Reduced to a Piece of Clay: False Humility and Human Dignity

[Rhondazvous]

Who am i? I am a human, a sentient being. I have thoughts and feelings. I have opinions and awareness. I can recognize injustice and oppression.

Does it make sense to believe that god created me with all these wonderful faculties and then turned around expecting me to act like a lifeless piece of clay (as some versions render this verse)?

No, it does not make sense to believe that. So, these versions that you refer to but for some reason don't name or quote are suspect.

1. (2 Samuel 24. 1 Chronicles 21) Killed 70,000 men because King David held a census.
2. (Job 1:12-19) Killed all Job’s children and expected his wife to be happy. Just forget the 10 children she gave birth to and watched grow up as if children are component parts that can be replaced when damaged.
3. (Exodus 21:7) Gave fathers instructions on how to sell their daughters into sexual slavery.
4. (Deuteronomy 22: 23,24) Ordered women to be put to death if they were raped in the city where they could have cried for help. Since they didn’t cry out that makes them accomplice of this crime against their husbands.
5. (Mark 4: 11,1 2)Jesus told his disciples that he spoke in parables so those outside would not be able to understand, repent and be saved.
6. (Genesis 11) Biblical god confused people’s language when they were getting along and working peacefully, just because he was intimidated by what humans could accomplish and he didn’t know that they couldn’t build a tower to heaven.
7. (Numbers 31: 12-18) Became murderously angry when the Israelites had mercy on the people he had told them to kill.
8. (Numbers 31 We just saw how Moses ordered them to kill the women and boys and keep the young girls for their own sexual pleasures) Ordered Moses to slaughter the people of his father in law who had taken him in and given him his daughter when he was running from justice after killing an Egyptian.
9. (Leviticus 25: 44-46) Told his people not to treat their foreign slaves the same way they treated Jewish slaves
10. (Galatians 3:22* , Job 1:22** )Holds all humans personally and eternally accountable for the sin of one man, but does not want to be held accountable for his own actions.
* So we were put under sin just so we can have faith in Jesus? Would you cut and burn your child just so you can practice your first aid skills?

** So it’s a sin to charge god with his own actions? God makes a deal with Satan and Job blames his mother for giving him birth (Job 3:11,12).