Beauvoir
"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again." — Albert Camus, "The Stranger"
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